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Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:30 AM
They're a far cry from being beautiful, but they're also tremendously
more powerful than that joke-of-a-machine you're using now. In an effort
to help those who live and breathe within Excel experience a life
filled with fewer frustrations, Lenovo
is cranking out a pair of new desktops for the working world. Both the
ThinkStation E30 and ThinkCentre M81 can be outfitted with Intel's Sandy
Bridge CPUs, and the E30 can be equipped with an 80GB or 160GB SSD,
NVIDIA's Quadro / NVS graphics, up to 16GB of memory, USB 3.0 and a SATA
III interface. The M81 steps down a bit with integrated Intel graphics
(or a discrete ATI option), but both rigs are optimized for fast start
up and shut down time under Lenovo's Enhanced Experience (EE) 2.0 for
Windows 7 program. The bad news? $629 and $599 starting points in order
of mention, and you'll have to wait until late April / early May to get
your grubby paws around one. Full release is after the break, per usual.
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Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:06 PM
1,024 total CUDA cores, 94 ROPs, and 3GB of GDDR5 RAM on board. Yup, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590is indeed a pair of GTX 580chips spliced together, however power constraints have meant that each
of those chips is running at a tamer pace that their single-card
variant. The core clock speed is down to 607MHz, shaders are only doing
1.2GHz, and the memory clocks in at 3.4GHz. Still, there's a ton of
grunt under that oversized shroud and reviewers have put it to the test
against AMD's incumbent single-card performance leader, the |
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Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 9:41 AM
Intel and AMD are off to the races again. This time it's about making PCs not just faster, but more versatile. The two longstanding PC chip rivals seem to agree, roughly, on one thing: the need to meld the two key PC chips, the central and graphics processing units, into one processor. But they both bring different strengths to achieve that end. Why combine chips? Put simply, it takes less energy to move electrons across a chip than to move those same electrons between two chips, so this saves energy, resulting in better battery life for laptops. |
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