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Thursday 30 June 2011

Types of Computer Hardware

Computer hardware is a physical part of a computer that executes within the hardware. It is unlike computer software or data that can be frequently changed, modified or erased on a computer. Computer hardware is not frequently changed and so is stored in hardware devices such as read only memory (ROM) where it is not readily changed.

Most computer hardware is embedded and so is not visible to normal users. Below are the different types of hardware's found in a computer:


  • Motherboard: It is the central or primary circuit board making up a complex electronic system such as a computer. A motherboard is also known as a main board, logic board or system board.
  • Central processing Unit: A CPU is the main component of a digital computer that interprets instructions and process data in computer programs.
  • Random Access Memory: A RAM allows the stored data to be accessed in any order. RAM is considered as the main memory of the computer where the working area is used for displaying and manipulating data.
  • Basic Input Output System: BIOS prepares the software programs to load, execute and control the computer.
  • Power Supply: Power Supply supplies electrical energy to an output load or group of loads.
  • Video Display Controller: It converts the logical representation of visual information into a signal that can be used as input for a display medium.
  • Computer Bus: It is used to transfer data or power between computer components inside a computer or between computers.
  • CD-ROM drive: It contains data accessible by a computer
  • Floppy disk: It is a data storage device
  • Zip Drive: It is a medium capacity removable disk storage system.
  • Hard Disk: It is a non-volatile data storage system that stores data on a magnetic surface layered unto hard disk platters.

Saturday 25 June 2011

Customizing Your Pen Drive as RAM

One of the best ways of using Pen Drive is as a temporary storage device i.e. RAM for our system, to increase the general boot up speed and also operational speed of the system. It can be possible with any kind of Windows operating system, all you need is a pen drive of minimum 1GB memory.
Now go with the following steps:

1. Insert the Pen Drive with 1GB at least in the USB port, better to prefer 4GB.
2. Wait for the PC to detect the pen drive.
3. After detecting it, there is a real and smart thing to do.
4. Right click on My Computer--> Properties.
5. Advanced--> Performance Settings.
6. Advanced--> Change.
7. Select the Pen Drive.
8. Click on Custom Size.
“Check the value of space available”
9. Enter the same in the Initial and Max columns.
“Here you just used the space of Pen Drive as a Virtual Memory”.
10. Now restart your PC.

Finally check the general start up time and also speed of your PC. So, you can have a high speed system in low cost.

Microsoft offers Windows Home Server 2011 online evaluation


Microsoft has begun offering an online evaluation experience of Windows Home Server 2011. It lets you try at least six aspects of the operating system: adding a user, using the client Launchpad, managing PCs to ensure its health and security, protecting the server and PC's data, adding server storage capacity, and using Remote Web Access.

Over the next few weeks, Microsoft plans to update its official WHS website, adding a full introduction portal to the online experience. Until then, the evaluation is available for all at this garbled URL: online.holsystems.com/portals/sbs/whs. Microsoft says the new site "provides customers the ability to walk through both client and server interaction freely, or follow a suggested demonstration path with the evaluation manual which will also launch with the online experience."

To use the evaluation, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements, which Microsoft has also jumbled up on the site. Your OS will need to be Windows XP with CredSSP enabled, Windows Server 2003 with CredSSP enable, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2. You'll also need IE8+, Firefox 4.0+, or Chrome 10+, as well as .NET 3.5 SP1 and RDP 7.0.

Interestingly, Microsoft says it has no plans to release an evaluation version for download so that users can test the OS at home on their own hardware. This is because some of the embedded third-party codecs the company uses within WHS 2011 does not allow it to provide a trial version due to licensing agreements. The online experience manages to get around that, though the software giant does say it is working with its OEMs on additional evaluation experiences.

Windows Home Server 2011 was released on April 6, 2011. It is the successor to Windows Home Server, which was released on November 4, 2007 and was updated three times: Power Pack 1 on July 20, 2008, Power Pack 2 on March 24, 2009, and Power Pack 3 on November 24, 2009

Saturday 18 June 2011

What Are the Common Faults in Hard Disk Drive?

Is your Windows computer unbootable or unresponsive? Are you unable to get access of your valuable data stored on hard drive? This behavior can be caused by a number of issues with your hard drive. Generally, you encounter a number of BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) errors, when your hard drive comes across failure. The BIOS errors may vary, depending upon the version of BIOS, system motherboard, and system configuration. This behavior causes serious data loss situations and need hard disk data recovery to get your valuable data back.
The hard drive may prompt any of the below behaviors when it faces failure or breakdown due to any reason, either logical or physical:
  • Hard disk controller failure: It is a common prompt that makes your hard drive inaccessible and causes data loss situations. In such circumstances, you must check the data cable or interface cable of your hard drive. Try detaching and reattaching the cable to fixing it up. If the controller plug is faulty, you need to get it replaced.
  • Data Error: If you come across such kind of error, hard drive is facing CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors or the hard drive sectors are unreadable. You can try resolving the issue using disk repair utilities, such as ChkDsk in Windows, Disk Utility in Mac OS X, and fsck in Linux. These are built-in tools, which check the integrity and consistency of the hard drive.
  • No boot sector on disk: It occurs when the boot sector or MBR (Master Boot Record) of your hard drive gets damaged. It may occur due to various reasons, such as boot sector virus, improper system shutdown, operating system malfunction, and many alike.
  • Hard drive not detected: This issue occurs if your system BIOS is unable to detect the hard drive and boot your system through it. It may occur due to hard drive mechanical failure or hard drive crash.
All the above errors cause data loss and need hard disk recovery to be sorted out. If the data loss is caused by mechanical of physical hard drive failure, Disk Recovery service is required to repair or replace the damaged components and retrieve data from it.
On the other hand, logical disk failure failure can easily be handled by disk recovery software. They are completely safe and easy to use. The applications are capable of handling all types of logical data loss situations.
Stellar Information Systems Limited is the foremost provider of superior recovery solutions. The software are offered for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX, and Novell operating system.


