March 18th, 2010 at 05:55pm Under Computers
Just after the release of NVIDIA GeForce 197.13 Beta drivers, AMD has now offered the download of Catalyst 10.3 Preview driver. The new release supports the production version of Windows 7 and Windows Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series, and is also supported by most major OEMs and ODMs.
What’s new:
* [...]
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March 18th, 2010 at 05:55pm Under Computers
AMD is gearing up to unveil its hexa-core processors codenamed Thuban within one month, and the first wave of products will include four models – the Phenom II X6 1035T, 1055T (95W and 125W TDP), and the 1075T.
According to our previous reports, Phenom II X6 processors will be built with 45nm technology, and featuring 6MB [...]
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March 18th, 2010 at 04:56am Under Computers
NVIDIA has just released the GeForce 197.13 Beta drivers for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300-series and ION desktop GPUs, but not for the new GTX400 series.
According to NVIDIA, this driver resolves fan speed issues reported with version 196.75 drivers.
What’s new:
* Adds support for Next Generation ION.
* Adds support [...]
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March 17th, 2010 at 04:55pm Under Computers
As we reported late 2009, Intel’s Larrabee project had been infinitely delayed, but it seems that the chip giant has never stop making efforts to enter into discrete graphics market.
Someone close to the project has recently told TechEye site that “there is a whole product plan and roadmap still in place”.
According to the hardware designer, [...]
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March 16th, 2010 at 11:55pm Under Computers
One of the most dangerous forms of malware nowadays is represented by keyloggers. They used to be able to record only keystrokes - hence the name, but, like any sort of malware, they have rapidly developed new abilities, permitting surreptitious logging of all user activity on the computer, complete with reports on time of launching every application, snapshots of the s… (read more)
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March 16th, 2010 at 02:55pm Under Computers
The Shanebaxtor site has just reported that the GeForce GTX400 series had been pushed back again to April 6th, but the good news is the delay only happens to the retail supply and not the NDA.
The GTX400 products will begin hitting shelves from April 6th, a bit later than the original schedule. But don’t be [...]
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March 16th, 2010 at 02:55pm Under Computers
The CVG site has recently had an interview with FutureMark’s CEO Jukka Makinen. Besides talking about the Shatterd Horizon and the future development of the company, some information about the next-generation 3DMark also emerged.
According to Jukka, the new benchmark will be DirectX 11-only, and totally different from the previous versions. The “3DMark 2010″ is coming [...]
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March 16th, 2010 at 01:55am Under Computers
After the GeForce GTX480 is released on March 26th, there’ll be OC editions coming from some leading manufacturers of graphics cards. According to the information we’ve gathered, the maximum power consumption of GTX480 could reach up to 298W, and we know the 6pin+8pin power connector is just capable of supplying 300W in the best situation. [...]
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March 16th, 2010 at 01:55am Under Computers
The Chinese-language NGA forum has just leaked the die shots of NVIDIA GeForce GTX470/GTX480, and according to the post, the die size would measure 23mm*23mm, which is 529 square millimeters.
Rumors ever had it that the die of GeForce GTX470 is codenamed GF100-275-A3, so we have reason to believe the GF100-375-A3 shown in following pictures is [...]
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March 14th, 2010 at 07:57am Under Computers
There’s hardly a piece of software more important for a desktop operating system these days than the web browser. Even the most casual of users will end up employing one several times per day. You could argue that Linux has always had a wide variety of browsers to choose from and, if you just look at the numbers you’re definitely right. But, with the risk of getting a lot o… (read more)
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