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Intel’s New Core i7 Processors: They Look Impressive

Intel announced the name of their next generation desktop processor not too long ago. Originally codenamed “Nehalem”, the new processors will be called “Core i7”, and the full name will be: Intel® Core™ i7 processor.

I did some research on these new processors and they appear to be a pretty amazing upgrade over the old Core 2 series of processors from Intel. To see for yourself just check out Intel’s official website, it’s full of everything you would want to know about the new i7’s.

They are going into be launched in Q4 2008…

Official Windows 7 Blog Started

Microsoft has just launched a new blog covering the engineering process of the next Windows operating system, currently codenamed Windows 7. With the criticism that Windows Vista has received I look forward to being able to read up on news about Windows 7. Enjoy…

The blog is being hosted at MSDN

Songbird v0.6

Here is my First Video Blog! It’s about a cool piece of software called “Songbird”. Enjoy

Update 8/16: Sorry the audio is not all that great, I knew I would screw something up on my first video. Should have it fixed on my next video blog.

Corsair Dominator DDR3 Memory Sets New World Record of 2580 MHz

Corsair announced recently that its Dominator DDR3 memory modules set a new world record for frequency. The world record of 2580 MHz was set using the following hardware and setup:

- Corsair Dominator DDR3 memory module

- Asus ROG Rampage Extreme motherboard (Intel X48 chipset)

- Corsair Dominator memory, utilizing Corsair’s award-winning DHX technology.

- Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 processor overclocked to a 645MHz Front-Side Bus frequency

- Latency settings of 9-9-9-24

The results are verified by CPU-Z, which is an industry standard that verifies overclocking results. The full details of the results can be reviewed Here.

“We are proud that our Dominator Memory once again hit a new world record” said Martin Mueller, Senior Director of Engineering, Corsair. “Our proprietary technology used on Dominator DDR3 allows for incredible overclocking results; we believe our technology is far superior to any other when it comes to overclocking memory modules.”