Powercolor adds 3rd-party chips to graphics
With Computex just around the corner, we'll be seeing the lid lifted on all sorts of intriguing offerings next week most likely. However, I doubt many of them will be quite as intriguing as some of Powercolor's future plans...
The second item presents itself as an even more interesting proposal. Powercolor has bolted a Hydra chip onto its HD5770 design making it possible to do multi-vendor multi-GPU without, what seems to be, the need for a brand new motherboard. Lucidlogix, the maker of the Hydra chips, had laid out this plan way back in late 2008. The original idea was to get the chip running in one of two configurations, the first being integrated into the motherboard as an add-on chip, and the second as an add-in card. Of course, an add-in card for such a small chip would've cost too much and sold too little. The option is then made to strap it onto the graphics card. Thus is born the HD5770 Evolution.
The Inquirer has the full story.
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Elite Bastards review: Choiix PowerFort portable battery pack
There can be no doubt that the plethora of portable devices available to the modern man (and woman of course) makes life a whole lot easier in myriad ways.... until your smartphone battery dies, that is. This is where Choiix's new PowerFort device steps in, and we take a look to see if it's as useful as this segment of the Cooler Master brand suggests.
Choiix PowerFort portable battery pack review
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Aliens vs. Predator DirectX 11 benchmark now available
Aliens vs Predator has been strutting its DirectX 11 stuff for a little while now, but if you want to know how the game will look and perform on your own system, then Rebellion have now released a benchmark for you to try your hand at.
[H]ard|OCP has the Rebellion's benchmarking guide available to be viewed at your leisure, while you can download the benchmark's MSI installer directly from here.
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FIFA Online enters open beta
With the start of the 2010 World Cup just weeks away, no doubt football fever is gripping some of you... If so, then why not attempt to satiate your soccer desires via FIFA Online, a free to play version of the well-known and much-loved FIFA franchise. The title has now entered its open beta phase, so all you have to do is register, download the client and give it a whirl.
You can find out more about the game or sign up for an account on the FIFA Online web site.
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AMD Catalyst 10.5 available for download
We're nearing the end of the month of May (doesn't time fly), so we're more than due a new graphics board driver from AMD - Today, they duly deliver, so here's the run-down of what's new in Catalyst 10.5.
Support for 120 Hz displays on the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4000 Series and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3000 Series
- ATI Catalystâ„¢ now supports 120 Hz Displays for the ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 4000 and ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 3000 Series
ATI Overdrive enhancement – full support for multiple display configurations
- ATI Overdrive has been enhanced – delivering full support for over-clocking functionality on supported ATI Radeon™ HD graphics accelerators connected to multiple display configurations
Resolved issue highlights
- "Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load
- Enabling hardware shaders (perfect mode) no longer causes text and on-screen menu corruption while loading missions in "IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946" game
- Re-logging into a system after a Remote Desktop connection no longer results in "Catalyst Control Center is not supported..." warning message or the Graphics menu for Catalyst Control Center Advanced view to go missing
- HDTV resolutions are now properly reported by the tooltip when the mouse cursor hovers over the CV display icon under "Desktops & Displays" in the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center
- Alt-Tabbing to desktop and back into "Mass Effect 2" game no longer causes the display to go black
- In-game Anti-Alias can now be applied when other in-game options like Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War" games
- Enabling Anti-Alias in "Empire: Total War" no longer causes a performance drop
- Running "Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.0" in wireframe mode with tessellation enabled no longer causes the application to fail on ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 5000 Series cards
- Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes the screen to flicker under Multi-GPU configurations
- ATI Catalystâ„¢ Control Center now remembers the position of fourth monitor in an ATI Eyefinity group
- "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction" no longer fails during game play for ATI Radeonâ„¢ HD 2000 and 3000 series cards
Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.5 release include:
New Features
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalystâ„¢ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:Â
- SLED/SLES 11 SP1 Â early look support
You can, as always, download whatever flavour of Catalyst driver you require from the AMD Game web site.
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