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Atom dual cores for summer?   Posted on 28/05/2008 at 18:57 by Nicolas

	While the volume of Atom processors for mini PC laptops has been estimated as insufficient to meet the demand, Digitimes says that Intel will launch mass production of the Atom dual core starting in the second week of July. This is highly probable because in the Product Change Notification 108376-00 sent out yesterday concerning the 945GC mini-ITX motherboard, the Californian company indicates that BIOS changes may be required to comprehend the Intel® Atom™ Processor 3xx, specifically the dual core feature while orders of the new version of the mobo can be delivered starting July 7th. In terms of availability, the third quarter was mentioned, which includes the end of September, but it should finally be much sooner if everything goes well. The first Atom 3xx should be set at 1.6 GHz and its TDP can be as high as 16W. Thanks to HyperThreading activated on each of its two cores, four logic processors will be available to the operating system. While D945GCLF Little Falls motherboards with Atom 230s soldered onto them are starting to become available at certain distributors in England, there is a strong risk that they will not be of great interest for too long. On the other hand, we do not know yet when Intel will offer dual core Atoms for ultra portable laptops...

nForce 790i: O/C problems fixed   Posted on 28/05/2008 at 18:10 by Nicolas

	Support from Nvidia has finally fixed the data corruption problem that could arise with the nForce 790i when overclocking the FSB and with certain high end memory. With this fix and the lower prices of DDR3, this chipset has become much more interesting. A bios update is required and so you will have to go to your motherboard manufacturer’s website for its download if it is already available. EVGA has reacted rapidly but a detour to their forum is necessary to find the P05 bios and instructions. As for the ASUS Striker II Extreme, we will have to wait a little and MSI has promised to get back to us very soon on the subject.

Centrino 2: delayed until mid-July   Posted on 28/05/2008 at 14:29 by Nicolas - source: divers

	Intel has confirmed the delay of the Centrino 2 Montevina platform to July 14th for versions equipped with chipsets that do not integrate graphic circuits. For those equipped with an IGP, we will have to wait until August 5th. The causes are the ones we mentioned yesterday; validation problems for the 802.11n module and production issues with G(M)4x chipsets which have a GPU. For once, manufactures will not have any other choice but to use a third party GPU to launch their new models which won’t necessarily be a bad thing for everyone. Some even esteem that AMD will doubly benefit as this will give them more time for their Puma platform. It’s planned for early June according to the latest news and aims to take back shares in the laptop market.

News : Report : tri and quad GPU systems   Posted on 28/05/2008 at 09:36 by Damien

	After having focused on triple SLI which enables using 3 graphic cards simultaneously, we decided to come back to the subject of multi-GPU systems. This technology has now been extended to quad-GPU configurations with both AMD and Nvidia. It’s the occasion to publish a large report on the performances of all types of multi-GPU systems. > Report : tri and quad GPU systems