JUDGING BY THE multitude of leaks pertaining Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge processors, we know we’re getting closer and closer to the January launch. A few more details about some of the unknown factors about the new CPUs and chipsets have made their way online, alongside detailed specifications of Intel’s LGA-1155 Xeon processors based on the Sandy Bridge core.
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A FEW MONTHS ago, we broke the story about large chunks of EVGA’s mobo team leaving for Sapphire. Just over a month ago, the rest of the team joined their colleagues in less green pastures.
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WHY IS NVIDIA screwing it’s partners by cutting them out and directly competing against them? That one is easy, they are circling the wagons and grabbing a bigger share of a shrinking pie because plans A and B didn’t work out.
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IT’S VERY HARD to differentiate yourself as a graphics card manufacturer these days, but it looks like Galaxy has come up with a way to do just that. The company is readying a custom designed GTX 460 card with an onboard WHDI solution which will allow you to stream 1080p HD video to the supplied receiver which can be placed up to 30 meters (100 feet) away from the PC into which the card is fitted.
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IF A SPEC sheet leaked onto the internet proves to be the real deal, then it looks like AMD is about to turn the world of graphics cards up-side-down, as the new 67×0-series looks set to be almost as good as the current 58×0-series, while being expected to sell for a similar price as the current 57×0-series. This would cause some serious headache for Nvidia, but we’ll just have to wait and see how AMD price the new cards.
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GIGABYTE’S GO OC 2010 took place in Taipei, Taiwan this weekend and it was 4.5 hours of fierce competition between 15 of the world’s top overclockers. The event took place in the Hua-shan creative park in Taipei and the competition was open to the public with exhibitions, events and lucky draws. Besides Gigabyte; Adata, Seagate and Envision were on location demoing products.
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IT LOOKS LIKE ATI’s, sorry AMD’s, 6870 is on track and doing quite well. Early word from AMD central has two big thumbs up.
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JUST WHEN YOU thought things could not get any worse, Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang gets in front of the press and blames TSMC for Fermi’s problems. Yes, you heard it right, Fermi’s delays, performance misses, and problems were all the fault of TSMC.
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NVIDIA’S JEN-HSUN WANG gave a masterclass in how to snow the trusting last Tuesday during the keynote of their GTC conference. He bent statistics well past the breaking point, and the tame press lapped it up, parroted it back, and didn’t check a single stat. Mission accomplished.
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Tim Sweeney and Andrew Richards were kind enough to put up with Charlie’s questioning, interrupting, and, in general, badgering about the future of gaming and coding at GDC 2010. As requested, shall we say, demanded, by our paying readers, this includes all six parts in one go.
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NVIDIA HAS BEEN a little bit behind AMD when it comes to adding multi-display support on a single card, but it seems like one of its partners have gone and at least made things a bit more interesting. Zotac has announced its GeForce GTX 460 3DP card today which features no less than three DisplayPort connectors as well as a DVI port for some quad display action for resolutions of up to 6400×1200.
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NVIDIA HAS BEEN very clear that it is sticking with TSMC as it’s only foundry partner, Jen-Hsun himself was adamant that it wasn’t in the cards. Unfortunately, that statement was as real as the cards he held up a year ago.
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WE’VE SPENT A fair bit of time over the last month pondering the upcoming Radeon series from AMD. Specifically, the card which is rumored to be the 6770 is of interest. Sure the bigger cards get the crowns and bigger fanfare but this should be a card that most of us are more likely to buy given the price ranges.
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WHAT APPEARS TO be a slide from an AMD presentation about its upcoming GPUs has made its way onto the web once again via Chiphell and it gives away just about everything except the price of AMD’s upcoming Barts GPUs. AMD is putting these two parts up against Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 460 models and it will be interesting to see how they compare both in terms of performance and pricing.
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DISPLAYLINK HAD a beta version of their monitor over USB3 hardware running on the floor of IDF this year, and some other goodies too. Just because USB3 is on the horizon doesn’t mean USB2 devices are standing still.
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