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Hardware or Gadget/Multimedia News (hit read more to go straight to the full story) When the famed film critic needed to find a way to communicate after losing his voice to cancer surgery, he turned to text-to-speech (TTS) software that speaks whatever he types. But the TTS software he initially tried sounded too robotic and computerized. He wanted a voice that sounded like him. That's when he discovered CereProc, a Scottish company that builds electronic voices. Using someone's audio recordings, CereProc's technology can stitch together an entire digital voice that sounds like the actual person.  Windows 7 SP1 will be brought forward Originally Microsoft wanted a 22-month development schedule for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). But the company has since changed its mind, reportedly to address an unknown number of "serious" performance bugs. Now it seems that SP1 will come out in the fourth quarter of this year, which is apparently the earliest the Vole can manage it. No pricecuts foreseen for ATI Radeon HD 5830 while the card does fall between the Radeon HD 5770 and the Radeon HD 5850, performances are closer to the first and pricing closer to the second. As for the memory bus, while we may agree that an inefficient 256-bit bus (due to a supposed upstream limitation in terms of ROP bandwidth), gives better performance than a 128-bit memory bus, it is also partly responsible for the disproportionate manufacturing costs of this card in terms of performance. AMD nevertheless told us that they didn’t have any immediate plans to cut the price of the Radeon HD 5830. The same goes for partners who seem surprised by the modest welcome given to the solution. One told us however that demand for the Radeon HD5800s was in any case so strong that a product didn’t need to stand out to sell successfully as long as it was part of the range. Newegg Counterfeit CPU Mess Finally Resolved Newegg admits it shipped fake Intel Core i7 CPUs to customers and is working to remedy the situation. It says a supplier, IPEX, is to blame. Customers received CPU-looking pieces of metal with no pinouts. [QUOTE]while fake CPUs were indeed shipped, they came from an entirely different supplier, IPEX. D&H, who does ship legitimate Core i7s, was apparently a perfectly innocent party that became caught up in a mess of upset people jumping to the wrong conclusions. [/QUOTE] AMD Claims NVIDIA Bribes Game Devs To Use PhysX ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, accused its arch-rival Nvidia Corp. of making marketing deals with video game designers to promote GPU-accelerated physics effects processing using PhysX application programming interface. Earlier this year AMD already accused Nvidia of modifying PhysX API in a way to not let it use all available cores on multi-core central processing units (CPUs) when processing physics effects in games. The company claimed that Nvidia did this in order to look performance of GeForce-accelerated physics effects processing higher compared to CPU-accelerated processing. However, later on Nvidia denied any modifications of PhysX API. 100Mbps broadband may be closer than you think If you're looking forward to a future of streaming movies, gargantuan Internet file exchanges, and other high-bandwidth activities, cheer up. Broadband service providers in most of the major markets around the country will soon be able to deliver 100Mbps broadband service with no problem. That's enough to download a music album in as little as 5 seconds, an hour-long TV show in about 30 seconds, and a high-definition movie in roughly 7 minutes, 25 seconds. But it's going to cost you. Terabyte Hard Disk Drives Roundup We are going to talk about the new 1 TB HDD models that appeared in the market over the past year. And since one of these solutions is Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARS with 4 KB sectors, we will also discuss this type of HDD internal structure, its pros and cons. Give 1984 Mac a Leopard makeover [Jake Howe] brought his 1984 Mac up-to-date by cramming new guts inside of the classic case. The goal from the start was to run OS X Snow Leopard on the machine without altering the externals. He heated and formed acrylic around the original CRT screen to make a bezel for the replacement LCD screen. The floppy drive slot was used to hide an SD card slot and USB port.  