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BSNL introduces 24MBps Broadband Plan

Posted by Siddanth on February 23rd, 2010

After Airtel had started their 16MBps plan few months back, next turn was Government based BSNL to join the league.BSNL have launched the fastest ever broadband in India with a mega speed of 24mbps.Don’t be happy yet, coz this comes with a FUP limit of 150GB.What crap plans,if they are providing such high speed rate why cap the limit to just 150Gb. 150 GB will be consumed in no time.Crazy plans i must say.Atleast 500Gb was enough for me.In addition to this there are some more plans added up.Do let me know what do you feel.

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NEC Triples USB 3.0 Speed to 16GB/s

Posted by Siddanth on February 22nd, 2010

Engineers at NEC have come up with a method to boost the speed at which data can be transferred over USB to a whopping 16Gb/s. The new technology increases the upper speed of USB 3.0 from an already rapid 5Gb/s to 16Gb/s – potentially allowing the transfer of hordes of data in the blink of an eye.NEC’s new technology works just like USB 3.0 and sends data as a stream of binary 1s and 0s. The difference lies in its ability to deliver and maintain high speed data transfer signals. The company has not actually developed a completely new bus; rather the scientists have come up with a way of delaying the rate at which data is fed back to the input signal.

It is first necessary to understand how SuperSpeed USB 3.0 works. When data throughput rates are very high, signals tend to become distorted.The new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 uses something called ‘adaptive equalisation’ to increase the stability of the carrier signal, allowing the data to be transferred significantly faster than has been previously possible without corruption.Under this technology, the signal is split into two and one part is fed back onto the input signal to give it stability.

However, when the frequency increases, the bus chip is expected to work a lot faster in order to complete the feedback and keep distortion in check. To work around this problem, NEC boffins seem to have found a method of adding a delay tied to the data rate to the feedback waveform.

“This procedure greatly reduces the nearest-neighbor inter-bit interference in the signal waveform and thus successfully alleviates the issue of feedback-time constraint inherent in conventional equalizers,” NEC’s scientists claimed. While the entire process might seem too complicated to be understood by normal computer users, it definitely seems to work.

So for all purposes, NEC now has a USB chip with the ability to transfer data at 16Gb/s. It now has to wait for the licensing bodies to license the new technology and open the doors for its use at a commercial level.

Although the technology only exists in prototype form, the next step for NEC is to apply to the USB Promoter Group – the licensing body for the USB standard – for permission to market the device under the USB brand. Assuming the technology works as well as NEC claims it does, it should only be a matter of time before the new speeds become standard fare.

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Intel's New Overclocking Gem explored

Posted by Siddanth on February 3rd, 2010

Intel 32nm processors dubbed Clarkdale, are to be launched next week. But its capabilities are already being explored by over-clockers from around the world. The picture shows the overclocking feat achieved by NickShih from Xtremesystems forum. He reached a speed of 6.9GHz on a Core i5 32nm edition.

As you can see, the voltage is set at 1.94V which is not that high, considering the frequency achieved. With this proof at hand, we can now be a bit more confident about Clarkdales achieving good clocks on lower volts, thus letting us have a fair share of the OC fun. Anyhow it was expected, so lets see if it’s for real once it has been released.

Have a look at the screen shot to get all the details.

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The config used was Intel Core i5 1156 LGA 32nm coupled with  EVGA P55 3X SLI Classified.This did a overclock of 6921.8MHZ with multiplier of 27 and bus speed of 256.36.The stock rated FSB was 3076.35 Mhz.So you can see the capability of Core i5 32nm chip.

