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Intel’s New Core i7 Processors: They Look Impressive

2008-08-22T20:47:44-04:00

Intel announced the name of their next generation desktop processor not too long ago. Originally codenamed “Nehalem”, the new processors will be called “Core i7”, and the full name will be: Intel® Core™ i7 processor.

I did some research on these new processors and they appear to be a pretty amazing upgrade over the old Core 2 series of processors from Intel. To see for yourself just check out Intel’s official website, it’s full of everything you would want to know about the new i7’s.

They are going into be launched in Q4 2008…

Official Windows 7 Blog Started

2008-08-16T20:36:11-04:00

Microsoft has just launched a new blog covering the engineering process of the next Windows operating system, currently codenamed Windows 7. With the criticism that Windows Vista has received I look forward to being able to read up on news about Windows 7. Enjoy…

The blog is being hosted at MSDN

Songbird v0.6

2008-08-09T04:02:03-04:00

Here is my First Video Blog! It’s about a cool piece of software called “Songbird”. Enjoy

Update 8/16: Sorry the audio is not all that great, I knew I would screw something up on my first video. Should have it fixed on my next video blog.

Corsair Dominator DDR3 Memory Sets New World Record of 2580 MHz

2008-08-02T00:36:38-04:00

Corsair announced recently that its Dominator DDR3 memory modules set a new world record for frequency. The world record of 2580 MHz was set using the following hardware and setup:

- Corsair Dominator DDR3 memory module

- Asus ROG Rampage Extreme motherboard (Intel X48 chipset)

- Corsair Dominator memory, utilizing Corsair’s award-winning DHX technology.

- Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 processor overclocked to a 645MHz Front-Side Bus frequency

- Latency settings of 9-9-9-24

The results are verified by CPU-Z, which is an industry standard that verifies overclocking results. The full details of the results can be reviewed Here.

“We are proud that our Dominator Memory once again hit a new world record” said Martin Mueller, Senior Director of Engineering, Corsair. “Our proprietary technology used on Dominator DDR3 allows for incredible overclocking results; we believe our technology is far superior to any other when it comes to overclocking memory modules.”

Dell Studio Hybrid: Is it Any Good?

2008-07-30T01:41:02-04:00

Well, Dell just released their new desktop PC a few days ago. As a loyal Dell user for years now I can say it looks pretty damn cool! I mean come on, look at this thing, it’s small which means it takes up little space and the design looks pretty sweet. But as we know the small size will really limit its power. I was searching around Dells site to see what hardware you can get with it and well, it’s not all that impressive, especially for a power user like myself. The very first thing I noticed is that it lacks any graphics power; it only comes with Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, which well, sucks, good luck gaming with this. But if you do not game at all or use no other graphics intensive applications you should be fine. Looking to get a Quad Core processor? This PC doesn’t come with that either just dual core processors for now. Also, from what I can tell it does not have any expansion slots, which is a drawback, considering it’s supposed to be a desktop. The main reason a lot of people like desktops is for their upgradability, right? This thing is designed more like a laptop with no real upgrade potential.

But most of the other components are fairly acceptable if you upgrade it from the base model, like a 320GB hard drive, 4GB of DDR2 memory, optional blue ray drive, Integrated Sound Blaster® Audigy™ HD audio, Bluetooth, and optional wireless N compatibility. All for about 1,300 bucks, with no monitor, a little more if you add a monitor in with it if needed, but you can lower the price to only 499 for the base system.

Truthfully it’s a pretty nice computer from Dell if you just surf the web and use office software, but if you use a lot of advanced applications and especially gaming this system will not get the job done. I’m sure hardcore power users will not be into this system much, we like our computers loaded with powerful high end hardware. I’d like to see Dell find some way to use Nvidia and ATI graphics cards in this thing, come on, I can get Nvidia and ATI mobile cards installed in my dell laptop, why not this?

So, in conclusion, it appears this PC is mainly for the casual computer user looking for a stylish system to show off. Looking for a more power system? You better just stick with Dell’s XPS systems for now.

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X Power User = Extreme Power User

2008-07-30T01:36:34-04:00

Welcome to my new blog!

I will be posting about tech related stuff and also a lot of networking topics.

Enjoy,

Jeremy C