Intel's Core i7 processors have now been available for close to a month-and-a-half, but for those looking to spend as little as possible for a new rig, i7 shouldn't be the first choice for reasons we laid out in our launch article early last month. Though i7 offers stellar performance, it requires a new motherboard, RAM and CPU cooler. While most people who pick up the E5200 might be in the same situation, the parts are much more affordable all-around.
While browsing an e-tailer a few weeks ago, I stumbled on Intel's Pentium E5200, a dual-core offering that I had forgotten all about. It was launched this past August to virtually no fanfare, and thanks to a few things that were going on at the time (IDF, NVISION), I never thought about it since. I did want to get one in though, because although it carries a few caveats, it's still a Wolfdale chip, and at under $100, I figured it might very-well be a steal.
Intel currently offers two Pentium models based on the 45nm process, the E5300 and E5200. The differences between them are a mere $2 (per 1,000) and 100MHz. We chose to bring the E5200 in for the simple fact that it's the least expensive model out there from Intel, at least of which uses their latest technologies, such as 45nm.
The Pentium Dual-Core chips do have two primary drawbacks, though, which include 2MB of L2 Cache and absolutely no part of Intel's SSE4.x instruction set. What that means is that more expensive chips (even the E7200), will have the ability to recode video that utilizes these instructions much, much faster. For those who don't encode video all-too-often, the loss won't be noticed.
While browsing an e-tailer a few weeks ago, I stumbled on Intel's Pentium E5200, a dual-core offering that I had forgotten all about. It was launched this past August to virtually no fanfare, and thanks to a few things that were going on at the time (IDF, NVISION), I never thought about it since. I did want to get one in though, because although it carries a few caveats, it's still a Wolfdale chip, and at under $100, I figured it might very-well be a steal.
Intel currently offers two Pentium models based on the 45nm process, the E5300 and E5200. The differences between them are a mere $2 (per 1,000) and 100MHz. We chose to bring the E5200 in for the simple fact that it's the least expensive model out there from Intel, at least of which uses their latest technologies, such as 45nm.
The Pentium Dual-Core chips do have two primary drawbacks, though, which include 2MB of L2 Cache and absolutely no part of Intel's SSE4.x instruction set. What that means is that more expensive chips (even the E7200), will have the ability to recode video that utilizes these instructions much, much faster. For those who don't encode video all-too-often, the loss won't be noticed.
Shuttle’s XPC Barebone SD39P2 uses the company’s well-tried P2 design. The 22cm by 32.5cm by 21cm chassis isn’t the most appealing (where are all the brushed aluminium and myriad of LEDs?). but is a strong force to be reckoned with in terms of performance. The system supports Intel’s most powerful Socket 775 processors (Intel 975X chipset), such as the Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme, and up to 8GB of DDR2 800MHz memory in dual-channel mode (up to 4 times the capacity of previous-generation XPCs). We found this was plenty for demanding video and graphics-editing duties, and it also makes 3D games fly. Compatible with the latest PCIe graphics cards, such as nVidia’s highly-regarded GeForce 8800GTX/7950GX2 or ATI’s Radeon X1900XTX, the Shuttle SD39P2 also supports plenty of storage, so it's equally suited to network storage and media server duties. The system can accommodate up to three SATA 300 hard disks, which can be run in combination as RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10.
Xming Server is the leading free unlimited X Window Server for Microsoft Windows (XP/2003/Vista). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily transported portable as a Pocket PC X server (i.e. no slow Linux API emulation wrappers and mounts).Xming is totally secure when used with SSH and optionally includes an enhanced PuTTY Link SSH client and a portable PuTTY replacement package. Xming can work completely independent of the Window's registry when used with Xming-portablePuTTY.
Xming is cross-compiled on Linux for Microsoft Windows (32-bit x86), using MinGW, mainly from the canonical X.Org source code with my patches applied. It is kept current and secure with frequent updates from X.Org, XKB, FreeType2, Pthreads-Win32 and Freedesktop Bugzilla.
When released Public Domain, Xming can be distributed and used without restriction.
The ASUS W90 is a desktop replacement laptop with a 18.4- or 17-inch display, depending on model, the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 or HD 3850 X2 dual graphics, or a single NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GS GPU, and the Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The system is based on the Intel X38 chipset and has three SO-DIMM slots for up to 6GB of DDR2 memory. Asustek’s high performance notebook is additionally equipped with the Turbo Gear function, which allows users to overclock the machine by “up to 25%”.
PCI expansion slot - Measuring 10 x 5.87 x 2.75 in. and weighing 6 lb, Model LPC-350PCI Little PC comes with open PCI card slot that enables addition of I/O, video, data acquisition, and communications cards. Unit employs Pentium and Celeron M series processors, and features variety of I/O connectivity such as LAN, Serial, 3-USB 2.0, FireWire, video, audio, PS/2 mouse, and keyboard ports. It has built-in 2.5 in. high-shock hard drive with up to 160 GB of storage space for archived data.
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