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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Rev 1.3 BIOS Ver. : F10B Not going into the overclocking/Voltages/freq Etc section. To access all features do CTRL+F1 to go to "Advanced Mode" This Article gives the best information explaining this options. Link Removed Internal graphic mode...

The used motherboard that I ordered arrived today, and the BIOS version it contains is one of the oldest for this board (703). Therefore I want to update, but am not certain which one to choose, because the two latest versions are marked as betas, and the newest is marked as ONLY being for...

Intel is hoping for luck in holding of a surging ARM, with new tablet, smart phone, and net book chips Link Removed

"One-two chip-software punch" reported Microsoft may have given up on Intel monogamy , but Chipzilla reckons it will have new Atom chips ready in time for Windows 8 tablets next year.… Source: Yahoo! News

Intel will launch its “Cloverview” chips, aimed at tablets, by the time Microsoft rolls out its Windows 8 operating system, according to a report. Link Removed

Can power-conscious ARM chips paired with a RISC-friendly version (or versions) of Windows 8 capture 40% of the lucrative notebook market by 2015? read more Link Removed

Microsoft may be hoping to more directly challenge Apple with a self-branded Windows 8 tablet, part suppliers asserted in a rumor on Tuesday. The company would collaborate directly with TI, possibly using its 1.8GHz OMAP4470 chip, and brand it much the way the company has the Xbox 360 or Zune...

Qualcomm will collaborate with Microsoft on the next version of Windows as readies a new generation of chips for smartphones and tablets. Link Removed

ARM could be in half of all mobile computers within four years, company president Tudor Brown said in a speech at the Computex show in Taiwan. He gave the chips about 10 percent of the mobile PC market owing to the iPad and other tablets or smartbooks, but he expected that to jump to over 50...

Google unveiled its mobile payment plans today, with private field trials starting in San Francisco and New York followed by a public launch sometime during the summer on the Nexus S. The system lets smartphones with NFC (near-field communication) chips use wireless technology to transmit...

Microsoft Windows lead Steven Sinofsky's Windows 8 tablet demo at the D9 show next week could show it off on a non-Intel chip, a trio of insiders said Thursday. An NVIDIA Tegra chip, presumably a dual-core Tegra 2, would power a prototype tablet demonstrating the new interface. Few other details...

For several years now, research has focused on computer storage capacity and processor speed. Chips have become smaller and cheaper and each generation holds more and more data. Thanks to nano technology, researchers have managed to massively increase the data storage capability of...

Big vendors aren't democracies, so when Kevin Armour, the CTO of Paycor Inc., heard last year that Microsoft was ending support for Itanium, he knew he was stuck. "I was a little disappointed," he said of Microsoft's decision, which was made a year ago next month. Armour's three-year-old...

Snapdragon prepared for next Windows OS Qualcomm is stepping up its software efforts as its chips begin supporting more operating systems, including Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS, which will be targeted at mobile devices, tablets and PCs. Link Removed

If you haven't upgraded to a smartphone running Qualcomm's 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processors yet, there's no rush. Source: Yahoo! News

Hi all, I upgraded today from XP to Windows 7 and am using a 27-inch LCD as my monitor. I previously was able to use a larger resolution in XP without an issue, but with Windows 7, I'm confined to a 1024x768 resolution, which looks terrible. W7 says my graphics driver is a "Standard VGA...

AMD tapes out its Bulldozer CPU architecture Mass production to begin in 1H 2011 On Friday, AMD announced that it has successfully taped out its much delayed Bulldozer architecture and hopes to begin sampling working chips with customers shortly. The company's new high-end architecture...

Intel is investigating reports of counterfeit Core i7 processors being sold to businesses and consumers. The company is looking into claims that a shipment of 300 fake Core i7-920 processors had been sent to respected parts seller Newegg from a partner. “Newegg is currently conducting a...