Wednesday, March 24, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 24/03/2010


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Norwegian Phenom II X6 Listings Quote "Turbo" Speeds
If true, expect speed increases of up to 500MHz. Those leaked Thuban details we told you about yesterday are gaining credibility. We now see Norwegian online retailer Microplex has put up listings for the same two six-core processors—the Phenom II X6 1055T...
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Testing AMD's New FirePro Linux Driver With The FirePro V8750 @ Phoronix
Earlier this month AMD rolled out a new workstation graphics card driver, which is effectively the same Catalyst driver used by the consumer-oriented Radeon graphics cards but with greater testing and certification for the ATI workstation offerings. Earlier this month AMD rolled out a new...
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Radeon 3D Performance: Gallium3D vs. Classic Mesa @ Phoronix
Gallium3D, the graphics driver architecture started by Tungsten Graphics to overhaul the hardware driver support in Mesa, has been around for a few years but it is finally getting close to appearing on more desktop systems. Now that the Nouveau DRM code is in the mainline Linux kernel and its...
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Windows 7 XP Mode Drops Hardware Virtualization Requirement
Thanks to a new update for Windows 7, just about anyone should now be able to run old software through Windows XP Mode — provided they have Win7 Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise to begin with, that is. Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc broke the news...
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Official AMD Phenom II X6 CPU Prices Revealed
Bahrain-based e-tailer Advanti has revealed that they have received official prices on the upcoming six core processors from AMD. Here’s what they had to say on their facebook (http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=105844498524&share_id=373962519813&comments=1#s373962519813) page "We just...
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