power consumption

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AMD have announced that their driver has received Microsoft certification. Unfortunately it looks like it won't be appearing until later this summer. Reference: AMD Catalyst receives Windows 8 certification | Game Blog Preview Driver: Link Removed

AMD Catalyst™ Driver Windows® 8 Release Preview Last Updated 5/31/2012 Article Number GPU-153 Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ feature preview driver for the Windows® 8 Release Preview Featuring support for the new WDDM 1.2 driver model, this new driver enables...

KAR Energy Software is a freeware app for Windows which lets you to reduce the consumption while using the desktop or laptop. PC is one of the power consuming devices if not optimized for best usage. This tool automatically starts with Windows start up and optimizes the PC for power...

Microsoft officials are promising USB 3.0 support will be part of Windows 8, which will help with battery-life and power-consumption on tablets and desktop PCs. Link Removed

HELLO.Im green as ....and i got a few problems:my new google chrome is not so fast as it use to be.my cpu is going crazy when i use media players wmp or winamp it dosent matter,i think my laptop is using too much power in general. so when i want to hear music(the laptop is my only music source)i...

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Have you ever heard the terms, head crash or stiction? Better yet, have you ever experienced either of them? These terms are just two of the unhappy occurrences associated with mechanical disks. What if disks didn't spin? What if there were a way to create rewriteable storage in such a way that...

Huge changes in software and microchips needed A new report from the US National Research Council has warned that technology growth will grind to a halt unless a new generation of hardware and software is developed. The catchy-titled “The Future of Computing Performance: Game over or next...

Link Removed is a software-based Microsoft Research project designed to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual software programs running on a computer. Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by...

Link RemovedLink Removed*is a software-based Microsoft Research project designed to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual software programs running on a computer. Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software...

Incorporates new topology and 3D IC stacking techniques Last week, Japanese website PC Watch published an interesting piece in which a basic outline was given of DRAM memory technology evolution from DDR3 to DDR4 over the next few years. Following the recent MemCon 2010 event last month...

Product name: Danamics LMX €280 built around Danamics' groundbreaking liquid metal technology featuring the unique electromagnetic pump which circulates the liquid metal in the LMX system without the use of moving parts. This noiseless propulsion is obtained by creating electromagnetic...

Canonical released the latest version of the popular Ubuntu operating system next week. And while Ubuntu 10.04 may have a new look and feel, integration with the Ubuntu One cloud-based storage service, and improved boot times, it’s not without its issues. The folks at Phoronix have done some...

The chaps at Hardware.fr have published a pretty cool power consumption test for 73 Link Removed. It's obviously in French so I'll post the pictures but to check it out for yourself go here: Dossier : La vraie consommation de 73 cartes graphiques (page 1: Introduction) - HardWare.fr

More RAM for less power is forecast in 2010 Analysis DDR3 hits 1.2V at 1333 and 1.35V at 1600 By Link Removed - Invalid URL Monday, 30 November 2009, 15:23 WHEN LOOKING AT PC system power consumption, the usual focus is on the CPU and GPU, followed by the chipset, disk drives and such...

C3 stepping Phenoms shipping Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Written by Link Removed due to 404 Error Monday, 30 November 2009 12:15 TDP stays the same, apparently AMD has started shipping C3 stepping Phenom II processors. The new stepping should allow for...

Microsoft has released an Link Removed which allows the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 to take advantage of the enhanced C1E state on AMD multicore processors to lower power consumption by an additional 10%. Note that this hotfix update can only be provided upon request using...

Hello, I recently bought a new notebook (HP 8530p) with a preinstalled Windows Vista Business 32-Bit. With Vista I measured a power consumption of 30W in idle mode and up to 60W during startup. When I start an application like Visual Studio is goes up to 40W for a few seconds. Then I...

Here is an excellent article by Xbit labs where they do real world testing on how much certain types of pc draw power. So if your either going to build a fast gaming rig or just a work station the answer to the power needs will be here.. Link Removed due to 404 Error