April 13, 2010

Crytek launches Crysis 2 web site

Crytek has finally posted the Crysis 2 trailer and went live with the official Crysis 2 website, sosnewyork.com. As you probably know, the trailer was shown at the NY Times Square.

G.Skill with Dual-channel at 2.5GHz

G.Skill has rolled out its newest Trident series kit that works at stunning 2500MHz. The kit comes as a dual-channel DDR3 setup and targets Intel P55-based systems.

earlybenchmarks of Phenom II X6 1090T.

Several benchmarks of AMD's Zosma-based 1090T six-core have popped up on Coolaler's forums, and the results look rather impressive.

push a €35 single core CPU to 5.5GHz

Cheapskates of the world unite! On a more serious note, this shows that you don’t need loads of cash to purchase a blazing fast CPU, but rather get busy and push your CPU to the limits, even if it is a modest single core.

Madshrimps.be has performed a nice little experiment to see just how much juice can one squeeze out of a €35 CPU, and the results are excellent.

Combined with Gigabyte’s MA790X UD3P motherboard and treated with some LN2, the CPU managed to hit 5.55GHz, which is pretty impressive.