In deze warme tijden zal het niet alleen voor de tweaker maar ook voor menig processor peentjes zweten zijn. Daarom trakteert X-bit Labs ons op een koel overzicht van alle manieren waarop je tegenwoordig de temperatuur van je CPU omlaag kan brengen. Eerst wordt verteld waarom de koeling in moderne systemen steeds belangrijker wordt, niet alleen voor de processor, maar ook voor steeds meer andere componenten, zoals de videokaart, harddisk of chipset. Daarna leren we nog maar eens welke functie een heatsink heeft en dat het niet alleen belangrijk is een goede CPU-koeler te hebben maar dat ook de airflow in het hele systeem van belang is. Naast luchtkoeling hebben we natuurlijk ook nog de mogelijkheid van waterkoeling, waarmee de echte koele kikkers tegenwoordig de hitte te lijf gaan. Tenslotte zien we ook nog eens een exotische aanpak als cryo-freezing de revue passeren. Echt veel nieuwe dingen staan er niet in het overzicht, maar wie het af en toe te heet achter de oren wordt, zal het lezen ervan niet als een koude douche ervaren
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So, there is an ocean of possibilities. The question is how much it will cost rather than which of them is most efficient. Or, there might be some compromise between the two factors. Besides, there are a few other issues to take into account: for example, in case of air-cooling, we want to open up all heat-generating components to the airflow. But in order to reduce EMI (its level is strictly limited by various standards and, actually, should be controlled just for the computer to work) requires wrapping all these radio-emitting parts into metal screens. So, balance is everything.
Moreover, just a few years ago we were only concerned about cooling the central processor, but now we have the North Bridge of the chipset, the graphics processor, even the hard disk drive. With the spindle rotation speed of 15,000rpm, no technologies save high-end HDDs from heating up. Moreover, this is not the CPU, when you can claim once a year that the new packaging shape requires a new cooler. The form-factor requirements in case of HDDs are very high, so that the manufacturers have to do their best here. However, as we have already said there already appear sets of two or three fans, installed into the front panel and blowing the air at the HDD.

Ladbrokes heeft zich overigens niet neergelegd bij het gokverbod van de Arnhemse rechtbank. Volgens dit bedrijf tast een verbod het Europese principe van vrije handelsmarkt aan. De Engelse bookmaker zei kort na de uitspraak desnoods tot aan het Europese Hof door te willen procederen om hierover jurisprudentie te verkrijgen.
Die Client-Software läuft auf allen Windows-Plattformen, sowie FreeBSD und Linux. Unternehmen, die ihre Daten über den PeerEnabler vertreiben wollen, müssen eine Lizenzvereinbarung mit Joltid abschließen. Die Gebühren richten sich unter anderem nach dem Datenvolumen, das über das Peer-to-Peer-Netzwerk vertrieben wird. Die Endkunden, ohne deren PCs und Breitbandanschlüsse das System nicht funktionieren würde, profitieren lediglich durch kürzere Download-Zeiten, von einer finanziellen Gegenleistung für die bereitgestellte Bandbreite ist bisher nicht die Rede.


ProMOS hopes to increase its total 12-inch wafer capacity to 13,000 units per month by year-end.
US -- The US PC market was stronger than expected in the first quarter due to a surprisingly resilient public sector. However, public sector spending is likely to fall sharply in coming quarters as the sector struggles with mounting budget pressures. Federal government spending should be stronger than state and local levels, and gains in business and consumer shipments should push growth into high single digits by year-end.
With the latest chipsets, specifications and unique features, the A7V600 offers value, performance as well as maximum investment return.
The Foundation said FreeBSD 5.1 is ready for deployment as a desktop or server system for those interested in the latest FreeBSD technology, but its mature 4.x release branch is still preferred for those planning critical enterprise deployments. FreeBSD 4.8 was released in March and 4.9 is forthcoming.
Apple is bezig met een massale overstap naar CPU's van IBM volgens diverse
In 1978, a “hand-held” was a transistor radio, computers were gigantic mainframe, immobile machines, and the Internet was a project by a handful of research scientists. Twenty-five years later, Intel Corporation is marking its 25th year of delivering silicon products based on Intel architecture, and data from industry analyst firm Mercury Research indicates that the company has now shipped more than 1 billion x86 CPUs since that time.
ATI is planning to only offer the “Built by ATI” product to selected tier 1 retailers and their own online stores. Several sources in distribution have confirmed that "Built by ATI" Radeon 9800 256MB cards are already secured for Circuit City and can only be sold to Tier 1 retailers. This will stop ATI from competing with its AIB partners for the most part. In addition, this will allow ATI to cut overhead with both support and production costs, since they will be producing fewer cards. Hopefully with the end result being more money in ATI’s pocket. If the end user wishes to buy “Built by ATI” products they will be limited to purchasing such products from stores such as Circuit City, at a premium price.
Optimizations to Sun's CLDC HotSpot Implementation that take advantage of Intel's XScale technology are expected to be delivered to OEMs in the coming quarter. OEM handsets that incorporate these optimizations are anticipated to become available later this year. This collaboration will also extend to future optimizations from Sun and Intel.