System specification:

Processor: Clarkdale 3.47GMotherboard: EVGA P55 3X Classified (E659)
VGA card: Radeon HD 5870
RAM: A-DATA 2200 CL8 & G.Skill 2000 CL7
PSU: Antec TruePower Quattro 1200 OC
Hard Drive: Western Digital 500G
Kingpin Dragon F1 eXtreme Edition LN spot

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This was not all.The same guy gave a update too .He clocked a max of 7.11Ghz with a different machine but the processor was of same batch although it was a different piece.Here are the specs he used to clock 7.11Ghz

System specification:

  • Clarkdale I5 670 ES 3.47g
  • EVGA E659 A51 BIOS
  • GSKILL 2000 CL7 1gx2
  • ANTEC TPQ1200w OC
  • segate 500G
  • Kingpin Venom pot

With the above config 7003.0 MHZ(7.11GHZ maxed) was clocked with multiplier of 27 and bus speed of 259.4.The stock rated FSB was 3112.4 Mhz.Here is the screen shot of SuperPi calculation as well as CPUz validator.Lets hope such awesome batches come soon.

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Buffalo Unveils World's first 12X Blue ray DvD writer

Posted by Siddanth on December 13th, 2009

Buffalo one of the leading brands of external devices have launched world’s first 12X Blue ray dvd writer with USB 3.0 capability.Blue ray seems to be the trend these days as most of the movie freaks are turning into Blue ray movies.This would be a great for users who wish to burn their favourite Blue ray movies on to the Blue ray discs.

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Named as BR-X1216U3, it could be too advanced for average users as currently the motherboard and chipset that supporting USB 3.0 are still very rare in today’s market and also Intel potentially delayed its chipset development with USB 3.0 till 2011. Meanwhile, there is still no Blu-Ray disc with 12x speed yet. But one thing for sure, there won’t be any bottleneck now since the USB 3.0 interface can be scaled up to 5Gbps theoretically especially when bundled with ultra fast writing speed that can be fitted well for future system without the need of upgrade.

Named as BR-X1216U3, it could be too advanced for average users as currently the motherboard and chipset that supporting USB 3.0 are still very rare in today’s market and also Intel potentially delayed its chipset development with USB 3.0 till 2011. Meanwhile, there is still no Blu-Ray disc with 12x speed yet. But one thing for sure, there won’t be any bottleneck now since the USB 3.0 interface can be scaled up to 5Gbps theoretically especially when bundled with ultra fast writing speed that can be fitted well for future system without the need of upgrade.

Best part is, it is fully backward compatible with USB 2.0 host port even though the maximum writing speed has to be trapped at 7x, which is still far more sufficient for current demand.Targeted for official launching by next month, the Buffalo burner will be retailed at $460 and it is compatible to run with Windows Operating Systems such as XP, Vista and even Windows 7.
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Opera 10 RC out final out on September 1st

Posted by Siddanth on August 27th, 2009

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After the Betas, Opera released the Release Candidate of Opera 10 and also made a point that the final version would be out on September 1st.I have been playing with different browsers like Mozilla,Chrome and IE8.I used to be a Opera fan previously but as time changed i shifted to the newer ones.My mozilla keeps growing in memory consumption even though i am using the latest version.Well this gives me a oppurtunity to try out Opera RC too.Opera is believed to boost performance with Turbo mode for slow connections,support for a variety of Web standards and improvements to the Opera Mail feature.

According to the Desktop Team this version should be considered a stable release and only selected fixes will be added if absolutely necessary. Here is what Opera’s vice president of desktop products had to say: “Now we are very close to releasing the best browser in Opera’s long history. We hope everyone who has helped us test our browser thus far will put the release candidate through its paces.”

Features:

Visual Tabs
Tabs can be made bigger and the glossy look.

Speed dial
Speed dial can be customized with background changing for a number of sites.

Opera Turbo
Boosts Performance and gives kinda more speed on slow connections. Its got 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test too.Significantly improved performance,particularly on CSS/HTML rendering.

Automatic updates
Updates are automatic and no interference of user is required.

Crash logging
When you encounter a crash logs are created to debug.

Inline spelling checker
Spell checker for correcting your typos.

New default theme with a new bigger icon.

Comes with a new theme by default.

According to TechCrunch, Opera claims the browsers will be 40% faster than Opera 9.6 (Presto rendering engine) which was the last major release. More updates will come soon.Post comments what you like about Opera.Love to hear.
Download the new Opera release candidate here

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