Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Freshing it up… for real this time

after jumping to windows 7. for 3 times i had format my PC and non of it is a fresh start coz i have been pulling in my appdata folder to get all my settings back.. my sidebar.. my browser bookmarks… my wallpapers.. so as for now.. i am finally permanently removing my windows vista partition (yes it’s still there) and install a perfectly fresh windows 7.  i am jumping back to 64 bit =)

Friday, January 8, 2010

Fermi. Nvidia DX11 Solution. Coming Soon

from what i read in tomshardware of their CES2010 coverage, it was said the performance is already better than ATi’s fastest offering…

it’s a Q1 product so we should be able to see it real soon =)

Those that are looking to build a new gaming rig.. i suggest you wait =D. it’s going to be a good 1st quarter of year 2010!!!

i am expecting ATi Radeon 5800 series and 5970 price to drop a lot by then… time to replace my ATi Radeon 4870 512MB GDDR5 =D (and of course before that i have to get a job and save up dulu la.. =.=)

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Till then. Cheers everybody xD

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Core i3 500 series and i5 600 series is out. Replacement for the Core2Duo Series is finally here!

 

i5 proc

if you all must know all these new processor is based on 32nm architecture which can only mean lower voltage, better temperature, MORE OVERCLOCKING HEADROOM!! That’s not it, they all have built it IGP. (Integrated Graphic Processor) and runs on LGA1156 socket. Mind you the integrated graphic will only work with the new H55 or Q57 chipset. You can you these procs in the existing P55 motherboard which can only mean u wont be utilizing the IGP and also u would need a bios update in order to get the procesor to work.

 

i5 in h55

Processor
Base Clock
Turbo(up-to)
Core / Threads
Cache Memory TDP
Price
Core i5 670 3.46 GHz 3.73 GHz 2/4 4MB DDR3 1333 73W $284
Core i5 661 3.33 GHz
3.60 GHz 2/4 4MB DDR3 1333 87W
$196
Core i5 660
3.33 GHz
3.60 GHz 2/4 4MB DDR3 1333 73W $196
Core i5 650
3.20 GHz
3.46 GHz 2/4 4MB DDR3 1333 73W $176
Core i3 540 3.06 GHz N/A 2/4 4MB DDR3 1333 73W $133
Core i3 530 2.93 GHz N/A 2/4 4MB DDR3 1333 73W $113

Something i copy over from Guru3D.com

(Price are in USD or Euro i am not quite sure)

as you can see they all have hyper threading which means 4 logical thread. So they run like quad core.. only virtually and lower cache memory. (do not expect this to out-throne the real quaddies aight =D )

notice the Core i5 660 and Core i5 661 are identical even to the price (weird) but have slightly higher TPD voltage. This is because it has a little better IGP power.

also note that Core i3 is lacking of Turbo mode.

Here’s a little chart of how the H55 platform function

h55 chart 

Ouh as soon as i get the local price of these babies. I will be making specification for some PC build. I see potential budget gaming PC and decent low heat, low power, high performance HTPC already. =)

Till then… Cheers everybody xD

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