Windows 7: iPhone sync problem fixed

We have some news for those of you who have experiencing syncing problems with your iPhone when using Windows 7. It had been known that the problem was mostly affecting users with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 but we have now been informed that the issue is fixed. Read more

Gigabyte Booktop M1305: Dock takes advantage of GeForce GT220 GPU

When looking at all the laptops on the market, they all seem to struggle to try to offer something a little different for the user. Every now and again a little gem comes along that promises to shake things up a little, and that gem is the Gigabyte Booktop M1305. We know that it is a little like the M1022 netbook, but when paired with the desktop-docking station, the little device can then start to take full advantage of its GeForce GT220 GPU. Read more

Gigabyte T1028X TouchNote: Price and Specs

Gigabyte’s latest netbook / tablet hybrid is now available to purchase in Europe, it is called the Gigabyte T1028X TouchNote and is said to be retailing at €622 which is roughly the equivalent of $877. Many people believe that this price is steep for what seems to be a pretty average specification device. Read more

Intel’s 34nm SSD’s: Reviews starting to emerge

Following the recent posts regarding the release of Intel’s new solid state disks a few websites have now started reviewing their performance, if you head over to Engadget there are three reviews you can see by HotHardware, PC Persective and Anandtech.

Pretty much all of the reviews came back favorably, obviously the main thing on Intel’s mind was to reduce cost by making the SSD’s manufacturing process more efficient, along with this they are cheaper for owners to run as they use less power and require less cooling. Read more

Gigabyte Lynnfield P55 Motherboard

GigaByte have revealed some of their latest motherboards, these motherboards support the Intel P55 chipset and support LGA1156 processors. There are two boards that we will be looking in to, they are the Gibabyte GA-P55-UD4P and the Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6. Read more

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275: launch problems

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 is little more than a week old and was released to compete against the ATI Radeon HD 4890. The card was meant to be launched on April 14, but due to the early launch, only 5,000 units were made available. Read more

FCC: ASUS Eee PC T91

We always know when a device takes another step closer to launch, which is when the company involved files a series of documents to the FCC, this is the case with the ASUS Eee PC T91. The convertible touchscreen tablet is now one more step closer to a launch. Read more

GIGABYTE Review: 1GB Radeon HD 4890 Graphics Card

There is denying that the GIGABYTE 1GB Radeon HD 4890 is an interesting card, not much has been said about it, as the general buzz was low. The reason for this is easy, the HD 4890 is not going to be as fast as the dual GPU wielding GTX 295. This is the card that most people want, as it is new and puts the aging HD 4800 series of ATI cards to shame. Read more

FCC News: Gigabyte Booktop M1022 and Specs

Great news, the Gigabyte Booktop M1022 that was spotted at CeBIT earlier this month has now featured on the FCC database. The small computer device with its 10.1-inch screen will come with an LED backlit panel. Read more

Apple MacBook Air vs Dell Adamo: World’s thinnest notebook

When Apple (AAPL) launched the MacBook Air it, was dubbed the world’s thinnest notebook, but it now looks as if the Air has lost that title. Dell (DELL) have unveiled its Adamo laptop, which they are now calling the world’s thinnest notebook. Both are aimed at the high-end market, but how do they compare against each other. Read more

FCC News: Gigabyte M1028 netbook / tablet

When we first learned of the Gigabyte (TPE:2376) touchscreen M1028 netbook / tablet, we were worried that it would not hit US shores. Thankfully, the FCC has put us out of our misery by posting some pictures of the Gigabyte Touch Note M1028. Read more

CeBIT 2009 News: Gigabyte’s new keyboards and mice

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. (TPE:2376) have announced a range of new mice and keyboards at CeBIT 2009. The products range from hardcore gaming devices to luxury Keyboard and Mouse devices. The market has demanded more multimedia products, and Gigabyte have answered them. Read more

Netbooks using Intel Atom N280 CPU to ship 2Q 2009

It is expected that a number of 10-inch Netbooks that will use the Intel Atom N280 CPU will be introduced in 2Q 2009. Among those will be the Eee PC 1004DN series, Acer and Gigabyte Technology will launch their Netbooks with the new Intel single-core processor between the second- and third-quarter 2009. Read more

Samsung 256GB SSD: price will be scary

It is all good that Samsung has started mass production on its Samsung 256GB SSD but the worrying part is “will the price be scary? These new Samsung 256GB solid state drives (SSD) for desktop PCs and notebooks will be great we know that for a fact, but we really need to know what the price will Read more

5 Graphics Cards for Christmas

Christmas is almost upon us, and the present that we are most likely to get is games, and if you are a PC gamer then this could mean trouble. Someone might get you a game not knowing if your graphics card is up to the job or not. Read more

Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG): Very Powerful Accelerator

First you had the particle beams injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and now you have the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which combines over 140 computer centers from 33 countries, this will help manage and analyze over 15 million gigabytes of LHC data every year.

This is basically the biggest challenge of all time and will tackle the biggest data challenge ever in mankind from the earth’s most powerful accelerator. To make this all successful 15 universities and 3 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories combined their power to the huge project.

“Particle physics projects such as the LHC have been a driving force for the development of worldwide computing grids,” said Ed Seidel, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyber infrastructure. “The benefits from these grids are now being reaped in areas as diverse as mathematical modeling and drug discovery.”

So what will Grid Computing do for the future? Well in a nutshell it will allow university research groups abroad and at home the ability to fully participate in the LHC project, and of course combining positive collaboration across different scientific departments on many campuses.

Read the full article here.

Comcast Cap of 250 Gigabyte: Is it enough?

