Skulltrail
Posted by Simon Whiston in Motherboards on 31. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
I have been meaning to write some sort of short article on skulltrail. If you are not aware by now what skulltrail is I would consider directing your attention to this post.
Skulltrail is a motherboard for the enthusiast, the board uses Xeon socket ‘771′. The best bit is the motherboard has TWO sockets for extreme [...]
Helpless AMD
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 28. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
There has been yet another cut to the AMD team. Director or ex-director as I should say of the Marketing graphics group has left the building. Vijay Sharma stated that his reasoning for leaving was to pursue other business non-related to the graphics market. His decision to do so was apparently very sudden.AMD has lost [...]
Quad GX2 SLI
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 27. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
As you are all aware the Nvidia 9800 x2 also known as the GX2 is the fastest card on the market to-date. Nvidia have just released their latest chipset the nforce 790i SLI to accompany their latest graphics card. Sounds like a great match!
I’m un-sure at this time if the latest Chipsets support 3x GX2s, [...]
Collision of the Top Players
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 26. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
I would have to say Intel own a higher profit share than AMD. On the other hand Nvidia and ATI are easily on par with each other. Where does Intel’s Graphics come into this market?
When creating a fresh build for games there are a lottery of CPU, Chipsets and Graphics card models at your disposal. [...]
Nvidia Nforce 790i SLI Chipset
Posted by Simon Whiston in Motherboards on 25. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
I’ve been waiting sometime now for the appearance of Nvidia’s latest Chipset based on the socket 775. I have seen Intel with their crossfire and Sli x3 configurations running at PCI-E 2.0. I was also interested to see non existent DDR3 module support for quad core processors. The only implementation before today was the [...]
S3 Chrome 400
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 24. Mar, 2008 | No Comments
Over the past couple of years S3 Graphics manufacturer have been non-existent well in the gaming markets thats for sure. The gaming community even thought S3 were non-existent; this is simply not the case!
S3 are claiming their Chrome 430 GT will out perform the current Nvidia and ATi counter parts. The board is priced at [...]
