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New Asus P55 Motherboards are ‘TUF’
Kicking off the TUF series is the Sabertooth 55i. Based on Intel’s P55 chipset and built around Asus’ own ‘Marine Cool’ concept unveiled at CeBIT earlier this year, the Sabertooh comes equipped with the new CeraMIX heatsink. Through the use of ceramics and a microfin surface texture, the CeraMIX heatsink purports to dissipate heat more rapidly than traditional anti-oxidant compounds, Asus says.
G31 Chispet Shortage Expected as Intel Transitions to G41
For motherboard manufacturers, it’s ‘out with the old and in with the new,’ whether they’re ready for the change or not. Citing un-named sources sitting in mobo trenches, DigiTimes says Intel plans to slash the proportion of its G31 IGP chipeset shipments in half, reducing the number from 50 percent to 25 percent in the fourth quarter…
Acer Announces Aspire Revo 3600 with Dual-Core Atom, Ion Chipset
Acer’s overhauled Aspire Revo 3600 nettop picks up where its predecessor left off. Like the original Aspire Revo, the new 3600 model supports HD video courtesy of Nvidia’s Ion platform, but the latest iteration trades in the comparatively anemic single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor for a 1.6GHzdual-core Atom 330.
Intel’s New CPUs, Chipset to be Announced September 8
Citing un-named sources in the motherboard industry, news and rumor site DigiTimes says Intel will officially announce its new socket 1156-based desktop platform on September 8, 2009. This includes the Core i5 750, Core i7 860, and Core i7 870 processors, as well as the P55 motherboard chipset.
AMD Ups the Ante in New 785G Graphics Chipset
We don’t often get excited over integrated graphics chipsets, but as far as that segment goes, AMD’s new 785G chipset looks awfully enticing, at least on paper.
