Sim Lim Sq Walkabout: Week 15, 2008Other new items this week - processors, power and sound...

Intel's latest and fastest quad core desktop processors - Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and QX9775. It is based on Intel's latest 45nm process, and clocks in at 3.2GHz with a large 12MB of L2 cache to go with it. This processor, sporting a 1600MHz system bus itself, was meant to be released together with Intel's X48 chipset, which officially supports a 1600MHz system bus. The QX9775 has similar specifications, but is meant for the higher end Skulltrail platform that supports SMP Dual Processor and Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM), and sits on a LGA771 socket instead of the LGA775 for the QX9770.
This processors comes with a really hefty price tag of above SGD$ 2000! As for the exact figures, we'll leave it to you to call and enquire. The processors are available at Chamoxa Office Automation and Cybermind Computer House.
Enermax Modu82+ is Enermax's latest line of modular power supplies. It is available in 525W and 625W configurations. One of the selling points of this power supply is its very high efficiency rate of 84-88%.
The 525W and 625W power supplies retail at $ 209 and $ 239 respectively.
Looking for a compact router or access point? Buffalo has an answer to that for only $ 59.
We placed a name card next to the mini router. Yes, that's how small the router is.
New on the shelf is Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook. Now you can enjoy X-Fi technology on your laptop via an ExpressCard solution.
The Xtreme Audio Notebook solution supports 5.1 and 7.1 channel output. Here is the output dongle to connect your audio devices.

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but that baffulo router - no antenna??