NVIDIA HAS SOME interesting numbers in its GTX480 presentations, but just like the Heaven benchmark numbers, they don’t seem to reflect reality. This latest ‘accident’ in an official presentation centers around Dirt2.
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NVIDIA IS TWISTING the arms of e-tailers over GTX480s, forcing them to clean out the warehouses of old inventory if they want the new cards. If you want any allocations of the GTX470 or GTX480, be prepared to buy lots of low end cards.
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BIT-TECH HAS POSTED some early impressions of AMD’s upcoming entry level 880G chipset and the word unimpressed springs to mind. Although the IGP has been renamed Radeon HD 4250, it’s said to offer no performance advantages over the older Radeon HD 3200 IGP of the 780G.
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IT’S BEEN JUST over three months since VIA announced a new chipset and today we’re looking at yet another new chipset from the company, although this time it’s for mobile devices rather than desktops. It’s a shame that the new VX900 chipset didn’t get the full feature set of the VN1000, but it’s not all bad news, as VIA finally has a mobile solution that should kick the Atom’s ass.
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NINTENDO DOESN’T EVEN have an HD capable console as yet, but the company has today announced its intention to launch a 3D capable handheld gaming device that doesn’t require you to wear any glasses. The 3DS as Nintendo is calling it for now is set to be unveiled at E3 which kicks off on the 15th of June.
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MSI WAS SHOWING off its 890FX board at CeBIT a couple of weeks ago, but we’ve now managed to score the first official pictures of the 890FXA-GD70 board. All we can say is that it looks like MSI has a winner on its hands and this should be worth a look for anyone that’s considering getting one of AMD’s upcoming Phenom II X6 processors.
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THE ONE DOWNSIDE of Intel’s Extreme Edition CPUs that makes most people shy away from them is the sky high price tag, but it looks like Intel is getting ready to take a leaf out of AMD’s book by releasing what will hopefully be more cost conscious overclocking CPUs with unlocked multiplier carrying the K suffix.
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INTEL IS SAID to be shipping 20 percent more chipsets than CPUs which makes for a fairly skewed ratio, as most users would upgrade their CPU, not their motherboard. In this case though it turns out that it’s the motherboard manufacturers that are hoping for better times and are placing large chipset orders with Intel.
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ACCORDING TO NEC, it has been six months since the launch of its USB 3.0 controller and we’ve yet to see a single competitor, but we’re now hearing that Intel is getting ready to enter the market with its own device.It won’t be part of Intel’s chipsets for now and it seems like there are several reasons for this.
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TINY MOTHERBOARDS SEEM to have become all the rage these days, and we’re not talking underpowered, feature derelict things either. Instead it seems like most of the motherboard manufacturers are pushing out some pretty serious hardware in the mini-ITX form factor, which has yet to take off in the consumer space outside of Atom systems.
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FOR THOSE OF you that are looking for an affordable card to power five displays, look no further, as PowerColor has announced its new Eyefinity 5 HD5770 graphics card which as the name suggests, will handle five displays, unlike the Eyefinity 6 cards which work with six.
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DESPTITE LACK OF support from both Intel and AMD, it seems that USB 3.0 is set to be something of a hit. NEC has announced that it has so far shipped no less than 3 million of its USB 3.0 controllers and that it’s getting ready to ramp up production.
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SPECULATIONS ABOUT A smaller Xbox 360 have taken off again today after a picture of what is said to be a new Xbox 360 motherboard has appeared on a Chinese forum. Rumours of a smaller Xbox 360 started way back in 2008 with speculations about a 45nm chip codenamed Valhalla that was supposed to appear last year but never showed up.
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NVIDIA HAS FINALLY taped out a Fermi GF100 derivative, but it is not what you might think. Contrary to its public bluster, Nvidia isn’t going for the high end this time.
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INTEL WON BACK most of the lead that AMD had earned in the server market with the Conroe and Penryn generation of CPUs, and erased the rest with the Nehalem generation. Today marks the release of Westmere-EP, the 6 core 32nm update to Nehalem, and the Intel lead just gets wider.
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