RHEL 6.2 Will Support AMD's Bulldozer Opterons

Red Hat proudly announced that the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 operating system will fully support the power saving features of the AMD Bulldozer Opteron CPUs. It is now official that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 will have full support for the power savings features in AMD's Bulldozer Opteron processors. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 operating system is in a Beta state at the moment, and the final release should be available sometime at the end of this year or the beginning of 2012. "We are working with AMD in particular taking advantage of features [that are] in silicon. [...] RHEL would still run but not use new functionality in Interlagos," - said Aram Kananov, Product Marketing Manager EMEA for Platform and Cloud at Red...

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Sony NEX-5N Is One of Several Christmas Deals

The holidays are bound to have people hiring cameramen or using serious video and photo capturing products, but for those who want performance in a tight package, Sony has the NEX-5N E-mount Camera ready and waiting.  This is one of multiple special offers that the company is said to have set up for this year's winter events. It relies on a 16.1 megapixel Exmor APS HD sensor, which should have no trouble with photos, nor with shooting videos. It even comes with interchangeable lenses, so that different focal points and methods of shooting may be carried out whenever required. The offer should be up soon, if it isn't already (in Singapore at least), for S$1,299 ($1,005 / 742 Euro), along with the Sony Tablet S, the W262 MP3 Walkman and...

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BlackBerry Bold 9790 Officially Launched in Indonesia

The latest addition to Research in Motion's lineup of BlackBerry 7 smartphones, the BlackBerry Bold 9790 has just been introduced in Indonesia. According to RIM, the smartphone will be available on November 25th at the Pacific Place Shopping Mall in Jakarta for a suggested retail price of 4,599,000 IDR (US$510 or 375 EUR). RIM fans who want to purchase the Bold 9790 can find it from November 26th at authorized partners, including PT. Teletama Artha Mandiri, PT. Comtech Cellular, and PT. Selular Media Infotama. Built on the success of the BlackBerry Bold 9780, Bold 9790 comes with RIM's latest BlackBerry 7 operating system and the advantages offered by a high-resolution touchscreen display. “Indonesia is an important market for RIM and we...

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NVIDIA Tegra Powers 65-Inch Touchscreen Tablet

In an arguably stunning move, a company from Turkey has started talking with education and enterprise customers for the promotion of its larger-than-usual tablet device.  Larger than usual is a massive understatement, though, since a diagonal of 65 inches is a higher number than people would expect of an HDTV, let alone an item that was supposed to be portable. Portability isn't even a concern here, though, and there would probably be a high temptation to just label Ardic's device as a TV and be done with it if not for the hardware and the overall shape. Quite simply, this really is an Android tablet, with the right shape and internal components, even if, as a whole, it is scaled up. The 65-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) is handled...

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Nvidia's Upcoming GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Performance Unveiled

Nvidia has just unveiled the first benchmark of the company's upcoming 448 Cores GTX 560 Ti graphics card which is expected to arrive on November 29 and should take the place of the current GTX 560 Ti in the company's lineup. The Santa Clara-based chips maker has published on its website a graph that compares its upcoming graphics card with its current offerings while running Battlefield 3 at Full HD resolution in DirectX 11 mode. According to this graph, which was also posted on the XtremeSystems forum, the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores is a great deal faster than its predecessor, almost reaching the performance of the more expensive GTX 570. This is hardly surprising considering that the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores is basically a slightly less powerful...

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Intel Plans New Revision for LGA 2011 Patsburg PCH Says Report

Even though Intel has released its consumer version of the Patsburg PCH yesterday together with the company's first CPUs based on the high-performance Sandy Bridge-E architecture, the chip maker is apparently still having troubles with the server version of this chipset. In order to surpass these issues and still release its first Xeon processors built using this new arch in Q1 of 2012, Intel reportedly plans to develop a special version of the PCH that will be known as Patsburg-J. According to VR-Zone, this revision of the chipset is just an interim solution until the fully fledged version of the PCH should arrive as Intel has run into further problems with the SAS interface. From the specs that are available now, Patsburg-J seems to be...

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Asus Prepares Micro-ATX Rampage IV Gene LGA 2011 Motherboard

While most of us wouldn't associate a high-end processor such as Intel's newly launched Sandy Bridge-E chips with compact PCs, there are some who want to build this type of systems, so Asus plans to deliver the Rampage IV Gene LGA 2011 board using the micro-ATX form factor. The existence of the motherboard was revealed in an Asus slide published on the XtremeSystems forum, together with a blurry picture of the board. While you won't certainly be able make out any of its features from this scant image, the slide does actually confirm that the Rampage IV Gene is indeed a micro-ATX board. Knowing Asus, this should be full of overclocking and gaming specific features, so you can't go wrong with the upcoming Gene if a mean and compact gaming...

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AMD Makes the FX-6100 Six-Core Bulldozer CPU Cheaper

Just a month after it introduced its first processors based on the new Bulldozer architecture, AMD has already lowered the recommended price for one of the chips based on this core, the FX-6100, in order to make it more competitive in the mainstream CPU market. When the AMD FX-6100 was launched on October 12, the processor had an MSRP of $165, or roughly 121.8 EUR, but the company's latest price list which was updated on November 14, now has the CPU at $155 (114.4 EUR). With this new price, the FX-6100 is just a tad more expensive than the Core i3-2130 or the Phenom II X6 1055T, which both retail for $149.99 (110.7 EUR). The six cores included in the FX-6100 are clocked at 3.3GHz and thanks to AMD's Turbo Core technology these can reach...

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Gigabyte Also Launches X79-UD7 LGA 2011 Motherboard

Together with the G1.Assassin 2 from the G1-Killer series of gaming motherboards, Gigabyte has also made official the X79-UD7 board that is designed to come as the company's flagship LGA 2011 solution. Just by taking a look at this new Gigabyte offering it becomes clear that the motherboard has taken a lot of design cues from the previous X58A-OC that was specially built for extreme overclockers. What this means is that the X79-UD7 uses not only the same black and orange color scheme as its predecessor, but also incorporates some of its advanced overclocking features. Most of these were grouped in the lower right corner of the board, where Gigabyte placed a series of voltage read points, controls for adjusting the processor ratio and BCLK...

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Memory Overclocking World Record Set by ADATA DDR3 and AMD FX-8150 CPU

AMD's FX-8150 processor has another world record to show for itself, as it has just managed to achieve the world's highest memory frequency so far, namely 3311MHz, with the help of an ADATA DDR3 dual-channel kit. The record was achieved by Matthias Zronek, an overclocker that is known in enthusiast circles by the name of Mat. In order to achieve this high frequency he used an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer processor installed on an Asus Crosshair V motherboard and a pair of retail ADATA XPG Gaming Series V2.0 memory modules. The system was of course cooled by liquid nitrogen, which has become increasingly popular in the last few years among overclockers. The official validation screenshot of the world record memory result is available here, and a video of a Super Pi 1M run with 3000MHz memory is...

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4.6GHz Overclocked Core i7-3930K Gets Installed in Digital Storm Gaming PC

Boutique builders continue announcing new systems based on Intel's just released Sandy Bridge-E processors and the latest such company to get its name on that ever more crowded list is Digital Storm which has now unveiled a special version of the ODE Level 4 gaming PC. At the heart of this new system stands Intel's Core i7-3930K six-core processor which comes overclocked at 4.6GHz and is seconded by 16GB of 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance quad-channel memory installed on an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard. The fast Intel processor is chilled by a special Asetek liquid cooler paired with a 240mm radiator, and the whole system has been optimized in order to help keep temperatures of the powerful hardware found inside it in check. This includes the...

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