Dells version of the Apple Mac Air notebook
Posted by admin in General News on 30. Jun, 2008 | No Comments
With Nvidia, ATI and Intel all competing for the mini notebook processor market. The Dell laptop named the DELL E comes in two surprising sizes the 8.9″ and 12.1″. The laptop is 0.8 inches thick! The laptop is set to be released in august/ september time.
The Laptop can run both Linux and Windows operating systems [...]
PhysX driver for ATI Graphics
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 30. Jun, 2008 | No Comments
A driver hacker had recently achieved something I would consider quite difficult in the driver world. ‘the guy’ claims to have hacked Nvidia Physx driver to run on ATI based hardware.
Screen shots of CPU-Z showing the Ageia driver settings and £d Mark Vantage with a score of 22606 CPU Points. The CPU score is only [...]
AMD vs Intel Atom
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 27. Jun, 2008 | No Comments
After searching on the internet I came across and interesting find. A german website Eeepc news has found an interesting slide which suggest AMD has a rival for the Intel Atom processor, to little to late?
AMD are planning/ creating a tiny 64bit processor running at 1GHz and boasts thermal design power of 8Watts. According to [...]
Alienware curved monitor
Posted by Simon Whiston in Display on 27. Jun, 2008 | No Comments
Welcome to Friday’s Blog post! Its nearly that time of the day where the weekend is on the horizon. I was informed by a mate of mine about this monitor from alien ware. I was intrigued and had to do my research.
The display above uses DLP display technology. The double wided curved monitor with LED [...]
Nvidia Geforce 177.39 beta drivers PhysX enabled
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 26. Jun, 2008 | 1 Comment
Nvidia has launched a beta version of the 177.39 drivers have introduced the PhysX support to a number of Nvidia graphics cards. I assume the support will be for the 9800 series and 200 series cards. At present the driver is only supported for the GTX, GTX 280 and GTX 260 graphics cards. The beta [...]
HD4870 x2 coming soon!
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 25. Jun, 2008 | No Comments
AMD will be launching the HD4870 x2 will be released sooner rather than later. Funnily enough the card will be the same colour as the Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+ which is black. I cant see ATI adopting a green colored card that’s for sure.
The sales for ATI 4800 series cards are apparently hitting new heights, [...]
