Gigabyte S1080 Windows 7 Slate Unveiled In Taiwan

Gigabyte is aback to the Windows 7 book bazaar by absolution the new S1080. Powered by an Intel Dual Core Atom N550 CPU, the apparatus runs on a abounding adaptation of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. The Gigabyte S1080 aswell has a 10.1-inch (1024 x 600) capacitive touchscreen, a keyboard with autography acceptance software, an optical deride operated abrasion on the ancillary and two concrete abrasion buttons on the added for easier navigation. What’s more, the book aswell has a 1.3-megapixel webcam, a USB 3.0 port, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, an SD agenda reader, an Ethernet anchorage and a VGA anchorage to affix to alien displays. Too bad, it lacks of an HDMI port.

Sapphire Announces Pure White Fusion AMD APU Motherboard

Sapphire has just appear its aboriginal motherboard based on AMD's new Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) as a aftereffect of alive carefully with AMD. The new Sapphire Pure White Fusion E350M1W motherboard is based on the mini-ITX anatomy agency and appearance a E350 APU (codenamed 'Zacate') from AMD. Along with the first-generation Zacate processor, the E350M1W appearance AMD's Hudson-M1 (A50M) chipset. The Zacate APU is the aboriginal to amalgamate high-performance consecutive accretion and alongside cartoon processing cores on a individual chip.

Graphics are provided by the AMD Radeon HD 6310 GPU which allows the Pure White Fusion E350M1W to bear a abounding DX 11 affection set application either VGA(D-Sub), HDMI or DVI outputs. The lath supports up to 4GB of DDR3 arrangement anamnesis via its two SODIMM slots and has 5 SATA 6Gb/s ports, an eSATA adapter on the rear panel, four USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.0 ports. High-definition 8-Channel onboard complete and a PCI-Express Gigabit LAN affiliation annular things out. Sapphire hasn't appear appraisement or availabilty yet.

CES 2011: VIA Releases Nano X2

Some months aback I was able to lay easily on the latest bifold bulk VIA Nano processor, admitting an engineering sample fabricated on the earlier 65 nm action from TSMC. Now VIA has appear that their latest VIA Nano X2 chips are accessible at 40 nm. This should accept a actual absolute aftereffect on the ability burning of systems based on these chips.

When I took a attending at the VIA Nano X2, it was a actual solid processor with acceptable all-embracing performance. At 1.6 GHz, the processor was able to attempt with desktop processors clocked about the aforementioned area, but was hardly bigger if it came to power. Now that these chips are assuredly at 40 nm, we should see a ample access in their efficiency.

One aspect that I was candidly afraid at was the achievement and ability ability of the VN1000 chip chipset. This is a DX10.1 adjustable unit, and it performed at a akin commensurable to the best that AMD and NVIDIA has. It is aswell actual commensurable to the new Sandy Bridge 2000 alternation of chip graphics.
The alone absolute affair that VIA faces is the acute bulk of antagonism it now has in a alcove that it already bedeviled on the X86 side. AMD and Intel accept actual complete articles that abutment the X86 apple in the low ability niche. It is absolutely adverse for VIA that they did not get out a 40 nm Nano X2 nine months ago, if 40 nm assembly assuredly had some amplitude accessible up for barter added than AMD and NVIDIA.

Still, it is acceptable that VIA is able to assuredly bear these parts, and they will acquisition a acceptable home in absolutely a few articles about the industry. It just does not attending to be as ascendant as the Intel Atom and the AMD Brazos platforms if it comes to architecture wins.

CyberpowerPC's Gamer Xtreme 4000: Now with Sandy Bridge

Introducing the CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme 4000

We endure arrested in with CyberPowerPC's gaming desktop analysis if we advised the Gamer Xtreme 8500, which arranged a able-bodied Intel Core i7-875K overclocked to 3.8GHz alongside two NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450s in SLI. Our animosity were absolutely mixed: while it was absolutely fast enough, the abysm amid the quoted amount tag and the absolute amount forth with the drudge overclocking job fabricated us catechism the system's value. Now CyberPowerPC has beatific us a gaming desktop with the analytic new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 and a cast active new Intel Core i7-2600K that appearance the accomplished alarm acceleration of any processor we've anytime activated in a system.

Knowing the new Intel Core i7 based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture is one of the fastest processors you can buy, what happens if we yield the best clock-for-clock achievement on the bazaar and crank it up to 4.4GHz?

The albatross in the allowance is the overclocked Intel Amount i7-2600K. Built on a 32nm artifact process, it's Intel's new top of the band boilerplate processor application the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture and appearance 8MB of L3 accumulation and a nominal turbo acceleration of 3.8GHz. Given the changes in how Sandy Bridge chips are overclocked, the apart multiplier is all-important to get the a lot of out of these new processors. CyberPower has appropriately ramped the turbo multiplier to 44x, acquiescent a final turbo acceleration of a amazing 4.4GHz. The new i7 is cooled application CyberPower's accepted Asetek 510LC aqueous cooling which keeps abandoned temperatures acutely low.
Supporting the i7-2600K is Intel's new P67 chipset, which appearance both SATA 6Gbps and 3Gbps connectivity, the above of which is affiliated to the bog accepted Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive. The chipset and processor alone abutment bifold approach memory, consistent in a lath best of 16GB of DDR3; the 4GB of Kingston HyperX installed runs at a actual advantageous 1600MHz. The blow of the motherboard offers all of the avant-garde connectivity you could ask for, including an absorbing abruptness in the anatomy of chip bluetooth.
Finally we aswell accept the SuperClocked archetypal of eVGA's NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570. In our analysis of the GTX 570 we begin it to be about as fast as the above baron of the acropolis GeForce GTX 480. Not too shabby, and now with eVGA's SuperClocked archetypal we see a 60MHz bang in amount alarm (resulting in an able 120MHz addition on the shader clock); anamnesis acceleration is unchanged. Nonetheless, the 570 aswell sports a advantageous 480 of NVIDIA's CUDA cores forth with bigger thermals and ability burning over the antecedent generation.
Rounding things out are a blu-ray reader/DVD biographer admixture drive and a admirable if banal Thermaltake Armor A60 case. A nice abruptness comes in the anatomy of the Corsair 650TX ability supply, about admired as one of the best brands on the market.