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Sunday, 21-September-2003 22:58:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Some interesting press-releases from the last few days:
Western Digital Raptor:
The next-generation WD Raptor drives offer 74 GB with performance-boosting Ultra/150 Command Queuing (Ultra/150 CQ) technology. Western Digital Corp. announced that it is enhancing the throughput, performance and capacity of its popular enterprise-class Serial ATA (SATA) 10,000 RPM WD Raptor hard drives, offering enterprise customers an increasingly compelling reason to reduce the cost of their storage. Command Queueing sounds interesting, bringing these drives closer to their SCSI counterparts. For more info we have a 43KB Word doc here, a 1.5MB PowerPoint file here and WD have a high-res picture of the Raptor's innards here.
ABIT DigiDice:
ABIT’s DigiDice mini barebone goes where other mini PCs don’t even dare. While other manufacturers have added all kinds of colourful looking but useless features, ABIT gives power users a high performance mini PC with more features and expansion capabilities than the competition: room for 2 hard disks, 2 ATAPI devices (CD/DVD(RW) drives) and an AGP and PCI slot as well as the most advanced and silent cooling solution available for any mini PC. ABIT’s DigiDice also is the most stylish and tasteful package ever designed to house PC hardware, and we’ve even included a cool DigiDice backpack for LAN partiers on the go. More info in a 677KB Word doc here.
ABIT µGuru:
ABIT µGuru is a new microprocessor designed by the ABIT Engineers for use only on ABIT motherboards and which allows end-users to reach a higher state of hardware awareness and enlightenment. µGuru acts as a spiritual guide, sharing with ABIT users, tips for hardware monitoring, overclocking, BIOS flashing and audio tweaking functions in an easy to use, Windows-based interface. As a part of the motherboard, only µGuru can completely understand how to optimize the motherboard for ultimate performance. What truly sets µGuru apart is it’s onboard memory that allows users to save their favorite overclocking settings for specific applications. Phew! If we wade through the marketing-speak, it seems to be a hardware monitoring chip like the Winbond units we're used to seeing, with some overclocking features added in. More info in a 415KB Word doc here. The first motherboard to use this feature is their AI7 and there's a 556KB Word doc with info on that motherboard here. Check out the angled CPU socket, interesting.
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