Check out the latest CPU cooling technique – CPU lapping. It involves grinding the top of the cpu against sand paper, shining it and then placing it beneath a liquid cooling system. This process reduces the core temperature of any cpu by a whopping 10 degrees!! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.
Advanti Gaming
We are sure all of our customers love our creations. No, really. We put a lot of love and care into the benchmarking, testing, stress-checking, so much so that the final outcome is a well tuned gaming monster. Most customers are closet lovers of our systems, but ever so, once in a while, we have someone who declares it to the world. Here is one of his blog entries, where he reviews one of our gaming systems:
Click here for the blog of Mr. Aziz.
Blogging Plant
A potted plant at a cafe near Tokyo, Japan is entertaining customers by writing a regular blog about its feelings.
It is the work of a university engineer who has been studying how to communicate with plants.
He devised a sensor which he attached to the plant named “Midori-san” that measures bio-electric signals. These are converted into data by a computer next the plant and then translated into Japanese in the form of a blog. The plant’s latest entry reads: “It was cloudy today. It was a cold day.”
Occasionally, just once in a while; a misinformed customer would come into our showroom and claim that our prices are high. Although he has every right to challenge our prices and get every bang for his buck; we are hurt.
The reason is simple.
There are many such ‘hardware showrooms’ in Bahrain who only care about the money. We do not wish to name them, as most people probably know them after their first purchase itself. Deceiving the customer has become a tradition of sorts here within this industry. We at ADVANTI, however, believe and have been putting into practise a different ideology since day one: inform the customer; give him fair and honest deals, and he’ll be back for more. While all of our core and frequent customers realise this and have blessed us by referring us to others and giving us repeat business; many of the newer customers think we’re like the rest. We beg to differ.
We invited people to match our online prices to those of Newegg.com and Amazon.com, wherein shipping and taxes are included. Newegg is the cheapest place in the world to get best hardware deals; and that’s only within the US. Their prices do not include shipping, taxes, customs levies or DHL regional transportation costs. Therefore, only those fortunate souls in the USA can get such deals.
And you know what they found? Our prices were matching Newegg’s AND Amazon’s prices on many hardware components!! On the others, there were differences, but the margin was minimum. Imagine being in the Middle East; making an on-line order in the US in the hope to get cheap deals, and end up paying for all the extras we talked about. But here, you buy the same product off our shelf in our showroom or online store, and you pay only a small percentage in excess. Infact, we challenge anyone to find a better place in the entire Middle East, let alone the world; to match our prices in terms of quality and service. It helps when people do their own research and not be guided by prejudice.
Radeon 4870 X2 on Amazon.com
Here is the cost of Radeon 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 on Amazon.com. It comes to BD 225.000, excluding shipping to Bahrain. Our price tag off the shelf IS THE SAME; while the very same card is being sold in Kuwait for BD 308.000.
The ultimate testament to us has come from a reputed middle east hardware forum, whose users are all over the GCC, and they compare prices from each region and come to one conclusion, day after day, an unanimous and universal voice,
“ADVANTI GIVES IT AT THE BEST PRICES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.”
Presenting our most cherished and ultra gaming gem. Witness the RAMPAGE EXTREME!! The second it arrived in our stores, we just had to unbox it and witness the oohs and aahs… this baby is so well crafted and lovingly put together, that just to behold it and touch it was an experience in itself.
We will post more info and pics when we have it up and running. Benchmarks coming soon. Meanwhile, to buy it, go here.
GO ON THE RAMPAGE
Votex Front View
Vortex Upfront
Metallic Fan
A lot of gamers and enthusiasts pay great attention to heat dissipation, using heat sinks for CPUs, Memory et all. But the most crucial point most people overlook is that hard drive integrity has the final say in determining the speed and perfromance of a system.
Anyone can have a really good motherboard, heaps of RAM and a kick ass GPU, but if the amount of heat that circulates in a case gets to the hard drive; it results in sluggish performance during gaming, multimedia and work. Although hard drives fail more often than other components of the system, there is a cheap and effective solution to preserving data structure, minimizing failure rates, read errors and bad sectors. Believe it or not, all these problems are created by the heat circulating in the system that is being shielded away by the other heat sinks, that gets to the hard drive.
The Vortex Hard Drive Cooler (pictured above) is a shiny, sleek and silver exterior for hard drives. It houses a highly effective metallic fan inside made of highest quality craftsmanship and a smooth metallic finish on the exteriors to top it off. The materials used in construction will alone cost more than BD 7.000; the final cost of the product! It aso has an LED display that gives you the temperature of the Hard drive in real time.
This is a product that is so underrated, that it deserves the spotlight. More so, gamers need to be more aware about the state of their hard drives, data preservation, prevention of corrupted data and long life. A simple and small investment could save you hundreds of hours of agony, effort and money.
Follow this link to purchase it from our on-line store.
Today we recieved a special request on behalf of a customer – the U6S luxury series laptop, a gorgeous looking beauty from ASUS, with real leather coated on the palm rest and a sleek, shiny black surface on top. Although it is highly portable and has a 12.1″ screen, there’s no arguing that Asus is chasing after high fashion here with the U6 Series. But even with these looks and a fairly portable form factor, this Asus has plenty of power under the hood: 2.5 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB DDR2 RAM (specialised), Nvidia GeForce 9600M 128 MB, 3G / 3.5 G (HSDPA) antenna, 320 GB HDD (specialised), integrated webcam & DVD burner.
Business Class Laptop
You can imagine the joy we experienced, installing stuff and bringing this sexy ultra-cool laptop to life. The U6S mocha brown high-shine cover, Voile, borrows its name from an equally delicate luminous fabric. The cover is fabricated with a 13-step process with underlying shimmering fiber to ensure timeless shine. The elegant white U6E with piano paint finish stands out with equal flair. The leather bound palm rest adds softness to bring a personalized computing experience. The streamlined hinge bears hotkeys with exquisite detailing that are ergonomically placed for easy access and minimum distraction.
