The ASUS ROG TYTAN CG8890 gaming desktop includes a liquid-cooled Intel Core i7-3960X 6-core processor with a maximum speed of 4.2 GHz. This powerful processor is combined with a 16GB 2133MHz of DDR3 RAM, dual 128GB SATA 3 SSDs in RAID 0, nVidia GeForce GTX 690 graphics card and ASUS Xonar DX sound card. The ASUS ROG TYTAN CG8890 also has a 10-way cross-airflow to keep this gaming machine cool. Sadly, there is no info on pricing or availability so far. [PCLaunches]
Intel’s quad-core Ivy Bridge processors have been doing the rounds since April, but the chipmaker continues to expand its selection, now adding a new high-end Core i7 mobile processor. Clocked at 3.0 GHz and priced at $1,096, the Core i7-3940XM is a quad-core 22 nm chip, packing Intel’s HD 4000 series GPU and 8MB of L3 cache. According to the recently revealed pricing list, it’ll be joined by two more Core i7 models, the 2.8GHz i7-3840QM and the 2.7 GHz i7-3740QM. If you’re shopping around for a new processor, visit the source for the full list of Intel’s newest entries — alongside some minor price reductions on a few older models.
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Intel expands 3rd-generation CPU range, announces new 3GHz Core i7 Extreme Edition mobile processor originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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One of the biggest holdups to owning a Raspberry Pi was its stuttering availability, so much so that it even prompted a few copycat boards. Creator Eben Upton and equipment makers Premier Farnell might have found the solution, teaming up with Sony to produce an initial run of 300,000 of the educational computers at the company’s UK Technology Center, in Pencoed, near Bridgend in Wales. Upton hopes to keep the cost at $25 and $35 for two boards, thanks to employing Sony’s “lean manufacturing techniques,” and the Japanese company has already spent £50,000 ($80,000) on new package-on-package assembly equipment — ensuring that we’ll all be able to get our hands on one soon enough.
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Premier Farnell, Sony, team up to move Raspberry PI manufacturing to the UK originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If putting liquid cooling pumps, hoses and water inside a highly electrified computer case doesn’t seem crazy enough, how about just dunking the whole kit and kaboodle into oil? That’s what Intel did with a rack full of servers, and if the oil in question is of the non-conducting mineral kind, it’s actually a very chill idea. After a year of testing with Green Revolution Cooling, the chip giant saw some of the best power usage efficiency ratings it’s seen, with the oil-cooled PCs easily besting identical, air-cooled units. The company believes more adapted heat sinks could push the gains even further, and affirmed that the technology was safe and didn’t affect hardware reliability. Cost savings could be enormous, as server rooms wouldn’t need raised floors, air conditioning units or chillers — if you don’t consider oil spills and ruined clothing, of course.
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Intel treats servers to mineral oil bath in year-long cooling test originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Intel has been staggering the rollout of its Ivy Bridge processors over the space of nearly half a year, starting with its higher-end quad-core chips; it’s finally time for the company to complete the story and ship some budget Core i3 desktop parts. The semiconductor giant is coy about the new roster at this stage, but it does promise both regular (s-series) and low-power (t-series) Core i3 chips at clock speeds between 2.8GHz and 3.4GHz. If the past is an indicator, the new components will be mostly or exclusively dual-core and lack extras like Hyperthreading — they will get Intel’s newer integrated graphics and other perks through the upgrade, however. Bulk pricing and other details haven’t yet been aggregated in one place, although we’re seeing that even the faster 3.3GHz Core i3-3220 is selling at retail for $130. We wouldn’t expect anything from Intel’s new offerings to break the bank.
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Intel finishes crossing the Ivy Bridge with new desktop Core i3 models originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
When the Raspberry Pi was released earlier this year, the credit-card-sized Linux machine became an instant hit. The night it became available to order, both Premier Farnell/element14 and RS Components, the official distributors of the Pi project, exhibited the signs of a late ’90s Slashdot effect: you could barely even get the two sites to load. Fast forward to today, and you can finally get your hands on one within three weeks. The Raspberry Pi is truly the Linux device of the year, if not the past decade. Follow past the break and we’ll show you how to set yours up now that you’ve actually succeeded in snagging one.
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So you got a Raspberry Pi: now what? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Forget Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 is where it’s at… if you’re a corporate IT manager, that is. Microsoft has just posted the finished version of its suit-and-tie OS for immediate sale in download form. Not surprisingly given Microsoft’s big cloud push, the emphasis with the upgrade is on improving how well the software scales for internet hosting — the company wants one common backbone that can handle as little as a small e-mail server to large-scale Azure deployments and virtualization. Server 2012 is also defined by what you won’t find: while the Metro-style interface from the platform’s Windows 8 cousin shows its face in the Essentials version, it’s noticeably stripped down and goes away in the more advanced tiers. The real shakeup for some might just be the new price points, which drop the cost by a large amount for offices that don’t need more than a slice of what the all-out Datacenter edition has to offer. We’ll admit that most of our attention as end users will be focused on what happens several weeks from now, but if you’re one of those rare server operators that can’t wait to start testing a new OS release almost immediately, you’ve got a head start on most of us.
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Microsoft delivers Windows Server 2012, puts the enterprise on cloud 8 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
You can’t get a Core i3 on Newegg right now for much less than $130 — a sum that’ll put you almost at the bottom of the Ivy Bridge league with a dual-core processor, 3MB cache and HD 2500 (i.e. not HD 4000) integrated graphics. That’s why it’s interesting to see these leaked AMD Trinity prices over at retailer BLT. If they’re accurate, they indicate that the same amount of cash might afford a top-end Trinity A10 processor with overclockable 3.8GHz quad-cores, 4MB cache and vastly superior Radeon HD 7660D graphics. At the other end of AMD’s range, a dual-core A4-5300 APU could cost as little as $60. The only catch we can see — aside from the issue of accuracy — is that by the time these processors actually become available rival Intel may well have seen fit to adjust its own prices. In fact, Chipzilla just launched some new Ivy Bridge processors over the weekend that brought the cost of entry down to $117 — which goes to show that nothing stands still for long. Head past the break for some official gaming benchmark claims about the A10, or see More Coverage for extras.
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AMD’s top-end Trinity desktop chip could cost just $130, the same as a budget Core i3 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HotChips is the show where chip makers come to show off their latest slices of silicon, and Knights Corner architect George Chrysos spilled the beans on Santa Clara’s Xeon Phi co-processor. The unit’s designed to bolt onto Xeon chips to help supercomputers crunch the numbers faster, by handling the “highly parallel” grunt work necessary for genetic and climate modeling, among other things. Chrysos has lofty goals for the hardware, hoping that it’ll contribute to “scientific and technical progress,” while we’re just excited to see if it can help the company reclaim its Top 500 crown from IBM.
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Intel opens up about its ‘Knights Corner’ supercomputer co-processor originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
If you’re a Linux user squarely in the Gnome desktop camp and sneer with disdain at the mention of Unity, there’s good news — your preferred flavor is coming, uncontaminated, to Ubuntu. Though “GNOMEBuntu” was originally floated as a name for the new environment, that idea was apparently kiboshed by the Gnome Foundation, leaving “GNOBuntu” and “Gnubuntu” as possible monikers, according to Mutkware. Neither Unity, nor cloud service Ubuntu One will be included in the distro, but you’ll find a library of apps pre-installed, including the Epiphany browser and Rhythmbox music player. Customized settings will let you further tweak the purity level to suit your zeal — so, if you’re thinking about grabbing the upcoming alpha, check the source for more info.
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Gnome-flavored Ubuntu desktop environment coming for purest purists originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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