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WE'VE EXPRESSED plenty of doubts about the suitability of current-gen DX10 hardware to deliver a solid gaming experience in the upcoming wave of PC games. Plenty of benchmark tests on titles like Lost Planet and Colin McRae seem to suggest… Go To Full Article

DIGITIMES said, based on rumours from a JP Morgan report, that AMD could use TSMC to fab up 45 nanometre Fusion CPUs. We dunno how far ahead TSMC is on the 45 nanometre curve, but we suspect it's quite a… Go To Full Article

KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY has been ranked top by chip counters at Isuppli, who reckon it haulks in the most revenue of all DRAM suppliers. Isupply estimates Kingston’s total DRAM module sales exceeded $2.2 billion in 2006, nearly $800 million more than… Go To Full Article

Core 2 duo Celerons 4x0 series also dropped in price and this price cut also affected the Celeron D CPUs. On average they all went $2 down in price with some exceptions. Celeron 440 with 512 KB cache and 2.0… Go To Full Article

Intel will cut the prices one more time in almost one month from today. It will adjust the prices of three CPUs and it will introduce the new one. E2180 will show up on that date and will be available… Go To Full Article

Western Digital today announced a new line of hard drives with greater emphasis on power saving – GreenPower. Western Digital has new GreenPower drives for desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external applications. The new GreenPower drives claim power consumption reductions… Go To Full Article

Intel has released early details of its upcoming server and workstation platforms for Nehalem processors – Tylersburg. Tylersburg has three variants in the pipeline – EP for efficient performance servers, EN for entry servers and WS for workstations. Details of… Go To Full Article

Belgium, known for mustache-wearing detective Hercule Poirot, excellent chocolate, and peeing statues, could soon have a new distinction: Europe's toughest copyright cops. As you may know, the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers (SABAM) won a case in late… Go To Full Article

Very generally speaking, all three reports found that, when idle, Opteron-based systems tend to consume around 40 percent less power than similarly equipped Woodcrest-based systems. When transaction processing and database workloads are run on the systems, the power gap between… Go To Full Article

When it comes to CPU aircooling the current trend is all about heatpipes, and why not? Heatpipe coolers are in some instances better than the traditional block style heatsinks and only require a small amount of airflow to work. The… Go To Full Article