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Logitec 17-inch LCD monitor

August 1st, 2007 by

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Logitec launched its 17-inch LCD monitor ‘LCD-TP1701AD/S’ equipped with 2nmm thick protective filter of hardened glass, which protects the monitor from dust, humidity etc. I must say this LCD monitor will be best for Indian condition and especially for office use where still water coolers are used instead of air conditioner. This protective glass also offers good contrast. It supports 700:1 contrast ratio, 1280×1024 SXGA resolution and 5ms response time.

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ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series

July 29th, 2007 by

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At AMD HD multimedia day’ event, Gaondigital&Inc. introduced ‘ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series in Korea. This family of GPUs delivers The Ultimate Visual Experience™ through immersive HD gaming with DirectX® 10 and HD media playback. The series boasts many firsts for the graphics industry features like a powerful second-generation Unified Shader Architecture (USA), a 512-bit memory bus designed for full performance high dynamic range (HDR) rendering and a new Unified Video Decoder (UVD) technology for high-fidelity HD media playback.

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AMD more power-efficient than Intel

July 22nd, 2007 by

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You must have read many times and thru their Accelerate magazine AMD was also trying to explain that their servers are energy efficient and now this has been proved by efficiency test performed by Neal Nelson and Associates. AMD Opteron servers proved up to 15.2 percent more energy-efficient than those running Intel Xeon in a server-power-efficiency test performed by Neal Nelson and Associates, InfoWorld reports. That translates to annual electricity savings between $20.29 per server and $36.04 per server, depending on the workload, the study concluded. The benchmark tests were conducted on similarly configured 3GHz systems running Novell SUSE Linux, Apache2, and MySQL. AMD must be pleased with the results and having a party!

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Choosing the right PSU

June 14th, 2007 by

		Power Supply Unit or PSU is a very crucial part of your computer, you can call the heart of your computer providing blood (read power) to all the components. Many PC builders in order to reduce cost use cheap unbranded PSU’s which later causes bigger problem like hardware failure etc. So here are some points to remember while purchasing a PSU for your computer.

1. Look for a branded model. Its not necesary that insanely priced brands will be best for you. You can very well relay on well priced cheaper models from brands like Corsair, Coolermaster, Antec, fsp group, etc. 2. When you have chosen some of them and want to find best one, how about weighing them? Yes its true that heavier the PSU’s, better it will be. Well built PSU’s have more components, heavier heatsink and large capacitors making it little heavy but very reliable too.



3. Ok so you sorted out the heaviest one, what next? look at its exhaust fan and intake fan (intake fan may or may not be there, as it depends on model to model

but if its there, its better),its diameter should be as big as possible since huge fan will need less RPM to throw hot air out thereby reducing the noice caused by it. Smaller ones sound like a jet engine and even don’t work well despite of their high speed. A relatively slow but bigger fan will perform better.

4. You must have seen lots of unused wires inside your computer emerging from PSU causing lots of trouble in servicing and working as a barrier in smooth air flow inside cabinet. To reduce this wire clutter now some brands use modular connectors so that you can remove those power cables which are not in use. This is a very good feature as more cables can be connected when needed so you never fall short of them. 5. What about wattage? For normal PC a 350W is more than enough, however if you have recently added a heavy graphic card and a fatter hard disk then you need a 500W monster. The thumb rule here is, the more the number of devices connected to motherboard, the higer wattage you need.