Acer Aspire 5942G Multimedia, Graphic, and Gaming NoteBook

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Aspire series was launched back Acer, laptop multimedia and gaming features and graphics with good speed. Weighing about 3 pounds, this laptop feels pretty weight, but the design is somewhat special laptop with keyboad has led and logo acer the light and elegant look with a futuristic black color.

As a multimedia laptop, on the right laptops have a working shortcut to media controls, like volume control that round. Acer Arcade Deluxe like Windows Media Center, making it practical as a multimedia media such as watching videos, listening to music, browsing, and also see the photo album. On the left side of the keyboard there is wifi button, bluetooth, and also Acer Backup Manager serves to secure personal data.

Supported Laptop with ATI Radeon 5650 with 1 GB of graphics memory, and processor Intel Core i7 as a multimedia laptop evenly ability in high graphics from watch HD movies, gaming, until rendering. But the sound is not smooth are like Full HD movies, sound was not good, and Unfortunately also the maximum resolution capability 1399 x 768 , for business graphics can be used for alternative the designer, the results did not disappoint.

Do not miss any games, either to run PC game like Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2, and Dragon Age Origins. General air circulation was quite good, hot produced during the 3-hour laptop warm body on the left. Strength for the size of a standard battery laptop multimedia spec with a cleaner, lasted 2 hours to watch HD movies.

conclusion of all that is quoted from detikINET Acer Aspire 5942G has practically graphics good with a powerful processor. Duet Intel Core i7 processor and ATI Mobility Radeon 5650 1GB, suitable for the graphic designers, video editors and animator light. Good enough to play the game PC, with a range of US$ 1,499.00. Can be used as a laptop multimedia for the professions mentioned above.

Excess >> futuristic design, multimedia panel cool.

Deficiencies >> not Full HD Display, shrill voice.

General spec >> CPU: Intel Core i7 (1.60 GHz), RAM: 4 GB, OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 (1GB), Display: 15.6 inchi (1366x768), 6-cell Battery, Weight: - + 3 kg, I / O: 3 USB, VGA, HDMI, e-SATA, Audio jack, LAN and 5-in-1 card reader.

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Chip giant whips out low-power quad-core CPUs

(Intel cuts prices too)
By Tony Smith

Intel has rolled out some new CPUs and cut the prices of old ones. The chip giant's desktop product list now includes the Core 2 Quad Q9550s, Q9400s and Q8200s. The suffix indicates they're all low-power version of existing quad-core chips, each sporting a reduced TDP of 65W, down from 95W.

Clocked at, respectively, 2.83GHz, 2.66GHz and 2.33GHz, the CPUs all sit on a 1333MHz frontside bus. They contain 12MB, 6MB and 4MB of L2 cache, and are priced at $369, $320 and $245 when ordered in batches of 1000.

The price cuts - of between 16 per cent and 40 per cent - take the 95W Core 2 Quads down to below those prices, leaving us in the unusual situation of a 3GHz Q9650 costing less than a slower, lower-model-number part, the Q9550s.

Intel also introduced the 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo E7500 - 3MB L2, 1066MHz FSB, $133 - and the 2.8GHz Pentium Dual Core E5400 - 2MB L2, 800MHz FSB, $84.

Both the Core 2 Duo and the Pentium Dual Core lines also experience downward price adjustments, of up to 15 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively. ®

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Source : http://www.reghardware.co.uk/

Intel to delay mainstream Core i7 processors?

By: Jose Vilches

Intel could push back the launch of its mainstream Core i7 desktop processors, codenamed Lynnfield, along with its P55 chipset by at least a month. This according to DigiTimes, which claims the poor economic conditions have created significant overstock problems that will require motherboard makers to continue selling their current P4x-based hardware for a bit longer.

The two products were initially scheduled to be launched by the end of July this year, but apparently won't arrive until late August or early September, perhaps even at a later time depending on the market situation. Considering that Intel just announced its Q4 2008 profits were down 90 percent from the same quarter in 2007, one can only assume the chipmaker itself has plenty of unsold inventory, and is in no condition to argue with its motherboard partners.

