Yearly Archives: 2008

Embrace the Future with Voice over IP Phone Service

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Are you still using a regular phone line? Embrace the future and get Voip Internet Phone. Technology always moves forward, and in the case of phones, it gets better, too. And that’s not the only benefit.

Your Residential Phone Service will have all the bells and whistles you are used to, but with a much more competitive price. Those rates don’t just apply to local calls. They also stretch to your long-distance calls, and even some of your international calls.

You don’t have to pay those expensive phone company rates any more. Choose your package service level and get your Internet Phone Service for one low, easy monthly rate. Imagine being able to make unlimited phone calls to over 30 foreign nations. How much extra would that cost you with a regular phone line? That kind of service is included in one of the packages…and that package still costs less than regular phone company rates.

Voip Your Life is one of the premier Voip Phone Provider companies out there today. Ranked highly in customer service and satisfaction, you get a wide range of services from them. Interested in free hardware, shipping, and no activation charge? Voip Your Life has it. Some of the other great features waiting for you are: Voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, and call forwarding…all included!

When you look at the features, the service packages, and then the price, it’s a no-brainer. It can’t get any easier. And when you take that ease and stick such a great price tag on it, you’ve got a winner.

If you’re worried about the quality of Internet Phone Calls, don’t be. Voip phone service sounds just as good as your regular phone or your mobile. Give it a try. You won’t be disappointed. Current customers rave about the quality of the phone service and the customer service of Voip Your Life.

If you haven’t made the switch to using an Internet phone setup, why are you waiting? The quality of the phone calls will be great, you can call to a whole list of foreign countries without any extra fees, and you can do all of this for one low monthly rate. What more could you ask for in a phone service?

Popularity: 20% [?]

ATI Quietly Enters Switchable Graphics Technology for Intel Centrino 2 Notebooks

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ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has quietly introduced technology that allows notebooks to seamlessly switch between discrete ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) and integrated Intel Graphics and Media Accelerator to boost graphics performance or save power. The tech is available for Intel Centrino 2 laptops that run Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

ATI Switchable Graphics technology is a joint effort between ATI/AMD and Intel Corp. to provide users of Intel Centrino 2 notebooks the best features of various graphics adapters: performance and feature-set of discrete GPU and power-efficiency of integrated graphics processor (IGP). A similar technology was also developed by Intel and Nvidia so that to provide customers a choice of graphics processors.

Thanks to Switchable Graphics technology, select notebooks that feature Intel GS45 or GM45 core-logic set and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3600 or 3400 graphics chip can switch between standalone and integrated graphics cores dynamically depending on the power source and user preferences without rebooting the PC. Although dynamic switching between graphics cores does not require any complex technology inside chips themselves, the notebook and its BIOS must be specifically designed to support the capability.

Similar technology called Hybrid CrossFire is also available for AMD-based mobile computers, but in case of AMD platforms, IGP and GPU can also work collaboratively in multi-GPU mode in order to boost performance of graphics sub-system substantially.

AMD’s graphics product group has not issued any official statements on the matter of Switchable Graphics technology launch. Perhaps, because there are currently very few Intel Centrino 2 laptops that feature ATI Switchable Graphics, for example, Lenovo ThinkPad T400 and T500 feature Intel GM45 chipsets and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 and 3450 graphics processors, respectively; perhaps, because AMD does not want to attract any attention to the platform of its arch-rival on the market of central processing units.

Earlier this year ATI introduced its external graphics platform (XGP) that allows specially-designed external graphics accelerators to be connected to notebooks or small form-factor desktops.

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CoolerMaster Real Power M700

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In the age of 3-Way SLI and overclocked quad-core processors, its easy to get carried away with buying a super highend power supply even when you PC doesn’t really need something that hefty to power it. Enter the CoolerMaster Real Power M700 – a 700 watt moduler power supply. This unit is built around ATX 12V version 2.3 specifications.

CoolerMaster Real Power M700

CoolerMaster Real Power M700

The build quality of the unit itself is a mixed bag – cable and connector quality is top notch, butthe guage of sheet used on the body is light. A single 120mm fan provides the basis of cooling.

This power supply supports two PCIe power slots, and two each of the six and eight pin connects have been provided, which means SLI and CrossFire are supported, even for the latest generation of cards like the ATI Radeon HD4870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280. We loaded up an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9650, 4GB of RAM, with two WD Raptor 10,000 rpm drives and a GeForce GTX 280 Graphics Card. There were no issue with reboots, false starts or freeze-ups even while stressing the CPU and GPUs with synthetic and real-world benchmarks.

For those who are looking for something basic to power a home PC, this is too mach of a power supply for you. For those looking at 3-Way CroddFire and GeForce GTX 280 SLI look elsewhere too, as the M700 may not be able to support adequate juice to the setup and a power supply in the range of 1KW may be required. If you are looking for something for a fast gaming rig thats not too heavy on power the M700 is worth a glance. At $195, this PSU is overpriced, especially considering the excellent Corsair HX620, which offers nearly the same power output is priced at $155 only.

Specifications:
1. Total Power : 700 Watts
2. Basic Cooling : One 120mm FAN
3. Output Connectors : 4x12V Rails, 8 SATA Power Connectors, 4 Four Pin Connectors, 2 Six Pin PCIe Connectors.

Popularity: 18% [?]