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Intel ignites SSD storage field with blazing speed

Navin Maini | Storage | Aug 15, 2008 12:27 PM CDT

Following its collaboration with memory giant, Micron Technology, Intel is gearing up to unveil SSD solutions with blazing read/write speeds of 240 MB/s and 70 to 170 MB/s respectively, according to this report from TG Daily.

The above image, courtesy of Expreview, adds that Intel's 'Extreme' moniker will find a home with the X25-E, which as expected, boasts the highest performance figures.

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NVIDIA reaches milestone in Ray Tracing

Steve Dougherty | | Aug 15, 2008 4:53 AM CDT

At SIGGRAPH 2008, NVIDIA has demonstrated the first GPU-only ray trace in the form of a tech demo. Using the highly intensive ray tracing method soley on a Quadro Plex 2100 D4 with four GPUs, the demo shows a Bugatti Veyron containing up to a whopping two million polygons. There are also many ray traced shadows and reflections displayed in near perfect accuracy; all this at up to 30FPS with a resolution of 1920x1200.

You can view all of the screenshots at PCGamesHardware. The lads at HotHardware have also gone into detail about the benefits of Ray Tracing and how difficult it's been to implement in the past.

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OCZ make big strides in SSD market - Core V2

Steve Dougherty | Storage | Aug 14, 2008 8:00 PM CDT

OCZ have really revved up the solid state storage market with the introduction of their Core series drives a couple months back, which brought excellent performance at fantastic prices.

Since then, they've kept working on Core to make it even better; thus, today we see the introduction of a new breed dubbed the Core V2 Series.

Where the first units featured read speeds of around 120 to 140ish MB/sec and write speeds of 80 to 95MB/sec, the new V2 series pumps out 170MB/sec and 98MB/sec read and write speeds respectively. Furthermore, we see OCZ's largest capacity SSD drive enter this new series, a 250GB model.

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AMD HD 4870 X2 no cooling challenge for CoolIT LCS

Navin Maini | | Aug 14, 2008 11:32 AM CDT

Following on in the footsteps of the Asetek solution we reported on earlier this week, CoolIT Systems has stepped up to the challenge of keeping the thermals of AMD's HD 4870 X2, at bay.

CoolIT's solution, features liquid cooling technology co-developed with Sunnyvale, CA based AMD, and is claimed to aggressively cool the company's R700 behemoth.

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DFI mATX LANPARTY JR P45-T2RS breaks speed limits

Navin Maini | | Aug 14, 2008 9:58 AM CDT

It isn't every day than a microATX motherboard solution can dual against its larger siblings in the FSB stakes, yet, DFI's Intel P45 chipset powered little warrior, the LANPARTY JR P45-T2RS, has done just that.

Married up with an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU (ES), the JR P45-T2RS achieved no less than, a salivating, 685 MHz FSB. Taking advantage of its x6 multiplier, the CPU ends up running at 4.114 GHz.

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Lian Li aims to put Xbox 360 on ice with PC-XB01

Navin Maini | Gaming | Aug 14, 2008 9:02 AM CDT

It is no secret that Microsoft's second generation gaming console, the Xbox 360, has had more than its fair share of thermal issues since it became available, nearly 3 years ago.

Esteemed chassis purveyor, Lian Li, has come to the rescue though with its enamouring, PC-XB01 chassis, allowing end-users everywhere to indulge in not only form, but function too.

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Ruby 2.0 tech demo - video and screenshots

Steve Dougherty | Internet & Websites | Aug 14, 2008 3:28 AM CDT

AMD displayed some jaw dropping photorealistic characters at a press conference in New York yesterday, using the power of a Radeon HD 4800 series GPU with their latest Cinema 2.0 technology.

The folks at PCGamesHardware have since posted up a bunch of exclusive screenshots as well as a video showing off AMD's latest tech demo in action. The video shows Ruby having it out with a nasty big Robot on a mission.

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USB 3.0 to show and tell at IDF Fall 2008?

Navin Maini | Connectivity & Cloud | Aug 13, 2008 12:44 PM CDT

The IDF red carpet is to be rolled out for USB 3.0, next week, claims this report from TG Daily.

'SuperSpeed USB' is the glittering moniker used to refer to the USB 3.0 architecture in Intel's announcement that, revision 0.9 of its Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification, has been given the seal of approval. This revelation follows earlier claims that Intel was being less than forthcoming with sharing, yet it appears that the chip giant is, actually, in a sharing and caring mood.

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Intel cruises towards Core i7 launch

Navin Maini | | Aug 13, 2008 11:40 AM CDT

The first of Intel's Nehalem microarchitecure derived, Bloomfield CPUs, are to hit shores in September or October, according to this article from DIGITIMES.

Three Intel Core i7 SKUs, being a 3.2 GHz 'Extreme' part, a 2.93 GHz 'Performance' part and a 2.66 GHz 'Mainstream' part, priced in 1000-unit tray quantities at $999, $562 and $284, respectively, will usher in Intel's new Core i7 vision.

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