The main feature of this keyboard is the customizable illumination. Although it won't really help you when doing your daily work, it does help when gaming in a dark environment such as at a LAN gaming event. The lighting does help surprisingly well in those situations and you won't be hunting for keys you cannot see anymore. TweakNews
Intel's V8 eight-core PC
Last week Intel showed off its eight-core V8 PC. This computer featured two quad-core Xeon processors. Here's a short snip: "When it comes to scaling performance, the name says it all: multicore. It can mean two, four or more cores. The path to more performance used to be deeper pipelines with cranked up clock rates, but the model now is to go wider with more cores. Each of these cores has better per-clock efficiency (instructions per clock, or IPC), so lower clock rates actually can yield better performance.."
Asus W5Fe with external auxiliary display
The Asus W5Fe series are the first notebooks with a 2.8" SideShow external auxiliary display. The W5Fe notebook features a 12" widescreen LCD display and is powered by Intel's Core 2 Duo processors. Here's some more information about the possibilities of the SideShow..
Conroe-L has only got 35W TDP
Intel just announced the power consumption specification for those processors upcoming in 2007. Noted that the next-generation value Conroe-L is all at 35W TDP only, 30W lesser than the previous Cedar Mill deviated from Netburst architecture.
The Full ATI R600 Test - Part 2
a very warm welcome to the second part of our ATI R600 test. As already mentioned in the first part of this article, we tested the R600 on Ultra-HD 2560×1600 against its rivals, the nVidia GeForce 8800GTX, nVidias 7950GX2 and ATI?s in-house competiton, a pair of X1950 XTX CrossFire boards.
EVGA 680i SLI Update Hotfix
Some EVGA customers using the EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard have reported experiencing disconnect or write error issues with SATA disk drives. To address this, we have worked with NVIDIA to release a BIOS update for this motherboard that eliminates this bug.
SanDisk Cruzer Titanium U3 2 GB Review
It's a new year and time to start it off with a bang! We are proud to present you with a new USB flash disk review, the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium U3. Like its name suggests it's shell is strong, but it has a surprise!
GeForce 7800 GS - Too Cold to Run?
The same guy was reporting that he?s experiencing some choppy gameplay/performance issues with his BFG 7800 GS OC AGP card; and his card is running at temperatures of 112-117F (45-47C) consistently. So, he contacted BFG Tech support and someone there told him that if his card is running below 40C that this is the source of these issues, and that the graphics card is running too cold!
Sound Blaster X-Fi Issues Explored
Back in May, we published an article and report about many issues reported on the latest Creative Labs product ? The Sound Blaster X-Fi. A few weeks later Creative released information and blamed DDR Dual Channel for these related issues. And, after a few months, they changed their version and blamed Nvidia?s nForce4 for these issues, instead. Nvidia never responded to us about their side in the story, but they denied it on a chat.
Early AMD ATI ''R600'' Specs, Benchmarks Leaked
Newly created site Level 505 has leaked benchmarks and specifications of AMD?s upcoming ATI R600 graphics processor. The upcoming graphics processor is expected to launch in January 2007 with an expected revision arriving in March 2007.
Best and Worst Keyboards and Mice of the Year
Don't go off spending some of your Christmas money on a spankin' new mouse and keyboard just yet. ExtremeTech riles up the finest (and not so fine) input devices in these categories to help us out.
Gaming Peripherals Round Up
Keyboards, headphones, joysticks, steering wheels and flight rudder pedals will go under the Bit-Tech microscope today as we take a look at Saitek, Everglide, Logitech and Microsoft's gaming peripheral offerings.
DFI RD600 ICFX3200T2R/G BIOS
Do you recall the feeling of lost and overwhelm the first time you went into a BIOS menu at the start of your DIY years? This board does it to me... Now don't laugh, I dare you to refute me after looking through the following...
VR-Zone
VR-Zone
AMD to give up P-Rating - X2 6000+ coming in Q1 2007
Once P-Rating is a very successful marketing tactic for AMD, making consumers to compare the PR of AMD's processors to the clock speed of Intel's processors. Until now, most of AMD?s processors still adopted the PR scheme for customer?s reference.
AMD's 65nm L2 cache looks to be slower
After we published our first look at AMD's 65nm Athlon 64 X2 processors yesterday, some of you raised questions about funky performance numbers you'd seen from these 65nm CPUs at other sites.
Fix for EVGA 680i SATA issue *Updated*
NVIDIA has released a Beta 2 of the P23 BIOS. This BIOS fixes a SATA issue most specifically related to the use of the NCQ function available on some SATA drives. Note this is still a beta BIOS.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6400
A month ago Intel launched the world first Quad Core for high-end users. Most of users and perhaps you may still wait for a reasonable price to upgrade your computer. Good news is that Intel has just announced its releasing schedule for Core 2 Quad Q6400.
HKEPC Hardware
HKEPC Hardware
PC Graphics: Looking Back at 2006 and Ahead to 2007
The fast-moving PC graphics industry rarely produces a boring year, and 2006 is no exception. We look back on 2006 and then take out our crystal ball to make a few graphics predictions for next year.
ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech
Bloomfield To Hit 4GHz & Has 8MB Cache
Based on the 45nm Nehalem architecture, Intel aims to bring Bloomfield clock speed above 4GHz in 2008. Bloomfield will contain 8MB of shared L2 cache which is smaller overall in comparison to Yorkfield 2x6MB L2 cache.
VR-Zone
VR-Zone
Intel to release Core 2 Solo ULV for Sub-Note market
Intel just announced its plan on its Core 2 Solo single-core processors in Q3 2007. Instead of normal edition, the upcoming Core 2 Solo has ULV (Ultra Low-Voltage) edition only, targeting for the Sub-Note market. Regarding with the rumor concerning Merom based Celeron M is a dual core, Intel has also announced it should be a single core. The rumor is busted.