Gigabyte and AMD worked together on an awesome overclocking video The Proving Grounds featuring the work and the accomplishment of overclocker chew* with an AMD Phenom II 955 processor on Dragon Technology featuring the GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboards. The video shows the performance of Phenom II 955 processors and the extreme overclocking capability of Dragon platform with 3DMark06 World Records. If that doesn't float your boat read the comments on that video over at YouTube and be sure do bring a fire extinguisher as it is a flame fest.

Overclocking Guru Chew* relentlessly overclocks Dragon Technology with stock AMD Phenom II X4 955 processors on GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, and recently published his results spanning air, phase, dry ice, and liquid nitrogen. He pushes DDR3 and the extraordinary north bridge of the 955 to the limit. The stock 955 has tremendous north bridge scaling potential and achieved overclocks at significantly lower voltages than prior processor models. The achievement was accomplished on GIGABYTE GA-MA790FX-UD5P and GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboards

In an effort to protect against automated attacks, D-Link has added CAPTCHA protection to its line of home and small office routers. Most of us have dealt with CAPTCHA at some point in time, but this is the first time we’ve seen it on a router. CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, requires a user to enter a small amount of text displayed in an image to help prevent automated registration and fraud. D-Link says the new protections are being added

Keep up with your day-to-day work even when you’re on the road with the eMachines eME625-5192 Notebook PC. Equipped with an AMD Athlon 64 TF-20 1.6GHz Processor and 3GB of DDR2 memory, this notebook comes with several features that will facilitate your traveling lifestyle. This deal ends Thursday at 12:00pm ET.

The European Commission today found Intel guilty of abusing its dominant position in the global x86 microprocessor market, saying that Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years. Such a serious and sustained violation of the EUs antitrust rules cannot be tolerated. The Commission also stated that there is evidence that Intel had sought to conceal the conditions associated with its payments. The EC decision requires Intel to change its business practices immediately and fines Intel a record EUR 1.06 billion (US $1.45 billion).

The EC decision stated specifically that:

• Intel gave wholly or partially hidden rebates to computer manufacturers on condition that they bought all, or almost all, their x86 CPUs from Intel.


• Intel made payments to major retailer Media Saturn Holding from October 2002 to December 2007 on condition that it exclusively sold Intel-based PCs in all countries in which Media Saturn Holding is active.


• Intel interfered directly in the relations between computer manufacturers and AMD. Intel awarded computer manufacturers payments – unrelated to any particular purchases from Intel – on condition that these computer manufacturers postponed or canceled the launch of specific AMD-based products.

MSI will provide a number of its products with an integrated Power eSATA connector. This connector eliminates the need for an extra power connector for eSATA-compatible devices. The eSATA interface lets computer users take full advantage of the faster connection speeds of the SATA interface for external devices. In fact, MSI states that Power eSATA is eight times faster in transferring data than normal USB ports. Before a new standard was announced by the Serial ATA Internal Organization (SATA-IO) in early 2008,

Verizon Wireless already announced that Novatel Wireless’ MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot would soon be sold and operable on its network, and now that company’s main US competitor is doing the same. Today, Sprint came forward to announce that the very same device — albeit with a new, shiny aluminum shell and a Sprint logo — is coming to its network. Essentially, this pocket sized device enables any Wi-Fi device to connect to Sprint’s cellular data network, and that includes portable media players (like

TUL Corporation announced a powerful addition to the PowerColor HD4890 series today. The new PCS++ HD4890 is an advanced version of the PCS+ HD4890 with overclocking abilities. The PowerColor PCS++ HD4890 offers a default 1010MHz core speed and 1100MHz memory speed. The PCS++ HD4890 inherits many key features from the PCS+ HD4890 including ZEROtherm’s exclusive cooling system. PowerColor will also offer a limited PCS++ HD4890 Battle Forge edition for ultimate DirectX 10.1 performance, but this particular edition

Building on the success of the recently launched ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card — driven by the worlds most powerful graphics processor — AMD today announced availability of a factory overclocked graphics processor that is the first to break the 1 Gigahertz (GHz) barrier using standard air-cooling solutions.

The new ATI Radeon HD 4890 utilizes advanced GDDR5 memory and a 1 GHz clock speed to deliver 1.6 TeraFLOPs of compute power, 50 percent more than that of the competitions best single-GPU solution. With this level of raw compute power, the1 GHz ATI Radeon HD 4890 is set to deliver new levels of general purpose GPU-accelerated performance in ATI Stream applications such as video transcoding and post processing.

Netbooks had a rocky start last year in some markets, Intel's marketing chief said at the Intel investor meeting Tuesday. At the investor meeting, Intel demonstrated on stage the performance gap between a Netbook and a mainstream notebook. In the demonstration, a Netbook and a notebook ran the same high-definition video of the NBA basketball playoffs. The video on the Atom processor-powered Netbook was jerky and dropped frames, while the Core 2 chip-based notebook's video was smooth. The point was obvious: the Netbook's Atom silicon falls short in performing some tasks that a mainstream notebook handles with relative ease. No one mentioned anything about the NVIDIA Ion platform though!

“In the first period–June, July, August of last year–there were some in the retail channels that were shipping (Netbooks) as notebooks,” Sean Maloney said in a question-and-answer session that was streamed over the Web. “They were running ads that had a continuum of notebooks and had this Netbooky thing in there–it was called a notebook. They had very high return rates and a couple of these guys had return rates in the 30 percent range, which is a disaster.”

In another sign the recession is easing its chokehold on the tech industry, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday that the chip business has improved since April, when he declared the personal-computer sales slump had “bottomed out.”

“What we've seen so far is a little better than what we had expected,” Otellini told analysts during opening remarks of a two-day conference at the company's Santa Clara headquarters. “So far, so good.”