ATI Radeon 4600
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 11. Sep, 2008 | No Comments
ATi have launched their 4600 series graphics cards. These cards are on the market for the low to mid range budget enthusiasts, not every one can fork out £400 for a HD 4870 X2 or a Nvidia 280.
The series is basically a watered down version of the 4800 series cards. The cards are set to [...]
Heat Sinks for Core i7
Posted by Simon Whiston in Cooling Solutions on 10. Sep, 2008 | No Comments
Nehalem aka Core i7 as it likes to be called now is the new architecture from Intel consisting of 4 to 8 cores. With the latest skull trail on the way we could see 16 core configurations! Now thats computation.
So your a overclocker or you like to get more life out of that CPU than [...]
Graphics from the early 1980’s
Posted by admin in Graphics on 31. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
Here we have a video of computer rendered graphics, i was quite intrigued by the short clip. The reflections on the real life objects were impressive! I wouldn’t say ray tracing but it was a good start The polygon structured shapes must of had 8 sides? compare than now to the polycount of a [...]
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 [...]
IBM unveils new 1 Tera Byte tape drive
Posted by admin in Storage on 29. Aug, 2008 | No Comments
IBM has unveiled a 1 terabyte tape drive capable of achieving a data transfer rate of 160 Megabytes per second. The drive supports data encryption and features a magneto-resistive head design that significantly reduces read errors for server enterprise environments.
According to IBM, tapes offer the “most green and cost-effective form of storage and will enable [...]
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 [...]
