PowerColor makes dual-fan Radeons HD 6900
PowerColor today unveiled its first tweaked Cayman-powered cards, one Radeon HD 6950 and one HD 6970 equipped with a dual-slot cooler boasting two 9.2cm fans and 8mm copper heatpipes. Both models run cooler and quieter than reference models and have stock clocks.
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LG announces worldÂ’s largest LED 3D TV for CES
LG Electronics is going big for CES 2011, promising to showcase at the Las Vegas show the world's largest LED-backlit LCD 3D TV, a 72-inch model known as LZ9700. This technology miracle is said to deliver beautifully crisp picture and features the TruMotion 400Hz technology to enable smooth 3D images.
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Radeon HD 6950 can be unlocked to 6970
AMD's new Radeon HD 6970 and 6950 graphics cards are hackable, a new discovery has confirmed. As both use the same Cayman chip design underneath, website TechPowerUp has revealed (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159) a way to unlock the features of the Cayman XT (the 6970) on the lower-scale Cayman Pro (the 6950). The 6970 has no features that can be unlocked, however, confirming that it's the current ceiling. The red areas in the first embedded picture below shows the disabled shaders on the HD 6950, which can be turned on to realize a performance boost. AMD locked these out by a special VGA BIOS configuration, and not the other method it has at its disposal, with fuses. The software method is what allows the performance increases to be made, and AMD is said to be shipping all Radeon HD 6950 cards with the BIOS lockout. TechPowerUp has made available a number of the BIOSes (http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/index.php?page=1 architecture= manufacturer= model=HD+6970 interface= memSize=0) that unlock the shaders. An ASUS BIOS has higher clocks and Overdrive limits that lets users make voltage changes using SmartDoctor.
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Windows 8 to focus on gaming
A new rumor says Microsoft's Windows 8 could have a much stronger focus on gaming. The developer is said making gaming not just important but a key component for the whole OS . What that would entail wasn't given to the TechRadar source. The company has made periodic attempts to improve gaming in Windows, starting with DirectX in Windows 95 and including more recent additions like the Games section in Vista and 7. However, the company doesn't have a simplified gaming app store and still treats the Windows Live side of gaming as an optional component. Much of the PC gaming market is now controlled by Valve Software's Steam platform, which not only handles direct-download sales but provides matchmaking and most of the other responsibilities that aren't built into Microsoft's OS.
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