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Microsoft’s Windows 7 to investigate battery Problems

3. February 2010

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Microsoft said it would investigate reports that go into them, the problem in Windows 7 that affect the consumer laptop battery.

“We were doing an investigation on this issue with hardware partners, including problems in its firmware,” wrote Microsoft’s statement, which write from the BBC, Wednesday (3/2/2010).

Warnings are also carried out to consumers to check their laptop battery, if there is a problem. Especially basic computer user input output system (BIOS).

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X58 Pro-E Cheap Budget Motherboard Nehalem Platform From MSI

31. October 2009

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msi_pro-e_boxWhen we hear the term socket LGA1366 Nehalem platform will thinking blooming we are high-end platform with exorbitant prices. This time MSI will change that perception with the release of a chipset motherboards to X58, but with a relatively affordable price, the X58 Pro-E.

Despite the cheap price, facilities provided this motherboard was quite complete, such as features ATI Crossfire-X, Triple Channel DDR3 1066, BlueRay True Audio Realtek ALC889, and others. Of course, do not forget to include the MSI specific features of their products, namely DrMOS with three main advantages of GreenPower for power consumption more efficient. Featured XpressCool makes the chipset cooler and RapidBoost that offer stability in overclocking.

In the test session using a test bed CHIP processors (Core i7 965), this motherboard shows a very good performance. Testing the daily application of simulated with the application Sysmark 2007, this motherboard produce a high enough score and satisfactory. Likewise with games testing, tests conducted indicate that this motherboard can run stable without any problems.

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