Feel the Need For Some Speed?
I must warn you that to fill this need you will
have to spend some money.
Seagate has developed a Serial ATA 6Gb/s
transfer speed (current SATA drives transfer data from the drive to the
memory/processor at a little over 3 Giga Bits Per Second).
Couple that with either a ASUS or Gigabyte motherboard with the Serial ATA 6Gb/s
interface and you will have some speed. The ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards
currently being manufactured are for the new Intel i7 processor. With the higher
transfer speed from a hard drive, the through put of the i7 processor will
increase significantly.
As with all new technology it will be a little
while before the other hard drive and motherboard manufactures catch up with
Seagate, ASUS, and Gigabyte but when they do expect significant price reductions
in the fulfillment of your Need For Speed.
A couple of new Video cards have been introduced
over the last couple of months one that bears watching is the NVIDIA GTX 295,
this is a high end video card that boasts high through put in fps (frames
per second) and if you have a motherboard that support crossfire
(Dual video cards connected to one or more monitors) the fps is doubled. Now
setting up these cards to SLI (Scalable Link Interface Or
Multi Video Cards linked to a single monitor) is enough to make a Geek's hair
turn pure white but the end result is stunning graphics. Couple the video cards
to a large monitor and a video of a walk along the Grand Canyon will give you
vertigo! I saw one at a demo a couple of weeks ago, however I can't afford a
Corvette let alone these dual video cards and the monitor to see the display.
On the SSD (Solid State Drive) front the news just
keeps getting better and better. OCZ introduces the Vertex Turbo 270MB/s-200MB/s
the read/write time is significantly higher than most of the SSD's on the market
today. Intel says they are anticipating manufacture and shipping of a 512 Gig
drive by Christmas. How ever the current Intel SSD's are around $100 to $300 USD
more than their counterpart SSD's. Soon Seagate will have some serious
competition for the larger drives! The largest drive Seagate produces is a 2TB
(Tetra Byte) mechanical drive. This time next year the SSD's will be at 1TB,
maybe even larger says Intel.
With the new processor from Intel, the new video cards,
and the new hard drives you can have your speed, be careful that the (price)
ticket doesn't cost you too much! :)
Now if you are wondering what brought this 'Need
for Speed' to light is that my trusty PNY 8500GT video card died. On a Saturday
night no less! And in my research for a new card I came across the tid bits
above. I found a very good replacement but if you read the new article on the web
site you will see why I think it is not a good replacement for the Novice or
maybe even the Intermediate DIY person.
And a new checklist for anyone that is considering
or uses imaging software to make backups of their boot partition.
Off to play some Games in HD!
Other news:
Windows 7 Keyboard shortcuts from Microsoft Tech Net
The 14 Best Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
The Windows key now performs a wide variety of functions. Here are a handful of
the most useful ones:
- Win+h - Move current window to full screen
- Win+i - Restore current full screen window to normal size or minimize current window if not full screen
- Win+Shift+arrow - Move current window to alternate screen
- Win+D - Minimize all windows and show the desktop
- Win+E - Launch Explorer with Computer as the focus
- Win+F - Launch a search window
- Win+G - Cycle through gadgets
- Win+L - Lock the desktop
- Win+M - Minimize the current window
- Win+R - Open the Run window
- Win+T - Cycle through task bar opening Aero Peek for each running item
- Win+U - Open the Ease of Use center
- Win+Space - Aero Peek the desktop
- Ctrl+Win+Tab - Open persistent task selection window, roll mouse over each
icon to preview item and minimize others
Note: Some of these work in XP and Vista also...
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