Friday, May 18th, 2012

HIS is ready with a fanless Radeon HD 7750 graphics card that utilizes the company’s iSilence 5 cooling solution, which is used on the recently-launched HD 6670 iSilence 5. The cooler consists of a swanky-looking aluminum fin stack to which heat is conveyed by four 8 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes, which make direct contact with the GPU die. The heat is then passively dissipated by the aluminum fins.

Despite some of the negative headlines surrounding Intel, we believe the firm’s wide economic moat is intact. While the rise of smartphones and tablets may bring some challenges to Intel’s bread-and-butter PC microprocessor business, it also presents the firm with new growth opportunities….

Our colleagues at one of our European labs were handed an early version of an AMD Pitcairn-based Radeon HD 7850. What made this AFOX unit special from the currently existing Radeon HD 7850 reference design that we’ve already peeled apart is that

The LGA1356 chips slated for a little later this year include the Pentium 1403 and Pentium 1407. The Pentium 1403 is clocked at 2.60 GHz, and the Pentium 1407 at 2.80 GHz. Both chips are dual-core, capable of single-socket operation only, but retain triple-channel DDR3 and 24 PCI-Express lanes support

Because there was such a large savings difference with the AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6220, we decided to do what most customers would do: super-size their configuration choices. AMD was already 25 percent faster in performance, so adding faster processors might not make sense. But what about doubling the memory and adding more drives? We wanted to also make sure that this server was reliable so we added a RAID controller. Now, if customers are putting a RAID controller in their server, they will want more than one hard drive, so let’s make it three hard drivers so that you can do RAID 5