This is an endless topic of conversation, with everybody you meet having their own pet opinion. What brings better results, purchasing a faster graphics card, or investing your cash in a more powerful processor? In an effort to find out, Tom’s Hardware has taken a good look at the most important chips. In this article, the Geforce 6800 GT, 7950 GT, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS 512, 9600 GT 1024 and 9800 GTX are up for cross-testing in terms of performance comparisons, and pitted against current CPUs like the E2160, E6750, Q6600 and X6800EE.

The results should clarify how much performance is obtained by upgrading the various components, as well as which combinations work best or are cheapest. It will also show us how high the basic performance level of the processor needs to be in order for the new G92 graphics chips from Nvidia to develop their full 3D speed potential. The comprehensive tables and performance analyses show clear results detailing the effects of a CPU upgrade on Geforce 6 and 7, and whether it might just be better to go for the new graphics card generation with DirectX 10.

The test platform used is based on an X38 chipset with DDR3 memory and PCI Express 2.0 interface, and remains identical for all of the individual tests. Generally speaking, only the graphics and CPU performance is changed for each run. In order to ensure that the E2160 and Q6600 are able to keep up with the other processors, two additional test runs have been performed in which the Front Side Bus (FSB) was overclocked by 33-34%. The test results indicate whether simply overclocking the small cache budget CPU is able to compensate for its initial performance deficit, and how much performance the quad core is able to pull from its reserves as a result of the increased frequencies.

Source: TomsHardware.com

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By Steve Mollman
CNN

(CNN) — When you go shopping in a mall, you create an invisible path as you head from one store to another. For the manager of a mall, it would be useful to see the paths made by you and hundreds of other shoppers over time. Now, there’s a tool for detecting those paths: the cell phone.

More than a mouthpiece: Cell phones can be used to track behaviour patterns. Mobile phones have become ubiquitous in advanced economies, to the point where in some countries cellular subscriptions outnumber people, and worldwide they number well over 3 billion.

Handsets frequently send tiny communications — basically saying “here I am” — to cell towers and other receivers, regardless of whether you’re using them. With triangulation, it’s possible to determine the handset’s (and thus your) approximate location. Over a period of time, your path through a mall or other space can be tracked. If those tiny communications can be kept anonymous — so that a specific phone’s movements can be tracked but not connected to an individual — then they and the patterns that they reveal can be put to commercial or civil use without infringing on privacy rights. The potential applications are powerful, says Roger Dennis, an associate with innovation consultancy Innovaro, because cell phones “become de-facto tracking devices when applied to populations.”

“Essentially what you are doing is watching rivers of people,” he says. “Anywhere where there are flows, there will be applications. Mass transit operations will be a prime user of this type of technology to monitor flows of commuters at hubs and interchanges.” Path Intelligence, a startup in the UK, says it’s in talks with airports, museums and amusement parks, among others. They’re interested in its FootPath system, which lets them track cell phones (and anonymous customers) through their public places. FootPath, which went on sale last summer, is already being used by mall operators. A key feature is that it lets them measure how long customers stay in the mall. From there, they can experiment to see what makes them spend more time — and, by correlation, more money — before leaving. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW YORK (AP) — A startup is betting that people are tired enough of their cable and satellite bills to take a look at an alternative pay TV system that combines a number of different technologies to deliver programming.

Technical trials are starting soon for Sezmi, a company that hopes to bust into the TV business. Silicon Valley-based Sezmi Corp. is revealing a system Thursday that amounts to a way for phone companies and local TV broadcasters to team up for an end run around satellite and cable. Technical trials are starting shortly, with full-blown commercial trials in some markets, yet unnamed, later this year.

The carrot for consumers: monthly fees that are about half those of cable or satellite, according to Sezmi founder Buno Pati. Sezmi’s system takes some explaining. At its heart is a TV set-top box that receives video content in three different ways. Two are available through other means: digital over-the-air local broadcasts, the kind that are available to anyone with a digital TV and a rabbit-ear antenna; and Internet downloads through the home’s broadband connection.

The third delivery method would be unique to Sezmi. It plans to have local TV stations use vacant portions of their airwaves to transmit basic cable channels like Nickelodeon and Discovery. Given the limited spectrum available, the stations won’t be able to transmit a full lineup, and only some of it will be in high definition. Sezmi plans to mitigate that by having stations send out the most-watched shows and have the set-top boxes save them on their hard drives, making them available for viewing on demand. Read the rest of this entry »