Thursday 16 June 2011

Recover Hard Disk Data Solutions

People that have been using computers for some time know that at one point in their lives they experienced hard drive failure. Normally this failure is followed by loss of data or it leads to inaccessible data.
Being someone who works on projects or assignments on the computer, such a situation can be very frustrating to you. That is why one needs to know how to so that they can be able to get their projects back.
One thing that you should know is that data loss is not permanent. In some cases, it might so severe that it will need the combined efforts of a hardware and software expert.
Most of the time, the guarantee to hard disk data recovery can range form between 80 to 90%. The use of data recovery solutions can help you be able to hard disk data recovery.
The cost of such a service will be determined by several factors. The first factor that determines the cost is the amount of data that has been lost.
For example, if you have lost data that is about 30 GB, it will be cheaper than if you have lost data that amounts to about 200 GB because of the work that it entails to recover data.
Most data recovery solutions will charge you on the amount of data that you have lost. Another factor that is considered when recovering data is the type of hardware or the computer that you are using.
Some computers have a unique type of hardware which will mean that the software that is used would have to be unique. This means that the software will most probably cost more due to the fact that it is unique.
Recovery software for servers or for computers that are specific to a certain task generally cost more than the software that are used for ordinary computers.
The final factor that is put into consideration is the operating system that one uses. The Windows platform is known to be the most common operating system in the world.
With this in mind, when you are getting data recovery solutions for a Windows platform you will find that it will not cost as much as when getting the same solutions for a Mac or Linux platform.
Also, the windows platform is a user friendly operating system such that you can be able to disk recovery software without the help of a computer technician.

Hard Disk Data Recovery Experts Helping the Detectives

The advances in communication that have been made in the last two decades created a new branch of detectives. These are electronic detectives, and they are required because electronic communication almost replaced the written hard copy form of communication, the majority of corporate data only existing in electronic format. Because of this,  hard disk recovery experts have become a required aid for detectives or they became electronic detectives themselves. The computer has become a focal point for investigations or for corporations to identify their employs activities.

Nowadays, a significant part of corporate investigations is the data recovery process. Through data recovery, a volume of data can be obtained and evidence can be found in documents that might be relevant to the investigation. The data recovery process ensures a mass of important information that can be used.

There are a number of terms used to describe the data on a hard disk based on its state. "Active Data", is used to describe the data form that is accessible to the user of the computer. The term "Recovered Data" is used to describe the information that has been recovered after it has been deleted from the Active Data. This data is either in a very easy to recognize format, entire files, or an expert will be required to interpret it as it is in bits and pieces. The last type of term is "Unused" and it describes either parts of the hard disk that have never been used or parts that have been deleted from the Active Data and are available to be rewritten.

If covert corporate activities take place, then the data they leave behind will be deleted and probably the hard disk will be formatted and re partitioned to hide any traces. In this case, hard disk data recovery experts can help acquire proof by using advanced hard disk data recovery tools and their expertise. This proof might then be used to conclude a case.

Experts  can help police investigations in many cases but the most expectable are cyber crime investigations that are related to credit card information theft or online money transfers. They also help in cases of child pornography.

With computers becoming a required standard in any office and workplace hard disk data recovery experts will be tomorrows detectives in many investigations that include cyber crimes. They will be the ones that will uncover vital information for the conclusion of important cases.


Sunday 12 June 2011

Pentium ® Processors with MMX™ Technlolgy


From point-of-sale (POS) terminals and retail kiosks to advanced networking equipment, Pentium® processors with MMX™ technology enable developers of embedded systems to step up to new levels of performance. To make these designs even easier and more flexible, Intel is making the performance advantages of MMX technology available at a choice of integration levels.
  • The upgrade path for embedded Intel® architecture includes longer life cycle support for the 200 MHz and 233 MHz Pentium processors with MMX technology.
  • Intel offers 166 MHz and 266 MHz Low-power Pentium processors with MMX technology. Both are available in thin HL-PBGA packaging, as well as PPGA packaging. The 166 MHz Pentium processor is also available in extended temperature range -40ºC to +115ºC.
  • Also, the Intel 430TX PCIset now supports synchronous DRAM [SDRAM] in embedded applications.
Product Highlights:
  • 166, 200, 233, 266 MHz
  • 430TX PCIset
  • HL-PBGA, PPGA
  • Extended temp
New Design Options

Together the Pentium processor with MMX technology and the 430TX PCIset provides developers with flexible new options to create value-added embedded designs and upgrade existing products to new levels of performance. Regardless of which design path a developer may select, the Pentium processor with MMX technology offers performance enhancements that can be especially valuable in today's most competitive embedded application segments--including "intelligent" POS terminals, telecommunications equipment, networking devices and high-performance industrial computers.

