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2560x1600 Gaming Performance with Dell's 3007WFP Part 1

Published 2006-03-13 23:50 by Newsfactory 0

With its jaw-dropping 2560x1600 native res, Dell's 3007WFP is capable of dishing out some very impressive visuals provided you have the graphics card to handle it. And just which cards would that be? In Part 1 of today's article, we attempt to find out, running NVIDIA's latest GeForce 7900 cards against ATI's Radeon X1900/X1800 lines in single-card and dual-GPU configurations.

Video Card Memory Analysis: 256MB vs. 512MB

Published 2006-03-13 23:46 by Newsfactory 0

How many forums have you visited in the last month with threads discussing whether 512MB video cards are really necessary? Well hopefully this article will shed some light on this topic.

CeBIT 2006 in Germany

Published 2006-03-13 19:22 by Newsfactory 0

Guru3D.com just posted an article on the CeBIT 2006 exhibit that is taking place in germany as we speak. CeBIT is easily one of the biggest IT exhibits that takes place in Europe every year. Roughly two million visitors and well over 8000 exhibitors are attending the CeBIT. CeBIT focuses on the professional visitor, rather than the end-user. The majority of exhibitors were IT/Enterprise oriented and only handfuls in attendance were for the consumer level.

Intel Conroe Processor: A Performance Preview

Published 2006-03-12 19:23 by [NT] 0

At the spring 2006 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco the entire focus of the industry was squarely set on the release of detailed information on Intel?s new microarchitecture.PC Perspective

AMD announces three new dual-core AMD Opteron's

Published 2006-03-12 19:15 by [NT] 0

announced three new models in the Dual-Core AMD Opteron? processor family that lead the industry in x86 performance and performance-per-watt capabilities. The new Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors help minimize overall server power consumption and cooling requirements. AMD Press Release

LaCie Two Big 1TB eSATA drive

Published 2006-03-11 20:44 by [NT] 0

It wasn't very long ago that having a terabyte (1TB) of storage in a home PC was considered far-fetched. But now just about every hard drive manufacturer has a 500GB drive in its product range, and having a terabyte or more in a desktop PC isn't really a big deal. However, LaCie has figured out a different approach to give you 1TB with the Two Big external Serial ATA (eSATA) enclosure... Reg Hardware

Up Close with Quad SLI

Published 2006-03-10 15:25 by Newsfactory 0

During NVIDIA's 6th Annual Editors' Day, the media was given the chance to try out the Quad SLI systems that will soon be offered first by the System Builders such as Dell and Alienware. We took the chance to examine Quad SLI closely and ran some benchmarks on the Extreme HD Gaming Monsters.

The Core of Intel's New Chips

Published 2006-03-10 15:18 by Newsfactory 0

The Core microarchitecture is at the heart of Intel's plans to regain the desktop performance crown. We delve into white papers to find out just exactly what Core is, and how it will affect performance.

Bit-Tech

AMD Turion 64 X2 Prototypes Pic's

Published 2006-03-09 19:04 by Newsfactory 0

There were two reference designs for Turion 64 X2 (dual-core version of Turion 64) running, one based on ATI chipset (Xpress) and the other based on nVidia?s (SLI Power).

HardwareSecret

Conroe Performance Preview Follow-Up

Published 2006-03-09 18:31 by Newsfactory 0

We took a second look at Conroe. We ran the AMD system with an updated BIOS, ran our own Quake 4 demo on Conroe and re-ran some of our original tests. Find out what's changed.

NVIDIA's SLI Gets Busier - Notebook and Quad SLI Versions

Published 2006-03-09 18:23 by Newsfactory 0

Not only does NVIDIA announce a new series of GPUs dubbed the 7900 and 7600, we also have the official unveiling of Quad SLI and Notebook SLI in limited form. You can't quite get it yet, but soon.

PC Perspective

NVIDIA Chipset Chat

Published 2006-03-09 18:02 by Newsfactory 0

Yesterday we were holding a chat regarding NVIDIA's next core-logic technology, nForce 500 family. Here is a complete question-answer log.

Bjorn 3D

Intel Invents 5GHz Stock Cooler

Published 2006-03-09 17:55 by Newsfactory 0

Intel has created a self-contained watercooling unit that will enable the latest Pentium Extreme Edition chips to hit 5GHz with ease.

Microsoft, Samsung Launch

Published 2006-03-09 17:49 by Newsfactory 0

Samsung will enter the US computer market in April as the launch partner for Microsoft's new UltraMobile PC. Asus will release its own model in the US in June, while Chinese PC vendor Founder will deliver one to the Asian market this summer. Samsung's unit is expected to cost under $1,000. The system will include Microsoft's new "Touch Pack" software add-on, which features a software keyboard optimized for thumb-based typing and a Sudoku game.

PCMag.com

LCD Response Time is Dead

Published 2006-03-09 17:48 by Newsfactory 0

Today at CeBIT, AU Optronics and Samsung celebrated the end of the "response time". They released new P-MVA and S-PVA panels that would be, according to the manufacturers, faster than the most recent TN 1 or 2ms and despite a slower official (understand "measure") response time. Here is a description of both technologies by Behardware.com.

CeBIT : THE LCD News

Details and Demonstration on Clovertown Quad-Core

Published 2006-03-08 17:10 by Newsfactory 0

Intel shows a demonstration of its next generation quad-core processor, codenamed Clovertown with a multi-threaded benchmark (Cinebench).

DailyTech

Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the Performance Crown

Published 2006-03-08 16:48 by Newsfactory 0

Intel gave us an hour alone with Conroe and an overclocked Athlon 64 FX-60. And you better believe we benchmarked it. Guess who's on top now?

Investigating Bandwidth on the SLI X16 Chipset

Published 2006-03-08 16:24 by Newsfactory 0

With the launch of the XPress 3200, ATI raised questions about the efficiency of NVIDIA's dual chip SLI X16 soluiton and we set to out answer them as best we could.

First Conroe Block Diagrams

Published 2006-03-07 17:02 by Newsfactory 0

As soon as we got to the Spring Intel Developer Forum 2006, Intel gave us exclusive access to the Conroe block diagram before the keynote.

DailyTech

ATI x16 vs x8 Performance

Published 2006-03-07 16:58 by Newsfactory 0

A couple of weeks back we looked at the performance of the nForce x16 chipset by plugging a couple of 7800GTX cards in SLI mode and finding out how much extra performance we could gain by having two dedicated PCI-E x16 lanes instead of one that?s split into two X8 lanes. The results were disappointing with only one game, Quake4, showing any performance gains.