NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
The guys at vr-zone published the first photo of the upcoming GeForce GTX 295 card. Expected to be unveiled at CES, the GTX 295 will be featured with two GPUs placed on two separate printed circuit boards, each one has a GTX 200 GPU, 240 stream processors, 448-bit memory bus and 896MB DDR3 memory. The card displayed in the picture features 2 DVI ports and 1 Display Port. The card has been featured with a 8+6 pins power connector combo, which you an idea of how much power it needs. More »
Intel Core i5
Intel is about to launch Lynnfield, a processor based on Nehalem, in Q3 2009. Lynnfield has integrated with memory controller and 8MB L3 cache, supporting technologies such as Turbo Boost. It doesn’t utilize QPI (Core i7 Bloomfield utilize it instead) and only supports dual channel DDR3 memory. Lynnfield features mature DMI (Direct Media Interface) and uses LGA1160 (updated to LGA1156 later) socket, while Core i7 used LGA1366. More »
Amd Launch Schedule for 2009
Amd is goingo to launch an entry level IGP chipset in January 2009, the AMD 760G, based on the RS780 architecture. The chipset, that is expected to replace Amd 740G, will support DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0, but will not support Unified Video Decoder and Hybrid CrossFireX technologies nor HDMI and Display Port connections. More »
Intel Core i7 Reviews
In the past days a lot of reviews and benchmarks about the new Intel Core i7/X58 platform surfaced on the net. Here are a few interesting links: Techgage, Legion Hardware, TweakTown, Guru3D, PC Perspective, TechSpot, Neoseeker, t-break, OCAU, ExtremeTech, Benchmark Reviews, HotHardware, HardOCP, Lost Circuits. More »
AMD’s 45nm CPU Line Up Revealed
While the 45nm Shanghai quad core Opteron (Opteron 83xx series and Opteron 23xx series) has just made its debut at resellers, AMD is planning to launch six high end 45nm quad core CPUs (codename Deneb) and four entry-level (codename Propus) in the first quarter of next year. The Phenom X4 20550 and 20350 for socket AM2+ systems with core frequencies of 3GHz and 2.8GHz will be launche this month. AMD will also launch six 45nm triple core CPUs (codename Heka and Regor) including 14x00, 12x00 and 1xx00e series. More »
Nvidia GT206, GT212, GT216 and GT300
GT2xx generation cards' life cycle is not over yet, the GT206 will be released in Q4 2008, presumably to cash in on the christmas shopping season. GT206, the last 55 nm cards, seems to be having problems with its shader domain, which has pushed its launch for that late. Following GT206, GT212 and GT216 would be Nvidia's entries to the 40nm silicon fabrication process, both will support GDDR5 memory on a broad memory bus. GT212 will be released in Q1 2009, GT216 in Q2 2009. More »
Nvidia MCP85 chipset
Expreview have revealed that samples of MCP85 have been sent to NV mainboard partners. MCP85 is NVIDIA’s next mainstream chipset for AMD AM3. The new chipset, based around the GeForce 8100/8200/8300, is basically the same as the MCP78 which it is superseding, with the exception of the added AM3 support. There are two version of MCP85, MCP85-S and MCP85-V, the only difference will be their clock and PureVideo versions. The new chipset will hit the market in Q1 2009. More »
