Fujitsu Siemens Amilo SA3650 Review

Notebook Check has reviewed the FSC Amilo SA3650 using the integrated video and also the XGP with a Radeon 3870.Notebook specifications: Processor AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-86 2.4 GHzMainboard AMD M780GMemory 4096 MB, 2x 2048 DDR2 PC-6400 Samsung 6-6-6-18-24Graphics adapter ATI Radeon HD3200Display 13.3 Zoll 16:10, 1280x800 pixel, BrilliantView, GlossyHarddisk Fujitsu MHZ2320BH G2, 320GB 5400rpm SATA-IISoundcard Realtek ALC888Connections: 1 Express Card 54mm, 5 USB, 1 Firewire, 2 DVI, 1 HDMI, 1 Kensington...

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Merry Christmas

A Christmas e-card from AMD, click the Fusion Stamp to openor click here:http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DigitalMedia/holidaymessage.htmlBelow is a Christmas Tree made by Vic's fa...

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AMD and XFX Announce Technology Partnership

XFX, known for its high-performance NVIDIA™-based products, is pleased to announce the addition of AMD/ATI as a new technology partner. A world leader in graphics cards, motherboards and computer accessories, is now an official AMD technology partner, joining the elite group of successful AMD add-in-board (AIB) partners. XFX plans to provide new products based on the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series GPUs to consumers, beginning in early 2009.“With the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series,...

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Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition "KUMA"

Most of the news out of AMD lately has been out of ATI with their video cards lately and most new attention is focused on Phenom II which should be coming out very soon from AMD. But AMD is also launching a new CPU series codenamed Kuma.AMD today announced the Athlon X2 7750 – a STARS-based processor that is a brand new dual-core processor based on the Kuma core. Since this processor is based off the Phenom core it has L3 cache, this should make it competitive in terms of both price and performance...

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Getting To See Phenom II Before It Launches

After AMD showed off the new Phenom II processors and the Dragon platform to the media they went one step further and did a private showing to select forum members that were able to come to a scheduled showing in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.Legit Reviews put an alert out to forum members about the event and XstollieX jumped at the chance and made it to the Chicago event (December 9th). By going to the event he was able to get a sneak peak at Phenom II a month before it launches and will be...

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Catalyst 8.12 now Available

With the release of ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream™ technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide.ATI Stream™ enables the hundreds of parallel cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream™ enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with...

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OpenCL 1.0 spec released

The Khronos Group has released the first version of the OpenCL specification. The 1.0 spec has been ratified by a large number of companies, including AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Nvidia, and many others. Since this is a public release, developers can grab the spec itself and documentation right now through this page.The OpenCL programming standard and associated technologies are aimed at better enabling developers to write vendor-neutral applications that can execute on either...

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Core i7 'Nehalem' also have TLB issue

If you open Intel’s official document that is stored here, on page 37 AAJ1 Clarification of TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFERS (TLBS) Invalidation part, you will see that Intel says that in some rare cases improper TLB invalidation may result in unpredictable system behavior and can hang your OS or result with incorrect data.Here is the word to word quote: "In rare instances, improper TLB invalidation may result in unpredictable system behavior, such as system hangs or incorrect data. Developers of operating systems should take this documentation into account when designing TLB invalidation algorithms....

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