Assassin's Creed has made its way to the PC, and we have a review and performance analysis plus a dash of DX10.1 controversy thrown into the mix. Controversy aside, should PC gamers take time out for this console port?...
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Xigmatek NRP-HC1001 and NRP-HC1201 Power Supplies
http://www.anandtech.comXigmatek brings out their high-end power supplies rated at 1000W and 1200W for testing.
Read more »AMD may be planning its own CPU to compete with Nano, Atom
http://arstechnica.comA recently surfaced diagram may provide evidence that AMD will soon hop on the netbook bandwagon—or it could be the work of a Photoshopper with some time on his hands. Ars investigates. Read More...
Read more »PS3's Cell CPU tops high-performance computing benchmark
http://arstechnica.comA new research paper takes a look at how a common high-performance computing benchmark performs on a number of multicore, multisocket platforms, including Intel's Clovertown, AMD's Opteron, Sun's Niagara2, and IBM's Cell. Here's a sneak peek: bandwidth-starved systems don't do very well.Read More...
Read more »Putting pen to e-paper: iRex iLiad ebook reader review
http://arstechnica.comThe iLiad ebook reader comes as close to paper as anything we've ever seen, including the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle, but just how useful is it to write directly on the screen?Read More...
Read more »Seagate breaks terabyte barrier with new 1.5TB hard drive
http://arstechnica.comIf you're in need of a meatier, stronger, more impressive hard drive, Seagate has your back. The storage manufacturer launched a trio of new drives today for both desktop and mobile systems, featuring capacities of up to 1.5TB (desktop), and 500GB (mobile).Read More...
Read more »Sun Fire X4450: Challenging the HP and IBM bastion
http://www.anandtech.comSun challenges market leaders IBM and HP by claiming that the Sun Fire X4450 can deliver the performance and the functionality of their best 16-core 4U servers in a 2U chassis. Does Sun succeed? We try to quantify if you really save costs and how much.
Read more »Comcast to beef up network with new 100Gbps optics
http://arstechnica.comComcast and Nortel have announced the successful trial of new 100Gbps optical gear. The cable giant plans to start installing Nortel's new tech by the end of 2009 to increase its network capacity, one that is needed due to the advent of DOCSIS 3.0 and Project Infinity.Read More...
Read more »LCD manufacturers cut production despite strong demand
http://arstechnica.comMarket analysts and LCD panel manufacturers both expect demand for new flat panels to stay strong through the end of 2008, but several companies are trimming production in what may be a bid to control potential economic instability.Read More...
Read more »Intel fined $26 million for Korean antitrust violations
http://arstechnica.comThe South Korean Fair Trade Commission announced its decision today to fine Intel around $26 million. The fine comes some eight months after the Korean FTC first found Intel guilty of abusing its monopoly position; Intel has noted it may appeal the ruling.Read More...
Read more »Western Digital VelociRaptor: A Drive with a Bite
http://www.anandtech.comWe provide a preview of the new VelociRaptor and a drive hampered by early firmware that still manages to set new performance standards.
Read more »Toshiba Qosmio x305 Gaming Notebook - 9800M GTX Graphics
http://www.legitreviews.comThe Toshiba Qosmio x305 notebook will be released in mid-July and is already making ripples in the industry ever since it was announced and posted on the Toshiba website. The graphics on the Qismio x305 will be powered by the yet to be announced NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX graphics card, which has 1GB of video memory. NVIDIA hasn't said much about this un-released graphics card, but they did have the Toshiba Qosmio x305 notebook on display at a Microsoft event this week called the Games for Windows Presents: The Big Picture.
Read more »Game Testing 2GB versus 4GB of Memory on Vista 64-bit
http://www.legitreviews.comInsipred by the Corsair Performance Analysis of 4GB versus 2GB of memory we figured it would be fun to see for ourselves how gaming performance is impacted by adding more system memory. We got our hands on a 2GB and a 4GB set of Corsiar DOMINATOR PC2-9136C5 memory modules and set off to see what happens to the average framerate in nine games at 1920x1200.
Read more »Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
http://www.pureoverclock.comGolly goose (beat that for first words to a hardware review)! If i think back, a lot has changed since I last reviewed a CPU cooler - AMD no longer has the enthusiast in the palm of it's hand (though this may soon change with Agena), and we are entering the age of multi-core goodness. Another significant change to this area includes the introduction of programs like Core Temp, which allow the temperature monitoring of each individual CPU core with great accuracy.
Does Arctic Cooling still hold the top spot for price/performance?
E3 2008: Day 2 Coverage - Notebooks, Coolers and Tacos
http://www.legitreviews.comThe 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit hosted by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) at the Los Angeles Convention Center July 15-17, 2008 is going well and we bring you some of our day two coverage. We stopped by and took a look at the newly released Toshiba Intel Centrino 2 based notebooks, some console coolers by the folks and Nyko and ended up having a Taco with Sony at King Taco down the street from the convention center.
Read more »Inside Newegg NJ: A New Warehouse and Another Contest
/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3315Newegg invited us up to tour their latest warehouse and agreed to give away five Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650s to AnandTech readers....
Read more »Higher Clock Speeds, No TLB Issues and Better Pricing: The New Phenom
http://www.anandtech.comLast last year Phenom brought AMD a terrible end to a terrible year. While AMD continues to try to resurrect itself we find ourselves in the midst of a second Phenom launch. With better chips, better clock speeds and better pricing see how AMD went from a complete dud to actually competitive with the Phenom X4 9850. It looks like we may just get competition in the CPU industry once again.
Read more »Intel's Larrabee Architecture Disclosure: A Calculated First Move
http://www.anandtech.comWhile not giving away much if any info about future products, Intel has cracked the door open just a bit on their Larrabee project. As expected, the information was fairly graphics centric. While we don't know a whole lot more about the hardware, we do have some better insights in to how Intel plans on using it....
Read more »NVIDIA's GTX 280: G80, Evolved
http://arstechnica.comNVIDIA's GTX 200 GPU drops today, with the debut of the company's new highest-end part. With 240 stream processors, 1GB of onboard memory, and a massive 512-bit memory bus, the GTX 280 is loaded for bear—at least on paper. Read More...
Read more »New Directions: emerging compute models
http://arstechnica.com"Software-as-a-service," "application streaming," "on-demand software delivery" are all popular ways of talking about a new set of emerging compute models that exist on a spectrum between traditional thin client and fat client models. These models form the topic for our next round of Symposium discussions.Read More...
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