This is a follow-up on my previous article I commented the card was really hot, around 85C on idle and over 100 on load, so decided to open it up and see what was wrong. Here’s the culprit: Bunch of dust blocking the air intake and some horrible paste was the cause. After I cleaned [...]
I had been wanting to buy a new case for quite a long time, and finally got around to doing it. My old Thermarltake Armor LCS just couldn’t do the job anymore after I switched to air cooling for the cpu. Also took the chance to get my first SSD and a new video card. [...]
DailyTech – NTT DoCoMo Unveils Japan’s First Google Android Phone. The HT-03A which comes in white or black, features a 3.2 inch touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, and weighs 123 grams. The phone will be able to download applications from the Android Market service using its wireless capabilities which include 802.11 b/g. Other [...]
AnandTech: The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ.
IT @ AnandTech: SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks Awesome article by anandtech
AnandTech: NVIDIA’s Ion Platform: Performance Preview.
I had been delaying this for a while and finally got around to it. I’ve had a watercooling setup for 1.5 years, but the past few months had been horrible with leaks in the CPU block and really bad performance. Also my PSU was being more noisy than I’d like. I was thinking of getting [...]
Legit Reviews – NVIDIA Ion Platform Benchmark Preview – NVIDIA Ion Reference Platform . At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, NVIDIA was showing off a new reference platformthat they were calling the world’s smallest fully capable visual computer. Features like DirectX 10 graphics, NVIDIA CUDA technology, and HD video are now possible in a 3″ [...]
DailyTech – Toshiba Takes Its SSDs to 512GB . Toshiba is the first company to introduce a 512GB SSD built on 43nm MLC NAND technology. The 512GB SSD uses a traditional notebook 2.5-inch form factor and is aimed at the consumer notebook space. Alongside the 512GB SSD Toshiba has also announced other SSDs using the same 43nm MLC [...]
DailyTech – Mobion Prototype Fuel Cell Charger Announced. The latest fuel cell charger is from MTI Micro and it’s called the Mobion charger. MTI has announced its prototype Mobion charger and offered up a few details on the device, which isn’t set to hit the market until the end of 2009. MTI says the Mobion charger [...]
DailyTech – NVIDIA Launches Tesla Supercomputer Tesla Supercomputer uses up to 960 parallel processing cores The Tesla Supercomputer is based on NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture allowing the system to be programmed in the C language. Up to 960 parallel processing cores can be placed inside the system. NVIDIA claims that Tesla Supercomputers are in use in [...]
AnandTech: The Cost of Running Your PC
So here’s what happened: Today some water accidentally poured down on my keyboard (first time in my life this has ever happened to me), and some keys stopped working. So I opened it and to my surprise, the plate holding the inner membrane and keys together has no screws, only some plastic bits that have [...]
DailyTech – New Toshiba Gaming Notebook Uses Three NVIDIA GPUs Toshiba introduces new X305 gaming notebooks with three NVIDIA GPUs NVIDIA’s 9400M GPU is rather new itself and is the GPU used in the newly revamped MacBook notebooks. The Qosmio X305-Q706 features an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 CPU, 4GB of PC3-8500 RAM, and a [...]
DailyTech – NVIDIA Launches 4GB Quadro FX 5800 Graphics Card In addition to the massive amount of RAM, the FX 5800 offers up to 240 CUDA programmable parallel cores. The card supports interactive 4D modeling with time-lapse capability. Memory bandwidth is up to 102 GB per second and fill rates exceed 52 billion texels per [...]
