X48 chipset

Intel has just released details on the new X48 chipset, due out Q1 2008, and motherboard production companies are expecting this to hurt current x38 chipset sales. The X48 Chipset is the first official chipset from Intel to fully support DDR3 only. This is expected to be a benchmark/enthusiast product and Intel isn’t worried about it affecting X38 sales. Considering the current price of DDR3 memory, and the lack of low latency DIMMs,
I don’t see X48 hindering X38 sales either.

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Intel’s new tweaking utility allows full control of all major settings within Windows. No other company has even come close to making a utility like this. This will bring a whole new meaning to overclocking Intel motherboards.

Intel extreme tuning utility

Click Here To See Intel extreme tuning utility

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Tuesday at Intel developers forum Paul Otellini  introduced Intel’s next generation 45nm quad-core Yorkfield cpu to the world in the best way possible by setting 10 world records in various benchmarks including an 8.4 second super pi 1m run and records in aquamark 3 and cinebench 10 32 bit. Charles “FUGGER” Wirth owner of xtremesystems.org was the man behind the scoresas he used his personal triple stage cascade cooling system to get the chip down to about -109 Celsius allowing it to overclock to 5.6 GHz.FUGGER is no stranger to world records as at least 1 of the records he broke belonged to him already (pcmark 05).

 In contrast to the extreme cooling used the motherboard was an un-modded Intel X-38 board using ddr3 ram. this should be a very good indication of what the future holds.

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By Joel Hruska Once opposed but now smitten, Intel wants inside the OLPC and has confirmed it’s in talks with OLPC about providing CPUs for the project. But AMD tells Arstechnica that it isn’t going to relinquish its spot without a big fight.

By Joel Hruska | Just digg it

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