Intel G45 Express = smooth DX10 gaming?
During IDF in Shanghai this week Intel was demonstrating its upcoming G45 Express chipset (aka Eaglelake-G) which includes onboard DX10 hardware graphics processing from the Intel GMA X4500HD.
G45 3D performance has already been reported to be three times faster than that of the previous Intel G33 Express chipset which is DX9 only. G45 will also have hardware accelerated MPEG2, VC1 and AVC decoding for playback of HD movie content and Blu-ray discs along with built-in HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. It also gets OpenGL 2.0 support along with Windows Vista Premium certification.
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PC Power & Cooling mainstream PSUs out
OCZ's PC Power & Cooling business unit has just launched a new range of affordable and mainstream power supplies under the Silencer line of products.
Today four new power supplies are being launched including the Silencer 370 ATX, Silencer 420 ATX, Silencer 500 Dell and Silencer 500EPS12V. All the new Silencer models are certified under the 80+ efficiency program so they run cool and save on utility power.
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Futuremark introduces VirtualMark
Futuremark has just launched another interactive web based benchmark application called VirtualMark, that allows users to determine their 3DMark score, without actually running the 3D benchmark software on their system.
Once you allow the web application to run in your browser and analyse your system, it checks the ORB database for submitted results which match your system specifications as closely as possible.
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GX2 & GTX aftermarket cooling arrives
Now that the 9800GX2 has been out for a few weeks, superior aftermarket cooling solutions are beginning to show up that are directly suited to the dual-GPU giant.
German cooling specialist aqua-computer has come forward with details and images of their upcoming aquagrafx 9800 GX2 GPU block, said to begin shipping as early as next week.
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CyberLink launches Movie Social Network
We just got back from visiting CyberLink HQ here in Taiwan for an interview about HD on HTPC concerns and issues and one of the things we discussed was its new movie social networking website called MoovieLive.com. They've just officially launched it to the world after our visit.
It works in conjunction with the new PowerDVD 8 to offer a whole new experience out of what we have traditionally known as just a software movie player. MoovieLive.com instantly reminds us of IMDB with its database of movies showing global user ratings, your rating and reviews as well as show movie info such as director, cast info, languages, rating, aspect ratio and which type of audio soundtrack mix it uses. It goes much deeper, though.
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Intel demonstrates mainstream SSDs
One of the more interesting products to show up at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai this week is clear sign that Intel are shooting for a big piece of the solid-state storage market with some pre-production SSD drives demonstrated.
A fellow by the name of Knut Grimsrud who leads an R&D group responsible for the development of innovative mainstream storage solutions has had some playtime with these upcoming drives in current form, and has kindly shared his thoughts about them with everyone at a blog page here.
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Firefox 3 Beta 5 released with 750 fixes
Mozilla has released the latest developer preview of Firefox 3 which is Beta 5 and it comes with a staggering 750 fixes from the previously released beta.
It is said to improve stability and web compatibility, provide platform and user interface enhancements, and results in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.
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EVGA mixes up 9800GX2 with super clocks
Since the release of NVIDIA's 9800GX2 a couple weeks back, we've not seen anything too exciting in the way of vendors sprucing up the card over the reference design. I guess many felt it wasn't necessary to as the card boasts some pretty mean characteristics as it stands.
EVGA however have just come forth with a super duper offering they call the 9800GX2 SSC; this card's 1024MB of memory is set to run at 2100MHz with the GPU and 256 Stream Processors operating at 675MHz and 1674MHz respectively.
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Nokia's N810 Internet Tablet gets WiMAX
Things are certainly very hot and steamy on the mobile front with no signs of slowing down.
Nokia has just announced an update to its funky N810 Internet Tablet mobile device. It is a device to get Internet access pretty much anywhere with 4.13-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, built-in webcam for video calls, Mozilla-powered browser, integrated GPS / media player, 2GB of internal memory and a microSD expansion slot.
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Intel announces five Atom processors
We dialed into a press briefing this morning from IDF Shanghai and heard details regarding among other things Intel's ultra mobile 45nm Hi-K Atom (formerly codenamed Silverthorne) processors which will begin shipping in the final quarter of 2008. Let's try and sum it up now.
Intel's Atom processors and Centrino Atom platform (that is a single-chip with integrated graphics called the Intel System Controller Hub) will power ultra mobile devices into the future such as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), portable gaming devices, car entertainment systems and portable medical machines. Intel is showing off a whole bunch of MIDs at IDF which we will cover soon.
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