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AVA Direct Clevo X8100 SLI Gaming Notebook AVA Direct, the custom computer manufacturer, has announced their "most powerful notebook for gamers." The powerhouse notebook is an update of the older Clevo M980NU, replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GTX 280M SLI with a Core i7 and a GTX 285M SLI to provide a sizable bump in performance. The new model, NBK-CLV-X8100, uses the Clevo X8100... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	Dell M6500: A Precision Strike on Bling The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff. It’s also very expensive, but the cost of the hardware likely pales in comparison to the software it’s designed to run.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
10Gbit Ethernet: Killing Another Bottleneck? More cores (32 to 48) in medium-range servers results in 20 to 50 VMs on one virtualized server. We investigate if 10Gbit Ethernet is finally ready to solve the NIC I/O bottleneck. Is 10Gbit Ethernet still a technology for the happy few?... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	NVIDIA 196.75 Driver Alert As many of you are aware, NVIDIA has hit some snags with their latest round of WHQL drivers. The drivers have been interfering with the fan operation on certain NVIDIA video cards, resulting in the GPU overheating. NVIDIA has taken down the drivers in question, and has asked that we pass along the following message: We are aware that some customers... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
THX Certified HDTVs - Useful or Just Marketing? THX is well known for its audio standards. But when you see THX on an HDTV panel, what does that mean? Loyd digs in to find out.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	Dell Inspiron 1564: Mobile i3/i5 for the Masses Dell's 15-inch Inspiron line has evolved over the years; gone are the bulky grey-and-white monstrosities, replaced by sleeker, more colorful designs. The latest Inspiron 1564 also sports an i3/i5 CPU, providing a powerful platform that's not as heavy as the size would suggest.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue Review: WD Enters the Consumer SSD Market Late last year Seagate announced its first SSD, and today Western Digital is introducing its first SSD for the mainstream consumer market. We find out who makes the controller and how well it performs.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	AMD's 890GX Chipset - Same Graphics, Better South Bridge AMD's 8-series chipsets are upon us and despite the name, all of the innovation is in the south bridge. Graphics performance and feature set are unchanged but are the new South Bridge and SATA controller enough to make this interesting?... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
NVIDIA's Next Generation ION Announced, Optimus + a 16-core Version Next generation products are always better... just look at Star Trek! At least, that's the theory behind the new NVIDIA ION platform, and it looks like the best thing for your netbook woes starting later this month.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	Intel DH57JG “Jet Geyser” - Intel's First Mini-ITX H57 Intel delivers mini-ITX without the frills and fuss...... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
AnandTech Giveaway: Win a Lenovo ThinkPad X100e Powered by AMD! We're giving away a brand new ThinkPad X100e! Enter to win!... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	Zotac H55-ITX Review - The World's First mini-ITX H55 Motherboard Zotac unleashes the first H55 based mini-ITX board on the market, we take a look...... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
OWC Mercury Extreme SSD - First Look at a 50GB SandForce Drive OWC sent us its 50GB Mercury Extreme SSD based on the same SandForce controller in OCZ's Vertex LE. We try to find out if the 50GB drive is really significantly slower than the 100GB Vertex LE.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	New MSI Classic Notebooks MSI, best known for their PC components, have launched their latest Intel Arrandale equipped notebook offerings. We discussed some of the initial products in our CES coverage, and these are now shipping and available at retailers like Newegg and Amazon. The four latest models are part of their “Classic Series”, and they’re... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 5830: A Filler Card at the Wrong Price To close the 5850/5770 gap, today AMD is introducing the 5830, a further cut-down Cypress. Today we'll see why this card embodies the idea that there is no such thing as a bad card, only a bad price... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	Windows Phone 7 Series Takeaway Microsoft has finally unveiled its platform to return to feature competition in the smartphone space. Is it enough to hang with the likes of Android, iPhone OS and webOS?... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
Choosing the Best H55/H57 Motherboard, Part 2 As promised, we're back with part 2 of our H55/H57 coverage. Find out which boards come out on top in our user experience based review.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	NVIDIA's GTX 400 Series Gets A Launch Date: March 26th On the heels of a rather unusual (and poorly received) announcement this morning that they'd be showing off the GTX 400 series at PAX East this year, NVIDIA has made a second and much more to-the-point announcement today. The GTX 400 series will be launching March 26th. And at this point that's all we know. Specifications,... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
OCZ’s Vertex Limited Edition Review & SSD State of the Union The first SandForce SF-1500 SSD has arrived in the form of OCZ's Vertex Limited Edition. Only 5,000 drives are being made with MSRPs starting at $399. We pit it up against newcomers from Crucial and Toshiba as well as the old kings to see how well it does. We also do a SSD state of the union update to talk about what's coming out in the next 12 months in the SSD... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition: Our First Fully-Custom 5850 With the supply of AMD's Cypress chips picking up, we finally have our first fully-custom board. Today Sapphire is releasing the first such product, the overclocked and overcooled 5850 Toxic Edition.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
Databases and power management, not a perfect fit In our last article, I showed that the current power management does not seem to work well with the Windows Scheduler. We got tons of interesting suggestions and superb feedback. Also several excellent academic papers from two universities in Germany which confirm our findings and offer a lot of new insights. More about that later.The thing that is really... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	The Patriot Box Office Review: A Portent of Great Things to Come Patriot sent us its first foray into the streaming media market. This tiny little box will let you stream everything from ripped movies to full blown Blu-ray images to your TV. We took it for a spin.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
Quick Look: MSI’s GeForce 210 Today we're looking at MSI's N210-MD512H, based on the last 40nm GeForce 200-series part we have yet to see: the G210.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	What's New: AMD's Catalyst 10.2 & 10.3 Drivers Some big changes are coming for AMD's Catalyst drivers. We have everything you need to know about what's new today with 10.2, along with what's coming next month with 10.3.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010
The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight After the RV770 ATI surely must have had an easy time building the RV870, right? Wrong. While we now know that the RV770's strategy paid off, the RV870 was being designed before the 770 ever made it out the door and building another RV770 was a tough sell internally. This is the backstory of the GPU that eventually became the Radeon HD 5870.... AnandTech Article Channel ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010	NewsBone.com Suggest a feed to syndicate here, or check out what I'm doing over at freshtao. ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:03:26 2010

Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 "Lyngen" Alpha 1
It's been just a month since releasing Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 and that was followed by the release of our PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 operating system, but since then work has been flowing into the next release of the Phoronix Test Suite and related benchmarking technologies. The next release, Phoronix Test Suite 2.6, is codenamed Lyngen and will be officially available in May. Today the first alpha release for Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 is available...