Spire Announces TherMax Eclipse II CPU Cooler Following the success of the original DT heat-pipe TherMax series, we're proudly introducing the TherMax Eclipse II. Powered by Innovation and with awesome looks this CPU Cooler is one supreme performer. Equipped with five 8mm Direct Touch U-Shaped sintered powder heat-pipes combined with black-nickel coated stamped heat-sink fins to best preserve killer looks. The TherMax Eclipse II is ready to best cool the extreme hot 130W to 150W Micro-processors made by Intel and AMD. Latest AMD game physics push brings soft-body simulations AMD's Open Physics initiative is still going. Just under six months after announcing its partnership with Pixelux, AMD has now posted another press release to say it, Pixelux, and Bullet Physics, are giving game developers access to the newest release of Pixelux's Digital Molecular Matter physics middleware. Furthermore, Pixelux has "tightly integrated" Digital Molecular Matter with the Bullet Physics programming interface, on which AMD's September 30 announcement centered. The integration will let developers "integrate physics simulation into game titles that run on both OpenCL- and DirectCompute-capable platforms," the announcement says. (As we understand it, Bullet Physics handles rigid-body physics computations, while DMM supports soft body dynamics.) 10Gbit Ethernet: Killing Another Bottleneck? In the second quarter of this year, we’ll have affordable servers with up to 48 cores (AMD’s Magny-cours) and 64 threads (Intel Nehalem EX). The most obvious way to wield all that power is to consolidate massive amounts of virtual machines on those powerhouses. Typically, we’ll probably see something like 20 to 50 VMs on such machines. Port aggregation with a quad-port gigabit Ethernet card is probably not going to suffice. If we have 40 VMs on a quad-port Ethernet, that is less than 100Mbit/s per VM. We are back in the early Fast Ethernet days. Until virtualization took over, our network intensive applications would get a gigabit pipe; now we will be offering them 10 times less? This is not acceptable. HWBOT publishes CPU architecture overclocking charts (air and extreme) The HWBOT database consists of 400,000 results which all contain valuable information, provided by the overclocking community. Of course, we can rank your results and give you points for them, but we can also gather all that information and provide you insightful information. Today, we have compiled a list of the overclockability of CPU architectures based on cooling ... Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love Starting late Friday afternoon we conducted a 12 hour experiment to see if it would be possible to simply make content disappear for visitors who were using a very popular ad blocking tool. Technologically, it was a success in that it worked. Ad blockers, and only ad blockers, couldn't see our content. We tested just one way of doing this, but have devised a way to keep it rotating were we to want to permanently implement it. But we don't. Socially, the experiment was a mixed bag. A bunch of people whitelisted Ars, and even a few subscribed. And while others showed up to support our actions, there was a healthy mob of people criticizing us for daring to take any kind of action against those who would deny us revenue even though they knew they were doing so. Others rightly criticized the lack of a warning or notification as to what was going on. Intel: People Do Not Need High-Performance Graphics A highly-ranking executive of Intel Corp. said in an interview that the vast majority of customers hardly need high performance graphics. While it is clear that by far not everyone plays video games, the claim still reminds the phrase about 640 kilobytes of RAM being enough for everyone. “When people think about graphics, they think about 3D war games and more realism. I'm not going to dismiss this, but (this market) attracts a relatively small amount of people. I think what a significant portion of consumers really want is media,” said Intel executive vice president Dadi Perlmutter, in an interview with Cnet News.com web-site. Intel to Introduce 8-core Xeon Nehalem-EX, 6-core Westmere-EP Processors This Month Intel is set to introduce a series of eight-core Xeon server processors later this month, that are capable of running in four-socket servers. With HyperThreading technology enabled, each core can handle two threads, taking the logical CPU count on such servers up to 64. Each Nehalem-EX chip has 8 CPU cores with dedicated L2 caches of 256 KB, a shared L3 cache of 24 MB, and Turbo Boost technology that helps conserve power while also stepping up performance when needed. The die also features a memory controller with four DDR3 memory channels. Being based on the Nehalem architecture, the chips are built on the 45 nm HKMG process. OCZ Enyo is Portable USB 3.0 HDD CZ Technology has been working on a storage solution that takes advantage of the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface for a while. It's just got a little closer to seeing the light of the day at CeBIT. The OCZ Enyo is a device that's roughly the size of a compact portable HDD that you can carry in your pocket, except that it's a flash-based device, and uses USB 3.0. The Enyo offers data storage in three capacities (variants): 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB. It