Super Talent Dramatically Slashes Prices of Entry-Level Solid-State Drives

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20080930140803_Super_Talent_Dramatically_Slashes_Prices_of_Entry_Level_Solid_State_Drives.html

Super Talent's 64GB SSD Now Available for $179

ATX Power Supply Units Roundup. Part X

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/atx-psu10.html

This article is our report about five power supplies from well-known brands ranging from 500W to 800W . Two companies, namely Thermaltake and Enermax, are long known as PSU makers, but the other three are new names in the market of power supplies.

Hitachi demonstrates 15mm 37-inch LCD TV at CEATEC

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/407654878/

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Hitachi drug its oh-so-sexy 1.5-inch plasma to Japan after showing it off in Denver earlier this month, but what we didn't see at CEDIA was this: a 15-millimeter thin 37-inch LCD TV. The "reference" set packed a 1,920 x 1,080 panel and a fittingly designed stand, though it won't see mass production until "2009 or later." Ugh, even 1-inch just seems so bloated now.

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"Shanghai" is Ready to Rock says AMD

URL: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13090

AMD Shanghai hopes to erase bad memories of Barcelona...

Diamond Multimedia Accuses Ex-Employee of Spreading Misinformation

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20080929132020_Diamond_Multimedia_Accuses_Ex_Employee_of_Spreading_Misinformation.html

Diamond Multimedia Denies Existence of Defective Graphics Cards

AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3CXgNwdbBwo/article.pl

An anonymous reader writes "According to a research report out of UCLA, released this morning, NVidia's high-lead bump packaging could last anywhere from 1/10th to 1/100th as long as AMD's advanced eutectic bump approach. (TG Daily has picked up the claim.) NVidia is currently in the midst of a $200M recall of bad GPUs, and the report suggests that the issue could be much deeper than NVidia's PR department would have us believe." The report lends credence to the strident claims of the Inquirer's Charlie Demerjian, which we discussed a month back.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Asustek Computer to Make New Mainboards More Affordable

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20080926122359_Asustek_Computer_to_Make_New_Mainboards_More_Affordable.html

Asustek Reportedly Cut Prices on Intel P45 Mainboards

Four GeForce 9600 GT Cards Compared

URL: http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=0977e2594443b7c9aa6fb5585198520e

Manufacturers really love the first Geforce 9. The graphic chip is fast, the cards are inexpensive, and some retailers offer more than ten variations.

NVIDIA rumored (again) to be renaming its GPU lineup in the name of simplicity

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/403826725/

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

We won't even begin to suggest that NVIDIA is the only company out there with, shall we say, less than crystal clear naming schemes, but we're really hoping the latest whispers (which we've heard once before) about the outfit are true. TG Daily has it that undisclosed "industry sources" have suggested that the GPU maker will be dropping the 8000- and 9000-series names in an effort to simplify the model tags that appear on its products. Instead of breaking into the 10k+ club, the outfit will purportedly resort to using simple(r) letter prefixes to denote performance levels: "G" for baseline, "GS" and "GT" for mid-range and "GTX" for high-end. We're told that the new naming arrangement could be revealed officially as early as October 15th, but 'til then, we'd recommend doing some hefty research before buying something you only thought could run Crysis.

[Via Electronista]

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AMD said to be revising naming scheme for 45nm Phenom CPUs

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/403630436/

Filed under: Desktops

Get out your processor score sheets, folks (both of you), 'cause it looks like your world is about to get shook up again. According to some unnamed "industry sources," AMD is going to be welcoming its new 45nm Phenom processors by slightly revising its conventional naming scheme, although it's not going quite so far as to ditch the main Phenom X3 and Phenom X4 branding all together. Instead, it's supposedly going to be switching the model numbers from four to five digits, with the lower-end processors following a 1xx00 format and the higher-end CPUs using a 20xx0 scheme. That, of course, is being done in the name of "simplifying" things, although we'll let you be the judge if that's the first word that pops in your mind or not when you take a glance at the table available at the read link below.

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Toshiba's record breaking 1.8-inch 250GB SATA disk for your next ultra-slim laptop

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/402567707/

Filed under: Storage

Ok, it's not by much, but world's biggest is world's biggest especially notable when it comes in a package this small. Toshiba just busted up its own record for 1.8-inch drive capacity with this new 250GB MKxx29GSG series disk spinning at 5,400rpm -- the previous 240GB 1.8-incher announced a few weeks ago is stuck with a slower PATA interface more suitable to portable audio players. That makes this 8.0-mm thick, 3Gbps SATA hard drive ideal for ultra-slim, ultra-portable laptops requiring snappy (and cheap compared to an equivalent capacity SSD) data access by your applications. At least it will be when it begins mass production in November.

[Via Impress]

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The Radeon HD 4870 1GB: The Card to Get

URL: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3415

Many have been waiting for the higher memory variant of AMD's 4870 since it's launch. It is now available, and at very good prices. Our tests show performance improvement due to the additional memory increase as well as direct comparisons to other hardware....

Another Scandal with Potentially Defective Graphics Cards Transpires

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20080924161236_Another_Scandal_with_Potentially_Defective_Graphics_Cards_Transpires.html

Diamond Multimedia Reportedly Shipped Plenty of Faulty Graphics Cards

Dell's 22-inch S2209W monitor to reach Full HD resolution?

