ASUS P8P67 PRO Motherboard Unboxing

The ASUS P8P67 PRO Motherboard is a great option for those who want bang, for buck. It has all the premium features that will actually used and comes with a very attractive price tag. It has support for dual channel DDR3, Crossfire or SLI and the new technologies like USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s. So if you combine all this with a new Sandy-bridge processor, you will have a very powerful machine.

The board also features the new EFI BIOS. This new version of BIOS has support for a mouse with its scroll wheel (only about ten years too late) and it will fully support the new three terabyte drives. I will have a video on this soon.

So please, like and subscribe to my video, and I will have plenty more to come.  Just a hint, this computer will be VERY cool.

If you have any questions on this board, please comment and don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.

Intel Core i9

Intel has been making a lot of new processors like the core i5 and the core i7 both being four-core processors . But the core i9 is a amazing six-core processor which will be using the Intel Nehalem Microarchitecture in the 3 nm shrink. The core i9 is also called Gulftown.  We do not know any reason they they call it that but I have always believed that they went to some 10 year old kid and asked him what should we call our next processor and so he goes and makes some weird name up like Nehalem. The core i9 server version will be the Xeon 5600-series. There is no news on a mobile version of it right now but after it comes out they may make one but until than let’s just wait and see.

The intel core i9 will be coming out in the in quarter 2 aka the towards the half of 2010. The core i9 benchmarks are 50% faster than the corresponding quad core Xeon for parallel tasks. Despite having 50% more transistors, the CPU strongly benefits from 32-nm engraving as it drains 50% less power in idle mode. The core i9 will be the most power fullest processor  yet.

If you are going to build a computer next year I would wait until the new core i9 comes out. Also if you are going to buy the apple mac pro I would wait as well because rumors say that it will be getting it but when the mac pro will get it they will have two of them which will make 12 physical core and a huge 24 logical cores which will make it so much faster than the old mac pros. So I would wait to build a computer and wait to buy a apple mac pro.

I hope you enjoyed it and fell free to leave a comment under this post.

Caleb F.

Bye Nvidia, You Served Us Well, But We're Booting Your A** - Sincerely, Apple Inc

SemiAccurate is reporting that Apple will soon be dropping Nvidia GPU chips from their product line. The article says that Apple will start to drop them from Nehalem Processors, meaning the Mac Pro, and then the iMac, and then the rest of the line after that.

I’ll have to assume that SemiAccurate is well, accurate, or maybe not.

If Apple really is dropping Nvidia from it’s line, then an assortment of questions come up. What will replace Nvidia? Why are they dropping Nvidia? Perhaps even this question, which a user posted on the MacRumors forums.

Is there anything better than Nvidia?

Apple is to go back to Intel GMA graphics chips and also continue to use ATI chips as well. Upon hearing that they were using GMA I had to think for just a second, aren’t GMA chips what used to come standard in crap 14 Inch laptops made by Dell, Gateway, HP, and Asus?

Yep, you bet.

Whether or not Intel’s GMA chips have graduated from being crap is the real question, and you’ve got to admit that using Intel GPUs in Apple’s product line is just showing that Apple and Intel really are friends, as they keep trying to point out, both to the Intel transition, and the fact that they have both given each other awards at keynotes and events.

But wait, didn’t Apple just implement new Nvidia GPU chips into their notebook line? Yep, In fact, a little over 6 months ago, why the sudden door opening to Nvidia?

Well, exactly a month ago, on June 1, Apple announced an extension on the warranty for MacBook Pros from early 2008 and on, specifically covering the GPU area of the models.

At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected. If the NVIDIA graphics processor in your MacBook Pro has failed, or fails within three years of the original date of purchase, a repair will be done free of charge, even if your MacBook Pro is out of warranty.

It probably really is Nvidia’s fault, as there are tons of Nvidia problems with Windows PCs too.

JD

My Bite Into Apple

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