I will be starting a small home based business. (sana walang magsumbong, LOL).
Services include computer maintenance and troubleshooting, upgrades, networking, Audio-Video Setup, sales of Hi Def Movies, TV Series, and Anime, media for consoles such as Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP, Nintendo DS, iTouch and iPhone and etcetera, and of course, sales of PC Games and all sorts of other things.
According to Digitimes, the two major GPU makes are already readying the next generation cards that’ll be capable of DirectX 11. The said cards will be available by the end of the year.
Nvidia’s GT300 series cards will be done by end of this month and will be ready for shipping by December of this year.
With the ATi’s 5800 series will also be done by around the same time Nvidia’s GT300 series, but they’ll start shipping 2 months earlier which is around October. A little too fast. As usual trying to catch up to beat the competition.
This’ll pretty much mean that price drops are coming. Upgrades are coming. Time to save up. LOL. I ain’t upgrading my GTX295 anytime soon. I’m still saving up for an i7.
AMD is planning to create a desktop implementation of its Opteron “Istanbul” monolithic six-core processor. Codenamed “Thuban” (named after a star in the Draco constellation, which means Dragon), the new processor will be based on the socket AM3 package for compatibility with existing and future desktop core logic. It features six cores, 9 MB of total cache (6 x 512 KB L2 + 6 MB L3). Thuban is aimed to make for AMD’s high-end desktop processor, as the company prepares to face competition from a near-complete lineup of processors based on the Nehalem/Westmere architectures from Intel. It is expected to be the posterboy for AMD’s “Leo” high-end consumer desktop platform that succeeds its current Dragon platform.
Some of the key components that make up AMD Leo platform are the upcoming AMD 890FX and 890GX chipset, companion SB800 series southbridge chips, and members of AMD’s Evergreen family of DirectX 11 compliant graphics processors. On the software front, AMD will give its Fusion and Overdrive utilities some big updates. The SB800 series southbridge chips will feature native support for SATA 6 Gb/s and USB 3.0; connectivity is further enhanced by integrated Broadcom MAC Ethernet interfaces. While the Leo platform is expected to launch almost simultaneously with the 8-series chipsets, the six-core Thuban processor on the other hand comes later. It is due only in Q3 2010. Thuban will have come out an year after its enterprise implementation in the form of Opteron “Istanbul”.
Aug 27
HEC/Compucase’s Cougar team has just unveiled its latest watt-pumping creation, a new family of modular power supplies that’s to be known as the S series. The upcoming line-up includes 550W and 700W units, both of which are 80Plus Silver certified, and feature Japanese 105°C capacitors, DC-DC technology to provide stable performance, as well as undervoltage, overvoltage, short-circuit, overload and overcurrent protection.
The PSUs also have four 12V rails, are cooled off by a 140mm fan and are set to start hitting stores on September 1st.
source: tcmagazine
Aug 26
The Booklet has 3G, Bluetooth, and wi-fi connectivity
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The Windows-based device is about 2cm thick and will offer 3G connectivity as well as wi-fi.
Analysts said the laptop was a “natural extension” of the company’s product range but the firm would face stiff competition.
Nokia will release price and availability information at an event in Stuttgart on 2 September.
The Booklet has an aluminium case, weighs 1.25 kilograms (2.75 lbs) and its 10-inch screen is HD-ready.
Nokia has released a number of small, “tablet”-style internet-enabled devices in the past to mixed reviews, but this is the first effort which is claimed to be a full-function PC.
“A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility,” said Kai Oistamo, Nokia’s executive vice president for devices.
“We are in the business of connecting people and the Nokia Booklet 3G is a natural evolution for us.”
So lately, I’ve been busy tweaking other people’s computers. My friends’ computers have been conking out on them one after another so I’ve been the one asked to help them out with their plight.
I’ve had the pleasure of overclocking and benchmarking my friend Gab’s computer.
Here are his specs:
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