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/401595416/

Filed under: Displays

22-inch monitors have generally been stuck at a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution for years with just a few notable exceptions. Now it looks like Dell is about to change that with the introduction of a newly designed, S2209W monitor with rumored 1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution. The evidence stems from that prototype pictured above as well as drivers already available on Dell's support site. Still not sure how we feel about the piano-black, Samsung-esque design, though. One more snap after the break.

[Thanks, Alex P.]

Read -- Dell drivers
Read -- Prototype

Continue reading Dell's 22-inch S2209W monitor to reach Full HD resolution?

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The IGP Chronicles Part 1: Intel's G45 & Motherboard Roundup

URL: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3417

Today we have the first part of a three part series on the current state of chipsets with integrated graphics. This first part looks closely at Intel's G45, presently the only LGA-775 chipset with full Blu-ray decode acceleration, as well as a quick comparison of the first G45 boards. ...

Photoshop CS4 Will Use GPU Power

URL: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13040

New Photoshop CS4 to ship in October and use the power of the GPU...

Bad Signs For Blu-ray

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/30hcNgHLBxw/article.pl

Ian Lamont writes "More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the ghost, there are several signs that Sony's rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several tactics to boost the format — including free trial discs bundled into magazines and cheap Blu-ray players that cost less than $200."

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Debunking Power Supply Myths

URL: http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3413

How big does your power supply really need to be for your new computer? We examine the real power requirements of modern components to provide answers; what we discover may surprise you....

Intel's dual-core Atom 330 reviewed in desktop guise

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/397227716/

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Intel's Atom processor and the netbook are the silicon equivalent of Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson; they're inseparable. Naturally we can't wait for the dual-core Atom 330 to cozy up to the next generation of economical portables, but have to wait a bit as it's being soldered exclusively into tiny desktops at the moment, like the one tech site The Guru of 3D just ran through a series of benchmarks. The posted results could have been interesting had they compared its performance to the single-core Atom 230 rather than AMD's (relatively) heavy-hitting Athlon 4850 X2 and Phenom 9850 -- not exactly apples to apples. We'll just have to assume it's roughly twice as fast on the right apps, all that for only twice the power consumption. That's still only a measly 8-watts!

[Via The Inquirer]

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Positivo admite que perde dinheiro com a TV digital

URL: http://redir.folha.com.br/redir/online/folha/informatica/rss091/*http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u446403.shtml

O presidente da Positivo Informática, Hélio Rotenberg, afirmou nesta quinta-feira (18) que a TV digital traz prejuízo à empresa. Quase dez meses após o início oficial das transmissões no Brasil, a Positivo afirma ter vendido 25 mil conversores, volume abaixo do que a empresa esperava. "Estamos perdendo dinheiro, mas estamos fazendo [conversores]", afirmou Rotenberg, durante evento realizado em São Paulo. Segundo ele, apenas o modelo de conversor voltado para televisores mais modernos, com conexão HDMI, para conteúdo em alta definição, estão com vendas dentro do esperado. O "set-top box" indicado para televisores de tubo (CRT) ou de LCD/plasma sem entrada HDMI encalham nas lojas. Para o executivo, a população ainda "não entendeu a TV digital". "As pessoas não perceberam que, mesmo com uma TV de tubo, é possível ver televisão com qualidade de TV a cabo, de graça, usando conversor", afirma Rotenberg. Assim como no mercado de computadores, a Positivo mira principalmente na população de renda mais baixa. Leia mais (18/09/2008 - 17h15)

ASUS shipping illegal keygen crack and confidential docs with some laptops

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/396105114/

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

In a case repeating itself across ASUS discussion forums, some ASUS laptop owners are finding confidential and personal software along with an illegal keygen software hack bundled with their new rigs. According to readers of PC Pro and APC Magazine, a directory on the ASUS-branded Vista recovery DVD contains illegal software serial numbers, confidential Microsoft documents intended for PC manufacturers, and a variety of ASUS documents and source code. A reader in ASUS' forums claims to have found other bizarre files including someone's resume (pictured above). For its part, an ASUS spokesman has responded saying, "We will be investigating this at quite a high level." Well, then that's that.

Read -- PC Pro
Read -- APC Mag
Read -- ASUS forum screengrab

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Purported Intel Core i7 details leak out, 920, 940 and 965 models en route?

URL: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/395611558/

Filed under: Desktops

While some companies are already out there promising Core i7-based gear, we haven't yet heard many official specifics about the actual processors that'll be at the heart of them (at least not since their earlier Nehalem days). That's now changed in a pretty big way, however, with some supposedly authentic leaked materials revealing the complete spec list and some pricing details. Apparently, you can expect Core i7 920, 940 and 965 models to roll out in November, with 'em clocking in at 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz, and 3.2GHz, respectively. Each, as expected, are quad-core, 45nm processors, and each boast the same 8MB of shared L3 cache, 256kb of L2 cache per core, and TDP rating of 130W. No word on individual unit pricing just yet, but it looks like the Core i7 920 will run $284 in quantities of 1,000, with Core i7 940 upping things considerably to $562, and the "extreme" Core i7 965 demanding a hefty $999.

[Thanks, kris120890]

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