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I can guarantee without even looking that it would be a new socket. Adding cores that the current socket wasn't designed for requires modified pinouts or additional pins for the extra cores to function... Especially if these new eight-core chips are something other than a cobbled-together pile...

Is it just me or do those photos just look like CGI or some rendering project? They almost even look like a few of those engine room shots from Star Trek TOS... :D Really interesting to see a non-x86 processor based super-computer at the top again. All the better Japan has the top honors, and...

If they drop low enough? AMD would have to start selling them at $150 or even less before they began winning any price/performance battles again, and there's no way AMD can afford to sell its BEST, highest clocked silicon at <$150 and still make a buck off it. It's honestly amazing they can...

Cleaned out the air vents in that laptop recently? If it's been more than 3 months there's probably plenty of dust inside and a few blast with an air gun would help with those temps!

Yeah, pretty horrible really. Plenty of images and video was splashed all over the US news about it, I particularly remember 2-3 police cars that were parked together being trashed en mass without any police visible whatsoever. It's too bad the police can't use the tons of video footage to...

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall hibernation being disabled by default in desktop Windows 7 installs. I totally agree! This is actually what I've done myself. There is one side-effect though... the WEI score for the storage system will change to 5.9 because it will test the drive the...

Yeah, these are purely enterprise drives! The OCZ Z-Drive is targeted for enterprise users, but the OCZ Revodrive is not. If you want an Intel SSD then I suggest you get the Intel 320 Series SSD... that would be the newest model, it's not named X25-M anymore but it costs the same price as...

I think I'm in awe of your guys. :D Or maybe I don't use the computer nearly as much as I thought I did... my keyboards tend to last 2-3 years! I bought the same model Microsoft one twice as I was that happy with it, was a good quiet keyboard with just the right key sensitivity, even if the...

I'd like to urge some caution when considering removing the pagefile from Windows. It may seem useless for systems with 6GB+ of RAM, but Windows uses it for some miscellaneous functions, one of which is sleep mode. If the pagefile is removed completely then users typically can't get sleep mode...

Cox cable... they love sticking it to the man.

That's the catch though... take a $200 AMD processor (AMD 980 Black Edition) and pit it against a $200 Intel processor (Core i5 2400)... The result, Intel will give you on average an easy 10FPS higher performance, at worst equal FPS. Power, IPC, price, or any combination thereof, AMD doesn't...

Since it's an internal drive and you've tried different cables, it is theoretically possible it's an issue with the PC power supply... but my money is on a failing drive. I have never had SMART nor HDD manufacturer utilities report a problem with a failing hard drive, for all intents and...

I'll second that, nice find Eunioa! I missed this one as I've been traveling, but I still don't see it mentioned anywhere I'd expect it to be. Glad to see Corsair stepping up to the plate and not even trying to push some of the blame off elsewhere... kudos to them and I hope they can pin down...

I don't think AMD will be selling their eight-core FX processors at nice price/performance points. :D It's a shame really, the FX branding was at the height of the CPU wars and although both the processors and specialized platform they developed into were expensive, they easily were the best...

What Kayden is referring to is that the efficiency depends how the core was designed and how many passes it uses... Given the 1,000 figure stated in the article, it sounds like a very exclusive, high-margin release for just the select few willing to pay for it. Which is more manageable than...

I don't plan to buy a TS capable monitor anytime soon, and I'm sure most desktop users feel the same way. So I'm slightly worried about what else Windows 8 will bring in the way of "improvements"... may be somewhat silly but if the TS interface is the major selling point I genuinely wonder if...

Yeah, I have to agree with Tharic-nar on that one. Just changing the DVD drive on the 360 caused Microsoft major problems, every year there are new problems with the DVD drives because they've been changed multiple times. I'm not just referring to the defective drives and the noisy drive issues...

I'm not sure the issue is "power" as much as graphics quality. It's a simple matter to upscale Nintendo Wii titles to 1080p, but just as with upscaling a DVD movie, doing so isn't going to increase the quality nor add new detail. From a purely graphics perspective, outputting most Nintendo Wii...

LCDs can use both LEDs and CCFLs, it wouldn't make a difference on refresh rate. The LCD crystals are indeed the limiting factor as they can't refresh quickly enough. To get around this issue HDTVs do everything from insert additional fake lines in the display to playing with the backlighting...

I don't think many of these free to play games have been around that long, was the problem. I still recall BattleForge... it was pretty interesting when Electronic Arts saw the writing on the wall and switched it to a free to play game model, but the idea didn't seem to gain much traction at the...