S3 What happened?
Posted by admin in Graphics on 29. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
The S3 Chrome, S3 are claiming their Chrome 430 GT will out perform the current Nvidia and ATi counter parts. The board is priced at around $59 which seems to me as a bargin if current Nvidia and ATi cards are priced around $350. The card is directx 10.1 supported and includes third party features [...]
Nvision 2008
Posted by admin in Graphics on 29. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
After the awards ceremony at Nvision 2008 after a number of medals and cheques were handed out the two guys from Myth Busters came to the stage. The Myth Busters gave a demonstration to illustrate a CPU and GPU with a Myth Buster twist.
First up was a small robot called Leonardo which was the “CPU” [...]
Nvidia SLI enabled on Intel x58 Chipset Motherboards
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics, Motherboards on 29. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
x5 Now nvidias move to the Intel chipset has allowed the multi GPU support.
AMD can already run their version of SLI called Crossfire on competitors boards. Now Nvidia have joint suite Intel mainboards offer the best of both worlds. In my opinion allowing this multi GPU support by the two top graphics company’s is a [...]
AMD Dual Core Kuma Specifications
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 28. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
Right So AMD are releaseing a set of new dual core processors? I’m not quite sure why this is the case but I thought I would look into it!
AMD will scrap their existing offerings to bring out new dual core k10 parts. AMD have already decided to leak the product to its partners, for testing? [...]
Advanced Overclocking Championship 2008
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors on 27. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
The advanced overclocking championship a world class overclocking event was held in Hong Kong on July the 29 and 29th. The overclocking championship was open to the USA, UK and European country’s also Asia. There were at least 20 countries taking part in the event globally.
The first challenge of the two day even consited of [...]
Crysis -Do We Need Full Detail?
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News, Graphics, Microprocessors, Motherboards on 18. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
As we all know Crysis is the second version of the Crytek engine. The game was originally called Far Cry if I remember correctly which was back then a brilliant graphics engine for out door environments. I know Crysis (Crytek Engine 2) has been out a couple of months now but I think this game [...]
