The Water-Cooled Beast with four QuadCore Opterons

Yes, sounds like a lot doesn’t it?

Folks from Tom’s Hardware along with other folks from Puget Systems  have recently finished putting together a monster computer with total costs of $16k !!  The main goal was to create a quiet performance machine, with four quad-core Opteron CPUs, 32GB of memory and eight hard-drives in various levels of RAID.

The quiet cooling was done with the help of a watercooling system Read more

Hackintosh junior Mac Pro

What can you do if you love your mac Pro too much? You can try and build your own  hackintosh junior Mac Pro using just aluminum sheeting and mesh.

What you’ll get is a good looking Mac Pro about the size of a Mac Mini with low power requirements:  5.5″ x 7″ x 5″ with a 2.33GHz low-power Core Duo processor, 2 gigs of RAM, and a 2.5″ Read more

The new tactile interface: Impress

Most of the touchscreens available on the market are hard and flat.
This is where Impress comes into play and tries to change the way we interact with things. The new flexible display will allow us to interact in a more “direct” way with the display. Read more

AMD’s Phenom II reaches 6.5GHz: a new record in 3DMark is set

A team of crazy hardcore speed freaks overclocked one of AMD’s latest Phenom II X4 chips using liquid nitrogen and liquid helium creating an environment of -232 degrees Celsius.

Once the silicon was appropriately chilled, they proceeded to push the clock speed to an insane 6.5GHz, that delivered an absurd score of 45,474 in 3DMark05. Read more

Hercules presents the new DJ Control Steel mixing deck

As an alternative to the old way of vinyls - CD spin  you can always go for a laptop setup accompanied by Hercules’ new DJ Control Steel. I’m sure that some will say that this is not the most professional way of doing things, but they are quite wrong. Read more

Vuzix presents iWear AV230XL and AV310

We like these !! No, in fact we drool all over them.

So, the AV230 XL is a wearable display that will transform your iPod Touch or any other portable video player into a nice home cinema with a virtual 44-inch screen as viewed from nine feet.
Also the AV230 XL features separate focus adjustments for each eye Read more

Leipzig: the analog synth

Not digital but analog, this cool looking synth might be a great addition to your “creating odd noises” library.
Lots of knobs on this Lepizig machine, meaning that you can tweak all the sounds you want, a slider and of course a keyboard to look even more Moog - aholic. Read more

Build your own software synth: Auduino

If you like building your own synthesizers or any sound producing gizmo you might want to check this out. On tinker.it you’ll find some nice plans for building a software synthesizer using an Arduino. Read more

USB 3.0 Ready !

It is finalized. ZDnet stated that the USB 3.0 spec, the successor to USB 2.0  should be appearing in devices in late 2009.
10 times faster than USB 2.0, it can handle data transfers of up to 4.8 Gbps and it is predicted to be more power-efficient.

“SuperSpeed USB is the next advancement Read more

AMD: the first 45nm, quad-core Shanghai Opterons

AMD might be wounded but not defeated yet, and as proof it will release a new quad-core Opteron chip manufactured with its new 45nm process.

Constructed on the “Barcelona” chipset foundations, the new “Shanghai” chips will have the L3 cache upgraded from 2 to 6MB, resulting 35% boosted power performance over the previous generation. Read more

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