Casting a Smaller Die
In a trend that could bode well for smartphones and mobile Internet devices, chip manufacturers are in a race to the bottom in terms of die size.
Capacity and Low Noise on a Budget: Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB Review
Although the larger 1TB to 2TB hard drives are getting most of the attention, there is still a lot of value in the latest 640GB capacity range. Vendors like Western Digital and Seagate offer at least one 640GB drive, and today we're looking at the value-priced Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB to see how it stacks up.
05/22/2009
Weekly CPU Prices - Week of May 18, 2009 Alas, the recent trend of stagnant CPU pricing continues for yet another week, with the overwhelming majority of the prices we track in this guide holding right where they've been for weeks. While a few (literally) did manage to keep the guide from being a complete wash, price drops were a scarce commodity in this week's edition.
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05/15/2009
Weekly CPU Prices - Week of May 11, 2009 As we've grown far too accustomed to seeing, and to reporting, this week's CPU price guide contains little in the way of downward price movement. A handful experienced minor drops and a few others moved slightly upwards. But by and large, prices held right where they've been for weeks.
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05/08/2009
Weekly CPU Prices - Week of May 4, 2009 Significant price drops, we're sorry to report, are nowhere to be found in this week's CPU price guide. A few small and scattered drops might help keep this week's guide from being a total wash. But these were so small and so scattered that there just isn't much to get excited about in this week's guide.
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05/01/2009
Weekly CPU Prices - Week of April 27, 2009 Unfortunately, our hopes for an uptick in price drops have gone unrealized, as this week's prices hold about as steady as we've ever seen them. Only a few of the prices we track fell at all, in fact; and none of those fell by enough to merit much in the way of notice.
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04/24/2009
Weekly CPU Prices - Week of April 20, 2009 While the majority of the prices we tracked in this week's guide held fairly steady, several fell from last week's prices and a handful fell by significant enough amounts to merit the attention of prospective CPU buyers. Hopefully, the coming weeks will see such drops become less the exception and more the norm.
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04/17/2009
Weekly CPU Prices - Week of April 13, 2009 All in all, it's been another slow week for CPU price changes. A few price are scattered throughout the guide, along with a few price increases. But by and large, most of the prices we track continued to stagnate for yet another week.
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04/09/2009
Weekly CPU Prices - Week of April 6, 2009 This week's prices, unfortunately, were about as stagnant as we've seen them in a while. Nowhere in the guide, in fact, are you going to see much in the way of downward price movement, with only a few dropping at all and none dropping by very much. But buyers will nonetheless get a whole lot of bang for buck, as quad-core processors from either of the camps can be had for under $200.
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03/30/2009
Intel to Host Live Nehalem Q&A Thursday event will provide Q&A session with Intel engineers and technologists on the new Xeon 5500 "Nehalem" processor.
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Capacity and Low Noise on a Budget: Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB Review - 02/25/2009 Although the larger 1TB to 2TB hard drives are getting most of the attention, there is still a lot of value in the latest 640GB capacity range. Vendors like Western Digital and Seagate offer at least one 640GB drive, and today we're looking at the value-priced Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB to see how it stacks up.
Socket AM3 Arrives: AMD Joins the DDR3 Revolution - 02/17/2009 AMD has finally unveiled its Socket AM3 platform, including newly revamped Phenom II X3 and X4 models sporting a dual-mode DDR2/DDR3 memory controller, and with compatibility for both AM2+ and AM3 motherboards, this effectively puts the just-released AM2+ models out pasture.
Mainstream Liquid-Cooling for CPUs: CoolIT Domino A.L.C. Review - 02/11/2009 While most of today's processors utilize standard air coolers, there is a definite movement towards quieter, more efficient liquid cooling solutions. Their complexity, more difficult installation and higher prices are just a few of the hurdles that this technology has to overcome before it enters the mainstream, but CoolIT Systems believes it may have the answer with the all-in-one, sub-$100 Domino A.L.C. liquid-cooled system.
Western Digital and Samsung Push for Bigger, Faster, and Greener Hard Drives - 02/02/2009 The race for new capacity records is the modus operandi of the hard drive business, with Seagate often being at the forefront of any new announcements. But lately, that has changed in favor of a more segmented approach, with Western Digital and Samsung leading the way with new high-capacity, performance and eco-friendly drive lines.
The Warrior is Upgraded: Wolfking Warrior Xxtreme Review - 01/26/2009 Hardcore gamers demand specialized hardware, especially on the controller side, and several companies have emerged to serve this market. WolfKing is one, and their Warrior Xxtreme keyboard takes the popular Warrior design and adds a second keypad on the right side. But has WolfKing also doubled up on the gaming experience, or does the Warrior Xxtreme add up to less than the sum of its parts.
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03/30/2009
