The name of the game is called “unlocking the multiplier", which will be played with the SB700 and SB750 southbridge chips. If you are running an upcoming 2.8 GHz Black Edition CPU, a motherboard with the old SB600 model (RD690) will keep the processor cores operating at 2.8 GHz. However, if you have a motherboard with the SB700 chipset, you will receive a free upgrade to 3.0 GHz. And if you get a motherboard with a SB750 chip, your processor will run at 3.2 GHz, which matches the clock speed of the Athlon X2 6400+ - the highest clocked processor AMD ever offerred.

We have seen motherboards with 780G, 790FX and 790GX chipsets in ATX and mATX form factors, which all support this feature. Now it is up to AMD to execute and deliver a compelling user processor.

The actual overclocking is done either through the BIOS, a utility, or simply by pressing a physical button on certain motherboards. The release date of this technology is unknown, but we know that it will be available in time for the 790GX launch.

There you have it: An overclocking feature for AMD CPUs. It just does not get any more better than this. Now we just need to know how this overclocking feature will compare to Intel’s processors, how power consumption and heat dissipation will be affected and what that all means for AMD’s balanced platform marketing pitch.

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The SSD HS1 series is TDK’s first product that comes out of a joint-venture with PQI, one of the first companies that have presented consumer-targeted solid state disk drives about three years ago. What makes this new series special is its size and the fact that it is based on the 1.8? microSATA specification, which defines the currently smallest SSD devices with a SATA interface.

The first company to announce a microSATA SSD was PNY, which said last year that it would be offering such drives with capacities of 32 GB and 64 GB by the third quarter of last year. We don?t know whether those drives actually became available, but as of today we are not aware of any U.S. retailer carrying these drives.

TDK?s drives use a SATA Gen1 1.5 Gb/s interface, which limits the performance of the drive at a lower level by default. According to the manufacturer, the HS1 series achieves a 100 MB/s burst read and 50 MB/s burst write performance. Samsung recently announced SSDs that offer more than twice the speed.

However, TDK claims that its drives are extremely reliable, integrating a 128-bit AES internal security system encrypts data for storage in the flash memory without reducing data transmission speeds within the SSD controller as well as the capability to detect errors up to seven bits in 512 bytes. According to TDK the drive supports 10 years of rewrites.

At least sample prices of these drives remain in a stratospheric range. TDK is selling the 64 GB version for $2000, the 32 GB model for $1500 and the 16 GB unit for $900.

Source TGDaily.com

The drive is based on the company’s multi-level cell (MLC) and will be equipped with a SATA II interface. Samsung promises that the 2.5″ version, which is just 9.5 mm thick, will hit data read rates of 200 MB/s and sequential read rates of 160 MB/s. WD?s 300 GB Velociraptor 3.5″ hard drive, considered the fastest traditional hard drive on the market today, was benchmarked by major hardware review sites and achieved data read and write rates of just over 100 MB/s.

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