Recent tests by Neal Nelson & Associates, an independent computer performance consulting firm, have reported that in 36 of the 57 cases tested, an AMD Opteron based server delivered better power efficiency than a comparably configured Intel Xeon based server.
The tests were performed on servers configured with 2, 4, 6 and 8 gigabytes of main memory at various transaction processing load levels. The results show that, for certain configurations and at certain load levels, the Intel Xeon based server was 2.4 to 11.7 percent more power efficient while in other (more…)
How secure is your data on your flash drive? If worrying about data security keeps you up at night, Corsair has just the thing to put your mind at ease and it is called the Padlock. How did the padlock perform and how secure is it? We put it to the test and compared it to a number of other popular USB drives on the market today to see just how fast this secure drive is.
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AMD continues their new performance initiative with SSE5. We take a look at what this new instruction set brings to the table (more…)
We’ve got Toshiba’s latest gaming notebook, which includes NVIDIA’s fastest current DX10 mobile GPU. But can the newcomer even beat the last generation DX9 GPUs, and does it matter? (more…)
I’ve put together a new website a couple days ago, and whipped up a design for it. The site is mattplays.com. Basically I record videos of games I’m playing and put them up in high-quality, widescreen streaming Flash videos. I’ve been doing that here at goodblimey.com but figure I’d get more interest […] (more…)
