Tag Archives: AMD
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–BYO AMD PC Kit
This week’s Deal-of-the-Week is a Build Your Own AMD PC Kit from Tiger Direct for $349.
Including an MSI Motherboard, AMD 8-core CPU, Sony DVDRW drive, RAM, Case, and 1 TB Hard Drive, this would be hard to go past for a PC to get you up and running after a failure, or anyone looking for a good PC on a budget.
#47 The Home Tech Podcast: Skype, iPhone vs Android, Drobo Server, Android ROM’s and Photo Imaging Software
Jim and Andrew and Christian are joined by Mike Howard from Jpeg2RAW for this week’s installment of the Home Tech Podcast.
The guys start off with some Skype chat, relating to the aggressive update cycle since Microsoft acquired Skype, and draw some comparisons to the Group Chat feature within Google Plus, as well as talking about the Facebook and Skype integration.
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Jim tells us that his wife is buying a new iPhone 4S, and the merits of iPhone vs Android vs Blackberry devices, and discuss the recent Blackberry Outage, and if the advancements in iPhone and Android could be the writing on the wall for Blackberry.
Jim talks about his new server wish list – a small form-factor PC to connect to a Drobo – check out the discussion over in our Facebook group.
TAG Tech Deal of the Week–AMD AM3+ CPU
This weeks Deal of the Week is the AMD AM3+ 8-core CPU’s from NewEgg.com
AMD are the first CPU manufacturer to bring an 8-core processor to market – check it out over at NewEgg
#17 The Home Tech Podcast: Watching March Madness, Super Routers, Home Automation and iPads in Trucks?
March 17th, 2011 – St. Patrick’s Day Special – We the week almost gone, the Home Tech Podcast loaded up in preperation for a long weekend of green parties and college basketball! Along with regulars Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris, we were joined by Special Guests Mike Howard and Bill Paulman.
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TAG Deal of the Week — AMD Low Power Quadcore Returns to the Market
AMD Phenom II 910e
It’s quite a refresher to see the AMD Phenom II 910e return to the market after being out of stock for several months. Running as a low power, low cost, and high performance CPU, it is a great bargin for AMD fanboys and makes for a great HTPC. on your home network. Furthermore, Newegg has the best deal on the CPU, running at $180 thrown in with a free six month subscription to AVG Antivirus. Click here for details.
