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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Thomas Ryan
Apr 30, 2012
53

Nvidia Outs The GTX 690

Because dual-GPU flagships are the next big thing, right?

In preparation for the launch of its GTX 690 next Thursday, Nvidia has started seeding reviewers with samples and showing off some of the features and design choices of their latest flagship dual-GPU graphics card.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 30, 2012
1

How Does Intel’s HD 4000 Compare on the IQ Scale?

Image quality that is...

One of the biggest question marks we’ve had on our minds is the impact of the HD 4000′s (the GPU side of Ivy Bridge) notably inferior Anisotropic filtering quality.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 26, 2012
2

How well does Intel’s new phone work as a phone?

Review: Hands on with the Lava Xolo X900

Intel is now making phone chips, and the first device to bear one, the Lava Xolo X900, is on the market.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 25, 2012
40

Does disabling Hyper-Threading increase performance?

Some trade-offs get better with time...

Since Intel introduced its Hyper-Threading technology with its Pentium 4 microprocessors back in early 2002 reviewers have occasionally noticed that under certain condition Hyper-Threading can actually hurt performance instead of helping it.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 25, 2012
15

Via ships 3rd generation USB3 chips

VL812 has a lot of nice features

If the news that the Via VL812 supporting YD/T 1591-2009 doesn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 25, 2012
3

Achronix adds granularity to 22nm FPGAs

HD and HP families are closer to production

Achronix is finally announcing their first 22nm FPGAs, two families of Speedster22i chips.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 24, 2012
20

Intel buys Cray’s interconnect arm but not for that reason

Laughably comical back-pedalling over AMD's SeaMicro buy

What do you do when your baby gets purchased out from under you?
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 24, 2012
6

AMD launches mobile HD7000 GPUs

Welcome the new HD7700M, HD7800M, and HD7900M

AMD has finally launched the HD7000M line we told you about last August with three new chips.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 24, 2012
1

Adobe accelerates CS6 with OpenCL

Speed for the unwashed masses

Adobe and AMD today anounced that the next Creative Suite 6 (CS6) will be OpenCL based.
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Leo Yim
Apr 24, 2012

GCN-based Radeon HD 7000M series featuring “Enduro”

Levelling the playing field, oh and Windows 7-friendly

28nm GCN-based AMD Radeon HD 7000M series continues AMD’s mission to get some more check marks in terms of feature sets, and compete with NVIDIA offerings.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 24, 2012
28

The Battle of the Bridges

How much performance does a 'Tick' get you these days?

It’s that time of year again and Intel’s introducing its new Ivy Bridge based offerings.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 23, 2012
60

Intel launches Ivy Bridge amid crushing marketing buzzwords

Good hardware, awful messaging, possible remote exploits

Intel is launching their Ivy Bridge CPU family today with a lot of fanfare, and in many ways the chip deserves every bit.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 23, 2012
3

Overclocking Intel’s HD 4000

Lots of extra voltage for just a little extra performance...

After playing around with Intel’s HD 4000 in our previous reviews and recording some pretty impressive performance, I decided to try and find the limit of the HD 4000′s graphics performance.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 23, 2012
1

Comparing the Ends of the Spectrum

The old HD 2000 versus the new HD 4000...

Intel sent us two chips for review in the lead up to its Ivy Bridge launch.
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Thomas Ryan
Apr 23, 2012
13

Par for the Course: Part 2

A Look at Intel's HD 4000 Graphics Continued

In this half of the review we will be continuing our testing of the graphical capabilities of Intel’s HD 4000.
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