In fact, rumor has it that these same overstock problems will force Intel to announce a price cut on Monday, affecting its line of Core 2 Quad processors. Meanwhile, it is also being reported that Intel has been forced to put off their transition to DDR3-only products until 2010 over pricing concerns, and they will be joined by AMD which has also delayed adoption due to technical difficulties.

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Overclocking: Core i7 Vs. Phenom II : Conclusion 1

As far as we can see it, there are four different factors that go into the purchasing decision of one of these next-gen platforms.

The first is price. AMD has the upper hand here. Although its Phenom II X4 940 is priced fairly close to Intel’s Core i7 920, 790GX-based motherboards cost in the neighborhood of $150, while high-end X58 platforms generally tend toward $300 (although we’ve recommended a $250 model here). DDR3 memory is still significantly more expensive than DDR2. Populating three channels, the more modern technology is going to bear a notable premium over two channels of the more mainstream type. In all, the Phenom II machine costs about $250 less to build than our i7 box did, while arming the AMD platform with a better aftermarket cooler would have shaved $50 or so from its advantage.

Next is performance. Intel maintains its advantage in this one, even with both configurations overclocked. We very effortlessly achieved a 3.8 GHz overclock on the i7 920 by bumping its Bclk up to 190 MHz and keeping all other settings in place. Knowing that our own German lab was able to reach 3.8 GHz stably on air (and AMD’s lab team said to expect frequencies up to 3.9 GHz at 1.55 V), we pushed our X4 940 extremely hard. While we were able to boot at up to 3.8 GHz, benchmarks wouldn’t finish consistently until we had dropped down to 3.64 GHz—and that was still at 1.6 V. Anything less and even that speed wasn’t 100% solid. Given the speeds we were able to achieve, Intel’s entry-level Core i7 walked away from AMD’s fastest Phenom II in all but one test.

Third, you have power. We’re giving this one to AMD, as well. At idle—where you’ll spend most of your time—the overclocked Phenom II spins down to 800 MHz and yields some impressive power figures. Once it shoots back up to 3.64 GHz, it’s sucking down more juice than Intel’s 3.8 GHz Core i7. However, we anticipate that most enthusiasts aren’t going to peg their chips at redline very often.

Finally, there’s the upgrade question. For owners of existing Socket AM2+ motherboards, today’s Phenom II is a drop-in component. Provided that your board and graphics are beefy enough to warrant the new CPU, stepping up is a matter of spending $275. Conversely, adopting i7 means buying a CPU, motherboard, and DDR3 memory, at least. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Intel has always been aggressive about nudging the bleeding edge forward and advocating new technologies—sometimes to its own detriment. We know DDR3 is going to replace DDR2, and it’s nice to have an X58 board able to support CrossFireX and SLI. AMD’s upgrade path simply lets enthusiasts stretch their aging hardware out a little bit longer.

Source : http://www.tomshardware.com/

Overclocking: Core i7 Vs. Phenom II : Conclusion 2

So What Do I Buy?

The Core i7 and Phenom II seem suited to two different customers. Indeed, there will undoubtedly be gamers who go all-AMD and are willing to sacrifice a bit of speed in order to save money and Intel loyalists who adopt i7 at a bit of extra cost for its newer technology. We thus see distinct advantages to each platform.

For the gamer or multimedia aficionado with a mind to performance, Intel’s Core i7 920 overclocked to 3.8 GHz simply delivers the most compelling experience. The ~$250 hardware price premium is the cost of entry over AMD’s solution, and we think it’s worth paying. AMD is planning its own shift to DDR3 in the first half of 2009, and less-expensive X58 boards are trickling out (the cheapest right now being Gigabyte's $210 EX58-UD3R), so the cost-difference will continue getting smaller.

If you’re instead buying for a more productivity-oriented purpose, the Phenom II makes sense. After all, it’s able to handle every task nearly as well as i7 does (both platforms overclocked, of course), it drops into existing AM2+ motherboards, it costs less, and in a majority of situations, will use substantially less power—even highly-tuned, as we've done here. We didn’t have as much luck overclocking the Phenom II as we expected, but the chip is still a notable improvement over AMD’s 65 nm Phenom series. [Read More Details]

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