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ATI cuts prices for its 4870 cards

Big graphic video manufacturer, ATI, Advanced Micro Devices' graphics division, recently announced that it plans to reduce prices of its Radeon HD 4870-graphics cards. According to the company, the graphics solutions will be available in at least one online store for only $ 199 for 512 MB graphics cards. AMD previously sold its ATI Radeon HD 4850-cards on the same $ 199 price-point. The Radeon HD 4870 512MB graphics solution is sold for that price becomes the most successful results-traditional option on the market right now.

The price of ATI Radeon HD 4870 will be worse and we expect it to 512 MB and 1 GB boards should be available at Newegg today for around $ 199 and $ 239 respectively offer an even more compelling value , a spokesman for ATI / AMD said.

As many of you already know, ATI put a lot of effort to capture more than 50 percent of the market for standalone graphics solutions. Moreover, it is a common fact that ATI does not slash prices for its finished products as a way to get more market share. According to the reports published by Market Tracker Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA accounted for 60 percent of the graphics card shipments in the third quarter of this year with its GeForce chips, while ATI Radeon solutions only held about 40 percent of the market.

If ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB goes for $ 199 in a single online store, the game will hardly change in ATI's service, or will this enable the company to increase its presence in the market significantly. Despite this, some other regional agreements for the red team's card can also be displayed, especially given that ATI seems decided to offer its high-performance products at discounted prices in the current economic environment.

At the same time, we should also note that NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260 withdrawn seen several price reductions lately. Supplemented with the new driver release from NVIDIA, the card has managed to outpace ATI's cards on the market. In addition, Newegg also sells a MSI built overclocked GeForce GTX 260 by 192 processing cores for only $ 200.

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AMD's Phenom II chips to gain more performance with DDR3

It appears that Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming enthusiast II processors, which come with DDR3 support and AM3 socket, can increase the overall performance of your computer by almost 5 percent. This is obviously something that was expected, since most DDR3 platforms can run a little faster. Nevertheless, there are some who might consider the extremely cheap DDR2 memory modules are a better acquisition, as the performance gain is not so great overall.

On the other hand, the upcoming AM3 chipset is reported not to be too much of an overclocker. It is rumored to be able to offer the same overclocking capacity for DDR2, while the memory controller will be contained in the CPU. The problem is that they are ready to get buff II Deneb-based chips include both DDR3 and DDR2 memory controllers, which would basically mean that the processor will work with DDR3 on an AM3 chip, and stuck with DDR2 in an AM2 platform .

The buff II AM3 chips are the only ones expected to experience this issue, as the first AM2 processors will be launched will only support DDR2. As already reported, the next generation phenom II DDR3 chips and support platforms are planned to February launch.

In related news, we learn that AMD may launch its new dual-core chips for higher-than-expected speeds. As I said earlier, the next phenom X4 II chip will contain a 3 GHz core frequency, while the future Kuma c10 65nm CPU will only beginning 2.7GHz.

According to recent news, the dual-core Regor chip, manufactured in 45nm technology, will actually sport 3 GHz or higher core speed. The higher speed may be just a rumor at the moment, but we have already seen that AMD has in store a nice range of competitive products, and the company could surprise us again. [softpedia.com]

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OneNote Mobile

If you have a Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphone or Pocket PC, you can use the OneNote Mobile program to take notes on your mobile device and then synchronize these notes with a section in the full version of OneNote 2007. This is useful when you want to:

• Capture business card pictures on your phone and bring them into OneNote, where the text in the images can be searched
  
• Take short text notes and voice recording reminders on your phone (for example, ideas for a project, prices, reference numbers, names, recommendations, and so on) and they will be synchronized with OneNote
  
• Prepare travel information in OneNote and then transfer it to your mobile device where it will be available to you on the road
  

To install OneNote Mobile on your device, connect it to your computer. Then in OneNote click Tools > Options > OneNote Mobile
> Install OneNote Mobile.

Your notes on the device will be synchronized with the "OneNote Mobile Notes" notebook in OneNote 2007 whenever you connect your mobile device to your computer.

Note:

OneNote 2007 no longer supports copying from the Notes program on the device.

(This functionality was available in OneNote 2003). You can use the new OneNote Mobile program instead if you have a compatible device.

Supported devices for OneNote Mobile:

• Windows Mobile 2003 or Windows Mobile 5 powered smartphones
  
• Windows Mobile 5 powered Pocket PCs
  

Visit the Office Online Help topic or article most relevant to this OneNote feature. Our site is frequently updated based on user feedback, so keep checking back!

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The Performance of Windows 7

From start to the way it manages hardware resources, energy and applications, Windows 7 has been applauded as providing a high performance better than that in Windows Vista, even as early as before the Beta Build 6801. As far as results go, the RTM of Windows Vista leaving much to be desired, to use a euphemism, but after the implementation of the Service Pack 1, the operating system is at least offering a glimpse of gold promised release of the client. For windows 7, the promise is that the operating system will maintain a high level of performance despite Microsoft's tweaks to optimize hardware efficiency and scalability.

"Energy efficiency is improved by a reduction of background activity and new support for trigger the start of system services. Windows 7 also offers improvements in the Windows kernel that allows applications and services to scale efficiently across platforms. The performance of many functions and APIs are better in Windows 7, compared with Windows Vista. For example, driver performance on the servers is optimized for the new user mode and kernel-mode topology API. Rendering graphics are much smoother and faster. Availability is also much faster than before, "Microsoft explained.

