Friday, December 19, 2008

IT News HeadLines (HARDSPELL) 19/12/2008

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GeForce GTX 285 gets higher frequencies at 55nm
NVIDIA isnt just planning to launch a new dual-GPU graphics card using the "new" 55nm GPUs. It will try to transfer many of its existing cards to the new and more manufacturing process and o
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AMD fixes HD 4850 CrossFireX issue with new hotfix
AMD has released a Catalyst 8.12 hotfix aimed at tackling with systems powered by Windows Vista and featuring two or more Radeon HD 4850 cards in CrossFireX. The problem targeted would see the said sy
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The new 55nm GTX 260 should look different
Nvidia will quietly start shipping GT200b, the 55nm chip for the new Geforce GTX 260 and the new 55nm chip will be clocked at the identical speeds as the 65nm predecessor. Naturally, the 55nm chip wil
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Halo 3 gets blamed for teen murdering his parents
Seventeen-year-old Daniel Petric is currently charged with and tbeing tried for killing his mother and father; and once again, the careless youth has blamed it on video games. Daniels defense argues t
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More Pics of GTX295 Leaked
As the Big Day approaches, NVIDIAs Dual-GPU VGA Card GeForce GTX295 doesnt seem so mysterious as before, especially with more specs leaked out. It features two 55nm GT200, 480 (240X2) stream processor
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Google Earth Going Photo-Realistic
According to the Google Earth blog, the company has updated the 3D buildings for New York City and the results are rather impressive. These before and after pictures should to give you an idea just ho
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VIA Trinity Platform Brings Hi-Def to Small Spaces
VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced a powerful new 3-chip silicon platform that brings HD performance to ultra compact systems for a
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Previews Hit the Web
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 NVIDIAs dual GPU GTX 295 video card said to launch at CES 2009NVIDIA and ATI battle it out for graphics card performance bragging rights and for the last few months, the perfo
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Air cooling: I7 965 + ASUS R2E 5GHz
Test setup:i7 965A DATA 1GBX3 DDR3-2000ASUS ASUS RAMPAGE II EXTREMEi7 original fanHD-4870X2HDD SATA2 320GOP 1200W
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HIS launches first passive HD4670
One of the best things about ATIs HD4600 series is the low power consumption and the fact that these mainstream cards dont need external power. The resulting low TDP allows vendors to easily make pass
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70-85$ AMD & NVIDIA VGA cards performances contrasted
In order to avoid of the bottleneck of CPU we used Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 and we did not overclock it. As it is Vista system we used 2GB (1GB*2) memory. For the game performances test we chose Call of
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NVIDIA unveils the Ion Platform
Intels Atom was so hot while it into the ultraportable market. But the nettop which equip Atom was 945G chipsets supports only. Atom has the limiting performance with the old chipsets. However, NVIDIA
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RV740 ES using GDDR5
AMD currently has RV740 cards running with 900Hz GDDR5 (thats 3600MHz effectively) in the lab. Exactly why they have chosen to use GDDR5 with a chip that is supposed to be mainstream is a bit hard to
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MSI reveals Wind nettop 100 CD in Japan
MSIs latest nettop definitely steals the thunder from the rest of the nettops available in the market. The first selling point of this Wind nettop 100 CD is the dual-core processing power, which is po
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AMD quad-core Prupos sampled, arrives in Q2 2009
Over at fid zilla they claim L3 cache, it should start shipping in Q2 2008. Propus is a quad-core with 2MB cache or 512KB cache per core and it wont have L3 cache at all. It wont be just Deneb with 6M
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Nvidia Ion: Intels Atom combined with Geforce 9400M
Currently Atom based system lack big 3D performance - thereby its no matter if the Intel chip is used in a netbook or a nettop. Now Nvidia combined Intels Atom with the Geforce 9400M chipset which is
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GeForce graphics cards gain OpenGL 3.0 support
This probably wont get too many gamers excited, but Nvidia has released drivers with "full" support for OpenGL 3.0 and version 1.3 of the OpenGL shading language (GLSL). The drivers work on
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DX10+PhysX: Cryostasis test

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Apple seen with new iMacs, Chinese iPhone soon into 2009
Even as its besieged by a weak world economy, Apple is expected to bounce back with new iMacs at the start of 2009 and to launch the iPhone in China soon afterwards.Though sharing the now widespread b
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AMD Denies Layoff Rumors
As the whole world encounters financial crysis, lots of rumors about layoff have been going around. According to Digitimes, AMD may lay off an additional 10% of their global workforce of around 15,000
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Nvidia working with PC makers to force Intel to open the Atom platform
Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business at Nvidia, recently visited Taiwan to negotiate with Taiwan PC makers for their support in forcing Intel to allow Nvidias MCP7A and MCP79 chipsets into the
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AthlonX2 7750 black edition reviewed
In the test we checked the performances of 7750 black edition fully, including Sisoftware Sandra, PCMARK Vantage 1.00, MainConcept H.264 Encoder, CineBench R10, POV-Ray, 3DMark Vantage and games. In o
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves screenshots released
A couple of screengrabs from the upcoming game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves have been released, and we have to say, they look pretty nice. The PS3 action adventure is being developed by the studio behin
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New pictures of Diablo III
Diablo III picks up the story twenty years after the events of Diablo II. Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal have been defeated, but the Worldstone, which once shielded the inhabitants of the world of Sanctua
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Its official: XFX will sell AMD graphics cards
The rumor mill scores again. Late yesterday, XFX and AMD officially confirmed that theyve indeed become partners—and that XFX-branded Radeon graphics cards are coming out early next year.Not so surpri
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Final GeForce GTX 285 specs revealed?
With its expected launch less than one month away, the GeForce GTX 285 is getting really impatient with a new report already saying that the card has already exposed its stock frequencies. Powered by
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Geforce GTX 260 stays GTX 260
The soon-to-launch 55nm GTX 260 with 216 Shaders will stick with the Geforce GTX 260 brand. The reason is quite simple. Nvidia sits on a huge 65nm inventory and as soon as they would introduce a card
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Nvidia to launch new GT300 GPU in 1Q09; will showcase GT200-based cards at CES
Nvidia is planning to launch its next-generation high-end GT300 GPU in the first quarter of 2009. The GPU will be manufactured under a 55nm process, according to sources at graphics card makers.The co
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EVGA never talked to ATI
The XFX going ATI has raised a lot of questions and it revoked the old claim that EVGA did, indeed, talk to ATI at some point. We can confirm from many different sources that this never happened and E
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AMD may reduce workforce again in January 2009, say sources
With demand dropping in the PC market due to a worsening global economy, market sources indicated that AMD may lay off an additional 10% of their global workforce of around 15,000 employees in January
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