Cooler Master has unveiled a new revision of the Cosmos case known as the Cosmos S. The new S version has multiple changes including a touch sensitive power button which, the company says, is switched using the capacitance when your finger presses on it for a couple of seconds. Much like the original Cooler Master Stacker, the front of the case can be used for 5.25″ drives. In addition, Cooler Master has listened to user feedback and you can now install a 120.3 radiator in the top without having to butcher your system with a Dremel. Cable management has also been improved further as well.
Intel is about to start a transition to a new business destop platform. It is going to make more money with this platform than it would make by selling components and it makes perfect business sense to do it.
In order to get an Intel Vpro sticker and be up to date, you will have to get a machine with the Q35 chipset with ICH 9DO and from Q3 onwards, with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6×50 that supports FSB 1333.
This new chipset and platform are ready for Yorkdale quad core and Wolfdale dual core 45 nanometre processors. Intel calls this platform the Weybridge professional platform. Intel also warned its customers that according to its initial plans, its Dual Core processors should work with FSB 1333 while the Quad core Wolfdale 45 nanometre core with up to 12 MB cache is doomed to FSB 1066.
We are sure that Intel will make some space for Quad core FSB 1333 Yorkfields, but only when the time comes.
If you want to meet the Waybridge fundamental platform, you need to use the Q33 chipset and any Core 2 Duo or dual core processor and Intel 82556DM Gigabit LAN.
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OCZ has been showing off its latest computer cooling technology at Computex 2007 this week – a heatsink made of directional carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are an allotrope of carbon (ie. a certain form of carbon - diamond and graphite are other examples) and are predicted to be the next major advancement in cooling, due to their superior thermal conduction properties compared to current materials such as copper and aluminium. According to OCZ, carbon nanotubes are five times more efficient than copper when it comes to cooling, and due to their design they can be used to transfer heat in just one direction – other materials such as copper tend move heat more radially, which isn’t always desirable. They are constructed by making small wire-like structures using sheets of graphene just one atom thick and rolling them into cylinders, which allows heat to be moved in one direction as it is moved along the alignment of the nanotubes. The cooler itself is called the OCZ Hydrojet, but there is no information on when this will be available for retail - or how large the dent in your savings will be if you want to buy one.
Source: www.techpowerup.com
AS EXPECTED for a long time, Creative finally has a competitor in the PC quality sound space.
And, it’s a serious one - Asus.
Its Xonar D2 (PCI) and D2X (PCI-Express - another first) look positively seriously, with their good looking black noise shields, and gold-plated slot covers. Not to mention the 1 GIPS DSP and other hardware-accelerated stuff under that shield to offload the CPU from bothering with sound processing. Read the rest of this entry »
www.engadget.com:
No doubt we’ve seen some snazzy takes on mousing instruments, but when Popular Science dubs your twist on the critter we couldn’t do without an Invention of the Year, you’ve accomplished something. A team of WPI undergraduate students were able to win such an honor by crafting the MagicMouse, a “three-dimensional computer mouse” that allows users to “control and manipulate items on a computer screen just by pointing at the monitor.” Read the rest of this entry »
