DFI LANParty Blood Iron G41 Board Unveiled

DFItoday launched the LANParty BI G41-T33 board for consumersdemand high performance for a low price. This board uses Intel G41+ICH7 chipset supportingdual-channel DDR3 800/1066memory, Intel GMA X4500 integrated graphics, DFI ABS II that automatically upgrades yourCPU. Price :US$89

Official Press Release :

Pursuing top quality and world-class performance, DFI LANParty has launched BI G41-T33 in this month with a quite reasonable price to satisfies the needs of mass consumers for high performance in low cost. In the aim of providing consumers the most valuable motherboard, LANParty insists on using excellent components and materials to provide BI G41-T33 with superior stability and performance without compromise. Incorporating Intel G41+ICH7 chipset, BI G41-T33 supports the latest dual-channel DDR3 memory and comes with exclusive DFI ABS II, the automatic CPU upgrade technology. With this technology, users can upgrade their system easily and reap a great benefit immediately.

How to spend your money more cleverly during the period of economic recession? LANParty offers you the answer!! The newest BI G41-T33 provides users a simple platform with exclusive DFI ABS II, the automatic CPU upgrade technology, to improve system performance in an easy and fast way. Without any difficult or professional skills, when boosting your system at the first time, ABS II will automatically detect the CPU installed and upgrade the efficiency of the CPU. Briefly speaking, consumers can enjoy good efficiency of high-class CPU with low cost of middle-class CPU.

BI G41-T33 accommodates Intel G41 express chipset and integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500. Users can enjoy high definition video playback with no need for additional VGA card. To those who have no frequent use in 3D display, BI G41-T33 is definitely the most valuable choice.

Specifications

Intel® G41 + ICH7 chipsetIntel® LGA 775 Core2 Quad/ DuoSupports 2-CH DDR3 800/1066FSB supports up to 1333MHzABS II upgrades your CPU automaticallyIntegrated Intel GMA X4500 graphics accelerator

Dell Latitude E6410 and E6510 laptops finally appear

Design-wise, both the Dell Latitude E6410 and Latitude E6510 are closely similar to the older E6400 and E6500. Most of the changes are under the bottom cover.

A quick run through of the available specifications: You have three processor options for the Latitude E6410, namely the Core i5-520M, Core i5-540M, and the Core i7-620M, all of which are dual-core processors.As for the Latitude E6510, you have both dual-core and quad-core options, namely the Core i5-540M, Core i7-620M, Core i7-720QM, and Core i7-820QM, where the latter two are quads. The laptops' chipset, for those who are interested, is the Intel QM57 Express. Memory used in the both new machines are DDR3 sticks of either 1066MHz or 1333MHz.

On the E6410, the display retains the conventional 16:10 ratio widescreen. Resolutionoptions are similar to that of the E6400 -1280x800 and 1440x900. However, the E6510 switches to a 16:9 ratio 15.6" widescreen. Three resolutions are available, a typical 1366x768 one, a HD+ 1600x900, and even a Full HD 1920x1080 panel.All panels on both panels are anti-glare (say no to glossy!), have LED backlighting. Display is driven either by the integrated graphics on the processor, or a discrete NVIDIA NVS 3100M 512MB solution.

Storage options include solid state drives of up to 256GB, while mechanical 7200rpmhard drive options are availableup to 500GB.

The other components such as Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless-N, Bluetooth, card reader, fingerprint reader, smartcard reader... are standard as they were on the E6x00 models. A check on Dell's main website does not reveal model numbers, other than the Bluetooth module being a newer one - Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth. Let us go digging around Dell's Support site and we'll get back to you with the minute details later.

Recall the long-life batteries that have been discussed in recent times? Dell's offering them as a '3 year life-time 9-cell Li-Ion battery'. As for standard batteries, you have 4-cell, 6-cell, and 9-cell options, complete with a 12-cell battery slice option as well.

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Perhaps some of you might have just scrolled through this piece of news. So here, we're giving you the direct links to the Dell Latitude E6410 and E6510 product pages:

Dell Latitude E6410
Dell Latitude E6510

Exclusive Intel's first LGA 2011 motherboards unveiled

Today we can as the first publication in the world unveil the codenames of Intels first two own brand LGA 2011 motherboards which are expected to launch in the second half of this year with support for Intels upcoming high-end consumer desktop platform.

