Saturday, February 21, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 21/02/2009

Deal of the week: AMD's Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
We haven't featured AMD processors in our deal posts very often lately, but AMD's new Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition is a special case. As we discovered in our benchmarks, this chip manages to outperform Intel's popular Core 2 Duo E8400 overall despite having a lower price tag....
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Catalyst 9.2 drivers promise Crysis, FEAR 2 speed-ups
Hot on the heels of Nvidia's latest ForceWare release, AMD has posted a new set of Catalyst drivers for its Radeon graphics cards. The Catalyst 9.2 software brings some performance improvements, much like the new Nvidia drivers, albeit not in all of the same games. Here are the speed-ups...
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Quake Live beta to go public next week
If you haven't already, you'll get a chance to sample id Software's upcoming browser-based multiplayer shooter next week. As Shacknews writes, the Quake Live beta will open up on Tuesday, February 24. Quake Live is essentially a browser-based port of Quake III: Arena with some classic maps (including an updated...
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Nvidia platform for Via processors is still on the way
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has revealed that a version of his company's Ion platform for Via processors will arrive later this year, DigiTimes reports. The graphics firm actually announced a platform for Via's Nano processors all the way back in April 2008, long before we heard anything about...
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