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AMD Athlon 64 FX-60: A Dual-Core farewell to Socket-939 "Our excitement over the Athlon 64 FX-60 isn’t really about its performance, although at 2.6GHz it is quite stellar, rather it is more of an excitement out of principle. We’ve favored and recommended dual core processors to power users as soon as they were available, even though dual core processors were generally far slower at single threaded applications than their equivalently priced single core alternatives. With the FX-60, at least at the high end, the same is no longer true."

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January 11, 200620 yr

AMD, Intel unwrap their latest server chips "With Tulsa, a dual-core Xeon server chip from Intel coming in the second half of the year, the emphasis tips toward performance. The chip will run at 3.4GHz, faster than the 3GHz Xeon chip (formerly code-named Paxville) on the market today. Tulsa also comes with a 16MB unified cache, a large reservoir of memory on the chip for rapid data access. This means that each of the cores can access data from the entire cache. Presently, Intel and AMD dual-core chips sport segregated caches; dual-core chips from IBM come with a unified cache."

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February 8, 200620 yr

Nvidia to launch 90nm GeForce 7900 GPUs on March 9 "Nvidia is expected to launch its 90nm GeForce 7900 graphics processor unit (GPU), in GT and GTX versions, on March 9, according to sources at Taiwan graphics-card makers. In addition to the GeForce 7900 series, Nvidia plans to add the GeForce 7600 (codenamed G73) by the end of next month, the sources indicated."

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February 16, 200620 yr

Forget DVI, DMS59 Is Back Again "Molex owns the royalties on DMS59, which may have lead to the failure of manufacturers to adopt the interconnect standard."

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February 27, 200620 yr

ATI x16 vs x8 Performance "A couple of weeks back we looked at the performance of the nForce x16 chipset by plugging a couple of 7800GTX cards in SLI mode and finding out how much extra performance we could gain by having two dedicated PCI-E x16 lanes instead of one that’s split into two X8 lanes. The results were disappointing with only one game, Quake4, showing any performance gains. Now with ATI’s Xpress 3200 Northbridge officially launched, we figured its only fair to put ATI to the same test and thus today, we will show the performance difference between two X1900XT cards under the older ATI RD480 chipset which has two PCI-E x8 lanes and the newer ATI Xpress…

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March 7, 200620 yr

Physics Simulation on NVIDIA GPUs Scroll down a bit.... "Havok FX leverages state of the art software and hardware technology from NVIDIA to extend the capabilities of NVIDIA GPUs and SLI multi-GPU systems to include physics processing for massive real-time effects. In this presentation NVIDIA and Havok engineers will describe how Havok FX utilizes NVIDIA technology to simulate and render thousands of particles and rigid bodies in games. Live real-time demos will demonstrate the high performance available with current GPUs and provide a look into the future of physics processing on NVIDIA GPUs." Havok FX™: GPU-accelerated Physics for PC Games "This session…

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March 12, 200620 yr

Quad SLI - Don't expect miracles "One thing they are not officially announcing that they are going to announce is the new quad-SLI parts, dual GPUs per card. They demo'd them at CES to great scratching of heads and now are about to productize it. It won't be a Dell exclusive in a few days."

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March 20, 200620 yr

ATI prepares X1700 series "The number of Pixel Shader ALUs (arithmetical logical units) will also get a boost, and the RV560 will feature 24 of them, with four Vertex Shader units. The number of Texture Memory Units (TMU's) has also been raised from four to eight, since there is no logical reason to have fewer textures than pixels per clock."

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April 2, 200620 yr

Interview with Sapphire CEO K D Au "HEXUS: So you mean you might go "green"? KD: I am not saying that directly but a lot of our customers, OEMs and retailers, have asked for both NVIDIA and ATI SKUs. Think of it like this, there are two types of people who will want a German car, some go for BMW, some go for Mercedes - the best thing to do is make sure both are covered. When the time is right, we may do it."

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April 10, 200620 yr

Direct X 10 Briefing "Much smaller overhead per object which means that more objects can be utilised, making games more interesting and more fun to explore and interact with. One thing to note: If the same game was coded to run on both DX9 and DX10 there would be around a 20% performance increase just from the fact the overhead is lower in DX10."

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May 27, 200620 yr

Getting Ready to Meet Intel Core 2 Duo: Core Microarchitecture Unleashed "Since Core Microarchitecture is designed for dual-core right from the start, the developers could optimize some functional units according of the upcoming processors accordingly. Unlike all other desktop processors available these days, CPUs with Core Microarchitecture will share their L2 cache between the cores. This cache memory works similarly to the mechanisms that you can find in today’s dual-core Intel Core Duo mobile processors."

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June 30, 200620 yr

Multi-GPU World Tour 2006, Part 3 - Choosing the right motherboard "When building a complete system the choice of the components of course is very important. Many concentrate on picking a good CPU and video card but forget that the road to a stable and fast system starts with the motherboard. If you plan on building a system for two video cards the choice is pretty simple; a motherboard using NVIDIA’s SLI-technology or a motherboard using ATI’s Crossfire technology."

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July 16, 200620 yr

Seven Games and One Week: Games vs. GPUs "So, in this review we are going to examine the performance of nineteen graphics cards in seven newest and most popular (according to various game charts) gaming applications. We will analyze the test results that will help you make up your mind regarding a graphics card you may want to have to enjoy some games in the last days of this summer." Kinda nice they included Titan Quest in the games they used to benchmark with. Also, they used various resolutions!!!

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August 22, 200620 yr

XFX GeForce 7900 GS 480M Extreme "The GeForce 7900 GS has the same clock frequencies as the 7900 GT, 450 MHz GPU core frequency and 660 MHz (1.32 GHz) memory frequency. Where it differs is in the pipeline layout. The GeForce 7900 GS has 20 pixel shader units versus the 24 of the 7900 GT. That cuts the fillrate down from 10.8 GPixels/sec to 9 GPixels/sec. The vertex shader units have also taken a slight reduction to 7 on the GeForce 7900 GS versus 8 on the 7900 GT. Raster Operator count is the same at 16 with both GPUs. Standard with this GPU will be 256MB of GDDR3. The power consumption is quoted as pulling 82W under max power." Fall '06 NVIDIA GPU Refresh - Part …

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September 6, 200620 yr

Can SLI in a Notebook Beat Desktop Graphics? 'Desktop replacements not only have sufficient CPU capabilities, but offer features such as large displays, RAID arrays and even dual-graphics solutions. Desktop replacement systems usually come equipped with either a desktop processor or the most powerful mobile processor. Armed with an AMD Mobile Turion 64 ML-44 running at 2.4 GHz and 2 GB of memory, the Battalion is ready for anything that comes its way. As we mentioned earlier, the system has dual Nvidia GeForce Go 7800GTX graphics processors connected together via SLI to give the blistering performance for gaming on the road. The Battalion has many other components…

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September 8, 200620 yr