SANDY BRIDGE WAS shaping up to be the killer CPU of the year, a huge step forward in the ‘uncore’, decent graphics and big gains in the core as well. Instead, we got broken graphics, non-working feature sets, and a showstopper bug. What a shattering disappointment.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux
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AMD LAUNCHED IT’S first new GPU architecture in four years last week, Cayman aka the HD6900 series. Lets take a look at the cards themselves, and how they perform, with a lot of emphasis on the new PowerTune feature.
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It’s an early Christmas for the minions of JHH, as Nvidia lifted the NDA on their GTX 570 graphics cards early this morning. The card is essentially the paternal twin of the GTX 480 who decided to keep baking in the oven for a few extra hours compared to its sibling. Read on for a list of our favorite reviews from around the Internets.
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1 year and 1 month after the launch of the Radeon HD 5800 series, the Radeon HD 6800 series is unleashed upon the world. This new line of graphics cards from AMD consists of the Radeon HD 6870, and 6850. Retail prices for these cards are $239 and $179, respectively. However, despite the names, and as their prices imply, these cards are not intended to replace the Radeon HD 5870 and 5850. The replacements for these cards will come at a later date and shall be reviewed at that time. This marks a change in both nomenclature and product positioning for AMD, which will be explained later in this article.
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In a recent internal S|A poll regarding colleague views of the Internet’s true purpose, the top 5 responses confirmed what we all knew, all along: 5. LOL Cats, 4. Pr0n, 3. Trolling, 2. Pr0n, 1. Pr0n. Well, after sharing our findings with the big G, Google’s crack squad of basement dwellers wrote an algorithm to try and work their way to the podium of our Internets, and the result, is like totally awesome, if you’re a teenage girl with daddy’s credit card.
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KINGSTON WAS SHOWING off three goodies at IDF, a USB3 SSD, the final version of water cooled DRAMs, and last, but not least, a USB3 memory stick. If you don’t think USB3 is worth it, read on.
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ONE OF THE claims Gigabyte makes in the press release with regards to its new USAP USB 3.0 drivers is that the new drivers will boost the performance of USB 2.0 storage devices as well. We thought we’d put this to the test to see how much of a difference it really makes.
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NVIDIA JUST HAD one of their most sleazy marketing tactics exposed, that PhysX is faster on a GPU than a CPU. As David Kanter at Real World Tech proves, the only reason that PhysX is faster on a GPU is because Nvidia purposely hobbles it on the CPU. If they didn’t, PhysX would run faster on a modern CPU.
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Editors Note: Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the Bumpgate Series with some additional commentary, updates and information. We are reprinting some of the often referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 03:48AM.
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LAST MAY, we said that GTX480, then called GT300, was going to be hot, slow, big, underperforming, hard to manufacture, and most of all late. Almost a year later, Nvidia can’t even launch PR quantities at the promised spec of 512 shaders.
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WE HAD THEM a month ago, now they are cropping up all over. If you know how sites number their pages, you can dig them out with a fair bit of ease.
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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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ONE PART that Thermaltake has been getting a lot of press for is the new Fermi GTX480 certified case, a variant of its mainstream Element V case. Other than the day-glo green trim, how does it differ from the normal ElementV? Let’s take a look.
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NVIDIA HAS BEEN hinting about the performance of its upcoming GTX480 cards, and several of our moles got a lot of hands on time with a few cards recently. If you are waiting for killer results from the ‘puppy’, prepare for severe disappointment.
Updated: Clarified a point on DX11 performance.
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IN PART 2, we look at the overall findings of the scanner, and a close look at each one. Also included is a look back at the 2007 results in light of the new data.
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