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motherboards
Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates
Ceramic isn't just for pottery. It's used in military armor to stop bullets and the Space Shuttle to thwart heat. Now, Asus is reintroducing the material in its sci-fi-tastic Marine Cool motherboard. More »
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By Mark WilsonComment by Dave Lindsay: Uhh... the ceramic materials used in military armor and the space shuttle are made to protect things from heat. They're... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Menorahs
LED Motherboard Menorah Is Hanukkah 2.0
The Christmas ads are already hitting the airwaves, so it's only fair that we bring you this LED motherboard menorah way too early too. There are few surprises with this 5.5-inch tall by 9-inch wide menorah, other than the geek factor that comes alongside celebrating eight crazy nights with a motherboard and some LEDs. For $25 you too can celebrate Hanukkah 2.0. [Fred Flares via Technabob]
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By Jack LoftusComment by gamecrazychris: Looks like a nice gift for a jewish geek if there's such thing. 7 Responses | Other threads
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Geek Decor
Motherboard Walls Add That Special Something To Your Next Remodeling Project
These are the walls of a Human-Computer Interaction Institute lab at Carnegie Mellon, and as you can see, they provide plenty of opportunities to create such interactions on the fly when you snag your sweater on some spiky solder leads or that ZIF socket handle. Chris Harrison, a PhD student, bought old motherboards on eBay by the pound to completely adorn the lab in mo-bos. And while this is great for the computer science lab and maybe OK for the garage (maybe), don't even think about doing this in your bedroom if you ever want to have sex again. It does look pretty sweet, though. More »
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By John MahoneyComment by tehdahl: @Sorshha: And that's exactly what I did to your mother... board. more » | Other threads
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motherboards
VIA's Tiny Pico-ITX Motherboards Get Even Smaller
The Pico-ITX motherboards were already small, but they are getting another downgrade in size thanks to the EPIA PX5000EG—a 500MHz board that can be cooled without the bulky fan—which helps bring the form factor down to a minuscule 3.9" x 2.8." As you might have guessed, the drop in processor speed from 1GHz means that this board won't be tearing up any substantial software, but it should prove extremely popular with the embedded market. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by soggy_cheerio: I picked up two of the Artigo's yesterday. They are for lack of a better word, "cute." It makes the... more » | Other threads
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peripherals
MSI Motherboard Fan Powered Without Electricity
Fans of green technology will undoubtedly be glad to hear that MSI has developed a working concept design that utilizes Stirling Engine Theory to power a motherboard fan. Instead of conventional electricity, the fan will harvest heat emanating from the processor to function. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by Monsterdog: I *KNEW* I should have patented this! more » | Other threads
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skulltrail
Eight-Core Intel Skulltrail Motherboard Gets Official, Is the Biggest, Baddest, Gaming Motherboard Around
Speaking of crazy motherboards, Intel's absolutely insane Skulltrail motherboard officially launched at the Game Developers Conference today, renamed the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform (blah). The Dual Extreme supports dual quad-core processors, and both ATI (Crossfire) and NVIDIA (SLI) graphics cards. In addition, the motherboard has a 400 MHz front-side bus and a hefty $649 pricetag, double the price of a high-end Core 2 Duo motherboard. A handful of PC makers are said to be offering configurations around the Dual Extreme beginning today, including Voodoo, Falcon and Digital Storm, among others. [Intel via PC World]
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Comment by Step666: @neosoul: 'The board price is very expensive, but you get to use C2D cpu's instead of Xeons on a comparable... more » | Other threads
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laptops
MSI Readying Its Own Ultra-Low Cost Laptop
If you prefer MSI boards over brands like Asus (although I certainly do not fall into that category), you will be happy to know that MSI is planning on throwing its hat into the increasingly crowded ultra-low cost laptop ring. MSI is hard at work on the new device and they are betting on Intel's upcoming Diamondville microprocessor to give it an edge over devices like Asustek's Eee PC. According to an MSI executive, the product should be out sometime in July or August—just a few months after Diamondville is slated to be unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. [PC World] -
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Asustek P5E3 Motherboard Features Embedded "Splashtop" Linux Variant
If you are not familiar with it, Splashtop is a Linux variant that provides basic functionality like wired and wireless connectivity, Firefox, Skype and simple games. What's unique about the software is that it runs entirely in RAM. That means you don't have to wait for your computer to boot in order to surf or chat on the internet. With the release of the P5E3, Asustek has become the first manufacturer to implement Splashtop in a motherboard. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by EldwinScuderi: I think the concept is to boot and give access to mail and web all the while your real OS... more » | Other threads
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motherboards
Via Epia SN Delivers Unparalleled Speed in Tiny Frame
The Via Epia SN is one of the smallest and definitely one of the fastest motherboards around, and it's guaranteed to give every gamer a triple orgasm. The first model of this type to have a 1.8GHz CPU and a 16x PCIe slot, the Epia SN also has four SATA ports, a CF card connector, dual-LAN network ports, an Ultra DMA port and WiFi. More »
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By ybaranovskyComment by wetboxersguy: no self-respecting gamer would ever use a Via CPU. more » | Other threads
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pcs
Skype Motherboards From Asustek Lets Even Your Mom Skype
Like Skype? Asustek is about to release two motherboards that with Asus TeleSky adapters that let you plug in any old analog telephone and use that to make Skype calls. Different from the USB Skype phones we've been seeing, this lets you salvage all those old cordless telephones you've had sitting around since the nineties. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by pdn: Intel's 600SM VOIP PCI expansion card achieves the same goal without being locked to a specific motherboard or VOIP service... http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/adapters/600sm/index... more » | Other threads
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gadgets
ASUS P5N32-E Motherboard: Gaming Hydra
ASUS knows, like you do, that you can never have too many graphics cards. In a day and age where double- and quadruple-SLI graphics solutions are commonplace, ASUS saw a weakness in traditional motherboards that only house a couple of your $800 GPUs. That's why the NVIDIA-based P5N32-E comes equipped with not one or two but three 16x PCI Express slots: because more is always better. Read about more additions to the ASUS line after the jump. More » -
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Asus All-Water-Cooled/All-Dancing Motherboard
Asus showed off its next-gen motherboards at Computex, including a fully-watercooled model as well as an unusual model with built-in LCD for on-the-fly diagnostics. Once the machine boots, the LCD displays the time (???). They've also changed around their ports to make room for the display and make things generally easier to unplug on the motherboard's IO riser.
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AN8: Hotter Than A Crack Pipe
ABIT is experimenting with a pipe to diffuse the heat from it s A8N motherboard. The advantage is that this is a much quieter solution than those noisy fans, which always interfere with the sound of frag grenades exploding. The pipe leads to a heat sink located on the rear of the motherboard, where the I/O shield and ports are. One of the possible downsides is that the size of the heat sink leaves less room for expansion ports. ABIT has included three standard PCI slots, one 16x PCI Express and two 1x PCI Express slots. The shorter 1x PCI Express slots are in place to compensate for the size of the chipset. Seems like a pretty solid board and especially nice for those cooling junkies out there. More »
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