measures 56 x 120 x 10 mm, and relies on the USB 3.0 interface for power and connectivity. Being a flash-based solid state storage device, it is expected to have high transfer speeds, and inherently, the incentive of low access times and higher durability since it lacks moving parts. Company threatens journalists over fake Intel CPU reports A company called D&H Distributing doesn’t consider it legitimate for the free press to ask questions and took umbrage to this. In fact, the legal beagles over at D&H Distributing got so worked up over the horrifying gall and chutzpah of Icrontic and HardOCP for daring to ask a question that the company slapped both publications with a “cease and desist” order. Intel Steps into Alleged Counterfeit Core i7 920 Sale Issue Intel has been made aware of the potential for counterfeit i7 920 packages in the marketplace and is working to how many and/or where they are being sold. The examples we have seen are not Intel products but are counterfeits. Buyers should contact their place of purchase for a replacement and/or should contact their local law enforcement agency if the place of purchase refuses to help. This statement flies directly in the face of what Newegg is telling us.
After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units. [M] CeBIT 2010 Coverage It's that time of year again at Hannover Messe. CeBIT 2010 gave us high expectations. New CPUs from Intel and AMD, Nvidia Fermi video cards and loads more motherboard releases. Since we had only 2 days to wander around, we made the choice to meet and greet first the partners we work closely with and that supply us with all the review hardware. Our schedule had to be quite closely adhered too. Day one was less hectic in total visitor numbers, day two was already pretty crowded and much harder to snap decent pictures and guided tours. Thermaltake Element V Chassis Review Thermaltake is one of the premier PC chassis makers that is widely recognized worldwide. Thermaltake products are not cheap at all but this is mainly due to their superb build quality such as Thermaltake Level 10, SwordM and etc hence it is definitely worth for it. Today let us go through Thermaltake Element V which is the most high end product among the rest of Element series. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 GPU Performance In-depth PC gamers are no strangers to the Battlefield franchise, making its first appearance in 2002 with the multiplayer focused Battlefield 1942. Several other titles and expansion packs have followed in recent years, though Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the direct sequel to a game released in 2008 that only made it to consoles. In terms of visual quality and gameplay Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is highly impressive and in my opinion provides Crysis-like graphics on a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 type feel. Any game that looks this good is going to be demanding. What we experienced is that tuning down visual settings along with the resolution still hurt budget and even some mid-range graphics cards. DICE recommends at least a GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4780 graphics card to play Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and it is rare to find this kind of high performance GPUs falling under the recommended specifications. Read on for our in-depth findings on GPU performance and CPU scaling. Raidmax Skyline Case Review In the world of PC customization there are a wide range of products to choose from when looking to house your computing hardware. Some are expensive and high quality, while others are expensive and not worth their weight in tin. Others are great bargains and targeted towards the modding community, while some are cheap both in price and materials. Today we look at the Raidmax Skyline and decide which of these categories it falls into. ASUS Maximus III Formula motherboard review ASUS' motherboard layouts always tend to impress, and the Maximus III Formula sticks to that clean but effective layout, which should prevent anything too major in the way of component placement conflicts or the like. The rear of the motherboard offers up a single PS/2 port for a keyboard, nine USB 2.0 ports (one of which is offered up for ASUS' RoG Connect functionality), a single FireWire and eSATA port and a Gigabit RJ45 network jack. MSI H55-GD65 Gamer Series LGA1156 ATX Motherboard Review A key benefit of almost every INTEL P55/P55A motherboard that we’ve reviewed is the overclocking capability. Chances are you can walk into your favourite computer store and locate several capable INTEL P55 boards capable of unlocking the potential of that stock CPU. How much potential depends on how much you want to spend and what expansion features you want. Patriot Torqx 128 Go, a good indilinx SSD (FR) As OCZ, Corsair, Crucial or Transcend, Patriot offers us a Indilinx Barefoot SSD. This one seems to have the same performances, but we have to verify this in an article. Gigabyte H55M-USB3 - The Ultimate $100 H55 Board? Finding a great H55 board to match up with your Clarkdale CPU isn't hard, as the market currently has a great selection. But Gigabyte's H55M-USB3 stands out, as it has a superb feature-set for its ~$100 price tag, and also proves itself in our tests as being a great all-around board, and one that seems to have no limit in overclocking. ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 890GX Looking to capitalize on new technologies such as SATA 6.0Gb/s and USB 3.0, AMD's new 890GX chipset incorporates these, and other several features in looking to continue to provide computing and gaming value to consumers. The 890GX sports "new" integrated graphics and a new SB850 southbridge, shedding previous limitations that nagged the popular 785G. Implementing these new features and changes is the ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 motherboard, which also brings a host of additional innovations and value-added features that make this combination very enticing. Gelid Solutions Tranquillo CPU Cooler Review We have taken a look at a few products from Gelid Solutions in the past, I was very impressed with the low noise levels of their first heatsink Silent CPU Cooler. Their last heatsink was designed to perform well, but not to compete with some of the larger high-end coolers that enthusiasts normally go after. No because of that Gelid Solutions has released the Tranquillo, a larger heatsink aimed at high performance but still following Gelid's Silent product line. Today we have the chance to put it to the test and see how it performs compared to some of best heatsinks on the market. NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Roundup (EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI & Sparkle) If you weren’t pay close attention to the GPU market a few months ago, you may have missed the launch of the GT 240 series since the launch wasn’t preceded by any of the usual marketing or release day fireworks. As such, not much attention has been paid to this card but in this roundup we take a look at six cards from four of NVIDIA’s board partners. PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 PCS+ Review In all of the benchmark testing, the PowerColor HD 5870 PCS+ did great! Usually in the top two, it got first place many times as well thanks to the factory overclock. The massive quad heat-piped heat sink also kept the core and card running cool under load even when overclocked. The graphics card easily clocked to 950 MHz core and 1320 MHz memory. After that, 100% stability was not possible, although in some games I was able to play for hours up with the settings at 1000 MHz on the core and 1400 MHz memory - a small voltage bump and this card could reach high frequencies! In Win Fanqua Mid Tower Chassis Review In Win isn’t a widely known company, but it is slowly starting to get to there. Their unique cases are a different from the norm and the In Win Fanqua Mid Tower Chassis that we have to review today is no exception. Supporting up to nine drives the Fanqua houses four fans: three 120mm and one 220mm blue LED fan which lights up the entire case. In Win has also developed many tool-free devices to help ensure a fast and easy installation. Read on further to find out more about this case. Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 Video Card in CrossFire Having already looked at the HD 5830 in reference form, it was time to see what our retail card could do when combined with the reference model we've already looked at. Over the past few months and clearly the past few releases, we've had a look at all the models in Crossfire and have been extremely happy with the performance boost that the setups gave us. Out of the box the Sapphire doesn't look like our reference card. How it really changes, however, is something we'll get into more detail on later. For now let's check out the package and see if Sapphire can wow us with the latest model from ATI. NZXT LEXA S Crafted Series PC Case Review One way to describe the Lexa S is with a word I tend not use in tech reviews - sexy. This case is a stunner that is designed to catch your eye. Now external appearances don’t always tell the whole story, so today we will be taking an in depth look the Lexa S. Core i7 Single, Dual, Triple Channel Configurations Compared We have just released a Review of different RAM-Configurations and their effects on the overall system-performance. What we tested on an Intel Core i7-960 platform: 1x 2 GB, 1x 4 GB, 2x 2 GB, 3x 2 GB, 2x 4 GB, 3x 4 GB and 6x 4 GB.  Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Chassis Review The budget mid tower computer case market is one of the most saturated when it comes to computer components. There are literally hundreds of different low cost mid tower cases to weed through when trying to find one that will meet your needs. I'll be the first to admit that many offerings are complete garbage. The key here is to find a chassis that combines the right mix of features and good looks while still being easy on the wallet and that is exactly what Thermaltake is aiming for with their recently released V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Case. With a retail price of only $39 USD, most would expect the bare minimum but read on because the V3 is dressed to impress. DimasTech Bench Table V2.5 Dimastech is continously updating their Benchtable and listening to the feedback of both users and reviewers. The V2.5 simplifies many aspects of assembly, while adding new and useful features to the Benchtable. We take a close look at what it has to offer and at the improvements, to see if it is a worthy successor. Noctua NH-D14 and C12P-SE14 Review While many companies during the recession decided to diversify their business to stay afloat, one company that decided to stick with what they do best, make coolers; that company was Noctua. Hailing from the only country in the world with their own "Fan Comission" that works tirelessly to produce simply better fan, Austria, Noctua have a pair of giant coolers that are designed to chill the hottest of chips. Let's see how they do. CeBIT 2010 Day Three Coverage In our final day at CeBIT we visited Cooler Master, Enermax, Razer, SteelSeries, OCZ and Corsair to see what they had on show. Thermaltake Silent 1156 CPU Heatsink As computers get more and more powerful with each advance in computing technology, it is inevitable that the thermal envelope is continually being pushed to higher levels. For this reason, there will always be a large market for aftermarket CPU cooling. But just when you think only the biggest and loudest coolers can effectively cool the latest and greatest overclocked quad core processors, Thermaltake comes in with the Silent 1156 heatsink (Yes, that's literally the name). As its name suggests, this cooler is designed for Intel's relatively recent LGA1156 socket, and is a claimed to be silent alternative to the stock cooler provided by Intel in a retail packaged CPU. This tower style cooler features two 8mm heatpipes leading away from the base, as well as an included 92mm cooling fan over its array of heatsink fins. It is priced at a mere $29.99 at press time, and targeted at users who are into silent computing -- those who are dissatisfied with the noise generated from the little Intel heatsink -- but do not wish to spend a lot of money for an aftermarket unit. Generally speaking, Thermaltake aims to provide the user with the Silent 1156 as an alternative low noise CPU cooling solution without breaking the bank. We will be testing this product today to see if it is really a viable alternative and holds its own against the competition, and whether it can handle the our Intel Core i7-860 within a reasonable range of temperatures. Are you better off saving your money and sticking with the stock cooler, or should you grab this heatsink as soon as you finish this reading this review? Well... continue reading to find out! Monthly HWBOT Overclocking Competition Breaks S754 World Record HWBOT is one of the largest overclocking-minded websites on the internet featuring their own highly regarded Overclockers league and host of many overclocking competitions. Each month, they're also holding a low-end competition, mainly focused on older hardware. Although the hardware is relatively old, it seems that all the participants are still motivated to push it to the extreme limit as for the second month in a row, a world record was crushed. This time, the winner pulled of an astonishing 489HTT clock on ... Socket 754! GIGABYTE H55/H57 IGP OC Challenge Next to the HWBOT OC Challenge, which mainly focuses on the old-skool part of overclocking, GIGABYTE has launched an H55/H57 IGP overclocking competition. We will be competing against each other using the brand new 32nm Core i3/i5 processors which have a graphics processor integrated on the CPU package. Benchmark: 3DMark Vantage - Performance. For the winner, there’s a GA-X58A-UD7 waiting and in addition one GA-P55A-UD7 will be sent to one lucky winner.[URL]http://www.hwbot.org/competition/gbt_h55_h57[/URL] MSI R5770 HAWK Radeon HD 5770 Review It is a neat card, it is an excellent price, and it pushes the limits of design for the highly competitive market that it resides in. While other manufacturers are introducing overclocked cards, many of these are using the reference design and cooling systems. MSI has taken a big step above nearly everyone else and produced a unique and outstanding offering for the $150 to $199 price range. Read More News |
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