The full list of the specs in mind-blowing for something this small, light and very portable. Ideally suited for the business professional who wants to command multi-tasking, multimedia and communications on the go, it also doubles up as an object of luxury and a fashion statement. You’ll find the specs here at ASUS website. Ofcourse, we customised certain components for a very good customer with High-end booty. We couldn’t resist taking some pics of this baby, and here they are:
Front View
Genuine Leather Palm-Rest
Nice keys and well lit back light
Ultra Portable and lightweight design
Glorious screen with splendid technology
Leather palm rest up close
Black Reflective Shiny and Sleek Top
Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world’s first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna.
The network connects six locations across Vienna and in the nearby town of St Poelten, using 200 km of standard commercial fibre optic cables.
Quantum cryptography is completely different from the kinds of security schemes used on computer networks today.
These are typically based on complex mathematical procedures which are extremely hard for outsiders to crack but not impossible given sufficient computing resources or time.
But quantum systems use the laws of quantum theory, which have been shown to be inherently unbreakable.
The basic idea of quantum cryptography was worked out 25 years ago by Charles Bennett of IBM and Gilles Brassard of Montreal University, who was in Vienna to see the network in action.
“All quantum security schemes are based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, on the fact that you cannot measure quantum information without disturbing it,” he explained.
“Because of that, one can have a communications channel between two users on which it’s impossible to eavesdrop without creating a disturbance. An eavesdropper would create a mark on it. That was the key idea.”
In practice this means using the ultimate quantum objects: photons, the “atoms of light”. Incredibly faint beams of light equating to single photons fired a million times a second raced between the nodes in the Vienna network.
Each node, housed in a different Siemens office (Siemens has provided the fibre links), contains a small rack of electronics – boxes about the size of a PC – and a handful of sensitive light detectors.
Quantum cryptography is a surprising outgrowth of recondite arguments that bounced around for decades about the meaning of quantum mechanics.
Albert Einstein, who discovered the quantum properties of photons of light – indeed, discovered the very concept of the photon – always resisted quantum theory’s spooky behaviour, “God does not play dice”, being among his oft-quoted objections.
But experiments eventually proved that he apparently does, and also laid the technical foundations for today’s quantum information revolution – cryptography, teleportation, and computation.
One of the grandees of quantum science, Vienna University’s Anton Zeilinger, used the occasion to argue for continued funding of fundamental science in these increasingly application-focused days.
“Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is,” Dr Zeilinger said.
“It may not have surprised the founding fathers of quantum science that technology has advanced so that you can play with individual quantum systems, in great detail.
“Maybe this would not surprise, but what could surprise them is that people are thinking and doing practical applications.”
What is coolest PC mod ever? Well, in this season of Dark Knight, this guy has created the best looking Tumbler PC case mod I have seen on the internet, as of now. Although the specifications are kinda low end, he did a really good job with putting it together and lighting it beautifully. Since it is a 1/24 die cast, he could only fit in these:
AMD Sempron 2800+ with 40 g HD, 736 MB of DDR 400 RAM , CD/DVD Drive
Advanced Micro Devices will spin off its chip plants and receive a lifeline of up to $8.4bn from Abu Dhabi as it struggles to compete with Intel, its larger rival.
AMD announced yesterday a long-awaited “asset lite” strategy that will relieve it of the burden of trying to maintain manufacturing parity with its Silicon Valley neighbour.
Its shares, coming off 16-year lows, rose 20 per cent in midday trading to $5.10.
AMD plans to create an enterprise, initially called The Foundry Company, with Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC). It would absorb its existing production units, or “fabs”, expand a facility in Dresden, Germany, and spend $3.2bn on a new plant in upstate New York, creating more than 1,400 jobs.
AMD has lost a manufacturing edge to Intel as it has been unable to maintain the pace and investment of its rival in more efficient processes. It reported its seventh successive quarter of losses in July and replaced Hector Ruiz as chief executive.
Mr Ruiz, AMD chairman, will move across to take that role at the new company, with Doug Grose, head of manufacturing, becoming chief executive of The Foundry Company.
ATIC will pay AMD $700m in cash for a 55.6 per cent stake in the new company, and will add $1.4bn to fund its operations, with a promise of investment of between $3.6bn and $6bn on new facilities in the next five years.
$1.2bn of AMD’s debt will be transferred to the new company and AMD will receive an investment from Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Company to increase a stake that it acquired last year.
Mubadala, which paid more than $600m at $12.70 a share last November for an 8.1 per cent stake, has boosted its holding to 19.3 per cent with just a $314m investment, as AMD stock closed on Monday at just $4.23.
Dirk Meyer, AMD chief executive, said the move allowed the group to maintain access to leading-edge technologies without having to make the capital-intensive investments of semiconductor manufacturing.
AMD plans $900m in capital expenditure this year, compared with $11.2bn in spending by Intel.
The two divide up all but a small fraction of the “x86″ microprocessor market, with Intel taking a share of more than 80 per cent.
Intel has beaten AMD to new levels of miniaturisation of circuits to widths of 45 billionths of a metre.
It has questioned whether AMD can put in the investment to move up to the next 450mm size for circular wafers, from which chips are cut.
There are no plans to take The Foundry Company public and the deal will be subject to review by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. AMD will transfer about 3,000 employees to The Foundry Company, which will have its headquarters in the US.
AMD had $5.3bn in debt by mid-year and wrote down its $5.4bn acquisition of graphics chipmaker ATI in 2006, recording $2.4bn in impairment charges.