Sadly we dont actually have a lot of details beyond the Intel code names for the two boards at this moment, but well be following up with more platform details as we get them. Intels first two models are currently known as "Siler" and "Thorsby" and as you can see from the roadmap slide below, both models are expected sometime in the second half of this year.

The roadmap is about two months old by now, but the information should be correct. As this is the platform that will replace the current LGA 1366 motherboards and Nehalem based processors, it will initially be exclusive for Intels Extreme Edition CPUs. This is likely to disappoint a lot of consumers that so far have been hoping for an upgrade solution for their LGA 1366 systems, but it seems like that is less likely now, unless you have US$999 (or more) to blow on a CPU.

What we do know is that the new boards will use quad channel memory and were expecting one DIMM per channel on most if not all consumer motherboards. The CPUs for the LGA 2011 platform that targets consumers are currently known as Sandy Bridge-E, a CPU which will also appear as high-end Xeon processors. This will be Intels first PCI Express 3.0 platform as well, but dont expect to see boards with more than two full x16 PCI Express slots, just like the current LGA 1366 boards, although it would be possible to do boards with up to five slots with eight lanes worth of PCI Express 3.0 bandwidth per slot.

Wed expect to see the first boards from Intels partners on display at Computex 2011 which starts on the 31st of May this year. However, the platform isnt really expected to launch until a few months later, maybe during IDF San Francisco in September. Some of this will most likely depend on how well AMDs upcoming Bulldozer platform performs in comparison to Intels current LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge platform and if AMD performs better than Intel is expecting, we might see the Sandy Bridge-E platform pulled forward.

Dell unveils new Studio XPS 16 and Studio XPS 13 laptops

The Dell Studio XPS 16 and Dell Studio XPS 13 laptops claim to be the first Studio laptops to bear the XPS high-performance designation. The premium laptops boast state-of-the-art technology and elegant design that aim to delight fashion and technology enthusiasts alike.

Both the Dell Studio XPS 16 and Dell Studio XPS 13 feature beautifully crafted genuine leather and anodized aluminum accents on top of a high-gloss Obsidian Black finish.

The Dell Studio XPS 13 and Dell Studio XPS 16 laptops are available today from Dell Singapore website - http://www.dell.com.sg/ - starting at SGD2199 and SGD2099 respectively.

Dell Studio XPS 13 laptop
Weighing 2.2kg, the Studio XPS 13 not only looks stylish but is alsodistinctly powerful. It offers digital nomads the choice of conserving battery life or boosting performance with the optional NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE with Hybrid SLI technology.

You canchoose to boost performance for playing games or watching high definition videos by enabling a discrete graphics processor and graphics memory, or extend battery life by switching to the integrated graphics solution which is better for E-mail, surfing the Internet, and listening to music.

Dell Studio XPS 16
The flagship Studio XPS 16 offerssuperior performance and entertainment capabilities, including 16-inch WLED display 16:9 HD, 7W Dolby 5.1 audio with subwoofer, Intel Centrino 2, and 512 MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3670 graphics.

The optional Full HD 1080p display (RGB LED) is optimized for 16:9 content and features 100 percent color gamut for truer colors combined with 300 nit brightness for brilliant color and details.With 8 millisecond response time, you canenjoy smoother gaming and movie viewing.

The Studio XPSlaptops feature High Definition upconversion so that standard DVDswould lookmore like HD movies, 2-megapixel webcam with facial recognition security, backlit keyboard, capacitive touch multimedia controls andsupport WiMax and GPS.

ASRock 880G Extreme 3 Motherboard Detailed

ASRock is readying its 880G Extreme 3 motherboard for launch. Built on the AMD 880G chipset and SB850 south bridge, the motherboardfeatures support for AM3 processors, four DDR3-1800 memory slots,on-board Radeon HD 4250 graphics, three PCI-e x16 slots (CrossFireX andHybrid CrossFire-ready), one eSATA, six SATA III ports, GigabitEthernet, 7.1 channel audio, two USB 3.0 connectors, D-Sub, DVI and HDMIoutputs, and a 8+2 phase power design. Over-clocking enthusiasts willalso be delighted with ASRock 880G Extreme 3’s UCC (Unlock CPU Core)function, Turbo 50 auto over-clocking feature, Instant Boot, on-boarddebug LED, Power, Reset and Clear CMOS switches. Pricing has not beenannounced yet but it is expected to start shipping in end April 2010.


News via [Techconnect]