Geek Squad Announces At Home and In Store Game Console Setup

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Just in time for the holiday season and parents buying new game consoles Geek Squad at Best Buy locations around the country are now offering video game console set up in home and in store. Setup options include transferring data to a new system and connecting the systems to the Internet.

Set up can also include installing and enabling parental controls to help keep kids safe online. One of the things that parents often don’t consider when buying games that may be rated appropriately for their kids is that online components can introduce language from other players far from appropriate. Read more

Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Announces Shanghai Quad-core Opteron's Now Available

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AMD released its Shanghai 45nm quad-core Opteron CPUs today. The CPUs promise up to a 35% decrease in power consumption at idle and 35% more performance than previous Opteron CPUs. The CPUs feature AMD-Virtualization technology to deliver faster world switch time and enhance virtual machine efficiency.

L2 cache size has increased to 6MB in the new processors and support for DDR2-800 RAM is offered. AMD says that coming enhancements to the AMD Direct Connect Architecture with coherent HyperTransport 3.0 will provide up to 17.6GB/s of bandwidth for processor-to-processor communications. The release is set for Q2 2009. The new Opteron's are available at 75-watt ACP running from 2.3GHz to 2.7GHz and are available now. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:59:29 CST | by Shane McGlaun

NVIDIA Announces Quadro FX 5800

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NVIDIA has announced its latest Quadro graphics card called the FX 5800. The card uses CUDA massively Parallel Processing Architecture and is designed for robust performance for the oil and gas exploration, medical imaging, and styling/design applications.

The FX 5800 offers 4GB of graphics memory, a first in the graphics industry. Other features include up to 240 CUDA programmable parallel cores and more. NVIDIA says that other advanced features of the card include interactive 4D modeling with time lapse, memory bandwidth of up to 102 GB per second, fill rates over 52 billion texels per second and 300 million triangles per second and more. Read more

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:18:21 CST | by Shane McGlaun

MeWe Quad Charger Docking Station Review

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Today we are looking at the MeWe Quad Charging Station. The device allows four Wii Remotes to be docked and converts them to rechargeable power with four new battery doors and four rechargeable battery packs.

The kit is rather large, but it works very well and is perfect for the frequent Wii user to keep their controllers charged. Read more

Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:18:20 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

New NVIDIA Quadro CX is a $2k Photoshop User's Dream

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NVIDIA introduced its new accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, the NVIDIA Quadro CX. The Quadro CX was architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. If you have $2,000 you can take your Photoshop experience to completely new levels.
With NVIDIA Quadro CX users can encode H.264 videos at lightning-fast speeds with the NVIDIA CUDA-enabled plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, RapiHD from Elemental Technologies; accelerate rendering time for advanced effects; and accurately preview what deliverables will look like with 30-bit color or uncompressed 10-bit/12-bit SDI before final output.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 software now has added optimization to take advantage of GPU technology, including the parallel processing capability in the Quadro CX GPU. Read more

Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:48:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Quad Charger for Nintendo Wii Remotes unveiled by MeWe

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MeWe World, Inc. unveiled a charger for the Wii console that chargers four Wiimotes at the same time, ideal for Wii parties or if your whole family is hooked on Wii Sports.
The new Wii quad charger station includes four fast-charging rechargeable nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) battery packs for up to 13 hours of play time per remote, eliminating the need to constantly purchase and replace standard AA batteries. Read more

Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:20:23 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Intel Q9650 3.00GHz Quad Core Processor Review

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TechwareLabs has published a review of the Intel Q9650 3.00GHz Quad Core Processor.
Quote from the review: "The Intel Q9650 is a processor that Intel is very proud of, and rightfully so. Reaching standard speeds of 3.0GHz per core, this processor is a force to reckon with. We put the Q9650 under a lot of strain as we ran several benchmarks and games to see how this processor really performed. Read more

Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New NVIDIA Quadro Fx Notebook GPUs announced

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NVIDIA announces the introduction of a new series of NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile GPUs, featuring an NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Processor.
Workstation manufacturers such as Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and Lenovo are now offering the new series of Quadro FX mobile GPUs across a wide range of professional notebook workstations.

Highlighting the flagship product of the series is the Quadro FX 3700M, with 128 CUDA Parallel Computing Processor cores, which offers an unprecedented 1 GB of dedicated graphics memory for graphics-performance hungry industries such as oil and gas exploration, mechanical design and digital content creation. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:39:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems unveiled

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The new NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems bring visual Supercomputing to the deskside with 480 processing cores, NVIDIA CUDA programmability and 8GB of Graphics Memory.
The new D series of NVIDIA Quadro Plex Visual Computing Systems (VCS) are available in deskside or rackmount configurations.

The Quadro Plex systems are ideal for the styling and design, geosciences and scientific visualization industries, working with extremely large 3D models, datasets and power walls. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:35:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Quad-Core Opterons Set World Record in Enterprise Benchmark

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AMD announced that it will be supporting Microsoft's RTM version of SQL Server 2008. AMD says that SQL Server 2008 running on Opteron quad-core processors will offer best of breed platform for enterprise data needs.

