Nvidia Realistic head!
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 31. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
Now that I have shown you the basic graphics demonstration from the 80’s its now time to see what graphics are really like. Ok the shapes which were rendered had 10 sides not 8! 10 polygons w00 h00. Now consider this demonstration which actually renders the whole face model.
The previous video showed nice reflections on [...]
Nvidia Desktop Drivers
Posted by admin in Graphics on 29. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
Driver heaven has release some useful tool for the majority of Nvidia driven laptop owners. The software produced by driver heaven allows nvidia notebooks graphics processor owners to mod and utilise the up-to-date desktop drivers released bu Nvidia to run on their machines.
Drivers for their laptops can take time to filter from similar and other [...]
AMD to push on DirectX 10.1
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 29. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
AMD have reportedly joining with developers to create a new generation of DirectX 10.1 game titles for the ATI Radeon 3000 and 4000 series. Partners involved include Electronic Arts, Sega and NHN Games, not small players by any means.
Sega have said, by creating the directX 10.1 platform the return would be a new stanards for [...]
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 [...]
