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Open Source Hardware Gift Guide 58

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 03, 2007 @09:30AM from the well-now-there's-an-idea dept.

ptorrone writes "Looking to give gifts this year that are open source? Here's MAKE Magazines "Open Source Hardware" gift guide. Open source 3D printers, TV-turn-off devices, iPod chargers, music players, Wi-Fi companions, educational electronic kits and more. Each of the kits, projects and open source hardware gifts in this guide represents more than just a holiday gift, it's a change to support this nascent open hardware movement."

Submission + - AMD Triple-Core Processors

Submitted by on Friday September 14, 2007 @06:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: German Hardware Site HardTecs4U writes about AMD's plans to release processors with only 3 cores at the beginning of 2008. While the company has just announced Opteron cpu's with 4 native cores on one die for server-systems, the new processors will be used in desktop-systems by users who don't want to buy a quad-core-cpu but also want more power than just 2 cores can offer.

DDR3 Isn't Worth The Money - Yet 120

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 14, 2007 @09:45AM from the zoom-but-not-that-much-zoom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Intel's motherboard chipsets supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 memory, the question now is whether DDR3 is worth all that extra cash. Trustedreviews has a lengthy article on the topic, and it looks like (for the moment) the answer is no: 'Not to be too gloomy about this, but the bottom line is that it can only be advised to steer clear of DDR3 at present, as in terms of performance, which is what it's all about, it's a waste of money. Even fast DDR2 is, as we have demonstrated clearly, only worthwhile if you are actually overclocking, as it enables you to raise the front-side bus, without your memory causing a bottleneck. DDR3 will of course come into its own as speeds increase still further, enabling even higher front-side bus speeds to be achieved. For now though, DDR2 does its job, just fine.'"

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