CES 2010 - Day 3 coverage
While we've been giving some of the big stories from CES headlines in their own right, here's a round up of some of the other goodies that have been spotted on the show floor during the Las Vegas event's third day.
- Intel's Wireless HD Technology at Anandtech
- Intel Demonstrates Moorestown Smartphones and Tablet Running Moblin, Including LG at Anandtech
- ASUS Will Ship "U3S6" USB 3.0, 6Gbps SATA PCIe Adapter Next Week For $30 at Daily Tech
- New LG HDTVs - Full of Features and Razor Thin at Hardware Zone
- Sony's 3D Vision at Hardware Zone
- Samsung Goes for 3D at Hardware Zone
- HTC launches smartphone for the masses at HEXUS
- Qualcomm will launch dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon this year at HEXUS
- Dell Alienware M11x takes "all powerful" gaming to the 11.6in form factor at HEXUS
- Dell revamps Inspiron Mini 10: Pine Trail, HD video and a slimmer design at HEXUS
- Dell teases 5in Slate PC at HEXUS
- iBUYPOWER stuffs an Xbox 360 into a PC at HEXUS
- Digital Experience 2010: NVIDIA GF100, Thinkpad Edge, Nexus One and More at Hot Hardware
- New Motherboards from EVGA, ECS, and Gigabyte at PC Perspective
- OCZ Techology shows off SSDs in both SATA and PCIe form at PC Perspective
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NVIDIA CEO states GF100 is in volume production, shows off Tegra 2
Yesterday was NVIDIA's big day in front of the press at the Consumer Electronics Show, and they certainly had a few interesting items to show off.آ For the gamers and PC enthusiasts however, perhaps the most important news from CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's keynote speech was that their GF100 solution, based upon their next-generation "Fermi" architecture, is now supposedly in volume production.
Firing Squad has that news story for you.
Meanwhile, one of the more impressive demonstrations from the NVIDIA event was the unveiling of their Cortex A9-based Tegra 2 solution, which could well find itself a home in numerous portable devices, tablets, smartphones and even cars.
The original Tegra used a single ARM11 core. It was multi-core capable but the only version NVIDIA ever shipped only had a single ARM11. By now you know that ARM11 is unreasonably slow and thus you see my biggest problem with Tegra 1. Tegra 2 addresses this in a grand way. NVIDIA skipped over Cortex A8 entirely and went to what it believes is a more power efficient, higher performing option with the A9. I'll go deeper into the A9's architecture shortly, but to put it bluntly - A8 is dead in my eyes, Cortex A9 is what you want.
Anandtech has the low-down on what Tegra 2 is all about, while Engadget have as-live coverage of the entire NVIDIA keynote from beginning to end.
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Lucid’s Hydra multi-GPU solution revealed and tested
Ever since it was first unveiled back in 2008, we've been excited (albeit a little sceptical admittedly) about Lucid's "Hydra" technology, which claims to be a revolution in multi-GPU processing, even going as far as letting you mix AMD and NVIDIA graphics boards in a single graphics processing configuration.آ 2010 should finally allow the Hydra to see the light of day as an addition to MSI's forthcoming Big Bang Fuzion, and a few sites have taken an early look to see how things are shaping up.
Think of this as lite-profiles however. The profiles are simply a list of executables that the Hydra feature has been tested on and approved; the profiles aren’t a list of game-specific optimizations like NVIDIA and AMD’s game profiles are, and as far as we can tell Lucid isn’t doing any other game detection in the drivers, so it’s as generic as they claim. To this extent, the profiles serve largely as a list of recommended games, rather than an absolute list. You can easily add additional game profiles to the list, however there’s obviously no guarantee that they will work correctly with the Hydra.
Hence, the main attraction of Lucid's Hydra is its mix and match capability. Lucid claims that its distributed processing or load-balancing technology allows the addition of a newer generation graphics card to an older one while maintaining a decent amount of performance boast. This is done by having its ASIC chip sit in between the CPU and the GPUs and 'meditate' or distribute the workload via PCIe according to the GPUs' capabilities in real time. It's something that ATI or NVIDIA cannot do currently with their Alternate Frame rendering method of splitting the workload between two GPUs, which requires a similar level of performance from both. The generic nature of Lucid's technology also means that it doesn't matter what architecture the GPU belongs to, which hence allows for ATI and NVIDIA GPUs to work together.