Improve Processor Performance 10-20 Percent

Pentium processors with MMX technology can provide a 10 to 20 percent performance boost over classic Pentium processors at the same frequency. In addition, the MMX technology versions of the processor double on-chip code and data caches to 16 Kbytes and feature improved branch prediction, an enhanced pipeline and deeper write buffers for improved performance.

Advantages of Intel MMX Technology

MMX technology provides 57 new instruction sets to improve processor performance in traditional digital signal processor [DSP] applications, including the graphics, audio and voice processing capabilities now emerging as value-added features in high-performance embedded products. MMX technology can potentially eliminate the requirement for DSP chips in embedded applications such as video kiosks, telecommunications devices and POS terminals.

Intel Architecture Upgrade Path

"The Pentium processor with MMX technology offers developers the advantages of Intel's stable, long-term processor architecture, together with strong tools support, a robust development environment and a clearly defined upgrade path," notes Tom Franz, general manager of Intel's Embedded Microprocessor Division.

If the flexible motherboard guidelines for split voltages were followed on the original design, Pentium Processors with MMX technology offer pin-compatibility, and a high degree of code-compatibility, with the classic Pentium processors. These compatibility features offer developers a smooth extended upgrade path from existing Intel architecture designs, together with a way to quickly add higher performance with minimal development overhead.

Pentium® processors with MMX™ technology
Product Number Core Speed (MHz) External Bus Speed (MHz) Thermal Design Power (Max) Voltage Tcase Package
FV8050366200 200 66 15.7W 2.8V 0-70C 296 PPGA
FV8050366233 233 66 17.0W 2.8V 0-70C 296 PPGA

Low-power Pentium® processors with MMX™ technology
Product Number Core Speed (MHz) External Bus Speed (MHz) Thermal Design Power (Max) Voltage Tcase Package
FV80503CSM66166 166 66 4.5W 1.9V 0-85C 296 PPGA
FV80503CSM66266 266 66 7.6W 1.9V 0-85C 296 PPGA
GC80503CSM66166 166 66 4.1W 1.8V 0-95C 352 HL-PBGA
GC80503CSM66266 266 66 7.6W 2.0V 0-95C 352 HL-PBGA
GC80503CS166EXT 166 66 4.1W 1.8V -40-115C 352 HL-PBGA





Intel® I/O Processors

Many storage, networking, and embedded applications require fast I/O throughput for optimal performance. Intel® I/O processors allow servers, workstations and storage subsystems to transfer data faster, reduce communication bottlenecks, and improve overall system performance by offloading I/O processing functions from the host CPU.

The table below provides a quick overview of the Intel I/O processor family. The Intel® IOP34x family of processors, with Intel XScale® microarchitecture, builds on more than a decade of leadership in I/O processor technology.

Features and benefits:

Intelligent I/O processor Offloads I/O processing functions, such as I/O interrupt processing and parity calculations, from the CPU. This allows the CPU to streamline application processing and to use other system resources, such as the system bus and memory, more effectively.
On-chip cache Improves data throughput by reducing external bus traffic.
Parallel transaction capabilities Eliminates the need to use expensive proprietary controllers to handle parallel transactions and compression algorithms.
Single-chip design Provides smaller packaging, simplified design, and board space cost savings. Full system-on-a-chip validation.
Comprehensive set of development tools Faster time-to-market. A complete range of compilers, debuggers, commercial and open source operating systems are available from multiple vendors.

Intel® Atom™ Processor


The Intel® Atom™ processor is Intel's smallest processor, built with the world's smallest transistors and manufactured on Intel's industry-leading 45nm Hi-k Metal Gate technology. The Intel Atom processor was purpose-built for simple, affordable, netbooks and nettops.

Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and nettops offer both an easy-to-use mobile device with simple interfaces and targeted performance for a good online experience. They are rugged and compact in design, and offer the freedom and flexibility of wireless connectivity¹.

Great for Internet, these devices are an affordable option for education, photo and video viewing, social networking, voice over IP, e-mail, messaging, browsing, and numerous other Internet activities and basic applications.

All Intel® Atom™ processors feature:

  • Small Form Factor CPU Package
  • Low TDP
  • Power Optimized Front Side Bus
  • Enhanced Data Prefetcher and Enhanced Register Access Manager

Intel® Atom™ Processors For embedded computing

Intel® Atom™ processors, implemented in 45nm process technology, are power-optimized to deliver robust performance per watt, making them ideal for many embedded applications such as interactive kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, in-vehicle infotainment systems, media phones, industrial automation equipment, digital security systems, and residential gateways.

These single-core processors are software-compatible with previous 32-bit Intel® architecture and complementary silicon. They include embedded lifecycle support, which protects system investments by enabling extended product availability for embedded customers.

A three-chip solution is offered with the Intel® Atom™ processor N270Δ and the mobile Intel® 945GSE Express Chipset. A two-chip solution is offered with the Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx series and the Intel® System Controller Hub US15W.

