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Nvidia Dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2

By cunni • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

Last month AMD pleased us all by launching what we considered was the fastest single-card solution on the market to date, the Radeon HD 3870 X2. But we all knew it was only a matter of time before Nvidia’s dual-GPU response arrived, potentially putting the company out in front again. Well, that day has come […]



XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: benchmark

By cunni • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: Hardware

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet.com executed the tests using the AMD Phenom 9700, Radeon 3850 graphics card, 2GB of RAM and ATi Catalyst drivers 8.2.

The three games which performed better on Vista than on XP SP2 were Call of Duty 4, F.E.A.R. and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Vista gave The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion the best […]



GeForce 9series GPU to be launched Feb 21st

By cunni • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

Nvidia is planning to launch its first GeForce 9 series graphics chip, the GeForce 9600 GT (G94), for the mid-range market on February 21, according to sources at graphics card makers.
The 9600 GT adopts a 65nm process and is manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The GPU sees an increase in processing units, 64, […]



ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 review

By cunni • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

For well over a year Nvidia has remained at the top of the PC graphics market, holding the performance crown so comfortably they never looked as they might lose it.

Looking back in time we discover that the only threat from competition in recent times came from the Radeon HD 2900XT, which was never meant to […]



AMD to lower power usage of 45nm processors

By cunni • Feb 2nd, 2008 • Category: Hardware

AMD recently notified partners that its 45nm-based processors will be launched on time by the second half of 2008. The company highlighted that the new processors will consume less power and have better performance, according to sources at motherboard makers.

AMD’s 45nm processors are expected to see core frequencies greatly increased, while L3 cache sizes will […]



Havok Causes Havoc in GPU Physics

By cunni • Nov 24th, 2007 • Category: Hardware, PC Gaming

AMD says GPU physics is dead until DirectX 11

PC gamers have been looking for more than just pretty graphics when it comes to their game titles over the last few years. Not only do gamers want realistic graphics, but they want realistic physics as well.
Physics have long been a part of PC and console games […]



PS3 network enters record books

By cunni • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: Hardware

Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home, a project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony’s PlayStation 3 to help understand the cause of diseases, as the world’s most powerful distributed computing network. Nearly 700,000 PS3 owners have signed up to examine how the shape of proteins affects diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The network has […]



Nvidia Introduces Enthusiast System Architecture

By cunni • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: Hardware, News

Today, with the coming introduction of the NVIDIA 780i chipset, NVIDIA is looking to make serious changes to what is possible with enthusiast systems by launching a new technology platform. The name of the new standard is ESA - Enthusiast System Architecture. Its goal is to provide information and control to enthusiasts not just for […]



Microsoft and Toshiba Developing New Xbox?

By cunni • Oct 22nd, 2007 • Category: Hardware, Console Gaming

According to the technology guide Smarthouse, Microsoft and Toshiba may be working on a new Xbox “Entertainment Hub” edition. This new device could possibly add on to the current Xbox 360 specifications with a built-in HD-DVD player, HD TV tuner, and a MP3 player docking port (perhaps using the Zune docking pin setup?).

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Call of Duty 4 Demo Release

By cunni • Oct 11th, 2007 • Category: Demos, Hardware, PC Gaming, News

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