According to the Redmond Company, the right technologies for the next iteration of Windows client have kicked up a hack. At the same time, there is only so much that Microsoft can do in the absence of support from software developers to create solutions designed to be used at the beginning of the operating system. The software giant revealed that ultimately the responsibility of ensuring that Windows 7 and the underlying hardware to achieve their respective energy potential lies with software developers. In this context, Microsoft pointed out that the developers had the necessary infrastructure and tools in the customer to play down as much as possible of the energy implications of their applications.

"Windows 7 significantly reduces the number of activities to the operating system performs to prevent the use of energy-saving modes. It also supports the trigger-start the system so that the processors will become disabled more often and stay longer idle, which reduces energy consumption. In addition, Windows 7 uses the latest energy-efficient hardware including network adapters, storage devices, and video cards, "the company added.

Among the improvements that come with Windows 7 is running-start capability. With a big impact on reducing the start times, trigger the start to ensure that services do not have to start up automatically when the computer will boot. In this regard Microsoft has made it possible for developers to start a service on a particular result. Windows 7 is optimized with a range of preconfigured services that are just waiting on developers to take advantage of them. This is done via Windows 7 Service Control Manager.

"Common trigger events for the services include: Device-class interface arrival: Start a service only when a particular type of device that is attached to or on the system, Domain join: Start a service only if it is connected to a Windows domain, group policy change: Starting a service automatically when the group policy is updated on the system, and the IP address of arrival: Start a service only when the system is connected to the network, "the company stated.

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Micron 256GB SSD

According to a video posted on Micron's new blog, the company succeeded in developing a solid-state device that could reach the fastest speed ever recorded by such a product. To be more specific, the video shows a SSD that reach data transfer at 800 MB / s at the same time also be able to expand seemingly about 1 GB / s. This speed is about twice the maximum performance peak seen to date.

As the video shows the system used for demonstration includes two eight-core Intel Xeon processors and two SSDs. Moreover, two units were not connected via a standard PATA or SATA interface, which means they were not limited to the bandwidth barrier of 300 MB / s SATA II. The devices use a PCIe interface, even with flash data management enhancements, which Micron States.

According to Micron's Joe Jeddeloh, during the demonstration, the two briefly managed to beat a host of data on about 800 MB / s and 150000 - 160000 random IOPS. Jeddeloh also showed a flash PCIe cards that combined the two cards in a flash unit with 16 channels. He said that this card could reach a bandwidth of 1 GB / s and "at least 200,000 IOPS." The faster companies SSDs available today from major manufacturers can hit around 250 MB / s and approximately 30,000 IOPS. In the case of hard drives, the fastest an observer as WD's Velociraptor, this clocks at about 100 MB / s.

The PCIe SSDs concept is not new, as Fusion IO has already unveiled similar products, the most notable of them turn on 100,000 IOPS a year ago. The company has recently launched a consumer version of its PCIe card, which is said to offer data from 500 to 700 MB / s and approximately 50,000 IOPS for around $ 1000. Micron said its vehicles would be available soon, but gave no reference to a possible price tag.

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Hynix introduces the fastest GDDR5 memory at 7Gbps

Hynix Semiconductor recently announced that it has succeeded in developing GDDR5 (series five, graphics double data rate memory) video memory, which provides data transfer speeds are 7Gbps. The newly introduced GDDR5 offers a 40 percent speed improvement over existing 5Gbps GDDR5 memory. It comes as 1GB GDDR5 memory modules and its 7Gbps transfer leads to up to 28GB of data per second with a 32-bit I / O.

The 1GB GDDR5 Hynix announced is manufactured using the company's 54nm technology. In addition to the improved transmission speeds, the new memory has also been designed to minimize power consumption at 1.35V power supply. The JEDEC standard 1GB GDDR5 graphics DRAM on 7Gbps aimed at advanced applications such as PC games, game consoles and video cards.

Hynix Semiconductor expects the new 1GB GDDR5 deliver 7Gbps throughput to help the company maintain its leading position in the graphics DRAM market. The memory can be considered to be the fastest graphics memory product with the highest density ever. The manufacturer also offers its previous 1GB GDDR5 developed, manufactured under 66 nanometer process technology.

Hynix also announced that it’s 1GB GDDR5 graphics DRAM respects JEDEC standard. In addition, the company has indicated that it plans to start production in the first half of next year to meet the increasing demand for high performance graphics DRAM. Advanced users, players and enthusiasts will be able to take advantage of Hynix's latest developments to use their experience to new heights.

Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has its headquarters in Icheon, Korea. The company is the top group of global memory semiconductor supplier. Its portfolio includes Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (DRAM) and flash memory chip, which offered a wide range of established international customers. They want to know more about the company and its product offerings can do so by going to its website.

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Suggestion on selecting modern frames

As today many people using computer to finish their daily task either in office or home, without they realize that using computer too much may leads to reduce eyes visibility. That is why we need to take a rest every long hours of using the computer. I suggest take a rest every three hours. Also look at green-area (usually tree) to refresh your eyes.

However if the doctor and your optics says that you need to ware a glasses, then you have to do that. Simply start find the best frames for you, I mean it must suitable and comfort when you wearing your glasses, also don’t use the ancient frame. Better consult the optics to show you which frames is comfort and suitable for your face.

I have to recommend you to Zenni Optical because they have a lot of frames collection that may be suit for you. When you ask a frame at your local optics, you will be surprise when the optics tell you how much you should pay, the lowest price at the local optics may start $150 or more, but at Zenni Optical you can get modern and suitable for any kind of activities, either for traveling or work at the office, all are very cheap, specially if you choose for Holiday Frames. The price is start at $9.95, very interesting isn’t it?

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