Tech Mania: Nokia X6 16GB Announced, Price not sure plus 1 more articles

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:58 AM PST

Nokia’s just announced a 16GB version of its crowd pleasing, capacitive touchscreen X6 to compliment the current 32GB model. As expected, the new handset offers many similarities to its sibling, including a 3.2-inch wide screen capacitive display and 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and a dual LED flash. Unfortunately, you’ll have to load tones onto the device the old fashioned way. In addition to EA’s Spore, this bad boy includes Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft and an all-new Ovi Maps (with free walk and drive navigation, Michelin and Lonely Planet guides). Available in four colors, including black, white, white with yellow highlights, and white with pink highlights. Expect to see this one roll out sometime this quarter for a price to be announced.The 32 GB costs around 700$ not sure on how much would be the price for the 16GB variant.

Nokia X6 250x123 Nokia X6 16GB Announced, Price not sure

Nokia X6 16gb Nokia X6 16GB Announced, Price not sure

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

World’s Overclocking Record Beaten: 8.20GHz Reached

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:05 AM PST

Even though performance of contemporary personal computers does not heavily depend on clock-speeds of central processing units, it is still interesting to know the maximum clock-speed that can be achieved by modern microprocessors. Recently a new frequency record was set, when overclockers from XtremeLabs.org pushed Intel Celeron D 347 to nearly 8.20GHz.

Intel Celeron D 347 processor, which is based on the renowned NetBurst micro-architecture, is made using 65nm process technology and officially works at 3.06GHz. However, with the help of modified DFI LanParty UT P35 (Intel P35, revision A2), OCZ Technology memory and a lot of liquid nitrogen overclocker TiN from Xtremelabs.org reached 8199.5MHz clock-speed on the central processing unit.

cpu z screen 250x149 World's Overclocking Record Beaten: 8.20GHz Reached

To date, 8199.5MHz is the highest clock-speed ever reached by overclockers that has been validated by CPU-Z database.

Unfortunately, the overclockers did not run a set of benchmarks to find out actual performance of the extremely overclocked Celeron D 347. As a result, it is not known whether the chip at 8.20GHz can actually outperform modern Intel Core i7 microprocessors at around 3.00GHz.Read more at Xtremelabs

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite