Windows 7+Intel= "Wintel" — Well, the mathematical operation in question is not that boring because it holds great benefit for all you laptop users. The innovation from the partnership promises to sort out the most significant annoyance of our notebooks - the battery life. As PCMAG reports, Full article (315 words) »

Often we come across a question which is the best way to partition a hard drive on PCs? Well, there could be no specific answer to it, except that it would rely on your requirements of performance reliability and usability. There is no one shot answer to how you should partition hard disks on a computer running Windows operating system. While partitioning you need to keep three things in mind organizing your work, safeguarding your data and boosting your systems performance. An easy way to manage all these is using an efficient Windows Partition manager. To make your job easier we sorted out the top 10 Windows partition manager software.

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Suppose you are running an organization with mission-critical Linux servers in one location and with IT experts. Imagine a situation, if your server goes down. What would be the impact on your business. For worse if you lack a backup, you are thrown for loop without a notice. To handle such gloom and doom you need an effective and powerful recovery tool with great recovery potential and allowing application of influential scanning algorithms.

Its imperative to have a comprehensive backup and recovery solution that would enable the recovery of Linux servers, helping you to get back to business and minimize the downtime. The backup software solutions provides you a complete back up of the files, data, database, system or server. To be more specific, it enables the you to make a duplicate of everything contained on the original source. After an extensive research, we explored the top 10 Linux backup and recovery software.

• afbackup
• Amanda
• Aconis
• Areca
• Backup Pc
• fwbackups
• SBAdmin
• Simple Backup
• Bacula
• BAR

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Korean electronic major, Samsung has unveiled the world's highest density RDIMM (Registered dual inline memory module). The DDR3 memory module boasts of an extremely high 32GB memory capacity, designed for server market. The new RDIMM incorporates 72 dedicated DDR3 chip, each with 4Gb memory configuration. This design has been made possible due to the 50nm class DRAM process technology that is capable of packing everything into a QDP (Quad-die package) on both sides of the module. This package would is expected to offer the best performance to server market when running with mainstream processor.

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Intel has announced the brand name for its new core series of processors. In 2003, Intel had introduced the first x86 chip platform for PCs/laptops branded as Centrino. The term covered a package of CPU chip, chipset and wireless network module. Four years down the line, the world's largest chip maker has decided to phase out the Centrino brand to simplify the branding of its PC chips. Intel would consolidate most of the desktop and laptop processors under the Core umbrella. Intel would be using three new names for different processor levels - entry-level (Intel Core i3), mid-level (Intel Core i5), and high-level (Intel Core i7).

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To start geeky things with a straight face (:|), let's get familiar with the full name of the gentlemen we are going to discuss about. PATA stands for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, SATA means Serial Advanced Technology Attachment and SCSI is Small Computer System Interface. It would have been better if we could stop at that. But gadgetophilia's detailed analysis takes us to a deep level perspective of these three. Generally we have always worked in an environment where the hard drives been categorized by such techie distinctions. Its always okay to ignore some complicated details about hardware but if you are interested in knowing the difference between SATA, PATA and SCSI drives, then here is the best post availble for you.

Read: SATA, PATA and SCSI : A Comparison

After getting through two hands on reviews, namely Hands On Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.6 and Hands on Review of 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, we were sent a Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Hard disc (320 GB). We unboxed it and did a thorough review testing it in different conditions and scrutinized it under more than one software. The whole story with images are here.

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Server motherboards are a different hardware species altogether. With the rich demands of resources and processes that will run therefrom, server mainboards need to have efficient coolants, better memory sticks, appropriate slots and more. Server motherboards must have a high level of trust value because after all it is the machine upon which crucial and absolutely important data are processed. However, gone are the days when servers used to be towering like an entire room. They have shrunk like consumer grade PCs and so have the motherboards with complicated ICs and slots and interface. Gadgetophilia did an extensive research and have brought out the top 10 motherboards for you.

To name some,

1. Intel 3210 SHLX Snowhill Server Motherboard
2. ASUS DSEB-DG Server Motherboard
3. TYAN S4985G3NR  Server Motherboard
4. ASUS Z8NA-D6C  Server Motherboard

After an extensive Hands On Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.6 (Tested on Windows 7) we received a packed Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive of 1 TB capacity and 32-MB cache. Not only that, this model is specifically meant to be a green initiative by Seagate. By combining sustainable Seagate technology and components with industry-leading volume manufacturing, the Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 drive delivers up to 1 TB of green, low-power yet high-performance, desktop storage which has 70% of recycling material.

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The high density 500 GB per platter capacity gives it a lower access time, faster data transfer rate, low power consumption and thus less heat dissipation (due to one less platter) and a hard drive that runs very silent. Let's go for details now.

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Motherboards are said to be the heart of the computer. Its a matrix that holds or connects to all the important devices and peripherals of the computer such as  CPU, hard disk, RAM, SATA, PCI supported cards. Despite being the all important part of the computer, I have seen even the handiest of geeky people are quite unaware of the intimate details of a computer mainboard or motherboard. So today, Gadgetophilia has come out with the guide that helps you understand the most important parts of a motherboard. A comprehensive guide to computer mainboard/ motherboard lets you have all the necessary info you always wanted to have and needed to know. I am sure you will enjoy the write up. Feel free to suggest to us.