Product Highlights:

  • Intel hafnium-based 45nm Hi-k metal gate silicon process technology reduces power consumption, increases switching speed, and significantly increases transistor density over previous 65nm process technology.
  • Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology reduces average system power consumption.
  • Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology)¹; available in designated SKUs provides high performance-per-watt efficiency in an in-order pipeline. HT Technology provides increased system responsiveness in multi-tasking environments. One execution core appears as two logical processors, and parallel threads are executed on a single core with shared resources.

Intel® Server Processors


Intel® server processors deliver enhanced, energy-efficient performance for data-intensive business applications. Powering a range of multi-core 64-bit servers◊, Intel server processors enable you to optimize and scale computing environments to maximize server utilization to workload, while providing you with headroom for growth.

Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Sequence Overview:

The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series automatically and intelligently adjusts server performance according to your application needs for an up to 9x performance gain over single-core servers at 18 percent less operating power. This enables you to achieve a 9:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing operating costs by up to 90 percent resulting in an estimated 8-month return on a new server investment.
  • Faster performance enabled by Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem
  • Automatically increase processor frequency and utilize Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) as needed
  • Efficiently manage energy expense by scaling power consumption to workload, enabled by Intel® Intelligent Power Technology
  • Next generation Intel® Virtualization Technology enables best-in-class virtualization performance, superb scalability, enhanced flexibility, and simplified server management
  • Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) software development kit provides power and thermal monitoring and management for servers, racks, and groups of servers in data centers. Management Console Vendors (ISVs) and System Integrators (SIs) can integrate Intel® DCM into their console or command-line applications and provide high-value power management features to IT organizations.
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Go inside the latest innovations in Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® QuickPath Technology, and Intel® Hyper–Threading Technology.

Features and benefits of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series:

Next-generation Intel® microarchitecture
  • Intelligent next-generation Intel® microarchitecture adapts to the workload, automatically increasing processor frequency for greater performance
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
Intel® Intelligent Power Technology
  • Lower energy costs while minimizing impact to performance by automatically putting processor and memory into the lowest available power state
Integrated power gates
  • Individual cores are reduced to near-zero power independent of other operating cores
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)
  • Virtualize different generations of Intel® Xeon® processor–based servers in the same pool to deliver peak performance during high-use periods and automatically reduce energy cost during low-use periods
Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration
  • Integrates multiple generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, improving flexibility for failover, load balancing, and disaster recovery
Intel® 64 architecture
  • Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems
DDR3 memory support up to 1333 MHz
  • Up to 64 GB/s for three times the memory bandwidth over previous memory technology
  • Up to 144GB supports higher performance for data-intensive applications
  • Enhanced reliability, availability, and serviceability features
Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT)
  • Moves data more efficiently for fast, scalable, and reliable network performance
  • Ability to significantly reduce CPU overhead, freeing resources for more critical tasks
Enhanced reliability and manageability
  • Many memory controller features, together with PCI Express* RAS features, combine to help improve platform reliability vs. previous-generation platforms
  • New features include Error Correcting Code (ECC) system bus, new memory mirroring and I/O hot-plug






Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 Sequence Overview:

The Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series is designed to handle any IT consolidation project with ease while maintaining peak load application responsiveness. With key innovations like large on-die L3 cache, support for four or more processors, and expanded memory of up to 256 GB, servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series is the ideal choice for your large virtualization projects and data-intensive, business-critical performance requirements.
  • Extending today's lead in virtualization performance with built-in hardware assisted features and breakthrough gains in performance and energy efficiency
  • Built for data-demanding enterprise applications with up to 6 cores and a large shared 16MB L3 cache per processor, enabling more transactions per server
  • More headroom, improved reliability, and the highest scalability available for large scale server consolidation and business-critical virtualization
Features and benefits of the Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series:

Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series
  • Scalable performance with decreased footprint and power demands
  • Industry's lowest watt per core platform with available 65 watt processor
  • Based on 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture enabling low voltage options for ultra-dense deployments
  • Platform compatible with previous generation Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series
Hardware-assisted virtualization technology
  • Maximize virtual machine density through large memory capacity and more processor resources
  • Investment protection and flexibility with Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration (Intel® VT FlexMigration)
  • More efficient disaster recovery and high availability through virtualization
  • Broadest ecosystem support with virtualization software providers and leading OEMs
Up to 16 MB shared L3 cache
  • Keeps more needed data closer to the cores for access faster than off-chip memory
Intel® 64 architecture
  • Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems
Enhanced reliability and manageability
  • Outstanding platform reliability with many memory controller features, combined with PCI Express* RAS features
  • Error Correcting Code (ECC) system bus, new memory mirroring and I/O hot-plug

Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 sequence


The Intel® Xeon® processor 3000 series-based platforms unleash the computing power of Intel® Xeon® processors. Based on the next-generation Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, these processors provide your business with exceptional performance and power efficiency at a very affordable cost.

The Intel Xeon 3000 processor-based servers protect critical business information and offer the performance and headroom to make employees and businesses more productive, making them ideal for small and medium business owners looking for ways to support rapid business growth on small technology budgets.

