Seen 2 or 3 16x PCI-E ports on single mobo, how about SEVEN of 'em?

You know, when you opened the case of your PC you could see that there was a single or more 16x PCI-E ports on the mobo (stands for Motherboard). Usually it's only one, two or more advanced, three of them for SLI (nVidia) and CrossFireX (ATi). 

But, a company called EVGA has made a prototype, coded W555, containing SEVEN of 16x PCI-E ports, so many that it didn't left any space for their families and ancestors ('ye old PCI port and smaller sister 1x PCI-E port). That's not only the special thing, it also has two LGA1366 socket to accomodate two Intel Xeon processor that's designed for server, now could be made to fit into a (gaming/workstation) desktop. It's also designed to be overclockable. Even more, it also has 12 DDR3 DIMM socket to accomodate a bunch of memory, maximum amount still unknown.

Of course, accommodating a huge amount of high performance parts in your rig must have made something to be so special that it needs a fan. What? Fan? On the mobo? Yes, a fan specially made for the chipsets that's been hardworking to accomodate these huge amount of power plant. So hot that it needs a fan, just imagine that. Well, I started to think about power consumption though...

Function of this mobo? Well, when viewed form the amount of processor sockets it had, it must be some kind of a workstation/server. But, when viewed from the potential amount of GPU installed, it doesn't make sense and only one type of person who could used it (depends on his budget).

It's the Folding Team. Though, I can't explain long about it in this topic, but indeed, it's a club or team that uses their rig (PC/Laptop) to be used together, indirectly becoming a supercomputer, for protein folding that can be used as anti-cancer medicine, etc. There's a PC fact that nowadays graphic card was so powerful that it's physics counting performance was faster than a processor. So folders (an individual of a folding team) used their GPU as a priority in folding rather than using the CPU. More GPU, more faster folding.

With this mobo they would be happy folding and bragging about his rig's folding performance.

(thanks for Bit-Tech about the picture and Engadget for the latest infos in KlipGadget)

Blog Writer, Owner,

Jeffry J.

Bored with high quality realistic games? Try 8-Bit games!

Lol, what's 8-Bit? Is it a brand new band from America or a new fantastic game? No, it's a type of gaming consoles era between 1980s and 1990s and more simple, it's before the time the Playstation 1 was launched (lol, now it's 15 years old, how about the 8-Bits?). The games were old and only a few retro gamers plays on it. But compared to nowadays game, the 8-Bits seems to be more fun rather than a highly rendered real-life-like games. How? Well, maybe it's because the 8-Bits graphic design was quite poor that most people sees it as an 'electronic game'. While nowadays games mostly simulates the possible and impossible real-life achievements in games. That makes it hard to be defeated and takes some time to accomplish. While 8-Bits, "Just jump and kill The Boss, YOU WIN!!!" That sounds to easy. But think again, you just could win some of the 8-Bit games in simple tips and tricks, while nowadays game needs some concentration to win. "When we wanted to win a game we must need a full concentration!!!" the comment before was made by a fanatic gamer and don't listen to him/her or you'll ended up like him/her that plays game for battle! Hey, it's just a game, lol...

A simple example (not detailed) of 8-Bit quality games that made into a short, funny, movie...

An Amazing Disassembly & Reassembly Video (MUST SEE)

Hello, today I just found a video that's really amazing, that till now I'm still wandering how the PSP was lifted. What? PSP? Yes, the thing that's being disassembled and reassembled was a Black Sony PSP Go. What's PSP 'Go'? If you never heard of it, you could visit Wikipedia and see it's reception from reviewers if you're considering to buy it.

And now here's the video...

World of Goo: A Special Yet Simple Physics Game

I wanted to introduce about the game which was quite fun to be played rather than standard, already bored, 3D online/offline games. It's called 'World of Goo', a nicely designed 2D game that uses 'goos' to complete levels.

Most of the game's goal was to deliver special goos or unused goos to the pipe at the other end. The game is based on a story which the goos were escaped in Level 1 and starting to explore the world around them. It's also designed in some kind of a gothic style, but yet funny and sometime 'cute'. The graphic is still nice and good without the 3D. It's also seems to be relying on physics freshly computed from the computer, making it more like a real-life game. Maybe beating the challenges in levels are hard, but the little goos and the curiosity of an interesting story waiting ahead makes you wanted to proceed however hard it is. This game sometime forces you to think more to compete with the real-life physics to complete the level, which makes it challenging. It's a truly simple yet outstanding game...

Blog writer,

Jeffry J. (the 'only' blog writer here)

Have You Heard of : Ericofon?

Well, now Happy New Year is over and let's start continuing our daily life. But there's an interesting thing that might caught your interest. If you liked retro-styled things from cars to clock, then you might liked this.

It's an old but yet still interesting and unique phone called Ericofon. Designed by Ericsson's design team in 1940s and built by Ericsson in 1954 (North Electric for USA market in 1961). This phone was unique as it combined both rotary dial and handset into single unit. The phone will only work if the switch hook isn't pressed. It also made in 18 different colors (later 8 for USA) that looks nice and suitable for every room. It changed the world perception of how phones could be designed, creating innovations that todays cellphone still implement the basics of it. 

It also has a unique tone called Ericotone (only USA version). It's a chirping sound, created from transistor oscillator that controls it. This was also an innovation in phone design as it was the first phone to implement transistor on it. It's later discontinued in 1972 with the last implemented design called Touch Tone. But this version was rare as it's hook switch was poorly designed and broke easily when the phone was dropped on a hard surface.

Later Ericsson designed a new type of Ericofon to celebrate company's 100th anniversary. It's later called Ericofon 700. It did sold out but never went into American market. Today the Ericofon is weird-looking, old phone compared nowadays phone. But, think again, nowadays desk phone's handset still needed to be picked up and dial it on the telephone set. While Ericofon, just pick it up and dial everywhere you like from the handset as long as the telephone cable still attached. What an 'classic' innovation...