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Sunday, 30 August 2009 00:00 |
Video cards, CPUs and motherboards
- at Tweak Town
- at Tech Gage
- at Driver Heaven
- at Hot Hardware
- at techPowerUp
- at Motherboards
- at Game Pyre
- at Digit Life
- at Overclock 3D
- at Hardware Overclock
- at Inside HW
- at Bjorn 3D
- at RB Mods
Cases, cooling and power supplies
- at Mod Reactor
- at Motherboards
- at Think Computers
- at OCaholic
- at Test Seek
- at Xtreme Computing
- at Test Freaks
- at Hardware Secrets
- at Tweak Town
- at APH Networks
- at Hardware Bistro
- at iGadget Life
Storage and memory
- at Hardware Secrets
- at HEXUS
- at Pure Overclock
- at Benchmark Reviews
- at Dragon Steel Mods
- at Virtual Hideout
Audio, video and imaging devices
- at Big Bruin
- at CCE Reviews
Gaming and software
- at Test Freaks
- at Phoronix
- at Test Freaks
- at Tech ARP
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Friday, 28 August 2009 00:00 |
Hot on the heels of the launch and price reduction from Sony via their PlayStation 3 Slim, so Microsoft are upping the ante by cutting the price of the Xbox 360 Elite.
There have been rumors and leaked ads pointing to a price cut for the Xbox 360 Elite to bring it to the $299 price currently occupied by the 120GB PS3 Slim and the older 80GB PS3. Microsoft officially announced today that the Xbox 360 Elite would be getting a $100 price cut.
Microsoft also says that the Xbox 360 Pro console will get a price cut to $249.99 until the supplies of the discontinued console run out. The Xbox 360 Arcade will live on at a price of $199.99. Microsoft also reminds shoppers that any Xbox console bought today will be able to work with the cool Project Natal controller-free gaming of the future. |
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:00 |
Yesterday, we took a look over MESH's Slayer Elemental desktop PC system - Don't miss our thoughts and findings. Otherwise, here's the rest of the latest news and reviews:
Video cards, CPUs and motherboards
- at OCaholic
- at Bjorn 3D
- at Driver Heaven
- at Hot Hardware
- at TechGage
- at Alien Babel Tech
Cases, cooling and power supplies
- at Inside HW
- at TechWare Labs
- at XS Reviews
- at Pro-Clockers
- at Hardware Bistro
- at Hi-Tech Reviews
- at Pure Overclock
- at Ninja Lane
- at Pro-Clockers
- at Verdis Reviews
- at Hardware Secrets
- at Overclock 3D
- at RB Mods
Storage and memory
- at Think Computers
- at Pure Overclock
- at Benchmark Reviews
- at HEXUS
- at Hardware Canucks
- at Think Computers
- at Bjorn 3D
- at Inside HW
Input and communications devices
- at Tweak Town
- at Test Seek
- at Tech Reviews
- at Tech Xtreme
- at Becnhmark Reviews
- at Dragon Steel Mods
Gaming and software
- at Tech Xtreme
- at Game Pyre
- at Test Freaks
- at Dragon Steel Mods
- at The Tech Report
- at Driver Heaven
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:00 |
Time to jump in the TARDIS for a quick shopping trip to 2015 methinks...
Chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. said during his keynote at Hot Chips conference that graphics processing units (GPUs) have excellent prospects for further performance growth. He also indicated that it makes no sense to integrate central processors and graphics chips since discrete processors have higher performance.
According to Mr. Huang, by 2015 graphics processing units will have computing power that is 570 times higher compared to performance of today's GPUs. Meanwhile, central processing units (CPUs) will be only three times faster than today's most powerful chips. Considering the fact that modern graphics chips can offer about 1TFLOPs of computing power, then in 2015 they will offer whopping 570TFLOPs. |
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:00 |
DICE, the developers responsible for both the Battlefield series of games and the Frostbite engine that powers them, used this year's Siggraph event to show off some of the capabilities of their next-generation Frostbite engine, which comes complete with support for DirectX 11 and thus holds some interest functionality under the hood.
| In his presentation Andersson also talks about Compute Shader in DirectX 11 and how Deferred Shading is done using Compute Shader. However, the implementation in Frostbite 2 has only been experimental so far. DICE focuses on a mix of classic rasterization and Compute pipeline. Three screenshots show the results of Deferred Shadings with up to 1,000 light sources. |
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:00 |
After a torrid couple of quarters for the discrete graphics board industry, things are finally starting to look up according to the graphics shipment numbers for the 2nd quarter of 2009, particularly for AMD....
