August 2008 - News - Extended64 - The 64-Bit Windows Community

NZXT Performance Power 600 & 800 Watt Evaluation

Continuing on with our run of NZXT products, we are now taking a look at two of their power supplies; the Performance Power 600 and Performance Power 800. In case you just woke up that is a 600w rated PSU and an 800w rated PSU. NZXT is pretty new to us...

Published Fri, Aug 29 2008 6:45 PM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

One more time with nVidia denial:

Although many had lambasted me and have called the Inq and Charlie Demerjian everything under the sun that means liar and FUD spreader. It is interesting to note the nVidia has now released a new PCN (http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 9:35 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

Native SLI support on X58?

It seems that in a complete reversal of their previous stance nVidia has announced at the last minute of NVISION 08(Macworld Jr) they will allow the new X58 chipset to support SLI natively. Author: Sean Kalinich Published: August 28th 2008 Type: Editorial...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 6:37 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

Why Apple and nVidia are perfect for each other:

I recently wrote a small editorial about why I think Apple will try to buy nVidias beleaguered chipset division (http://www.planetx64.com/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=1399 Itemid=19). The circumstantial evidence does fit this theory, but...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 5:42 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

GIGABYTE MA78GPM-DS2H Mainboard Evaluation

Not too long ago we took a look at an HTPC board from GIGABYTE with AMDs 780G chipset on it, the GA-MA78GM-S2H. This board was fairly nice and would be good enough for most HTPC usage. There was a problem though. When GIGABYTE designed it they did not...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 2:23 PM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

nVidia entering the software distribution market:

Well I am sure no one will be surprised by this announcement, but it seems that nVidia now wants to distribute software. Yes that is right, according to Theo Valich at TGdaily (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39061/102/) nVidia wants to distribute...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 3:10 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

Interview with Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, Security, Windows

David interviewed Mark Russinovich over on TechNet Edge. Don't miss the opportunity to get an inside view into Mark's life (well, his life at Microsoft at least). http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2008 6:22 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft

nVidia Caught Lying Again (Say it aint so)

It would seem that Charlie Demerjian over at the Inq has found a smoking gun in the issue with nVidias desktop GPUs (the same one that nVidia denies even exists). As we have reported before nVidia is claiming there is only a small number of mobile...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2008 2:10 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

More HPC love for developers on the HPC Show

Steven Newhouse and Wenming Ye have spent some time together producing a great series of technical webcasts on Windows HPC Server 2008. Here's the 5 (in words: five) sessions plus a tiny teaser to wet your appetite. Teaser Intro HPC Basic Profile...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 1:22 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Windows HPC Server 2008

HPC Webcasts in September and October

A bunch of technology webcasts coming your way in September and October. A team of subject matter experts (SMEs) from across the company has put together 3 high value technical webcasts around high performance computing on the Windows platform. The sessions...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 1:13 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Windows HPC Server 2008

Favorite Posts of Week 34

My collection of favorite blog posts from last week in no particular order. Intel backs Microsoft’s concurrent-computing play on Mary-Jo Foley's blog I found the first reference (I'm always a bit late) to Intel's plans on integrating...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 12:57 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Favorite Posts

IE8 Compatibilities

With IE8 Beta 2 ante portals people start talking more about the next major release of the Internet Explorer. If you followed the discussions on the portal, the forums and blogs , you probably know more than I about what's coming. Be it as is may...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 7:33 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: IE8

SBS 2008: Released to Manufacturing!

Congratulations to the team! Fantastic job ! Today Small Business Server (SBS) Standard and Premium are being released to manufacturing. The products will be externally available by our November 12 launch. Check out the team blog for details.

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 7:19 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: SBS

VMware now part of SVVP

As seen on The Console , VMware is now part of the SVVP. Welcome to the program! Recently Microsoft made some significant changes to its licensing terms to reflect the increased use of virtualization in datacenters across the globe. Earlier, back in June...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 12:39 PM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Virtualization

Is Apple gearing up to buy nVidias chipset division?

There have been more than a few rumors in the press lately about nVidia getting out of the chipset business. Most of these revolve around the poor reception of the 790i by OEMs (many of whom are pulling boards based on this chipset). Some claim that nVidia...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 3:58 AM by The Daily PlanetAMD64

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