IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (Elite Bastards) 19/11/2009

AMD Radeon HD 5970 reviews

While the launch of AMD's Radeon HD 5800 series has naturally made waves thanks to its being the first to bring DirectX 11 graphics boards to market and with performance aplenty to boot, the one area where the company was still lacking was in terms of holding the overall performance crown for a single physical card.آ That situation looks set to change today with the launch of the (slightly oddly named, if you ask me) Radeon HD 5970, which straps two Cypress GPU cores to a single card to serve as AMD's flagship graphics offering.آ Needless to say there are plenty of reviews to go alongisde this launch, so check out our comprehensive list of coverage.

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The Pirate Bay: Fin

If you've tried visit The Pirate Bay today, you might have noticed that it doesn't come up. In the past few months this might not be a surprise to you with the occasional busy periods or attempts to take it offline by the Swedish government. It would seem that now, it's finally going to go offline for good (despite still being online at the moment).

Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the worldâ€™s largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.

The article from Torrent Freak can be read here.

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AMD Catalyst 9.11 available for download

NVIDIA's drivers came earlier, but the release of a beta version of Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 has also brought us a new set of drivers for ATI graphics boards to mark the occasion.آ Here are the highlights this time around.

GPU Acceleration of H.264 video content using Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta

- This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format.آ Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduce system resource utilization, and preserve battery life.آ Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5800, ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series of products.

High Quality downscaling for video transcoding MSE

- This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ includes an enhancement for the ATI Video converter for users transcoding high quality interlaced content (1920x1080i @60i videos) down to small resolution progressive content (320x240 @30p - iPod videos as an example), by maintaining high visual quality when down-scaling by a significant amount and converting interlaced video content to progressive.

You can download Catalyst 9.11 for the Operating System of your choice from the AMD Game web site.

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 reviews

While we're still waiting to see some kind of rivalry to AMD's DirectX 11 range of graphics boards, NVIDIA have today rolled out another new DirectX 10.1 part - The GeForce GT 240, which aims to replace the now ageing GeForce 9600 GT while also offering up a hefty performance boost for this kind of price point.آ Does it succeed in its goals?آ Check out our comprehensive list of reviews.

- MSI GeForce GT 240 512MB OC at Guru 3D
- Zotac GeForce GT 240 AMP! Edition at Hot Hardware
- MSI N240GT GeForce GT 240 512 MB GDDR5 at techPowerUp
- MSI GeForce N240GT 512MB GDDR5 OC at Tweak Town

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NVIDIA GeForce/ION driver 195.55 released

Following on from the launch of a beta release of Adobe's Flash Player 10.1, and to coincide with the launch of the GeForce GT 240, NVIDIA have today released a new set of WHQL candidate drivers which adds support for both of these new additions to the world.

New in Version 195.55:

- Adds GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. Learn more here.
- Adds support for GeForce GT 240.
- Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
- Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details.
- Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming titles including Borderlands, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, FIFA Soccer 10, and more.
- Includes numerous bug fixes including improved performance for Need for Speed: Shift. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

Download GeForce/ION driver 195.55 for Windows Vista/7 (32-bit)
Download GeForce/ION driver 195.55 for Windows Vista/7 (64-bit)

Download GeForce/ION driver 195.55 for Windows XP Home/Professional
Download GeForce/ION driver 195.55 for Windows XP Professional x64

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Elite Bastards) 19/11/2009

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