Latest Hardware News :: Archive
October 2009
- Core i5, Core i7, CrossFire, And SLI: Gaming Paradise, Redux? @ Tom's Hardware
- Intel Lynnfield Core i5 750, Core i7 860 and Core i7 870 CPU review: bombarding the mid-range @ Hexus
- Intel i7 870 and i5 750 CPUs @ Bjorn3D
- Intel Lynnfield Core i5 750 and core i7 870 Performance Testing @ TweakTown
- Intel Core i5 and Core i7 Lynnfield review @ Bit-tech
- Intel Core i7 860, 870 and Core i5 750 @ Legion Hardware
- Intel's Core i7 870 & i5 750, Lynnfield: Harder, Better, Faster Stronger @ AnandTech
- Intel Lynnfield Core i5 750 and core i7 870 Processor Review @ HardwareCanucks
- Intel Core i5 750 Processor Review @ Techspot
- Intel Core i5 and i7 Processors and P55 Chipset @ Hot Hardware
- Intel's Core i5-750 and Core i7-870 processors @ TechReport
- AMD 8-series Chipset Motherboard Line-up – VR-Zone has put together a roadmap of the AMD 800 series chipsets line-up slated for release in Q2 next year. AMD 890FX/GX + SB850, part of the "Leo" platform
- AMD Leo 2010 Platform - Enthusiasts' Dream Setup? @ VR Zone
- AMD Readies 'Thuban' Six-Core Desktop Processor @ X-bit Labs
- Firstly a rather odd, 'official', English language Core i7 870 'review' @ Inside Hardware – with no comparisons between systems or other processors? Is this their version of not breaking the NDA?
- Then a curious report from Japan of a new socket 775 quad – the Q9505. Seems to be almost exactly like the Q9550, @2.83GHz, but with varying cache.
…And a couple of updates on some Team.AU OC pros and their accolades with the new P55/Lynnfield combinations
- Dinos from Team.AU takes us through some overclocking escapades on an early Gigabyte P55-UD6 BIOS… achieving a lazy 5+GHz (image RHS courtesy of his review)
- Another crazy Team.AU OC'er youngpro is hitting 270+ BClk on a Gigabyte P55 board
- First view of the Intel i7 860
- And an overview of what it available in the Clarkdale space… Remembering, that Clarkdale is dual core with a GPU on die. You will notice the graphics card clocks included in the CPU specs:
- To complete the picture, here's a summary of the Lynnfield quad-core line-up
1/8/2009
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- Some reviews for today:
- HEXUS.net - Review :: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition: piling on the megahertz – AMD release their new quaddie at an incredible 3.4GHz. Now also on sale in Aus @PC Case Gear for $355 making it reasonably competitive with Intel's new offerings
And, just to back up the statement about competitive performance, Phenom II vs Core i7: Gaming Value Comparison - GeForce GTX 295 SLI: Super Heavy Weights Championship. Final Round – too much money to spend? Well here's a way to splash some cash on some serious graphics hardware...
- 1.5-2.0 TB Hard Drive Roundup @ X-bit labs
- An interesting read comparing DDR2 and DDR3 memory performance with some notable results
- HEXUS.net - Review :: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition: piling on the megahertz – AMD release their new quaddie at an incredible 3.4GHz. Now also on sale in Aus @PC Case Gear for $355 making it reasonably competitive with Intel's new offerings
- A massive weekend of hardware news – starting off with graphics card developments, cooling, storage technology, and other news…
- Exclusive: Get SLI for Your P45 Motherboard! Finally SLI from an Intel (non-X58) motherboard – but one feels based on the XFire performance of this chipset with an 8x8 PCIe configuration, SLI performance will not be 100% optimal
- PCI-Express 3.0 specs delayed until 2010 because of problems with backward compatibility. But when the standard comes, it promises to bring a wave of extra bandwidth
- Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 Q2-2009 – a round-up of coolers for the socket-1366 platform with some interesting results
- Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme CPU Cooler Lauched
- Four Kingston SSDNow E (Intel X25-E) SSDs in RAID 0 - Win 7 – some serious performance on a desktop
- SSD Round-up August 2009 @ Driver Heaven
- 6gb ddr3 tri-channel kit roundup. Read more on DDR3 in our Focus on DDR3 section
- Windoze 7 released to developers
- The sneak peek reviews are now flooding though… The first Core i7 870 review has been released. The i7 870 is a quad-core 2.93GHz socket 1156 CPU. By all accounts it beats the current i7 920. And just when you thought you were really confused – an i7 quaddie on socket 1156?? Detailed discussion also @ Xtreme Systems
- Finally some reviews coming through about the new Core i5. While there is still an official NDA on releasing performance data, Chinese site Expreview has given us some tasty little morsels. We've also been lucky enough to find some info on Core i3 and even upcoming (Gulftown) Core i9:
- Intel's Clarkdale processors will be Intel's new 32nm dual-cores. These will make up a bulk of the Core i5, Core i3 and perenial Pentium brands.
