February 15, 2005

IBM’s CELL Processor: Preview to Greatness? @ PCStats

It’s time for PS3. It’s also time for IBM to destroy AMD and Intel.

“IBM, in cooperation with fellow industry giants Sony and Toshiba, recently announced a new processor, called the Cell. The Cell processor contains a powerful 64-bit Dual-threaded IBM PowerPC core but also eight proprietary ‘Synergistic Processing Elements’ (SPEs), essentially eight more highly specialized mini-computers on the same die. It’s these SPEs that make the Cell architecture special, as you might guess. IBM describes the product as a ‘System on a Chip.’ Like IBM’s Power5 processors, multi-processing is build right into the die.”

Klipsch Promedia GMX A-2.1 @ TrustedReviews

Now these are some heart pounding speakers. I’d get more noise complaints if I owned a pair of these.

“What you get in the box is a massive subwoofer with a solid wooden casing, two fairly small desktop speakers, a control pod and some wiring. It sounds like a pretty standard 2.1 channel speaker set, but the sub really is massive, and as a result, it’s capable of producing the kind of base that will shake your house and get the neighbours banging on the wall.”

4 Channel Wireless Camera System @ BigBruin
OCZ Gold Series Rev.3 PC3700 2x256 Dual Channel review @ Marns CDA
XG Viper ATX Case @ LAN Addict
Thermaltake’s Silent 775 Heatsink @ TechTastic.ca
A Look Inside The Internet ‘Grey Areas’ @ The Tech Zone

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