AMD and Intel's six-core CPU plans revealed by mobo makers

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/29/amd-and-intels-six-core-cpu-plans-revealed-by-mobo-makers/

You have to love DigiTimes and those loquacious sources it seems to keep finding. The latest word from the Taiwanese grapevine suggests that both Intel and AMD will be bringing out six-core CPUs to the consumer market by the middle of this year. We're using the term "consumer" rather loosely here as Intel's first Gulftown chip is expected to be priced north of $1,000. The Core i7-980X is slated for a March release, which just fits inside the Q1 window that earlier rumors had suggested. If you butter your bread on the AMD side, you'll have to wait a while longer as those 45nm Thuban chips -- herafter to be known as the Phenom II X6 1000T series -- won't be landing until at least May. The usual caution when dealing with anonymous sources is advisable, but this sounds like a roadmap with a high likelihood of being accurate.

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SpiderPic Comparison Shops Stock Photos [Photography]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/kIwH45XK-V0/spiderpic-comparison-shops-stock-photos

If you're in the market for stock photography you'll definitely want to make a stop at SpiderPic, a stock photography search and price comparison engine that reveals huge disparities between photo fees.

How big of a disparity? If you check out their sample page you'll see disparities as big as $350 between the lowest price and highest price for an identical stock image. When you search with SpiderPic you're directed towards the most inexpensive version of the photo you're looking for in the size you want, so you'll never end up paying $400 for a stock photo that's being sold for $40 or $100 for one three other vendors are selling for $5. SpiderPic searches Fotolia, iStockphoto, Dreamstime, BigStockPhoto, and other large stock photography suppliers.

If you're looking for free stock photography make sure to check out previously reviewed EveryStockPhoto and FreeRangeStock. Have a favorite photo-search tool of your own? Let's hear about it in the comments.

SpiderPic [via TechCrunch]

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EVGA W555 Can Hold Seven GPUs. That's One Mother of a Motherboard. [Motherboards]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FVieQrzUBns/evga-w555-can-hold-seven-gpus-thats-one-mother-of-a-motherboard

The W555 from EVGA made a brief, blurry appearance at CES, but now we've got closer look thanks to bit-tech. And what an introduction: two LGA1366 processor sockets, 12 DDR3 DIMM slots and a questionably sane seven expansion card slots.

The W555 is designed to accommodate overclocking to begin with, and with that many PCI expansion slots, who knows how far you can push it. Actually, hopefully we'll all know sooner than later. It won't be available until later this year, but for now, it's time for all you performance junkies out there to start salivating. [bit-tech via Engadget]

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The Next Touchscreens Will Be Very Sensitive About How Hard You Poke Them [Touchscreens]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SOP9JS3thoM/the-next-touchscreens-will-be-very-sensitive-about-how-hard-you-poke-them

We've made the leap from resistive to capacitive touchscreens that are more accurate—and multitouchy—so what's next? Screens that feel how hard you tickle them.

One of several approaches to making that happen uses a quantum tunneling composite—quantum tunneling happens when you bring two conductors close together, but with an insulating layer still between them, and electrons jump between the two conductors. Peratech's way to do this is with a polymer that changes resistance as you apply force for the insulating layer, so that bottom line, screens using this tech can tell how hard you pressing on the screen, since the sensors are able tell within two micrometers of how far in the screen's bending.

While there's other tech out there for pressure-sensing screens, Peratech says their tech uses less power and is more sensitive. The first gadgets with Peratech's sauce is coming out as early as April, so we'll able to poke things with that much more intent. Though, I have a hard enough time hitting the right stuff on screen—now I'm gonna have to keep track of how hard I press? Hrm. [MIT via Engadget]

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Dell Adamo Drops Under $1000 [Dell]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/DHIIt3ycnV0/dell-adamo-drops-under-1000

Dell's Adamo is a beautiful, slender machine with girly guts. But now it's coaxing you to ignore the sissy insides with its distracting new $999 base price tag.

If you prefer your Adamo more beefed up, there's always the more powerful Desire model, but that one will run you about $1800. Yikes, at least the basemodel, Admire, is now a reasonably cheap catch. [Dell via Engadget]

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