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VIDEO: We Love Our New SkulltrailFeb 22, 2008 - in News
Here at TG Daily we really don't play many games (although Humphrey Cheung was addicted to World of Warcraft for 2 ½ years), but we do render a lot of video. So just how good is an eight-core monster platform for video editing and rendering? Well Intel gave us a Skulltrail system to find out.
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Gates Sees Diminished Role For KeyboardsFeb 22, 2008 - in News
People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.
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Forget Terascale. Here Comes Exascale Computing.Feb 22, 2008 - in News
Ok, let's not exaggerate. With our everyday PCs, we are still stuck in gigascale and are still waiting for terascale to arrive. But at least scientists will soon have access to petascale capabilities as we learned yesterday and now we know that groundwork on exascale system is already being done.
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New Lufthansa Flight Computer Saves Tons Of FuelFeb 22, 2008 - in News
At the Singapore Airshow, Lufthansa Systems unveiled a new flight planning module, which uses a low-power computer cut fuel consumption and time on air travel.
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Intel To Add More Entry-level CPUs To Santa Rosa Platform; SFF Montevina Pricing RevealedFeb 22, 2008 - in News
Intel is planning to launch three entry-level SV/ULV CPUs for its Santa Rosa notebook platform in April, sources at notebook makers have disclosed.
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DVD Formats Expected To Remain Optical Storage Mainstream Over Next 3-5 YearsFeb 22, 2008 - in News
Although Blu-ray Disc (BD) has won the blue-laser format war, the current mainstream status of red-laser DVD formats, including +R/-R and +RW/-RW, in the global storage market will continue over the next three to five years, according to representative director Koki Aizawa for the Rewritable Products Promotion Initiative (RW PPI) under the Japan-based DVD Forum.
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SSD Expected To Make Stronger Showing In Handheld Devices Than NotebooksFeb 22, 2008 - in News
Though penetration of solid-state drives (SSDs) in notebooks continues to draw attention, leading controller IC designer InComm believes meaningful penetration still depends on NAND flash performance and cost, according to company general manager LH Luo, who stressed the vital role that controllers play when NAND flash fabrication advances.
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Optimus LED Keyboard ShippingFeb 21, 2008 - in News
Art Lebedev today announced that it has begun shipping Optimus Maximus keyboards.
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504 TFlops 'Ranger' Supercomputer Now In OperationFeb 21, 2008 - in News
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin is now running the world's most powerful supercomputing system for open science research. Ranger is expected provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over its four-year lifetime.
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VIDEO: Intel Talks About SkulltrailFeb 21, 2008 - in News
At this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we interviewed Intel's Senior Performance Analyst Francois Piednoel about their dual processor Skulltrail platform. He told us the monstrous systems aren't just for extreme gaming, but also easily handle rendering and video production tasks.
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RAM Exposes The Key To Your Secret DataFeb 21, 2008 - in News
Researchers from Princeton University are describing a new and apparently very effective security attack that will allow hackers to access encrypted data on your PC. Technologies such Microsoft's BitLocker, Apple's FileVault and Linux's dm-crypt have no defense against this new attack.
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Intel Touts Larrabee At GDCFeb 21, 2008 - in News
Intel's multi-billion dollar project is slowly gaining traction, and this year's GDC conference is the last one where Larrabee is not going to be the key topic of conversations between game developers and like.
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GDC 2008 - Intel Caught SpeedingFeb 21, 2008 - in News
Getting pulled over by the Highway Patrol usually means a yellow citation paper. Intel is one of the exhibitors here at GDC and they faked us out with their own very convincing virtual ticket that was given to their Skulltrail systems.
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Asustek Rumored To Have Placed Huge Sempron Order, Maybe Planning Low-cost AMD SolutionFeb 21, 2008 - in News
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Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT TestedFeb 21, 2008 - in Reviews
Nvidia's first card in the 9xxx series is a mid-range model. Does the card deserve it's name from a design or performance perspective? We tell all.
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Warner To Still Support HD DVD Through MayFeb 21, 2008 - in News
Ironically, Warner Bros now has one of the strongest HD DVD line-ups over the next few months, despite the fact that it has already announced an upcoming exclusive switch to Blu-ray.
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Nvidia Clears 9600 GT Graphics Cards For Launch TomorrowFeb 20, 2008 - in News
Nvidia will be launching its next-gen 9-series graphics cards tomorrow, February 21. Reviews of the sub-$200 cards are scheduled to surface at 8 am EDT and we will get a better idea why we should care about Nvidia's new volume enthusiast card.
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9600 GT Forces HD 3800 Prices DownFeb 20, 2008 - in News
Yesterday, we asked why AMD would lower the prices on its HD 3800 line. Nvidia's 9600 GT made them do it.
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First Brain-controlled Video Gaming Headset UnveiledFeb 20, 2008 - in News
Emotiv Systems today unveiled the EPOC, a neuroheadset that allows users to control gameplay simply with their thoughts. IBM said that it is looking for ways to extend the EPOC beyond games into enterprise business markets.
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A Porsche Hybrid? Does That Make Sense?Feb 20, 2008 - in News
'Hybrid' has become a very political term these days: Whether you like it or not and whether it is true or not, it implies low gas consumption, reduction of green house gases and clean(er) air. Most car manufacturers are playing with car concepts, but seriously, would you buy a hybrid Porsche? We caught up with the company to find out if this concept makes sense - and provide background how the Porsche hybrid will work.
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CPU Cooler Charts 2008, Part 1Feb 20, 2008 - in Reviews
Keep cool! That's what CPU coolers are there for. 45 % of our candidates fail our test. We uncover weaknesses and expose false promises.
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Intel Launches 8-core Skulltrail Enthusiast PlatformFeb 19, 2008 - in News
Skulltrail is about as useful to the average PC user as a Ferrari in your daily commute. But, of course, if you have the money to spare, the dual-socket board with two 3.2 GHz processors rewards you with supercar-like bragging rights.
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Google: Anti-virus Software Needs To Shape UpFeb 19, 2008 - in News
Google is painting a scary scenario about potentially dangerous websites on the Internet: More than 1.3% of all search queries are now directing users to at least one malware site - and only seven out of ten threats are caught by the best security applications available today.
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Intel: Skulltrail Supports Crossfire & SLIFeb 19, 2008 - in Reviews
Game Developers Conference: Intel officially announced its Skulltrail platform along with pricing and availability. The platform supports either ATI Crossfire or Nvidia SLI multi-card graphics solutions.
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Overclocking Intel's Wolfdale E8000Feb 19, 2008 - in Reviews
We look at the 45 nm Core 2 Duo E8000's overclocking potential. We also focus on power consumption, simulating real-world applications with SysMark 2007. Wolfdale truly breaks performance-per-watt records.
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WD and Toshiba Join the 320 GB 2.5" HDD ClubFeb 18, 2008 - in Reviews
Western Digital's 320 GB Scorpio and Toshiba's MK3252GSX laptop hard drives compete directly against Samsung's Spinpoint M6. Our tests show how the two newcomers compare to Samsung's offering.
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Exclusive: Dell Set To Introduce AMD Tri-Core PhenomFeb 16, 2008 - in News
Still think that Dell is dropping AMD? Think again: TG Daily got to the bottom of the Dell/AMD rumors and discovered that Dell is far from dropping its AMD line-up. In fact, there will be a surprise in new products scheduled for a global launch next week, on February 19.
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