  • Intelligent Xeon processor-based servers adapt to your diverse workloads, automatically delivering peak performance when your business needs it
  • Dependable Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers protect your critical business information by providing error correcting memory and support for redundant storage capabilities
  • With the increasing dependence on computers, the Internet, and digital data, an Intel® Xeon® processor-based server offers the performance and headroom to keep your employees productive as your business grows
Features and benefits:

Next-generation Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem Intelligent next-generation Intel® microarchitecture adapts to the workload, automatically increasing processor frequency for greater performance.
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology Better performance enabled by Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, increasing processor frequency and enabling faster speeds when conditions allow
Intel® Intelligent Power Technology Lower energy costs while minimizing impact to performance by automatically putting processor and memory into the lowest available power state.
Integrated power gates Power to the individual processor cores is reduced to near-zero power, independent of other operating cores.
Intel® Virtualization Technology A suite of virtualization-specific hardware enhancements to Intel® processors, chipsets, and I/O devices to increase application reliability, security and overall system performance

Enhancements to Intel Virtualization Technology performance that further speeds up virtual machine transition (entry/exit) times. Supports hardware assist for I/O virtualization using Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d).
Intel® 64 architecture Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems




Intel® Itanium® Processor 9000 Sequence


Itanium®-based servers deliver the scalable performance, reliability, and headroom for your most compute-intensive workloads, including direct replacement for RISC and mainframe platforms. Because Itanium processors are available in commercial off-the-shelf hardware from a rich ecosystem of system and solution providers, they can quickly meet mission-critical needs.

Itanium-based servers are incredibly scalable, allowing configuration in systems of as many as 512 processors and a full petabyte (1024TB) of RAM. Together with full support for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, that capacity provides unmatched flexibility in tailoring systems to your enterprise needs.
  • Large-scale databases, data warehouses, ERP, business intelligence, and data analytics
  • Scales up to 512 processors and an incredible full Petabyte (1024TB) of RAM
  • Ultimate scalable performance, flexibility, and reliability
Features and benefits:
Dual-core processing, EPIC architecture, and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology Supports massive, multi-level parallelism for today's data-intensive workloads

Provides headroom for fast access to information and real-time decision making

Delivers fast responses to complex computations
Support for up to 512 processors and one petabyte (1024TB) RAM Provides scalable performance for enterprise flexibility

Gives IT the ability to increase processor and memory capacity as needed, in an open-ended framework
Up to 24MB of low-latency L3 cache Prevents idle processing cycles with a high-bandwidth data supply to the execution cores

Increases the efficiency of the memory subsystem
Intel® Cache Safe Technology Automatically recovers cache after cache errors

Delivers mainframe-class availability
Enhanced machine check architecture Automatically detects, logs, and corrects errors

Provides maximum system uptime
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) Reduces virtualization complexity and increases performance

Increases operating system compatibility
Demand-based switching Dynamically reduced energy consumption during typical CPU utilization (in conjunction with enabled OS)
Core level lock-step Enables one processor core to mirror the operations of the other

Intel® Workstation Processors

Changing ideas into reality just became faster. Workstations based on the Intel® Xeon® processor W5590, built on the new Intel® microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, deliver intelligent performance features that scale performance to meet your most daunting workstation tasks. Design, model, create, and visualize faster on innovation platforms powered by Intel.

Intel® Xeon® processor W5590


Designed specifically for workstations, the Intel® Xeon® processor W5590 series with intelligent performance creates a new category—the digital workbench, combining high-performance computing (HPC) and workstation features into a single powerful innovation platform.

With digital workbenches, users can:

  • Create virtual wind tunnels
  • Simulate virtual drop test
  • Virtually test for manufacturability and assembly
  • Virtually test ideas with customers with photo-realistic digital mockups

Intel® Xeon® processor W3500 series and Intel® Core™2 processor family


Designed for single processor workstations, the Intel® Xeon® processor W3500 series, with intelligent performance features delivers the scalable performance necessary for premium single processor workstation experience;
enabling digital content creation, engineering, and financial users to create new ideas faster than ever before.

Intel® Core™2 processor family provides entry workstation users a functional feature set that delivers a rich workstation experience for entry design and development.

Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology and Intel® Core™2 mobile processor




  • Get the highest performing mobile workstation processor optimized for people on the move.
  • Enjoy great graphics and visualization with enhanced 3D and high-definition video capabilities.
  • Experience mobility made better, designed for the longest possible battery life and excellent wireless connectivity.

Desktop Processors

There are a large number of desktop processors available and this list was generated to point out the three major categories of processors for both the Intel and AMD product lines. The three categories listed are the top performance processors, best value processors (<$250) and best budget processors (<$100). This allows users to select the CPUs best suited to their budgets. If you are looking at purchasing a fully built desktop computer or building one yourself, check out which processors you should be looking to fit your price range.

