Gateway Rolls Out Cooler, Quieter BTX PC
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Gateway on Friday announced a new desktop, the 700GR, the first machine to use Intel&#39;s âBTXâ architecture, which aligns key components in a wind tunnel-like design for cooler and quieter operation.
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Opteron to gain power preservation tech - and other goodies
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Jumping onto the design-and-simplicity bandwagon, Gateway unveils the 'One' desktop and touts it as an affordable and practical alternative for consumers who might not want to shell out the bucks for, well, Apple.
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(InfoWorld) - Japanese users won't have to worry about a noisy cooling fan disturbing them while they watch high-definition movies on NEC's newest computer -- the PC, equipped with a Blu-ray drive, uses water-cooling instead. A prototype of the PC, called the Valuestar X VX780/GD, was on display this week at the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan. As most Japanese live in small apartments, PCs often do double-duty as both a computer and an entertainment system. But the use of cooling fans means that PCs are not as quiet as standalone DVD players, often interrupting the movie-watching experience. The use of water-cooling means NEC's Valuestar X runs quietly, making just 31 decibels of noise, or slightly more than a whisper. Priced at Â¥543,000 ($4,612), the PC is clearly not intended for people on a budget. But for those willing to pay more for a high-end system, the Valuestar X, which is due to go on sale in December and runs Microsoft's Windows XP Home Edition operating system, offers some impressive features. In addition to the Blu-ray drive and water-cooling system, the PC offers a digital television tuner, a 3.4GHz Intel Pentium D 945 processor, 1GB of RAM, and dual 250GB hard drives. It also includes a remote control and a 20-inch widescreen LCD (liquid crystal display) with internal flat-panel NXT speakers that provide surround sound.
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Jumping on the design-and-simplicity bandwagon, Gateway unveils a desktop it touts as an alternative for those who don't want to shell out the bucks for, well, Apple.
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After Intel CEO Paul Otellini bragged that Intel&#39;s Xeon chip was the most energy-efficient processor, Neal Nelson compared it to AMD&#39;s offering and found that Intel wasn&#39;t being exactly truthful.Recent tests by Neal Nelson &amp; 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 cases the AMD Opteron based server was 9.2 to 23.1 percent more power efficient. In addition, when the systems were idle and waiting for transactions to process, the AMD server was 30.4 to 53.1 percent more power efficient.Power consumption while the servers are idle is particularly significant since many servers spend most of their time waiting for work. A November 16, 2006 press release from IBM quotes a report by the Robert Frances Group which states that on average servers in data centers are idle 80 to 85 percent of the time.The test results also showed that:-- Larger memory configurations deliver both higher throughput and better power efficiency;-- Intel&#39;s power efficiency advantages decrease as memory size increases;-- AMD&#39;s power efficiency advantages increase as memory size increases;-- For CPU-intensive workloads, the Xeon delivers 8.0 to 14.0 percent higher peak throughput;-- For primarily I/O intensive workloads the Opteron delivers 11.3 to 19.4 percent higher peak throughputNeal Nelson conducted these tests in response to a statement made by Intel CEO Paul Otellini in a July 18, 2007 analyst conference call. During that call Mr Otellini referred to Intel&#39;s &quot;lead in power efficiency&quot;. Neal Nelson decided to use his company&#39;s benchmark toolset to determine if Intel actually had a lead in power efficiency.In a somewhat dry comment, Neal Nelson said: &quot;It appears that Mr. Otellini&#39;s statement is inconsistent with the test results.&quot;The tests were not financed or sponsored by any company or group.Techworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.&#160;
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New high-end dual-core Opterons will power servers.
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Lenovo announced the Blue Sky desktop PC, whose hallmarks are light weight, quietness and low energy usage.
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It's a gaming PC that spares nothing in its devotion to speed, style and luxury features. Does a kick-ass liquid cooling system, over-clocked hardware, secret compartments, tons of ports and hidden Allen wrenches tempt you? We've got the details in our hands-on review.
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(InfoWorld) - Gateway will use Intel's Woodcrest chip to power three new midrange servers, including the E-9520T high-performance tower server and the E-9425R and E-9525R rack-mounted servers, all of which were due to be shown Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum trade show. Gateway will emphasize the systems' flexibility as a way to compete withÂ similar Woodcrest-powered serversÂ from Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Users can customize the Gateway servers for applications ranging from Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases to Exchange e-mail, Web servers and back-office functions for small and medium-size businesses. Gateway provides that flexibility by allowing each of the servers to run either one of two Woodcrest chips, based on a new, 65-nanometer architecture launched by Intel in June to compete with Opteron chips from Advanced Micro Devices. Users can pick from Intel's 1.6GHz Xeon 5110, 2.0GHZ Xeon 5130, or 3.0GHz Xeon 5160. Gateway had alsoÂ partnered with IntelÂ in August, using the related Conroe Core 2 Duo chip in a line of desktop PCs. Users can also host their hard-drive storage using both high-performance SAS (serial attached SCSI) and cost-efficient SATA II (serial ATA) hard drives in the same system. And IT administrators can remotely boot and troubleshoot the machines using the Web-based Gateway Lights Out system management function. Gateway plans to enhance that capability by the fourth quarter of 2006 with an optional LCD (liquid crystal diode) panel displaying the server's operating status, called the System Management Integrated LCD. Gateway is charging $2,199 for the E-9520T tower with room for 7.5TB of storage, $1,899 for the E-9525R 2U server with room for 4.5TB of storage, and $1,849 for the E-9425R 1U server with room for 3.0TB of storage. All three machines come with one Intel Xeon 5110 chip, the Intel Blackford 5000P chip set, Matrox G200 graphics card, and 35GB ofÂ memory.
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Lower electrical power consumption, not just greater data processing oomph, will help a new class of desktop supercomputers unveiled on Monday turn conventional industry logic on its head, its designers say.
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Advanced Micro Devices managed to reduce the maximum thermal output of its newly released 90 nanometer Opteron server processors by 25 percent compared to the previous generation, the company said Wednesday.
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Gateway has two new quad-core computers -- and one of them features a dual HD/Blu-ray optical drive and a terabyte drive.
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Device uses NCQ technology to prioritize a PC's requests.
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Review Just as ATI's X800 XT PE ships, along comes the next board
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AMD Opteron servers prove more power-efficient than Xeon-powered servers in tests.
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Irvine-based Gateway refreshed its lineup of personal computers yesterday, introducing two new Media Center PCs. The company&#39;s 3250X Media Center PC and 7200S Media Center PC both use Microsoft&#39;s new Windows