With the future of the Internet looking like it will include a lot of data used by video streaming, you would think we would all need more bandwidth in our broadband package.

Comcast has put a cap of 250 gigabytes on their broadband service starting Oct. 1, and as they are one of the largest Internet providers in the U.S., what will happen now?

No one wants to find his or her Internet slow and this move is to stop excessive use and limit Internet consumption. Some broadband customers have been using many times what Comcast would like and this move is in direct response to that situation,

With this 250 gigabyte-a-month cap aimed at residential users, will it be enough for the average Comcast user? Let us know in the comments or read other Comcast news.

Hands-on: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 280 Graphics Card

This is the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 280 graphics card that’s fast and priced well. If you want to get into the GTX 280 without breaking your wallet, the GIGABYTE is a good choice.

Tweak Town have given this graphics card a hands-on review over 18 pages and in their final thoughts they said “As mentioned in another GTX 280 reviews, if this card was reviewed a few weeks earlier the overall thought process on the card would be completely different. But thanks to the recent price drop, the GTX 280 really begins to resemble a bit of value for money Read more

Hands-on Review: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 260 Graphics Card

Many graphics cards drop in price after a given time like the GTX 280 for example, well it looks like the GTX 260 graphics card is going down the same road. Read on for the low-down on the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 260 Graphics Card.

With the GTX 260, NVIDIA really have managed to tie up most of the price brackets. Working in AUD, the under $150 bracket has the 9600 GT, $150 - $200 you can pick up a 9800 GT, $200 - $300 will get you a 9800 GTX+, over $300 can get you the GTX 260 while at the $500+ mark you can get yourself a GTX 280.

Really, the only price bracket that isn’t covered is around the $400 mark. We’re sure NVIDIA have something up their sleeves, though. The current price on the GTX 260 is pretty attractive these days, thanks to recent price drops and its performance against the other NVIDIA cards giving us a good idea of where the card sits on the market.

If you do have the money and you’re happy to spend it, we would probably suggest the GTX 260 over the 9800 GTX+; this for a few reasons, mainly. We have some more memory, it’s built on newer technology and it’s the most recent NVIDIA release which makes us tend to think that NVIDIA are going to be working hard to increase performance on these cards more so then the older models through the means of driver updates.

While the GIGABYTE card doesn’t offer us a huge bundle or anything, it does what it’s supposed to do; give us a good performing graphics card for a decent price. By avoiding all the extras like HDMI convertors and games, GIGABYTE can keep the price down.

The GTX 260 is definitely a good card in this price bracket and for people on SLI based motherboards we know that two of these cards are just going to absolutely fly along for only slightly more than a single GTX 280.

Read the full 18-page hands-on review of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 260 Graphics Card over on TweakTown

Hands-on: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 in CrossfireX

There have been so many graphics cards released over the last few months like the one we talked about the other day which was the GIGABYTE Radeon HD 4850, now there is the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 in CrossfireX that boasts two HD 4870 cores on a single PCB. Will this be the graphic cards of all graphic cards?

The HD 4870 X2 performance isn’t really much of a surprise; it’s two HD 4870s clocked at exactly the same speed on a single PCB. For the most part we see the card performing almost in line with a pair of standard 4870s.

The thing is, though, that the P45 chipset from Intel at the moment is one of the hottest pieces of kit, thanks to the massive overclocks it’s achieving. The only problem with the chipset is that it doesn’t come with two PCI-E x16 slots; most configurations are x8 / x8 which actually hits the performance of two cards quite considerably.

If you find yourself a bit of an AMD fanboy (or fangirl) in the graphics card department, a single HD 4870 is still going to score behind a single GTX 280 consistently, meaning that you’re not buying the fastest graphics card available. And while a pair of HD 4870s would be great, the performance hit from not having a x16 / x16 configuration is just too much to justify the associated cost vs. performance increase.

Thanks to the release of the HD 4870 X2, this is something you don’t need to worry about anymore. It really is great news for people who want a super fast graphics card solution from AMD in their P45 rig.

Unfortunately Crossfire X still has issues, but hopefully the AMD driver team is still working hard on new drivers. It’s not something that we would rush out and do at the moment, or even recommend to most people.

The HD 4870 X2 is an excellent card and it really gives you the chance to buy a P45 board confidently. With the HD 4870 X2 I can now build a new system that will overclock extremely well, thanks to the ability of using the very fast P45 platform. It’s also an added bonus for a lot of people in that it’s cheaper than its X48 brother.

There wasn’t really anything else AMD could do with the HD 4870 X2; no doubt over the coming weeks we will see companies overclock the card and hopefully we will see companies like ASUS go for a new cooling arrangement just to mix it up a bit more. But on a whole, AMD have done a lot right with this card, including the fact that they didn’t downclock the core or the memory from the already very impressive HD 4870.

Like we said before, Crossfire X still has some issues, but the ability for big performance is there with a minimum FPS count of 25 in World in Conflict at 2560 x 1600 with 4x AA and 16x AF. I think my own personal mission over the coming days or weeks will be to crack that 30 FPS minimum mark with a pair of HD 4870 X2s in hand. With a bit of overclocking on both the CPU and the graphics cards, it should be doable.

Without forgetting the company behind the sample, Sapphire have done a decent job with the package by including a number of applications, including a full version copy of 3DMark Vantage.

The HD 4870 X2 is going to quickly become a popular card among people at launch and hopefully can allow AMD to become a fearsome force in the graphics card arena once again over the next 12 months.

Now we just have to see how NVIDIA are going to retaliate; it’s doubtful that they’re just going to sit back and watch AMD enjoy the sales of their new card.

Read the full 18-page review over on TweakTown

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