What would you call a top spec PC?
Posted by Simon Whiston in Hardware on 27. Jun, 2011 | No Comments
What would you call a top spec laptop? Back in the days approx 10 years ago, if someone had a pentium 2 MMX 200mhz pc with 32 mb ram and a 16mb graphics card, you will begin to hear words of praise and lots of wows in the crowd. Some would even call it a [...]
Acer’s new Aspire Predator
Posted by admin in Hardware on 31. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
Same case and same colour certainly but it’s waht’s inside that matters. The new version of the Acer G, alias Predator packs up some new hardware. Gamer approved.
For a start the processor is one of the new Intel’s new Core i7 950’s running at 3.06GHz. The motherboard supports up to 12GB of DDR3 RAM. The [...]
AMD working on integrated graphic chipset
Posted by admin in Graphics on 02. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
AMD’s graphic branch ATI is said to be working a new integrated graphic chipset targeted to the low price laptop sector.
This chipset, called RS880, is based on a Radeon HD 4200 core and could very well give some more juice to a netbook compared to the Intel GMA 950. At least 15% faster this chip [...]
Intel reveals uptp 40% price cuts
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 19. Jan, 2009 | No Comments
Intel are planning to reduce their mainstream quad core processors upto nearly 40%, leaving extreme editions and higher FSB based processors prices static. Intel have stated that these cuts will be made on the 18th of this month.
Intel have strategically lowered their prices with relation to AMD’s Phenom II quad core processor release, not quite [...]
Intel prices are static!
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 28. Nov, 2008 | No Comments
Intel haven’t changed there pricing for sometime now, well virtually since launch! Now Intel have released their new core i7 processors, you would expect the company to re-price their stock and get some sort of return to research future products, may be they are keeping prices high because they need to!
With that said, AMD are [...]
Intel Core i7 & x58 Motherboards on SLI
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics, Microprocessors on 21. Nov, 2008 | No Comments
We all know the core i7 has been released but how does it compare within the graphics market? I remember way back when enthusiast started buying dual socket motherboards to find nothing near double the performance, now with core i7 with Intels threading implementation how will graphics perform under the pressure of three sli 280 [...]
