x56 Core i7 processor motherboards

Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 31. Oct, 2008 | No Comments

The next generation Core i7 processor is around the corner. Motherboard manufacturers will be rolling out a selection of x58 processors motherboards over the next couple of weeks.
Gigabytes has two current solutions, the high end EX58 EXTREME and then toned down EX58 UD5. Both boards come with all Core i7’s goodies including the fsb within [...]

40″ OLED is Here

Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 31. Oct, 2008 | No Comments

Samsung has demonstrated a OLED full HD TV! Samsung did however admit that the technology was being stretched to its full capabilities, pushing current technology to achieve their result.
The 40″ TFT panel is the largest size they can create and its cannot be mass produced, a prototype so to speak! The company explained how the [...]

Far Cry 2 benchmark testing

Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 30. Oct, 2008 | No Comments

So the latest P.C game on the market today is what? anyone? Well I’ll tell you! Its Far Cry 2! So as you have probably guessed it the latest game means a new benchmarking tool for your system. So today I want to briefly look into what the top graphics cards from ati and nvidia [...]

Ink Toner

Posted by Simon Whiston in Peripherals on 29. Oct, 2008 | No Comments

What is Ink Toner? Well the toner is a power used in laser printers usually within enterprice environements, the toner is used to print text, images onto paper.
In the initial stages toner was simply carbon power but improvments to printing quality was needed so the carbon power was mixed with a polymer. Toner particles are [...]

Graphics Card Sales

Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 29. Oct, 2008 | No Comments

I was doing some research recently into graphics cards, the current top specification boards at what prices. I looked at ATI’s best offering the radeon 4870 x2 priced around 360+ mark. Then I thought about looking at my current but old graphics card the x800 xt pe. The x800 xt pe was basically the xt [...]

Intel vs ARM why Intel hate latest mobile technology IMO

Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 27. Oct, 2008 | No Comments

A fellow over at Intel has been slating the ARM processor! The ARM processor is a British engineered processor, which I didn’t know untill shortly before this blog post. But why would Intel be against the mobile processor chip manufacturer? Well lets put it this way, its not where the processor is from.
Arm provide the [...]