Outdated Processors
Processors that fall into this category are generally no longer in production by the manufacturers and are typically sold in either budget systems or older refurbished systems. Machines with these processors will typically take longer to run application and possibly might not even run some of software on the market today. It is best to try and avoid systems with these processors unless you want to use a computer for the very basic functions such as word processing and general web browsing.
  • AMD Athlon 64 (Non-Dual Core/X2 Models)
  • AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Older Socket A Models/DDR Memory RAM Models)
  • AMD Athlon XP
  • AMD Athlon X2
  • AMD Sempron LE
  • Intel Celeron
  • Intel Celeron Dual-Core
  • Intel Pentium 4
  • Intel Pentium D
  • Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2000 Series
Budget Processors
These are processors that may or may not be in production anymore by the manufacturers but are very inexpensive and functional. There are typically two types of processors that will fall into this category: older high-end processors no longer manufactured and new low end budget processors. Discontinued high-end processors typically provide a better bang for your buck functionally. While they may have a slightly lower clock speed, their architecture of the processor tends to allow them to actually perform better at most computing tasks than newer budget processors.
  • AMD Athlon II X2 200 Series
  • AMD Athlon II X2 500 Series
  • AMD Athlon II X4 600 Series
  • AMD Phenom X3 8450 and Higher
  • AMD Phenom X4 9650 and Lower
  • AMD Phenom II X2 545 and Higher
  • AMD Phenom II X3 710 and Higher
  • AMD Phenom II X4 810
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 and higher
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E8190 and higher
  • Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 to Q8300
  • Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
  • Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 and Higher
  • Intel Pentium E6300 and Higher
Middle Processors
This is the segment of the market that is probably the best overall value for your computing dollar. While they are not the fastest processors on the market, they still perform very well in all aspects of computing. They may not have the total functional lifespan of the highest end processors, but the price to performance ratio tends to outweigh their longevity.
  • AMD Phenom X4 9850 and Higher
  • AMD Phenom II X4 920 and Higher
  • Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 and Higher
  • Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 to Q9650
  • Intel Core i5 750
  • Intel Core i7 860 and Higher
  • Intel Core i7 920 and Higher

Saturday 11 June 2011

Intel® Core™ Processor Family

Intel® Core™ processors are the newest, smartest, and fastest processors from Intel, delivering outstanding intelligent performance. The culmination of 40 years of technology leadership, Intel Core processors are the foundation for reliable, responsive, energy-efficient PCs.

Intel® Core™ i7-975 processor Extreme Edition

The highest performing desktop processor on the planet. Shatter the limits of desktop computing with the intelligent performance of the Intel® Core™ i7-975 processor Extreme Edition, the smartest way to blast through highly-threaded games and applications.

Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition


Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition. With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that responds to your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

Features and benefits:
Get extreme with your gaming and advanced multimedia.
Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:
  • Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload-more performance when you need it the most.
  • Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.
  • Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.
  • Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.
  • Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.
  • Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.

Intel® Core™ i7 processor


With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that automatically applies processing power where it's needed most, Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They're the best desktop processors family on the planet.

Features and benefits:
Go to the next level of multi-core performance.

Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:

Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most.

Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.

Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.

Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.

Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.

Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.

Intel® Core™ i5 processor

Intelligent performance that accelerates in response to demanding tasks. The Intel® Core™ i5 processor is a great solution for the multimedia multitasker.

Features and benefits:

Get a major boost in PC power with the intelligent performance of the Intel® Core™ i5 processor.

Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is Intel’s latest generation of dynamically scalable microarchitecture. The Intel® Core™ i5 processor is based on the same energy-efficient processor core as the Intel® Core™ i7 processor, but is designed for mainstream computing.

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most.

Integrated memory controller enables two channels of high-speed DDR3 1333 MHz memory. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.

Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry-leading multi-threaded games.

Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor


For extreme computing. Enjoy revolutionary levels of performance enabling vivid, high-definition experiences and multi-tasking responsiveness from state-of-the-art Intel dual-core and quad-core technologies.

Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processor
with four processing cores the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers unrivaled performance for the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games and multimedia apps.

Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency. The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9770 running at 3.2 GHz delivers the best possible experience for today's most demanding users.
  • 12 MB of total L2 cache
  • 1600 MHz front side bus
Features and benefits:

Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency

Intel® Deep Power Down Technology, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance

Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of all available data bandwidth

Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games

Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other. Now improved even further on 45nm versions with Intel® HD Boost utilizing new SSE4 instructions for even better multimedia performance

Friday 10 June 2011

Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor


Multimedia enthusiasts, prepare to enthuse. Bring quad-core performance to your desktop with the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor. It's the ideal engine for highly threaded entertainment applications and highly productive multitasking.

Introducing the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor for desktop PCs, designed to handle massive compute and visualization workloads enabled by powerful multi-core technology. Providing all the bandwidth you need for next-generation highly-threaded applications, the latest four-core Intel Core 2 Quad processors are built on 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture enabling faster, cooler, and quieter desktop PC and workstation experiences.

Plus, with optional Intel® vPro™ technology, you have the ability to remotely isolate, diagnose, and repair infected desktop and mobile workstations wirelessly and outside of the firewall, even if the PC is off, or the OS is unresponsive.

Features and benefits:

With four processing cores, up to 12MB of shared L2 cache and 1333 MHz Front Side Bus the Intel Core 2 Quad desktops processor delivers amazing performance and power efficiency enabled by the all new hafnium-based circuitry of 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture.

Whether you're encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming HD multimedia in the office or on the go, power your most demanding applications with notebooks and desktops based on the Intel Core 2 Quad processor.

Plus, with these processors you get great Intel® technologies built in:

Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency

Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance

Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth

Larger Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, optimized for multi-core processors, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem.

Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of multimedia, encryption, scientific and financial applications by significantly improving performance when executing Intel® Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE/SSE2/SSE3) instructions.

Intel® HD Boost³, implementing new Intel® Streaming SIMD Extension 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions for even greater multimedia performance and faster high definition video editing and encoding.

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)², enabling greater security, manageability, and utilization.

Future ready, designed to perform in highly threaded programs with powerful Intel® multi-core technology.

