3DMark Vantage
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 30. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
Futuremark have finally replaced their Benchmarking tool 3DMark06 with 3DMark Vantage. This has been a long awaited release but hopefully for all those enthusiasts out there its worth the wait. Gamers and enthusiasts alike can now get official results for their latest hardware whether it be buying, selling or just looking at the competition .Vantage [...]
AMD or Intel for Cray HPC
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 29. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
Cray has decided to develop its future HPC around Intel’s silicon. This has become a problem for AMD. Cray did in fact have fabrications from AMD which included XT3, XT4 and XT5. Unfortunately for AMD the organisation was hoping that Cray would strike a 5 year deal with the company securing their current [...]
S-LCD?
Posted by Simon Whiston in Peripherals on 28. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
Samsung and Sony have come together to create the eighth generation of the TFT-LCD production. S-LCD already has the eighth generation glass but the designers are looking at increasing the capacity due to LCD demands.
The production will cost $2 Billion Dollars and the release date is due half way through 09.
The 8th generation [...]
AMD ATI 4800 Series Graphics Cards
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics, Storage on 25. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
ATI are about to fight back with their latest editions of their graphics cards the 4800 series. The products are based on the RV770 Chip process. The 4870, 4850HD and 4850PRO all use GDDR3. The graphics cards are built on a 55nmand have 480 stream processors.
The 4870 is built with high-end GDDR5 memory [...]
Apple Buy Out PA Semi
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 24. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
I’ve always been interested in Apples stand in their product architecture, when Apple decided to make the move to the x86 platform openning new leases to Linux based OS not to mention being able to run windows. Any way moving back to the topic!
Apple have bought the Chip manufacturer PA Semi. On behalf of Apple [...]
VelociRaptor The latest Western Digital Hard Disk
Posted by Simon Whiston in Storage on 23. Apr, 2008 | No Comments
Western Digital created a drive capable of 10,000 RPM for fast data access. No other hard disk company has created an enthusiast hard disk at the same speed for the consumer market.
The VelociRaptor pictured above has twice the capacity of the older Rapter hard disk which currently have 150Gib. The new hard disk has [...]
