Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic 2GB Review
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Microsoft Offers Explanation for Modern Warfare 2 DLC SNAFU
The long-awaited downloadable content for Modern Warfare 2 was released yesterday, and for some the experience was less than stellar. According to Microsoft there were two releases yesterday - one involving new maps for the game and the other was an update to the game. According to Microsoft, the DLC was released ahead of the title update but the new content doesn't function properly without the title update. Once the two pieces were released out of order it was a giant mess resulting in the problems reported here. To top it all off, the popularity of the download also resulted in some billing issues as well. According to Microsoft users just need to hang tight and try again later.
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ATI HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Launches
After a delay to the initially planned release date, ATI today launched its HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, which comes equipped to run up to six monitors through its mini DisplayPort connectors. Up until now, HD 5870 Eyefinity setups have been limited to three screens, but the Eyefinity 6 Edition allows you to double this up to a 3x2 configuration. Further configuration options are planned and will be supported with upcoming software updates. The card itself, apart from the already mentioned six mini DisplayPorts, comes packing 2GB of GDDR5 memory, which AMD claims is enough to allow it to run the latest games at high frame rates and quality settings on three and six monitors setups. Whether the single HD 5870 GPU will keep up with six monitors in demanding games is something we shall find out shortly. A number of review sites, including HotHardware and Hexus have already had hands on time with the card, with impressions being positive, though they also seem to confirm that six screen gaming at higher image quality settings will challenge the GPU. Look out for more reviews in our hardware roundup later today.
Cards from a number of manufacturers should be available in short order, with Newegg currently showing three options from Gigabyte, Sapphire and HIS (all but the Gigabyte being out of stock at the time of writing). All three carry price tags of $499.99.
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Intel Jumps to Eight Cores with New Xeon Chips
Just a couple of weeks ago, Intel announced the release of its new 5600 series Xeon processors, which featured models with up to six physical cores. Today Intel launched the Xeon 7500 series (or Nehelam-EX), which contains models that boast up to eight cores, and with the inclusion of Hyper Threading technology can therefore handle 16 threads at a time. Intel is highlighting the performance of the new chips by claiming that 20 older single core, four chip servers could be consolidated into just one server running Xeon 7500 series processors, while maintaining the same levels of performance. Doing so would obviously save money on power and other associated running costs.
Intel says that the 7500 series improves performance by an average of three times over the previous 7400 series (on leading enterprise benchmarks), with servers able to be configured with up to 256 chips. Memory bandwidth and capacity also jumps significantly, with four-socket platforms able to support up to one terabyte of memory. At the top of the new lineup is the Xeon X7560, which features 8 cores / 16 threads running at 2.26GHz with 24MB of cache and a TDP of 130W. It comes priced at $3,692 per chip in 1,000 unit quantities.
A number of new features added to the 7500 series to bolster security and scalability now mean that, along with a growing trend for virtualization, they become a potential alternative to server builders who would usually opt for say, a RISC based system. It's for this reason that some are saying this marks a big step for Intel. Major server makers such as Cisco Systems, Dell, HP, IBM and Orcale (to name a few) are set to provide models based on the Xeon 7500 series.
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Google Chrome to Continue Using Flash
With all the talk of HTML5 and some websites ditching Flash support altogether, it seems Adobe has found a kindred spirit in Google. Google has announced that its Chrome web browser would continue to support and actively integrate Adobe's Flash technology. What that means is that you no longer need to download or update Flash Player on your computer just to watch a video on Youtube in Chrome. The browser will handle all the updating itself, presumably in its own updates, to remove the headache of trying to access a website only to see your Flash Player is out of date. In the big picture, Google hopes that Flash will become an integral part of web design just like HTML and Javascript. This could also mean that the upcoming Chrome OS will have native Flash support built right in.
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SlingPlayer Coming To iPad
The SlingPlayer has been a very popular application to multimedia users, and especially those that love high-definition content. For the iPhone, the application took a while to develop, and when it was released, it did not have the ability to stream over 3G either which was a letdown to many consumers. With the iPad however, SlingPlayer is being fully developed in a timely fashion so far, and should be out shortly after the device from Apple comes out. High resolution video is planned to be supported, and Sling is also planned to be moving towards H.264 format. The large screen on the iPad is also said to be a plus to the application, and users of it when it comes out should be satisfied with the multimedia aspect of it.
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Verizon Finally Set to Roll Out Android 2.1
To follow up our earlier reports, it seems Verizon is just now finally set to launch the Android 2.1 update to users of the Motorola Droid. After Verizon announced the update had been postponed to a later date, it seems the company has fixed whatever quirks were found and will launch the update. The update should have started at noon eastern time today for 1,000 lucky users, then 9,000 more users will get the update just before midnight eastern. If everything works out fine for the first 10,000 people, then Verizon will launch the update to 200,000 more users by midnight eastern on Thursday. After the first wave of 200,000, Verizon will keep updating mass groups at a time until every Droid user in the U.S. has the 2.1 update.
Since there are a few Droid users here, myself included, has anyone received the update yet? And if so, what are your thoughts on it?
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GeoHot Intends to Keep Linux on the PS3
The hacker who cracked both the PS3 and the iPhone, George Hotz, has responded to the removal of the OtherOS option from the PS3. He is urging gamers to not update the firmware on their PS3 until he has a workaround that will enable them to keep Linux support. Sony has done this sort of thing in the past, with the removal of PS2 emulation and SACD playback. Hotz states that his intent isn't to encourage piracy, but to ensure that the user receives all features that they have paid for.
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