AMD also says that a HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server has set a new world record on the TPC-H@300 GB decision support benchmarks with a score of 52860 QphH. AMD says that these scores prove that its quad-core parts will allow customers to deploy large enterprise solutions with optimum scalability and performance at competitive pricing. Read more

Posted on Thu, 7 Aug 2008 06:36:13 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Claims Record Breaking Web server Performance with Quad-core Parts

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Big and popular websites can generate huge amounts of traffic, requiring a high-performance server behind the scenes to keep everything running smoothly. AMD says that it has set a new record for web server performance by breaking the SPECweb 2005 scores for 2p and 4p server configurations.

AMD says the record setting performance proves that you don't need proprietary hardware that coast a lot to set up a world-class data center for business use. AMD says that the 2p AMD Opteron system scored 30007 in a HP server using Opteron Model 2356 processors. The 4p system scored 43854 using Opteron Model 8356 CPUs. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:16:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Quad-Core Processor Review

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TechwareLabs has published a review of the AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Quad-Core Processor.

Quote from the review: "AMD recently released several low power processors to its Quad core family, while simultaneously pushing the ceiling up a bit on their high end line with the 9950. Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Launches New Quad-Core Opteron's

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AMD announced today that it has launched new quad-core Opteron processors for use in servers and workstations. AMD launched a total of three new quad-core Opteron 1300 series processors for single socket servers and workstations.

The processors include the Opteron 1352 running 2.1 GHz, 1354 at 2.2GHz and the 1356 at 2.3 GHz. AMD says the processors are aimed at small and mid-market companies and fit into the same socket and thermal requirements as the previous AMD Opteron 1000 processors. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:19:27 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

XtremeNotebooks Launches First Xeon Quad-core Notebook

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XtremeNotebooks has introduced the first notebook in the US that uses an Intel X3360 Xeon quad-core processor. The Xtreme 917v is now available with Xenon power and lots of other features.

Available options on the 917V include RAID 0, 1, or 5 arrays, dual NVIDIA 8800 or Quadro FX GPUs, Blu-ray burners, and OCZ SSD’s. XtremeNotebooks says that the Xenon powered system is perfect for mobile server deployments. Pricing is unknown at this time. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 10:26:11 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Marvel Super Hero Squad Video Games coming from THQ

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THQ and Marvel Entertainment announced today that they have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to create video games based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad franchise.

THQ has obtained the exclusive, worldwide rights to publish content for all current and next-generation consoles, handheld systems, as well as Windows PC.
The initial Marvel Super Hero Squad game is scheduled for release in fall 2009. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 05:17:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dell PowerEdge R905 featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron

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AMD announces that Dell is offering now the Dell PowerEdge R905 featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron.

The Dell PowerEdge R905 featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron is one of the industry’s most scalable virtualization servers. The Dell PowerEdge R905 which set a new standard in VMmark performance testing with 60 virtual machines (more details). Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Marvel combines Superpowers for animated TV Squad

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By Kimberly Nordyke

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - On the heels of a $102 million opening weekend for "Iron Man," Marvel Animation is powering up the "Marvel Super Hero Squad."
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Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 02:50:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz Review

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Techgage published a review of the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz CPU.

Quote from the review: "The wait for an affordable 45nm Quad-Core is now over, and the Q9450 promises to become the ultimate choice of the new offerings. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor Review

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Hothardware published a review of the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor.

Quote from the review: "Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q9300 has some rather large shoes to fill. This newly shipping, relatively low-cost quad-core processor from Intel is a replacement for their long-standing price to performance champ, the Core 2 Quad Q6600. The Q6600 was the first quad-core in Intel’s arsenal which was actually affordable, and even today, it remains one of the best values on the market. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dell offering five Server Platforms based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors

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AMD announces that Dell is now five server platforms based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.

This news follows last week’s announcement that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are generally available, and brings the number of available global OEM platforms based on the new processors to 13.
Additionally, AMD is announcing today that VMware has completed qualification of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors for use in VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisor deployments, enabling customers to leverage the latest in VMware virtualization on these server systems. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:10:02 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700 512MB $1,700 Graphics Card Review

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Hothardware published a review of the $1,700 NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700 512MB Workstation Graphics Card.

Quote from the review: "We take a look at NVIDIA’s latest entrant into the mid-range workstation graphics card market, the QuadroFX 3700. This card has an MSRP of about $1,700, which puts it smack-dab in between the price tags of NVIDIA's mid-range and ultra-high-end products, although street prices for the QuadroFX 3700 are much lower than its MSRP. This card is based on NVIDIA’s popular G92 graphics processor, which has been prominently featured in their GeForce 8800 GT / GTS lineup at a very competitive price point. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr