Hey guys, how are you holidays? I do hope you all are either working part-time or having a very good break resting at home…okay…we have some upcoming events…

1st of all…I shall announce our annual club bbq party!!

Which is happening on 13 Oct…mark that down…as we will be having food,fun and some games upcoming for all club members to enjoy…xD

2nd…GOOD NEWS everyone…AMD will be coming down on 2nd week of school starts…hm… 24th October 2008…shall post more details such as talk topic and venue when the time comes…do INVITE your friends to come down as it is opened to public…ahem to all NP students…

3rd of all we will also be having a seminar by 3COM…remember gadget3 as one of the booths?? yep…they are coming down…to give us a talk on “unified switches”…sounds interesting rite??will be around 14th November…this event will also be opened to all NP students…so do invite your friends along as well…

Here is a rough brief idea of AMD and 3Com…

AMD…

Widely known as a processor company…a rival of intel…now having ATi Graphics under them…it is what some tech heads might say…it is a cheaper alternative besides intel for computer processors…and ATi do make sleek graphics…as in nicer looking graphics than Nividia…yep…thats the brief intake…

3Com

A networking company develop to make networking products…another industrial grading switches and routers alternative of Cisco switches and routers…yep…another respectable brand…

oh yar…almost forgot…for the club bbq…details as follow…

Date:3 October 2008

Venue:Kismiss Field(right behind canteen 2,if unsure contact me…)

Time:6pm start till 10pm(bbq may end early)

Cost per head:$10(estimated cost…extras will be refunded)

Here you go…hope you all enjoy your holidays , do come down for the bbq…sign up for it…(check your email)…or I will just assume not many people will be coming…and food will be scarce…

Cheers,

ZeKai

Vice-Pred

Hi,

A good news to share with you guys… I know this has been way overdue due but I finally had the courage to cut up my precious PC Mags and scan in the articles.

Below are some mid-res scans of the articles and if you look carefully you will be able spot a very familiar face! =D

Guess who?

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Spotted news about on the forums of hardware zone…

pictures from VR-Zone…

recognize the dj?yep…his the one who have helped out in out annual Gadget3 Roadshow by PCMag and various vendors…

enjoy the pictures…you can see liquid nitrogen cooling they are using to cool…yep…advance…that is what I call the highest level…dangerous…to use liquid nitrogen…so be caution if you going to attempt this stunt…which I think you need a license for acquiring liquid nitro…

Yep…short cover on overclocking here…imagine yourself having to run from one spot to an another place…at a time…and you need to carry vast number of things across…so…in order to carry things faster…you…move faster…in terms generate heat…due to body…okay…for computers…yep it is also the same idea…just that…electricity passed from wire induces heat due to friction…that is why it electricity generates heat…the faster it goes…the hotter it is…since it does have the time to actually conduct the heat off the medium…

That is where we apply coolant…such as liquid nitrogen or dry ice…to cool our cpus mainly…since it can definitely can run fast…but it need to exhaust out heat in order to maintain its conductivity properties…or rather…it don’t melt…to cause short circuits and such…

ok…that’s all for my cover on overclocking…

Cheers,

ZeKai

Ok ok… I know this news is about 1 month+ old already but the fastest supercomputer is current IBM’s Roadrunner.

Hang on… If it is not fast than your average desktop then why will it be called a supercomputer in the first place?

Well… The reason why IBM Roadrunner is featured right here on our blog is because… the Roadrunner is built using the very same processor running YOUR PS3 but slightly enhanced version of it.

Besides using the Cell, AMD’s Opteron CPU are also used in collaboration with the Cell CPU.

From what I can gather is that, the Opteron CPU is used to handle the operating system while the Cell CPU is used to perform calculations!

For more info… Check out the links below.

Dailytech Link

New member in the club here, and I shall recap everyone on the biggest news happening in the technology world every month. Yes we all know about the resignation of AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, and the bad side of iphone 3G at launch. This month, however, the focus will be on E3, which took place earlier on.

So did E3 this year met everyone expectations?

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