Details on the Intel DX58SO 'Smackover' motherboard are becoming crystal clear here at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco! For those that haven't been keeping up on the bleeding edge of technology the new chipset that Intel will be releasing to support Core i7 processors (Nehalem) is the X58 Express (Tylersburg).

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The Electronic Arts (EA) game most people are focused on right now is Spore, which ships Sept. 7th. But there’s this other game some may recall, which was also designed by that Will Wright guy: The Sims. And on Wednesday, EA announced at the Leipzig Games Convention that The Sims 3 will be available at retailers worldwide and also via digital download on February 20th, 2009.In their press release, EA said:The feature-set includes a new seamless, open neighborhood, new Create-a-Sim, new unique personality traits,

The Electronic Arts (EA) game most people are focused on right now is Spore, which ships Sept. 7th. But there’s this other game some may recall, which was also designed by that Will Wright guy: The Sims. And on Wednesday, EA announced at the Leipzig Games Convention that The Sims 3 will be available at retailers worldwide and also via digital download on February 20th, 2009.In their press release, EA said:The feature-set includes a new seamless, open neighborhood, new Create-a-Sim, new unique personality traits,

PowerColor Announces PCS+ HD4870 1GB GDDR5Speed up gaming performance and lower up to 10°C Temperatures Taipei, Taiwan – August, 20th, 2008 — TUL Corporation – a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards today announced PCS+ HD4870 1GB solution, special cooling design delivers amazing gaming performance. Difference with reference board design, PowerColor PCS+ HD4870 1GB uses ZeroTherm exclusive cooling system, included dual S-shape heatpipe and 94pcs fin design, with 4 phase core power on-board, efficiently

For the past few months, I have been participating in a campaign created by the folks at Toshiba and Federated Media designed to help users get answers to their laptop-related questions. You may have seen the banners here at HotHardware from time to time. The LaptopExperts website born from the campaign was created to provide a central location where users of any type of laptop (not just Toshiba) can enter their questions and get answers from myself and the other “experts” participating in the program.Over the

While Craig Barrett delivered a rather non-technical, but socially-charged keynote earlier in the day at IDF, Pat Gelsinger’s (Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group) keynote address by contrast was all about the tech. We’ve got all of the details of Gelsinger’s keynote which includes news on Nehalem and Larrabee posted right here: IDF Day 1: Pat Gelsinger Keynote: Embedded + Dynamic + VisualImmediately following Pat Gelsinger was David Perlmutter (Intel Senior Vice President

While Craig Barrett delivered a rather non-technical, but socially-charged keynote earlier in the day at IDF, Pat Gelsinger’s (Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group) keynote address by contrast was all about the tech. We’ve got all of the details of Gelsinger’s keynote which includes news on Nehalem and Larrabee posted right here: IDF Day 1: Pat Gelsinger Keynote: Embedded + Dynamic + VisualImmediately following Pat Gelsinger was David Perlmutter (Intel Senior Vice President

While Craig Barrett delivered a rather non-technical, but socially-charged keynote earlier in the day at IDF, Pat Gelsinger’s (Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group) keynote address by contrast was all about the tech. We’ve got all of the details of Gelsinger’s keynote which includes news on Nehalem and Larrabee posted right here: IDF Day 1: Pat Gelsinger Keynote: Embedded + Dynamic + VisualImmediately following Pat Gelsinger was David Perlmutter (Intel Senior Vice President

One of the most anticipated SATA Solid State Drives (SSD) to come to market has been the upcoming series by Intel. During a briefing at IDF yesterday we found out some more details on these drives and actually have an non-working engineering sample to take home with us. Read on to see the features on the Intel Solid State Drives and see what they look like inside!