SanDisk G3 SSD here at last! The Opteron Magny-Cours are on their way GTX 480 to be unveiled on March 26

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SanDisk G3 SSD here at last!   Posted on 23/02/2010 at 15:15 by Benoit

	With each new SSD that appears we’re used to seeing the manufacturer highlighting speed and performance. SanDisk are the exception to the rule here and instead, on announcement of the first deliveries of the G3 SSD, are drawing our attention to the reliability of the product. SanDisk are claiming a lifetime equivalent to 80 terabytes of written data, which is a pretty sizable envelope! SanDisk say moreover that the G3 has been submitted to tests with respect to resistence to knocks and vibration, although this is a common characteristic of all SSDs… With respect to performances, SanDisk are using a proprietary controller and give speeds in the order of 220 MB/s for reads and 120 MB/s for writes, which are relatively low and no doubt explain why they’re bigging up reliability. SanDisk has also integrated the in house technology, ExtremeFFS, which gives improved random write performance. At €229.99 and €399.99, the SanDisk G3 60 and 120 GB models are guaranteed for ten years and should soon be available in Europe.

The Opteron Magny-Cours are on their way   Posted on 23/02/2010 at 11:09 by Benoit - source: TechConnect

	The recent unofficial appearance of the AMD Opterons Magny-Cours 12 core processors, designed for the pro market, has now been officialised and six new processors have just joined the AMD catalogue. They’re all engraved at 45 mn, use a Hyper Transport 3.0 bus, DDR3 on 4 channels and have 12 MB of L3 cache. The Opteron 6000s come in 8 and 12-core models and use their own G34 socket. This is because of the large size of these processors, which are in fact assembled from 4 and 6 core Opteron dies. Here are their specs: - Opteron 6128 (8 cores) / 1.5 GHz / 12MB L3 cache / TDP 115W - Opteron 6134 (8 cores) / 1.7 GHz / 12MB L3 cache / TDP 115W - Opteron 6136 (8 cores) / 2.4 GHz / 12MB L3 cache / TDP 115W - Opteron 6168 (12 cores) / 1.9 GHz / 12MB L3 cache / TDP 115W - Opteron 6172 (12 cores) / 2.1 GHz / 12MB L3 cache / TDP 115W - Opteron 6174 (12 cores) / 2.2 GHz / 12MB L3 cache / TDP 115W Note that the TDP is contained is spite of the number of cores, partly due to the modest clocks.

GTX 480 to be unveiled on March 26   Posted on 23/02/2010 at 08:15 by Benoit

	Though we have no official info on the pricing or spec of the GTX 480, we do now know the launch date. NVIDIA has announced on its Twitter account that its first general consumer card based on the GF100 will be unveiled at PAX East, a video games event being held in Boston from March 26th – 28th. It’s therefore very likely that NVIDIA’s new baby will be announced as of the 26th, putting us out of our misery at last. The endless Fermi delays have indeed allowed ATI to roll out its Radeon 5000s across all segments of the market at its leisure and NVIDIA has a lot of work to do to catch up. No information on the spec of the GPU has been given yet, which keeps us all in suspense as to the performances of the new card. We’ll also have to wait for official communication on the price of the GTX 480 and its future derivatives. Rendezvous on March 26, then, for more on this.