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor


The power to perform. With power-optimized enabled dual-core technology and exceptional energy efficiency, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor excels running the most intense applications.

Investing in new PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor family can mean big savings for your business. Delivering faster performance, greater energy efficiency, and more responsive multitasking, desktop PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor family can help your whole company be more productive.

Features and benefits:

Get the best overall performance with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor you'll get an arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus.

Enjoy 3X faster multitasking performance with multi-core processing combines two independent processor cores in one physical package. Processors run at the same frequency and share up to 6MB of L2 cache and up to 1333 MHZ Front Side Bus for truly parallel computing with over.

Improve execution time and energy efficiency with more instructions per clock cycle enabled by Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution.

Get smarter, more energy-efficient performance enabled by Intel® Intelligent Power Capability.

Improve system performance enabled by Intel® Smart Memory Access, optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth.

Get higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem enabled by Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors.

Accelerate a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications, enabled by Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost.

Intel® Pentium® Processor


The Intel® Pentium® processor delivers great desktop performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for everyday computing.

The Intel® Pentium® processor with Intel® dual-core technology delivers great desktop and mobile performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for everyday computing.

Features and benefits:

Go beyond everyday computing
The Intel Pentium processor delivers enhanced performance for everyday computing needs such as listening to digital music and editing digital photography and improved responsiveness with office applications.

Smarter, more efficient designs
Intel® Smart Cache enables smarter, more efficient cache and bus design for enhanced performance, responsiveness and power savings.

Intel® Pentium® Processor E6500 (2M Cache, 2.93 GHz, 1066 FSB)

Essentials

StatusLaunched
Launch DateQ3'09
Processor NumberE6500
# of Cores2
Processor Base Frequency2.93 GHz
L2 Cache2 MB
Bus/Core Ratio11
FSB Speed1066 MHz
EmbeddedYes
Supplemental SKUNo
Lithography45 nm
Max TDP65 W
VID Voltage Range0.85V – 1.3625V
1ku Bulk Budgetary Price$84.00

Package Specifications
TCASE71.4°C
Die Size82 mm2
# of Transistors228 million
Sockets SupportedLGA775
Halogen Free Options AvailableYes

Thursday 9 June 2011

Intel to Release Six-Core Chips for Desktops in a Year

One projects that Intel Corp. release its first microprocessors of six-core for desktop machines in the second quarters of 2010, almost two years after the company began forwardings of the pieces of six-core for the waiters x86 at end high.

The processors of Intel Gulftown - which will be lower-in compatible with infrastructure LGA1366 - will have six physical cores with, thus, able licence by technology of Hyper-Threading to treat to twelve wire at the same time. According to a news-history by the Web site of HKEPC, which quotes manufacturers of mainboard, the processors called of Gulftown made using transformer technology 32nm, will be launched in Q2 2010, one year as of now.

The piece of Gulftown belongs to the family of Westmere of the microprocessors which have some microarchitectural advantages compared to the currently available processors of the core i7 which belong to the family of Nehalem. Gulftown will significantly amplify the execution of the microprocessors while remaining in the same thermal envelope of 130W.

Intel Begins Applying 'Stars' Ratings to Microprocessors

The years after launched suppliers of microprocessor numbers of the type to judge and provide to purchasers a manner simpler to evaluate the execution of microprocessor, on April 1 Intel started to place plates of sales outlet and other publicity material in the stores showing between one to five stars. The company jazzed also to the top of its logos of piece, adding a little color to the blue of Intel of almost-uniform.

The problem is triple: on the one hand, him 's almost impossible so that even the experienced enthusiasts test and with distinguish two almost identical processors, which now employ a vertiginous choice of devices to be different: the number of cores, their frequency of clock, quantity of the hiding-place level-2 and level-3, the speed of the interconnection, the interface of memory and speed, as well as of other devices such as hyperthreading and pushed turbo . Differences can be established by the applications to simulate and real evaluation, that the sites as ExtremeTech run in thimbles.

With a retailer like the best purchase, however, such reference marks are seldom, if ever, so with the user; The OEM like Hewlett-Packard and Acer are interested to have the advantages of their own packages of hardware and software.

The third exit: the number of companies of options of processor like Intel and its rival AMD offer; Intel offers a total of 30 processors of office, and 57 processors of book, not including/understanding the three processors of atom which can appear in has nettop or netbook.

Once asked, the spokesperson Bill Calder from Intel agreed that there too many was models; too many marks. Intel 'of the marks of office of S includes Pentium, Celeron, digs duet 2, digs 2 editions of end of quadruple, core i7, and core i7. The majority are concentrated on what Calder called has hero mark: the series of core. But, he added, he was too early to say older marks so, such as Celeron, would be thrown.

Him 's important so that the people understand that we 'the VE obtained all these various marks, but has us a challenge when people to come to sell, to the detail it said. Comment I distinguish Pentium and Celeron and hollow and dig duet 2 and dig quadruple 2?

During last months, Intel had revalued its marks and embarking on a rather broad effort of simplification of band, he said. The revised logo and stars classifications are small but the important components this, Calder indicated. And there will be more, it was added.

Stars , of estimate said Calder, is manner easy and intuitive to see the processors in connection with one of the others, in a way in which he said communicates execution relative, not a cost-performance type of, of thing he said. They will be applied to the products of desktop machine and book, but not the atom, it said.

