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CrossFire launch leaves only vapors

Published 2005-10-01 12:49 by Newsfactory 0

Many folks who have read my review of ATI CrossFire in the past week have been wondering where they could buy the motherboards and CrossFire Edition graphics cards in order to build a CrossFire system for themselves. They've wondered that, in part, because of this passage from the conclusion of my CrossFire review, shortly after I recommend not buying a CrossFire setup right away:

TechReport

Multimedie flexible keyboard

Published 2005-10-01 12:41 by Newsfactory 0

A flexible keyboard! Sometimes it can be handy, for example out doors, beacause it doesn't take much place in your handluggage, it's portable with the proper size to fold or roll.

Gadget Flash

Intel Pentium M 760 @ T-Break

Published 2005-09-30 13:48 by Newsfactory 0

We take a look at Intel's 533MHz based Pentium M CPU in a desktop environment with the 7800GTX and DDR2. You'd be amazed at the damage this CPU is capable of.

ATI's CrossFire, too little too late?

Published 2005-09-30 13:32 by Newsfactory 0

ATI's long awaited multi-GPU CrossFire platform has finally seen its official introduction this week, we ask ourselves whether it could be too little too late?

Hardware Analysis

The New Sony AIBO Robotic Pup Converses

Published 2005-09-30 13:18 by Newsfactory 0

The Sony AIBO ERS-7M3 robotic pup is a step-up from its predecessor, the AIBO ERS-7M2. What's the difference? Voice integration. The AIBO ERS-7M3 will have a 1,000 word vocabulary that will allow your robotic pup to carry on a simple conversation with you. It's also Sony's first Spanish-speaking robot that responds to 35 Spanish-language commands.

PCMag.com

Apple to replace nuked nanos

Published 2005-09-29 17:43 by Newsfactory 0

Following a volley of bad press, Apple have done "the right thing" and admitted that there is a genuine problem with the screen on their recently launched iPod nano. Apple will replace broken units free of charge.

Bit-Tech

AMD: Show Me The Money

Published 2005-09-29 17:35 by Newsfactory 0

Barron's had an article the other day touting AMD and saying it might reach $50 a share in two years.

How likely is this?

Gigabyte 8N-SLI QUAD Royal ? An exercise in possibilities

Published 2005-09-29 17:18 by Newsfactory 0

For a little while now we?ve known about Gigabyte?s upcoming 8N-SLI QUAD motherboard and quite frankly, we?re a little excited about it. We?ve been on the backs of our friends from the Gigabyte marketing department to send us a sample to play with but it hasn?t been forthcoming as yet. We did however come in contact with some details about the new motherboard and we thought we?d share what we found with you.

TweakTown

ATI R520 AGP Cancelled

Published 2005-09-29 17:11 by Newsfactory 1

We saw some earlier roadmaps that were implying that ATI plans to do R520, Radeon X1800 in AGP variation but it turns out that the company dropped its original plan.

The Inquirer

LCD monitors up close

Published 2005-09-29 17:06 by Newsfactory 0

Do you know what exactly is 1 pixel on your LCD screen, your eyes are not good enough to see it up close, but with the help of some additional hardware you can do that... Lets have a look colser at the screens

NVIDIA 6100 and 6150 Integrated Chipsets Preview

Published 2005-09-29 16:59 by Newsfactory 0

There are a few combinations between the north and south bridges, which will hybridize to give you various motherboard options. There are, as of now, two north bridges (the graphics processing engines ? 6100 and 6150) and two south bridges (410 and 430).

Evesham Voyager C720 with 7800 GTX Go

Published 2005-09-28 22:11 by Newsfactory 0

NVIDIA are launching their 7800 GTX mobile part today. Evesham is one of the first manufacturers off the block with a notebook based around the chip. Nvidia claim that the mobile part is just as fast as the desktop 7800 GTX - could they possibly be right?

Bit-Tech

ATI X1800, X1600, X1300 (R5XX) Pricing Revelation

Published 2005-09-28 18:36 by Newsfactory 0

R520 lands next week, but how much will it set you back if you want one at launch? We've got details on the pricing of R520 and its brethren across the X1xx range.

HEXUS

ATi R580 Is Ready

Published 2005-09-28 17:39 by Newsfactory 0

In an ATi R520 presentation, one of the slides reveals that their next generation R580 is actually in the house and working. It will be the improved version of R520 built with 24 and 32 pipelines.

VR-Zone

Radeon X1300LE Performance

Published 2005-09-27 23:29 by Newsfactory 0

HKEPC has done some testing on the upcoming 90nm RV515 to be officially known as X1300LE. This card comes with 4 pipelines and was compared against the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 card with 8 pipelines. It is certainly delightful to see a low-end X1300LE can win a mid-range 6600 card in 3DMark05 where the score is 2882 and 2506 respectively.

VR-Zone

NVIDIA To Counter R5xx w/ 90nm G7x

Published 2005-09-26 22:27 by Newsfactory 0

NVIDIA is going to launch their flagship GPU, GeForce Go 7800 GTX for notebooks within the next few days. We heard that it is essentially a desktop part so all these while, NVIDIA is trying hard to shave watts out of it probably by lowering the core clock and fine-tuning the PowerMizer 6.0 technology. Nevertheless, it will be clocked at 400MHz core and 550MHz memory at launch.

VR-Zone

X1800 XL vs. 7800 GT Benchies

Published 2005-09-26 15:16 by Newsfactory 0

Thanks to TheTechNews for the Heads Up!

HKEPC Hardware brought in some sexy new screenshots of 3DMark 2005 running, showing the scores it received. Isn't this what we've all been waiting for?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Info

Published 2005-09-26 15:04 by Newsfactory 0

AMD has confirmed on the Socket M2 design and will be unveiling the Socket M2 processors in Q2 2006. Single-core Athlon 64/FX "Orleans" and Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 "Windsor" will be based on 90nm processor technology and will support DDR-II 667 memory bus, bi-directional 1GHz HT bus, Presidio Security as well Pacifica Virtualization.

34 PSU Roundup - Taoyuan 2005

Published 2005-09-26 14:32 by Newsfactory 0

The mother of all PSU tests

HEXUS flew out to Taiwan a week before Computex started, to test as many PSUs as we could in the 5 days we had in the lab, to see what would shake out. The results were surprising, especially given our testing methods.

ATI's RV515LE aka X1300LE Scores leak

Published 2005-09-25 13:26 by Newsfactory 0

The X1300LE the budget card of the R520 family has been exposed on a Spanish website. ChileHardware has posted some benches of the budget card and some of the scores are pretty amazing for a budget card. As it scores around 2900 in 3dmark05, 6400 in 3dmark03, and 20000 in 3dmark01.