
on Friday i just buy the new laptop HP Compaq V3713AU. Firstly i want to buy the V3715AU but don’t have the stock n must order first it take one week lol.. can’t wait for it .. so after a few minutest i decided to buy the V3713AU. The different of this Model is $ : Save 400, Processor TL-58, HDD 160, RAM 512.
For the v3715AU its coming with the AMD TL-60, 250 GB HDD, 1GB RAM, add 400.
Becoz i already save the 400 then i use that money to upgrade the RAM and buy 2 x 2GB DDR2 SODIM = RM 139 X 2. Then install it with the Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
OS Running on my System
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
VMWare – Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.1, Open SUSE 10.3, Mac OSX, Solaris 10,
SPEC
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-58 (2.0 GHz, 512 KB+512 KB L2 Cache)
4096 MB 667MHz / max to 2GB DDR2 Memory (2048 x 2 pcs)
160GB HDD
14.1″ TFT WXGA high definition widescreen LCD panel with brightview technology
DVD +/- RW Double Layer Drive
802.11a/b/g
NVIDIA® MCP67M (UMA)/NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7150M up to 559 MB total graphics memory with 4096 MB system memory (UMA / shared graphic)”
ExpressCard slot/54 slot
2 Altec Lansing branded Stereo Speakers
High speed 56K / Integrated 10Mbps, 100Mbps
101-key compatible keyboard, Touchpad on/off button and dedicated vertical and horizontal scroll up/down pad, 1 Quick Launch button
VGA, USB 2.0 (3), IEEE 1394, Consumer IR, RJ-11, RJ-45, headphone, microphone jack, Omni-directional microphones (2), AC adapter, S-video out, expansion port for HP xb3000 Notebook Expansion Base,
Kensington lock
5-in-1 intergrated digital media reader slot
6-cell Lithium-Ion (4.4Ah) – provides up to 4 hours and 16 mins of battery life

MSI just release out the new Powerless Air Cooler on Mobo
They claim it can decrease 70% heat transfer




More detail about the Stirling Engine!
• The history of the Stirling engine.
– The Stirling engine theory and prototype was invented during1600′s.
– In 1816, Robert Stirling of Scotland revised and then make it as “economizer”.
– With that addition the early age air engines started to use Stirling’s idea.
– Many other applications adopted the principle of the Stirling engine to replace existing applications.
• The theory of the Stirling engine.
– The Stirling engine, cycles through four main processes: cooling, compression, heating and expansion.
– This is accomplished by moving the gas back and forth between hot and cold heat exchangers.
– The hot heat exchanger is in thermal contact with an external heat source, e.g. Chipset, and the cold heat exchanger being in thermal contact with an external heat sink.
– The heat transferred the outside becomes air heat and pushes up the inside pump.
– The warm air cools, and the inside pump falls down again.
– The cycle restarts again.
• Usages of the Stirling engine.
– The striling engine is still used in some submarines and to power toy airplanes.
– The evolution of the Stirling engine has become a replacement energy solution.
– Heat transfer power, small electrical generator and internal power engine.
• Advantages of the Stirling engine.
– Max transfer rate over 70% heat transfer capability, solar power is only 20~30%.
– Smaller size than solar power, only heat, no extra fuel needed when working.
– Lower total cost and continued power output with continued heat resource.
Source from/Credit : MSI official Website

I think you all already know about the new board from Intel, SkullTrail , i think it will be launched on this week or next week..
The Spec:

The Intel D5400XS motherboard includes the following:
Features and benefits
INTEL official Site
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Form Factor
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Extended ATX (eATX) (12.00 inches by 13 inches [304.80 millimeters by 330.2 millimeters])
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Processor
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Memory
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- Four Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) DDR2 Module sockets
- Support for FBDIMM DDR2 800MHz, 667 MHz, DIMMs
- Support for up to 8 GB of system memory
- Support for ECC and non-ECC memory
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Chipset
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Intel® 5400 Express Chipset
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Audio
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Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration:
- 8-channel (7.1) Dolby Home Theater Audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and two S/PDIF digital audio outputs (coaxial and optical)
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Nvidia SLI* and ATI CrossFire* multi-GPU platform support
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Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFire technology enables two graphics cards to work together for ultimate 3D gaming performance and visual quality
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I/O control
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I/O controller for Consumer IR
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LAN support
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Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem
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Peripheral interfaces
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- 10 USB 2.0 ports (6 external ports, 2 internal headers)
- Six Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, including 2 eSATA port with RAID support supplied by a Marvell* controller
- Two IEEE-1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header)
- Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers)
- One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support (2 devices supported)
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Expansion capabilities
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- Two PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to both PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors)
- Four primary PCI Express* 1.1 x16 (electrical x16) bus add-in card connector
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Microsoft Windows Vista Premium* Ready
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With a PC built with Intel® processors and an Intel® Desktop Board, you can experience a more responsive and manageable environment of Microsoft Windows Vista including a new visual sophistication of the Microsoft Windows Aero* interface.
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Now Nvidia have the new version of Graphic Card that called it Geforce 9600GT. The code name for this chip is D9M and maybe debut in on valentine day 2008. It is 65nm processing chip. The GPU come with 64 shader and SLI and support 3-way SLI
also have the newest version of 92 series, this is the 9800Gx2 that support quad SLI…