In the other games things aren't so rosy though, with the Hydra configurations falling really very far behind the actual SLI setups. Call of Duty 4 suffered microstuttering that completely hindered any smooth gameplay - this was regardless of whether ATI or Nvidia cards were used and has been consistent since we first started using Hydra with earlier drivers.
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Thursday news round up
Earlier today, we examined ASRock's H55M Pro motherboard, so don't miss our thoughts on this part based upon Intel's latest chipset. That aside, here's the rest of our usual news and review round up.
Video cards, CPUs and motherboards
- Intel Core i5 661 CPU review at Hardware Secrets
- ASUS ATI Radeon EAH5870 G 2DIS review at OCaholic
- Overclocking Intel's Core i5 661 at Tech Gage
- ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB review at eTeknix
- Asrock M3A785GMH/128M Socket AM3 Motherboard review at Pro-Clockers
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor X review at XS Reviews
Cases, cooling and power supplies
- In Win Maelstrom review at Tweak PC
- Zalman's Upcoming Lineup Revealed at Hardware Canucks
- Thermaltake SpinQ VT Heatsink review at Hi-Tech Reviews
- Cooler Master 690 II Advanced review at Pure Overclock
- Thermaltake Element G PC Case review at Bona Fide Reviews
- Cooler Master 690 II Advanced Mid Tower Chassis review at Extreme Overclocking
- Thermaltake TR2 RX 750 Watt Power Supply review at Pro-Clockers
- Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Case review at Hardware Secrets
- Noctua NF-S12B 120mm Case fan review at Xtreme Computing
- Cooler Master Gladiator 600 Mid-Tower Case review at Overclockers Online
- Cooler Master Storm Sniper Black Edition Mid-Tower Case review at Tweak Town
- Thermaltake Element V review at techPowerUp
- Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler review at PC Games Hardware
- Danamics LMX Gen2 Liquid Metal Cooler review at Nordic Hardware
- Thermaltake Media LAB video review at eTeknix
Storage and memory
- Kingston HyperX 1600MHz 12GB Triple Channel (KHX1600C9D3K6/12G) review at Bjorn 3D
- A-DATA S592 128GB Solid State Disk review at Tweak Town
- RaidSonic Icy Box IB-250 external USB 3.0 HDD enclosure review at Tweak PC
- Crucial M225 64GB 2.5" SSD review at RB Mods
- Thermaltake BlacX Duet review at Pure Overclock
- RunCore Pro V 100GB SandForce Solid State Disk review at Tweak Town
Systems, audio and input devices
- Acer Ferrari One 11.6-inch Netbook review at Tweak Town
- SteelSeries Xai Laser Gaming Mouse review at techPowerUp
- Novatech V14 Laptop review at Driver Heaven
- Auzentech Home Theater HD review at XS Reviews
- ROCCAT ARVO Gaming Keyboard review at Metku
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CoolIT announces four new products at CES 2010
One company that has clearly been busy at this year's CES is CoolIT (creators of the rather excellent Domino water cooling solution), who have today announced not one, not two, not three, but four new products, from CPU to graphics card coolers and beyond.
Integrated into the VANTAGE unit is a programmable 84 x 48 pixel LCD screen with a dynamic, custom color backlight and 2.4GHz wireless communication module. Two buttons on the Vantage module provides a user interface for optimizing all chassis fan speeds, RGB case lighting, LCD Backlight color along with monitoring and alarm triggers.
The VANTAGE also features CoolIT's revolutionary ESP (Extra Sensory Peripherals) wireless technology which enables the cooler to be controlled and monitored through CoolIT's Maestro software and USB wireless controller. It's even possible to upload your own image to the VANTAGE's display without compromising the meticulous wire management that is a big part of an enthusiast PC.
It retails for $124.99 and currently the only CPU cooler in the world that can be controlled through wireless technology. The Vantage product is expected to be shipping by mid February 2010.
For the full low-down on what's new from the company, check out their press release in full here.
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AMD demonstrates Radeon HD 5830 XGP at CES 2010
Since it first saw the light of day a couple of years ago ATI's XGP (eXternal Graphics Platform) technology, designed to allow notebook users to connect an external graphics solution via a PCI Express connector on the system, hasn't really caught on, thanks perhaps to a combination of a far from exciting Radeon HD 3870 within the XGP box itself and (even more importantly) the fact that not many motherboards ship with the required PCI Express connectivity either.آ However, it appears that the idea is still alive and kicking, and AMD have used the Consumer Electronics Show to demonstrate a Radeon HD 5830 working as an XGP solution.
Legit Reviews provides the video of this setup in action, which you can see for yourself via the YouTube video below.
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