Quiz of Sunday (S03E04) - the answer

Today, fourth episode of season 3 of our Sunday quiz. And a change in the game: this will be a question for the Nostalgeek. Indeed, find photos of devices that are not referenced by Tineye and Google becomes complicated...The scale remains the same: 2 points for the first correctly responds in comments, 1 point for the other. The question will be asked Sunday, an index will be posted on our Facebook page Monday.Question: which processor is currently...

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Quiz of Sunday (S03E08) - the answer

Today, the eighth episode of season 3 of our Sunday quiz. And a change in the game: this will be a question for the Nostalgeek. Indeed, find photos of devices that are not referenced by Tineye and Google becomes complicated...The scale remains the same: 2 points for the first correctly responds in comments, 1 point for the other. The question will be asked Sunday, an index will be posted on our Facebook page Monday.Question: what is the maximum commercial...

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Quiz of Sunday (S03E05) - the answer

Today, fifth episode of season 3 of our Sunday quiz. And a change in the game: this will be a question for the Nostalgeek. Indeed, find photos of devices that are not referenced by Tineye and Google becomes complicated...The scale remains the same: 2 points for the first correctly responds in comments, 1 point for the other. The question will be asked Sunday, an index will be posted on our Facebook page Monday.Question: what is the first Intel chipset...

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Update of the Tom's Hardware charts

As is the case regularly, we just update the "charts" (comparative) Tom's Hardware by adding a number of new products.Today, it is therefore the graphics cards categories top range, USB keys, power supplies, card SD memory or hard disk 2.5 inch made to day…Our new graphics cards test protocol includes 2 synthetic tests and different games DirectX 9, 10 and 11. Each benchmark or game is launched via 2 different settings ("gamer" and "enthusiast")...

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"With Sen.se, it prepares the era post-PC".

Last week, we were able to meet Rafi Haladjian, to talk about the evolution of objects connected to the Internet. Rafi Haladjian, is a French businessman who is known for having participated in FranceNet (one of the first FAI), Ozone (a provider of Wi - Fi networks) or Violet, the company responsible for the internationally known Wi - Fi, the Nabaztag rabbit.What is interesting is the vision for long-term Rafi Haladjian: he thinks already - as Steve...

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The drivers and firmware of the week

As every week, here's our topic of different drivers and firmware that builders have put online these days. Graphics drivers for storage or network, Windows or Linux: everyone will be served!Driver for the d family Sound Blaster X - Fi Creative sound cards (Elite Pro, Fatal1ty, Platinum,...). Available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32/64 bits).Driver for the network cards equipped with chipset 8256x, 8257x or 8258x. Available for Linux (32/64).Driver...

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AMD FX Zambezi: under $ 250, launch on 12/10

The latest rumours were State of a launch of the first AMD FX "Zambezi" for the month of October, which is a slight delay to the originally scheduled date (September for the first four models). According to our colleagues from the Donanimhaber site, it would be more exactly on 12 October that the first three FX Zambezi - namely the 6100 FX, FX-8120 and FX-8150 - should see the day.FX-6100 is a model of six cores processors to 3.3 GHz (3.9 GHz in...

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Snapdragon S4: Kraits quadricore in 2012

The information arrive on the next SoC at Qualcomm, "S4". If S1, S2 and S3 are already available, the S4 are expected in 2012. Los of our last meeting with Qualcomm, we learned that the S4 (which had not yet this name) dual core went out before the end of the year, now it is known that the quad core S4 are expected for early 2012, with probably the announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.S4 is the future high of Qualcomm....

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NVIDIA Tegra Kal - El: a 5th heart surprise!

NVIDIA released the architecture of its future chip Tegra Kal - El. This SoC that will very likely be the first ARM Xeon market includes an original technology to control consumption: Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP). It is neither more nor less than to add a 5th heart very low frequency.Kal - El is therefore not a Xeon but a pentacoeur. The fifth, called heart companion, is functionally identical to the other Nvidia (ARM Cortex A9). But...

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The Asus Transformer 2: aluminium and Kal - El

The transforming of Asus Tablet has had some success, the company already preparing suite: EeePAD Transformer 2, alias TF201.The transforming of Asus Tablet has had some success, the company already preparing suite: EeePAD Transformer 2, alias TF201. And according to our colleagues, this tablet will propose a hull aluminum like the UX21, the Asus ultrabook. Best used SoC - chip integrates CPU, the GPU, the memory controller, etc. - would be a "Kal...

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LucidLogix: Virtu passes to the HyperFormance

LucidLogix, originally the Hydra chipsets and Virtu software solution company, recently announced a new technology called HyperFormance in a new version of their software.Unveiled at the end of last year, launched earlier this year, Virtu allows for callback use the GPU of the Sandy Bridge processors and a dedicated graphics card. LucidLogix solution is able to choose which graphics card to use and activate the IGP or the dedicated adapter, the...

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Mebromi: the virus that replaces your BIOS

If talking about for years of viruses (and other malware) capable of dealing with the BIOS, nothing really effective was outside CIH/Chernobyl in the ' 90s (and fortunately). But this is no longer the case: a new malware, Mebromi, uses in effect the BIOS of the computer as a vector of spread.Unlike ICH which completely cleared the BIOS of the computer, Mebromi changes it to remain in the computer even if the hard disk is formatted or replaced. The...

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Archos, the Turbo and the OMAP4

The saga of the frequency of the processors in Archos continues: the pre-announcement several months ago talked of processors at 1.6 GHz. The announcement last June was "limited" to 1.5 GHz (which is above the competition). A few days ago we learned that the entry-level tablets work at 1 GHz and 1.5 GHz (Turbo) range top models, with output in October. And the latest information, in an official press release the company indicates that available...

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Gumstix: Linux on a chewing gum Tablet

Gumstix, a company specialized in small computers, proposes a new model, the Overo Sand. As the company name suggests, the devices are the size of a chewing gum tablet.The Overo Sand measures 5.8 x 1.7 x 0.5 mm and incorporates an SoC Texas Instrument OMAP, a Texas Instruments OMAP 3503 family. This SoC integrates a CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz (as in many smartphones in 2009) but misunderstands the GPU. The Overo Sand has connectors for Gumstix accessories...

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