- CES 2007 News & Info -

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Eight cores of Kentsfield pictured at 3GHz

WE SAW Intel’s Kentsfield quad-core chippery purring away at at 3GHz, although the fastest we know of for sale works at 2.66 GHz.

For roughly $1000 you will get a single quad-core Xeon and if you double the money you will get twice as much. We saw the machine based on two 5300 series quad-core Xeons and Intel’s motherboard and 8500 chipset. We saw it up and running and we even had a chance to play with a machine for a while.
It handles nicely and has the best Cinebench 9.5 score we even seen, it does the job with eight cores in just 11 seconds. It is significantly faster than a single Kentsfield quad-core or AMDs 4x4.
3Dmark06 CPU score is at 6089, again the fastest we've seen. It was all running with 2GB of memory on a Windows XP. We also saw Half life 2 particle benchmark and this thing was also super-fast compared to anything we’ve seen so far.
Back to availability if you use 2.66 GHz quad-core Xeons you can buy and put it all together today. We have some cool pictures to prove the claims. Intel insists that the FSB is never a bottleneck and from the test we've seen it sounds about right.

Eight cores from two Kentsfields

Server motherboard and two Xeons at 3 GHz each inside

Pessoal do boinc, caso não saibam este pc está a 100% no rosetta@home.

É o PC com maior RAC no projecto. Mais de 3500 de RAC... É assim um bocado assustador...

 

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CES 2007: OCZ Technology






One of the most debated topics at CES was the OCZ 2kW PSU, yes you read right 2000 Watts! In order to accommodate the extreme requirements of this power supply some outside of the box (literally) thinking was necessary. The PSU comes with two parts. One that goes into your case's PSU slot. There you find all the internal connectors to the motherboard and peripherals. A huge unit that goes outside of the case houses the actual power supply. It connects to the in-case unit via beautiful shiny cables





On the back of the external unit you find two wall power connectors. This was necessary, because using one cable alone might exceed safety specifications for those cables. Even with two power cables it might be possible that this unit could overload your house's circuit breakers, especially in the United States where smaller breakers are used. Technically there are two 900W PSUs inside the external case, sharing the load.
The unit will be available in Q1, a price is not yet known.




While detailed specs are yet unknown, the 12V rail will be able to supply up to 150 Amps! The final unit will also feature an LCD display that can display voltages and current power draw. Also you will be able to adjust your voltages using small pots on the front of the external unit.





A second new power supply is the ModXStream "OCZ900MXS".




Compared to the previous 700W unit the specs have been beefed up a bit, now the unit can supply 80 Amps on the 12V rail and 30 Amps each on 5V and 3.3V.






Equalizer Gaming Mice:




OCZ's first gaming mouse product is called the "Equalizer". It will come in two sizes, one for desktop and one for notebook use. Another possible use is that people with small/large hands can pick a model that suits their hand size better. This is very important if you are planning on longer gaming sessions. Fingers that hurt are the last you want when you are enjoying a game.

The mice have a feature "Triple Threat Button" that simulates three keypresses when pressing a mouse button once. Quite useful for pistol action in Counter-Strike or to get off quick bursts. Of course this can also be used to make a double-click with just one click.




From a specs perspective both units are equal, they are just different sized.
Both units use a laser for optimum tracking. It takes 7080 frames per second with 6.4 MegaPixels/second (a 30x30 pixel frame). The little black button in the middle behind the mouse wheel lets you change the DPI setting on the fly during gaming. Available DPI settings are 600, 800, 1200, 1600, 2000 and 2500 DPI - the right setting for everybody. For this to work no special driver or software is required.






GeForce 8800 GTX





Shortly before CES, OCZ announced that they will enter the video card market as well. Their first product is this GeForce 8800 GTX. NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX is currently the fastest video card on the market. OCZ is selling the NVIDIA reference design, at NVIDIA's default clock speeds. However, OCZ is already looking into selling a pretested overclocked card that will run at higher clock speeds, while still being under warranty.





OCZ Trifecta






OCZ's Trifecta is memory card that is compatible to a number of standards at the same time. The Trifecta comes in sizes of 1 GB and 2 GB. You can use the storage card as MicroSD, regular SD and USB device. This gives you increased flexibility when purchasing a memory card. Also it makes transferring data from and to the card easier since you can connect it to any PC via USB.






OCZ Waterblock





Another new product was this CPU waterblock. At the current time there are no watercooling kits planned from OCZ. The block is compatible with all watercooling systems, you just have to put on your tubing and secure it. Unfortunately the inner diameter of the barbs is rather small. But this can be fixed by screwing on your own barbs.




The pins that the water is flowing around go all the way through the bottom and make direct contact with the CPU. This allows for increased heat transfer.




http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/CES2007/OCZ/

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Bill Gates On Xbox 360 - interview

The San Jose Mercury News has a CES conducted Q&A with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates where he talked about the company's plans for their Xbox 360 console:

Q: The only worry is that Nintendo may have done a good enough box at a low price with the different controller. Maybe they might lead?

A: Sony has always been our most direct competitor. Nintendo of course is a competitor. But look at the resolution you get with a controlled experience like that. Say to yourself, how in terms of using a game for a long period of time, what kind of accuracy and capability do you want? Look at the classic Nintendo positioning. Look at the graphics. Look at Nintendo's execution in terms of online capability. We have this thing that nobody has ever seen before. When you say to your friend, hey let's play online, you say then you have to buy an Xbox. That's what 10 million people say. If you want to play online, get an Xbox. We're not standing still. Look at what you saw today connecting up the world to the Windows PC. Do you expect Nintendo to rev up a team to create cross-device gaming and tool kits to develop those things? Not very likely. We clearly think that Nintendo did some things right. This group Rare that we bought a few years ago really the gestalt of doing titles of a certain type that we didn't have on our box. Viva Pinata has been a huge success. In my household, everybody plays Viva Pinata.

Q: Do you think that with this generation of games, Sony is going to have anything that looks better than the Xbox 360's Halo 3 for the PlayStation 3?
A: No. They were going to have the Cell be the video processor. But they didn't know what they were doing. They said the Cell is the video processor. But they turned to Nvidia at the last minute, but Nvidia can't do embedded DRAM. Go look at the bandwidth problems. Go ask the guys running ... now. They took their year and burned it by not having a decent CPU strategy and then turning to Nvidia at the last minute. It's a very unusual thing. Those processors are isolated from each other. You are seeing great game developers. Things will get better on us and on them. We think they're get better on us. That is so close. We claim we're better. It doesn't matter. It's just like pointing at the Xbox 1. We were 20 percent better. But it didn't matter. We were a year late, didn't have the best games. We had this bigger box. We did have online. We didn't switch positions on that.

Q: Sony says they have an advantage in creating games at 1080p.
A: Go ask the game developers. 720p is great. We can do 1080p. But in systems with 512 megabytes of memory, there are trade-offs. 720p is great. These are 512 megabyte machines. They are not 4 gigabyte machines. 720p is fast.

Part 2 of the interview has the non-game Q&A and will be posted on the TechTalk blog.