- There's also a detailed set of Core i5 analysis, including a performance comparison between a Core i5 Lynnfield Quad-core @ 2.66GHz and today's Core i7 and Q9450 processors
- In another world exclusive, they show some wPrime results with a dual processor Core i9! A Sneak Peek at Intel’s Core i9 Gulftown
- And first reviews of the Core i5 750 – similar specs to the i7 870 – but not quite the same performance…
- A-DATA Technology Extends Its Entire DDR3 Lineup with 4 GB Single Modules. The new 4GB modules will be available for desktop, laptop and server class systems. For i7, this means 24GB with the full six slots populated. Read more in our Focus on DDR3 section.
- Ozone3d.net have prepared an updated PhysX benchmark to showcase your hardware and tantalise your senses – Download PhysX FluidMark Benchmark
- Following up from a previous story, Corsair has relaunched their ultra-high-end GT series DDR3 modules, stating that Elpida have now ironed out the issues with their ICs: "The issue with the Hyper RAMs was discovered with the help of the enthusiast community, and we worked closely with them to solve it," stated John Beekley, VP of Applications Engineering at Corsair. "Our lab was able to correlate the failures to specific batches of early material, we worked very closely with Elpida to determine the root cause of the issue and to define the associated corrective actions to take. We are confident that every GT module using the Elpida Hyper IC Corsair ships from today will meet our strict quality and reliability standard."
For detailed reviews, see our Focus on DDR3 section. - Again, following up from a previous story, Windows 7 has been offically released to manufacturing (RTM). 7 will be released to the development community on 6/8 and for general release to the public 22/10.
- Intel announces the official release of its new 34nm SSD drive technology, bringing performance improvements and 60% cost reduction. Read more in our dedicated SSD section.
- nVidia and AMD – the graphic tech titans – release their newest drivers…
- Hard Drive Round Up @ Inside HW – 23 old school HDDs are compred for performance value and noise in this round-up
14/7/2009
- Intel's 34nm-based 320GB solid state drive creeps closer to reality – Intel's new SSD technology promises to put the capacity of a HDD into a SSD… And at a more reasonable price than their acclaimed X25-M series
- Windows 7 to be released to manufacturers on July 13th and for general release October 22nd
Update 14/7/09 – RTM release delayed at least a week
11/7/2009
- Intel Details Sandy Bridge, Grandson to Today's CPUs – Intel's next generation (Westmere) CPUs will switch to the 32nm manufacturing process, bringing further efficiency and improvements. But the generation after that (Sandy Bridge) will be an architecural revolution, combining half a motherboard into a single chip. Sandy Bridge CPUs incoporate the graphics processor and traditional CPU into a single die.
- Corsair to Halt Production of Dominator GT DDR3 – Corsair has had to temporarily stop production of its ultra high-end DDR3 Dominator GTs. Continuing problems with the Elpida Hyper ICs - which commonly attain DDR3-2000 C7 speeds - have forced Corsair to pull the modules. Production won't continue until replacement chips can be sourced.
Update 11/7/09 – OCZ have also pulled production of their modules carrying Elpida Hyper ICs
1/7/2009
- New High-speed Magnetic Drive Technology
DataSlide claim up to 500MB/s from new low wattage magnetic drive technology
17/6/2009
- 1 TB Hard Disk Drive Round-Up @ Hardware Secrets
A comparison of the value and performance of 12 1TB drvies currently on the market. - Samsung Squeeze 32GB into a Single DIMM – A breakthrough in server memory from Samsung brings 32GB to one stick of DDR3 RAM – and at 1.35V! Imagine 192GB RAM on your server :)
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- A-Data solid-state 128GB disk. Photos included...
- Details of Intel's 45nm Penryn processors to be released later this year. Rumour has it that they will release versions running "well over 3GHz" within the same thermal envelope as the current 65nm Core 2 Duo CPUs. What does that mean? More speed for the same amount of power/heat.