Saturday, January 31, 2009

Asus' P5Q and P5Q3 Deluxe motherboards


Consistency is a hard thing to come by in this industry, but year after year, Intel has managed to deliver excellent mid-range core logic chipsets. Since its launch last spring, the P35 Express has been the best bang-for-your-buck Core 2 chipset on the market�a position inherited from its P965 predecessor, which was the LGA775 platform of choice in its day. The P965's crown, of course, was a hand-me-down from the Intel 915P chipset that came before it, which in turn, well, you get the picture.

Dialogic D/4PCIUFW



Dialogic D/4PCIUF ( D4PCIUF ) is Intel's latest 4 port computer telephony card. The D/4PCIUF operates with IBM compatible 486 and Pentium computers. Drivers are available for both Windows and Linux. The D/4PCIUF's Line Interface Unit (LIU) is a sophisticated analog loop interface, and the first capacitively-coupled interface card (transformerless). It offers exceptional signal clarity and trans-hybrid rejection. The D4PICUF supports multiple line and multiple board recording and playback and expertly analyzes call progress and pulse-dial signals.

EPoX 4G4A+ Intel 845G Motherboard

The progress of computer technology is non-stop. New features like USB 2.0, DDR333 support, RAID, support for 533 Intel Pentium 4 processors, and among others, are in high demand. In addition, more and more devices are being integrated into an all-in-one motherboard. Take EPoX's new 4G4A+ Intel 845G-based motherboard; it supports all the new functions listed above, while also integrating 10/100 Realtek Ethernet, an impressive Intel Brookdale graphics chipset, and onboard 6-channel digital audio. Surprisingly, this motherboard also works with EPoX's latest Bluetooth header (that comes bundled only with current EPoX 4BEAV motherboards). Essentially, EPoX takes all the useful features one would ever need and combines them into one awesome entity: the EP-4G4A+.

ASUS R.O.G. Pinot Noir Motherboard Previewed


The nForce 790i-powered Pinot Noir motherboard, part of the latest ASUS Republic of Gamers series, is now being showcased at CeBIT. What's uncommon about this motherboard is the unique water cooling solution for its major components. Furthermore this board can work with the latest Intel 45nm CPUs and utilize 4x DDR3 modules, three PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots and six SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors.

Latest Processor


The 45nm Hi-k Intel Xeon processors are compatible with server platforms using the Intel 5000 chipset family. In addition, Intel is launching three platform solutions to support 45nm processors, including here the Intel 5400 chipset-based platform (previously codenamed "Stoakley") that is optimized for high-bandwidth applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), the Intel 5100 Memory Controller Hub chipset and Intel ICH-9R I/O controller (previously codenamed "Cranberry Lake"), which are cost-optimized solutions that support either one or two processors and also provide reduced power consumption using native DDR2 memory, as well as the Intel 3200 chipset-based platform (previously codenamed "Garlow") that is specifically designed for single-processor entry servers. Furthermore, Intel’s 45nm Hi-k Xeon processors also extend performance-per-watt characteristics by delivering an improvement of 38 percent over its previous-generation Quad-Core Xeon 5300 Series processors.The move from 65nm to 45nm involves more than just a shrink of current chip designs. The processors also include such additional features as new Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (SSE4), which are 47 new instructions that speed up workloads including video encoding for high-definition and photo manipulation, as well as key HPC and enterprise applications. Furthermore, they come packed with enhanced Intel Virtualization Technology, as the virtual machine transition (entry/exit) times are improved by an average of 25 to 75 percent through hardware with no changes to software required.Other additional features include a fast divider that roughly doubles the speed over previous generations for computations used in nearly all applications through a technique called Radix 16, a wider 128-bit shuffle unit that improves the performance for SSE-related instructions that have shuffle-like operations. This feature will increase performance for content creation, imaging, video and high-performance computing