Since the summer of '08, AMD's Radeon-brand graphics AIBs began giving market leader Nvidia a much tougher run for its money. Despite its renewed competitiveness, however, AMD hadn't yet seen a sustained growth in market share, as Nvidia adamantly refused to give up any volume, aggressively cutting prices as necessary to avoid a loss in share.
But as prices settled out and AMD got its RV770 GPU (and subsequent derivatives RV730, RV790, RV740) in place across the Radeon line-up, the company did finally see a meaningful tick up in market position. JPR's tabulations show AMD's unit share rising from 31% in the first quarter to 35% in Q2'09, with Nvidia declining four points to 64%. |
You can find the press release with more details at the web site. |
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:00 |
Looking for a new pre-built desktop PC system and working with a budget of around £1,000? MESH believe they have just what it takes to make you part with your money in the form of their Phenom II powered Slayer Elemental. Is it worthy of consideration? We check it out.
A quick once-over of the basics of the Slayer Elemental gives us a pretty good first impression in all honesty. While AMD's Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition is no longer the CPU manufacturer's flagship processor it still isn't far off, while also holding plenty of overclocking headroom if that side of things floats your boat. 4GB of fast memory and a good quality ASUS motherboard both check their respective boxes, while the inclusion of a Radeon HD 4890 graphics board guarantees top-notch gaming performance on the 22", 1920x1080 resolution provided with the system as standard.
The respective cherries on the top of this configuration are the use of CoolIT's great little Domino CPU water cooling system, and the inclusion of an SSD for the Elemental's system drive (more on that aspect of things later). Throw in a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium in its 64-bit flavour and a one year return to base warranty, and you're all set! |
As always, your thoughts and comments are very welcome, and can be left in our forum using the link below. |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 00:00 |
Video cards, CPUs and motherboards
- at Tweak Town
- at Motherboards
- at HEXUS
- at Hot Hardware
- at Bright Side of News
Cases, cooling and power supplies
- at DV Hardware
- at Tech Gage
- at Pure Overclock
- at Test Seek
- at PC Games Hardware
- at Test Freaks
- at Tech Reviews
- at Hardware Secrets
- at Benchmark Reviews
- at Think Computers
- at Overclock 3D
- at Modders Inc.
- at Jonny Guru
- at Hardware Secrets
Storage and memory
- at Pro-Clockers
- at Tweak Town
- at Hardware Logic
- at iGadget Life
- at CCE Reviews
- at Pro-Clockers
- at Bjorn 3D
- at Hot Hardware
- at Test Freaks
- at The Tech Report
- at RB Mods
Systems and input devices
- at Tech Xtreme
- at Benchmark Reviews
- at Driver Heaven
- at Missing Remote
- at Tweak Town
- at XS Reviews
Audio and video devices
- at Tweak Town
- at Big Bruin
- at OCaholic
- at techPowerUp
- at Driver Heaven
Software and gaming
- at PC Games Hardware
- at OCaholic
- at Tech Xtreme |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 00:00 |
Just when you thought the UK government couldn't be any more cut off from reality...
The government has published new measures that could see people who illegally download films and music cut off from the net.
The amendment to the Digital Britain report would see regulator Ofcom given greater powers to tackle pirates. The technical measures are likely to include suspending the net accounts of "hardcore copyright pirates". |
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Monday, 24 August 2009 00:00 |
As we draw closer to the launch of AMD's first DirectX 11 GPUs, so the rumours and speculation intensifies, with VR-Zone the first to weigh in with potential product names and basic specifications for the company's high-end DirectX 11 parts.
AMD has informed their partners that their upcoming DX11 Cypress cards will be known as Radeon HD 5800 series. Cypress XT is Radeon HD 5870 while Cypress PRO is Radeon HD 5850. The key features of these DX11 cards are :
- 1GB GDDR5 memory
- ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays
- ATI Stream technology,
- Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
- Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
- Compliant with DirectX 11 and earlier revisions
- Supports OpenGL 3.1
- ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance6
- ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
- DL-DVI, DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
- PCI Express 2.0 support |
You can check out the story for yourself . |
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