CyberNet’s Year in Review: July-August

This article was written on January 01, 2008 by CyberNet.

July 2007

July was the month of changes for CyberNet! After spending two months designing and implementing a new design for the site from scratch, we launched it. We also worked on optimizing the site, and added a handful of new features like Avatar support, advanced thumbnail navigation, and more. Around the same time, we shared a few facts about ourselves and asked our readers to in turn share something about themselves in hopes of getting to know our community better. Here’s a re-cap of all of the changes that went on during July at CyberNet:

August 2007

August was a slow month to say the least, but the two topics that managed to appear in the news pretty regularly were Opera and Firefox. At the end of the month, the Opera team was working hard to get the Opera 9.5 download pushed out the door (our review here) while Mozilla was taking steps to improve upon their 50% retention rate for Firefox.

Opera…

Firefox…

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CyberNet’s Year in Review: November-December

This article was written on January 01, 2008 by CyberNet.

–November 2007–

You could certainly tell that the year was winding down in November and December when major news was pretty light. Because of this, we offered a handful of Helpful Tips that could potentially help you in a variety of different ways. Let’s not forget Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and all of the deals that came from that as well.

Helpful Tips

Black Friday Excitement…

–December 2007–

To help wrap up the year, CyberNet started our annual CyberNet Awards and gave them out to products, services and gadgets that in our opinion, deserved to be recognized. As we explained, there wasn’t much fame and glory associated with the award and winners didn’t receive a statuette, but it was fun none-the-less. Take a look…

This wraps-up CyberNet’s year-in-review for 2007! Here we come, 2008!

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AMD wins race to 5GHz CPU clock speed, in which it was the sole participant

AMD wins race to 5GHz CPU clock speed, in which it was sole participant

AMD has refreshed its lineup of eight-core FX chips in what sounds like some straightforward overclocking of last year’s products. The FX-9590 claims a clock speed of 5GHz in turbo mode, making it the “world’s first commercially available 5GHz CPU processor,” while the FX-9370 lags slightly behind at 4.7GHz, as compared to the 4.2GHz top speed of the current FX-8350. Both new CPUs are based on the familiar Piledriver core, which has a reputation for being relatively cheap and easily overclockable (honestly, the 5GHz barrier was obliterated long ago), but far behind an Intel Core i5 in terms of all-around computing. This is especially true since the launch of Haswell, which largely avoided clock speed increases in favor of architectural tweaks that didn’t compromise efficiency. Maingear plans to pick up the 5GHz part for use in a gaming system coming this summer, but there’s no word yet on pricing or even general availability for DIY upgraders. Now, we’re just speculating, but with AMD increasingly focused on APUs, it’s possible that today’s chips will represent the FX’s lap of glory.

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