We showed you a preview of the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe socket AM3 motherboard last month and today we will show you how it benchmarks against a socket AM2+ motherboard. Read on to find out if DDR3 memory helps boost performance over a board running DDR2 memory and if 8GB of DDR3 memory is stable on the board. If that isn't enough we also overclock the CPU over 1.2GHz!
Charter Communications Inc., the money-losing cable-television company, said it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a financial restructuring on or before April 1. Through the first three quarters of 2008, Charter lost almost $1 billion, so this shouldn't come as a shock.
Charter said today in a statement that it reached an agreement with a committee of some debt holders to reduce its obligations by about $8 billion. Controlled by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen and based in St. Louis, Charter has about 5.6 million customers in 28 states, according to its Web site.
Microsoft and nearly 20 other organizations and firms have joined forces to formulate a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (AKA Downadup) worm. At the same time, Microsoft announced a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of the hackers behind Conficker. The last time Microsoft offered a reward was in 2004, when it posted a $250,000 reward for the maker of the Sasser worm. Along with Microsoft, organizations involved in this collaborative effort include ICANN, Symantec, F-Secure,
We’re beginning to wonder who isn’t innovating on the flash memory front this month. First was SanDisk, then Micron, and now Samsung. If not for Spansion Japan filing for bankruptcy, it too would likely have something to share. Announced today, Samsung has begun mass producing GDDR5 graphics memory using 50-nanometer class process technology. Mueez Deen, director, mobile and graphics memory, Samsung Semiconductor, had this to say: “Our early 2009 introduction of GDDR5 chips will help us to meet the growing demand
We sure have seen a lot of advancements in the NAND Flash realm announced of late, and we suspect much of that has to do with the 2009 edition of the International Solid State Circuits Conference. The University of Tokyo and its partners unveiled a new power supply system for SSDs at that very conference, which promises to not only lower power consumption of NAND Flash memory within an SSD, but to also contribute to cost reduction.More specifically, the system can supposedly work energy requirements down by
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Intel seemed pretty jovial when it locked itself into a WiMAX-based future with a smattering of partners last year, and despite everything that has happened in the industry (and the economy) since, the company is still pretty elated about the whole deal. Publicly, at least. After talking up its 32 nanometer processing technology this week, the company also fielded some questions in relation to its ties to Clearwire. As you may or may not know, Clearwire — a WiMAX Internet provider — is only active in Portland,
YouTube has announced that after over three years of streaming user-uploaded video, it is shutting down… Or at least that is what we thought when we first saw the headline of the blog entry that went up today on YouTube’s official blog. The headline read: “YouTube Goes Offline.” No, YouTube is alive and strong and isn’t going anywhere (at least that we know of). What the upon-first-glance, potentially-misleading title is actually referring to is that YouTube is now enabling, sanctioned video downloads. That’s
YouTube has announced that after over three years of streaming user-uploaded video, it is shutting down… Or at least that is what we thought when we first saw the headline of the blog entry that went up today on YouTube’s official blog. The headline read: “YouTube Goes Offline.” No, YouTube is alive and strong and isn’t going anywhere (at least that we know of). What the upon-first-glance, potentially-misleading title is actually referring to is that YouTube is now enabling, sanctioned video downloads. That’s
Garmin has dabbled in the Windows Mobile world in the past, as has Asus, but the two companies are now working together for the first time on a co-branded Windows Mobile powered nuvifone, the M20.
Like all Garmin devices, the nuvifone M20 is a GPS-centric device with an onboard GPS receiver and built-in navigation software. In addition to included maps and a POIs (Points of Interest) database, the M20 also includes support for many Location Based Services that allow the GPS to augment software, web browsing and phone use.
Features include 7.2Mbps HSDPA mobile broadband, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0, a 2.8" VGA touchscreen, up to 8GB of onboard flash memory storage, and a 3MP camera.