Archive for ‘April, 2006’

How Celeron did not disperse …

How Celeron did not disperse …

A certain group of enthusiasts decided to compare in action three overclocked processor – the new Intel Celeron D 356 (made by 65-nm technology and has 512 KB of cache second level), Pentium D 805 and another 2-core monster of AMD – Athlon FX 60. In order to compare the processors in terms of a [...]

PlayStation 3 for $ 400

PlayStation 3 for $ 400

Staff Team Xbox got their hands on the latest issue of PSM, fished out a few straight from the tin edition of the details concerning the launch of new gaming platforms from Sony. According to unofficial reports the PlayStation 3 (with 60-gigabyte hard drive included) will be launched in November, just in time for the [...]

Samsung – Apple’s number one partner

Samsung – Apple’s number one partner

Samsung and Apple expanded the fruitful cooperation. Samsung will be releasing players to Apple 32-bit processor technology developer ARM Holdings. Samsung out of the way the previous supplier of MP3-processors for Apple – a company PortalPlayer. As soon as Samsung and Apple entered into an agreement, shares of PortalPlayer began to fall in price. It [...]

ATI Cuts Prices on R520

ATI Cuts Prices on R520

In the competition between NVIDIA and ATI have been tried many ways to acquire right of primacy, and pricing policy in this matter plays an important role. According to our British colleagues, this year is expected to fall in the price of the ATI R520 cards up to 50%. Moreover, the emergence of various simplified [...]

Player in the form of chocolates

Player in the form of chocolates

Residents of Switzerland can be proud of. Swiss cheese, watches, optics, knives are known the world over. Another source of pride – chocolate. Some brands of Swiss chocolate has long became common, so it is not surprising that their use … even for the design of MP3-players. Hong Kong company COMPUTER CITY LTD player released [...]

EVGA started selling the GeForce 7900 GT KO

EVGA started selling the GeForce 7900 GT KO

EVGA company is well known among overclockers. Under her label has emerged very good overclocking card-based graphics chip G71. A few days ago EVGA has launched another round of selling cards – GeForce 7900 GT KO. As expected, the accelerator is based on the chip G71, has 24 pixel processors and has laid up too [...]

HDMI to Toshiba laptops

HDMI to Toshiba laptops

It is known that the main purpose of Blu-ray and HD-DVD drive – play movie discs in the resolution of 1080p, because for simple data transfer easier and cheaper to buy a portable hard drives, you can install the new drive. But the new high-capacity DVD-discs will allow film companies to implement HDTV-movies. Now on [...]

Robot for Elderly and Disabled

Robot for Elderly and Disabled

The Japanese introduced another amazing invention – a bipedal robot that can climb stairs and walk on an inclined plane. At the top of the robot, whose height is 1.28 meters, is the seat, which can comfortably middle-aged person or disabled. By using two joystick, a person can control the movements of the robot. Thus, [...]

GeForce 7950 GX2 – photo and some details

GeForce 7950 GX2 – photo and some details

Our French colleagues published one of the first photographs of the graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2. It is a model equipped with two graphics processors GeForce 7900, but the size of the card is comparable with the standard GeForce 7900 GTX, which is known to have a more modest size than card based on [...]

945GT Speedster Plus from MSI

945GT Speedster Plus from MSI

MSI has introduced a motherboard 945GT Speedster Plus, designed to work with processors series Core Solo / Core Duo. The model is not anything extraordinary, payment is made in the microATX form factor, based on the Intel 945GT Express chipset and, in addition to opportunities to work with a discrete PCI-Express x16 graphics and lets [...]

Connect your guitar to your computer

Connect your guitar to your computer

SoundTech Professional, a division of US Music Corporation, announced the LightSnake – device for transmitting digital signals of musical instruments on your computer. In LightSnake integrated analog-digital converter and signal booster. Connects to the USB port novelty and is compatible with many electronic instruments. edit and record audio content musicians can on your computer using [...]

Nintendo Wii: A Revolution in Pronunciation

Nintendo Wii: A Revolution in Pronunciation

Since the advent of the network the first reports of the next generation gaming console from the Japanese company Nintendo, surrounded by a huge number of draft speculation and rumors. But with the approach of Electronic Entertainment Expo 2006, a more unusual details. In particular, today we learned that the console, previously known as Revolution, [...]

Tavor: 65-nm Intel processor for mobile phones

Tavor: 65-nm Intel processor for mobile phones

Since the first Xscale processor family, Intel has more than five years on the market for chips for mobile phones. However, the semiconductor giant has not yet been able to break into the mainstream segment, where the reigning solutions from other companies, such as from Texas Instruments. According to some information, Intel is currently hard [...]

Micro cooling system for computer chips

Micro cooling system for computer chips

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a micro-cooling solution that could protect the computer chips in an innovative way from overheating. Unlike traditional solutions that rely on external fan or heat sink materials, the developed method relies on the integration of a mini-pump system in the corresponding chip itself Through tiny microchannels in the diameter [...]

ATI Radeon X1900 GT will cost $ 350

ATI Radeon X1900 GT will cost $ 350

Suffering and not less than the long-awaited card Radeon X1900 GT has received recently in his address a large amount of speculation. Discussed not only that it belongs to a particular family of GPUs and core clock and memory, but even the name of the product. Now we can state that Radeon X1900 GT will [...]