The processors of office five stars include the end of the core i7 and the core i7 of Intel; the processors four stars include the series Q9300+ and E8000. The three-star processors include the Q8000 series and the E7000 series. Intel traced a more distinct line between the three and designations two stars, placing the line of Pentium in its own category two stars. At the bottom of the heap is Celeron, a piece a star.

(Some of the distinctions can seem arbitrary; three-star Q8300 is a four-core, the processor 2.5-GHz which uses a bus on the before-side 1,333-MHz with 4 Moctets of hiding-place; Q9300 four stars is identical, but includes 6 Moctets of hiding-place.)

Calder stressed that the estimates of star were not based entirely on the execution, but on devices, such as the push possibilities of turbo which allow the architecture of the core i7 to the overclock a monofil application of operation to a core. They gained 't are directly affixed with a PC, but had accompanied by the circulars of sales since the first of the month. The additional formation of sales outlet will be required, Calder indicated.

Intel 's new interior logos of Intel
Intel 's new interior logos of Intel
The revised logos remain mainly unchanged of Intel 's traditional interior logo of Intel, unless with the mark of core in shown obviousness, and the color-codes applied to help to differentiate the marks. The logo also includes has peels-far left, indicating has die-like the graph. Orientation is now horizontal, although the logo takes the same thing , of print of step or spaces it.

Intel's New



The new logos are coloured and decorative, Calder indicated.

Intel chips get new logos, star treatment

Intel presented new and more seeing together logos for their processors of consumer-level and combos of processor-cum-play of chips, with a system to hold the first role-estimate which can produce of more than trouble than councils.

The new logos comprise the logo familiar of Intel above the names sale the core i7, core 2, Centrino, Centrino 2, atom, Celeron, and Pentium, with the small copy below the qualifiers of list such as the end, the duet, the quadruple, and the vPro.

The corner upper-right of the logos show that a section of a piece die inside piece-like colors for the families of core and Centrino, but - curiously - in blue for the others.

A logo of first order does not have any family name, interior slogan just devoted Intel. All the other logos include the limit interior in the corner low-right.

While the rectangles round-bordered of occupied-glance can not gain any reward for the simple design, when slapped on the bodies of the laptops and the desktop machines on the tight racks of the best purchase of Circuit City they will provide foragers of PC of information on the actuating processor they of a purchase 'about considering.
Intel 'new logos of processor of S Intel's new processor logos

Intel 'family wide of S, all in new clothing

The new system to hold the first role-estimate, however, can finish being in rise more trouble than its value.

These rows divide the offers of desktop machine and book of Intel into five groups in the order ascending of the capacity, with Will conceal a star clinging to the lower level and the core signal-flight i7s and the core 2s being held to trust on the higher level five stars.

While the system to hold the first role-estimate is a noble goal, it has a straw mortal. The processors will inevitably slip in bottom of the scale. And when they make, their rows can change at Intel �department of sale of S, but not necessarily on racks of store or salesfolks � of the spirits.

When this first round of the rows expires at the end of September 2009, confusion will start. In early - October, wait even those strongly qualified, better whip-smart associates of sales of purchase to flummoxed while trying to explain why yesterday 'laptop of S with a mobile processor of three-star duet of core 2 is also able as laptop which arrived after the mobile of duet of core 2 Re-was held the first role to two.

The atoms, moreover, aren 't to hold the role-arranged first, thus put 't intend to see netbooks with such stickers any time soon. Asylum of Xeons 't however be new-logoed or to hold the role-evaluated first.

What is very well. The purchasers of Netbook have little reason to compare the execution, and the purchasers of Xeon put the 'need for T the assistance. �

Intel Quietly Rolls Out Star Rating for Its Microprocessors.

Intel Corp. a new estimate of five stars for its microprocessors revealed which is conceived to simplify a choice of the microprocessors for users. Unfortunately for Intel, the new estimate of five stars still does not provide to consumers information distinct on the execution from the pieces and to promote thus confuses the choice.

Of the estimates of processor of Intel are conceived to easily help you to decide which processor is the best for your needs. Seek just stars beside the badges of processor to determine their various levels of capacity for treatment,� reads an explanation to the Web site of the company.

However, actually the estimate of star imitates the numbers of the type of the processor of Intel which represent a combination of execution, power of devices and other characteristics. Each processor is assigned between one and five stars according to a combination of the devices, including cores, clock-speed, the hiding-place, and other technologies. More stars indicate larger devices and increased possibilities compared with other processors of Intel.

Consequently, the five stars always evaluating does not provide any information relating to the computing power of the central processing units of treatment: for example, Intel dig the estimate four stars of 2 devices of the duet E8000-series, while Intel dig 2 that the quadruple Q8000-series has only three stars. Moreover, of the very reduced microprocessors of tension for the books ultra-transportables - Intel dig 2 the duet SU9000-series - are arranged five stars, on line with core 2 extreme and Intel dig 2 pieces of mobile of quadruple.

While the estimate of five stars is easy to include/understand by the inexperienced purchasers, it will not make it possible customers with knowledge to choose the good combination of the execution, the power and other characteristics of the microprocessors. Consequently, the reasons of its execution are not exactly clear.

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