Larrabee GPUs inside Xbox 720?
According to The Inquirer, Microsoft's nextgen Xbox (Xbox 720) gpu may be the upcoming Intel Larrabee. For publishers and developers, switching to a new hardware architecture is a risk in term of costs, so Intel is having trouble getting developers to program for Larrabee. Since most games these days are written for consoles before being ported More »
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SLI support on Intel X58
For a long time motherboard makers had to be using Nvidia nForce 200 chip for SLI to function. But, as reported by TechReport, now it seems that Nvidia is going to enable native SLI on certified X58 motherboards without the need of the nForce 200 SLI bridge chip. The motherboard has to be certified for manufacturer by Nvidia before More »
SATA Rev 3.0 specification
As reported by Techon, Serial ATA International Organization has released the physical layer portion for its third generation storage interface. The upcoming SATA Rev 3.0 specification, expected to be available by the end of 2008, will double the maximum transfer speed from 3Gbps to 6Gbps. The new specification will maintain backward compatibility with previous SATA implementations More »
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Ati M98
The guys at PcPop seem to have gotten their hands on the new upcoming Mobility Radeon series GPU, codenamed the M98. The engineering sample board makes use of a RV770 core and four GDDR3 memory chips made by Qimonda, the gpu is clearly marked as M98 XT. In terms of performance, the M98 More »
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New Larrabee details
Intel unveiled some details about its upcoming Larrabee accelerator/discrete graphics architecture, due for launch in 2009 or 2010. Larrabee is a multi core processor containing ten or more individual x86 processor cores inside one silicon package. Discrete graphics cards using the Larrabee architecture will be aimed at the gaming market, this means that Intel is directly targeting Amd and Nvidia. The use of x86 cores means that game developers More »
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Intel’s Havendale
Intel announces its new hybrid platform codenamed Havendale, a cpu with an integrated gpu and an Ibex peak chipset, all in a single chip solution. The CPU part of the Havendale is a dual core, Nehalem derived 45nm model and it comes with integrated memory controller on the CPU side of the chip. The chip supports only DDR3 and it interconnects with Ibex peak directly through a memory interface (DMI). The Ibex peak Southbridge is More »
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Liquid Metal Based CPU Cooler
Danamics, a Denmark based company, has developed the LM10, the first liquid metal based CPU cooler that combines liquid metal with an electromagnetic pump. If you are really into extreme overclocking and you don’t really want to waste money on liquid nitrogen, there’s some new kind of cooler that runs on liquid metal. The special thermodynamic properties of liquid metal improve temperature uniformity and allow for lower temperatures when compared to other More »
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