Wednesday, July 14, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 14/07/2010


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7 Years After AMD Introduced 64-Bit Processors, Half of Windows 7 Installs Are x64
In 2003, AMD launched the Opteron Server processor (http://www.amd.com/us/products/server/processors/Pages/server-processors.aspx), featuring AMD64, bringing 64-bit processing to the x86 Server market, following up with the Athlon64 for the desktop and workstation masses. Now 7 years later,...
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No Price Drops Planned For AMD ATI Radeon HD 5830 or HD 5850
The recent launch of the NVIDIA Enthusiast product line up culminating in today's GTX 460 has prompted some to speculate that the DirectX-11-Done-First-By-9-Months-Team is going to lower prices, to combat perceived performance and feature competition. Image:...
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NVIDIA Goes Back to "Bad Bumps" for GF100
This could be some troubling news for people who were planning on grabbing a GF100-based video card soon. Given that the GF100 die is large and hot, 529mm^2 or so, and well over the official 250W TDP, that is very hard on the bumps, and so a lot of protection from the underfill is a necessity. It...
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Public Beta Released
Microsoft's fastest selling, most 64-bit adopted desktop OS gets its first service pack this year, which is now available for public testing (if you register for the download with your Windows Live ID). Microsoft announced on Monday that the first Windows 7 Service Pack 1 public beta is now...
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