FireWire S3200 in early 2008 nForce 780i for 80 euros with EVGA Report : Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 AMD lowers the price of its Phenom

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FireWire S3200 in early 2008   Posted on 18/12/2007 at 22:35 by Nicolas

	The 1394 Trade Association has announced that final specifications of FireWire S3200 should be approved by the IEEE in the beginning of February 2008. As the name suggests, it will be able to attain 3.2 Gbit /s and will still have the 9 pin connector introduced with FireWire 800. Of course, there will be full compatibility with the latter which isn’t a surprise because the IEEE 1394b standard which defines the FireWire 800 norm already mentioned the possibility of reaching 3.2 Gbit /s. While on paper this is still inferior to, whose theoretical speed is as high as 4.8 Gbits /s, it’s a strong bet that in practice it will prove to be slower. However, USB 3.0’s use should be much more common given its "universal" character and very low cost compared to FireWire.

nForce 780i for 80 euros with EVGA   Posted on 18/12/2007 at 14:44 by Marc

	EVGA is making an interesting offer to this same brand’s nForce 680i owners (reference 122-CK-NF68 and 122-CK-NF69, but not the 122-CK-NF68-RX) in the next 59 days. For 79,99 € to which you have to add international shipping of 7 €, you can exchange its nForce 680i for the new EVGA nForce 780i motherboard. Of course, nForce 680i incompatibility with the Yorkfield is not unrelated to EVGA’s deal, all the more so that this characteristic was underlined several months ago. We can only praise EVGA’s gesture which isn’t the first of its kind. They already already offered to exchange their nForce 680i when there was a new revision available with better overclocking with quad cores. EVGA, an example to follow?

Report : Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512   Posted on 18/12/2007 at 13:57 by Damien

	With the GeForce 8800 GTS 512, Nvidia has launched another model in its GeForce 8 line based on the same GPU as the GeForce 8800 GT. What does this new card add to the Nvidia family ? > Report: The Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512

AMD lowers the price of its Phenom   Posted on 18/12/2007 at 11:55 by Marc

	Today, AMD announced a significant price reduction of its Phenom processors. The 9600 at 2.3 GHz goes from $283 to $247 while the 2.2 GHz 9500 decreases from $251 to $205. These are respective reductions of 13 and 18%. For comparison, the Intel’s official price for its Q6600 is $266. In practice we should therefore be able to find the Phenom 9600 and 9500 at 215 and 180 €, a price range in which Intel does not offer a dual core. While this reduction is interesting and allows placing the Phenom at an amount more in accordance with its performances, there is still the recent TLB bug and the accompanying patch which strongly affects performances. It still seems preferable to wait for the future B3 revision of this CPU.