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NVIDIA pushes new GPU chips to OEMs to bypass underfill failure

By Chris Davies on Monday, Dec 29th 2008 No Comments

NVIDIA logo When life gives you lemons, make lemonade: that’s obviously NVIDIA’s motto, as the company is apparently using GPU failures in their previous generation products to encourage manufacturers to adopt their new range. According to a memo obtained by VR-Zone, NVIDIA “strongly recommends that customers transition to this latest revision of the NB8E-SET GPUs as soon as possible” in order that OEMs and ODMs aren’t affected by the GPU substrate issue that can lead to systems overheating.

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World’s Fastest GPU Sapphire ATOMIC HD 4870 X2 gets liquid-cooled by Asetek

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Dec 19th 2008 No Comments

The high performance yet ultra quiet ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 was the result of Asetek’s closed loop liquid cooling system which utilized workstation-thermal technology over PC. It enables much-faster clocks speeds to improve GPU overall performance while manage to improve heat transfer with its low-noise liquid cooler system. Asetex has announced the same cooling system has been chosen by SAPPHIRE Technology for its latest ATOMIC HD 4870 X2 ultra high performance single-slot video card.

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PNY launched Quadro FX 5800 and Quadro FX 4800

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Dec 18th 2008 No Comments

Pro with industrial-grade graphic intensive designer apps take note, PNY Technologies has released two new highly scalable and performance graphics cards based on Nvidia 2nd-gen FX series unified architecture, offering 4GB and 1.5GB of DDR3 memory with the announcement of Quadro FX 5800 and Quadro FX 4800.

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NVIDIA Ion platform: Atom plus GeForce 9400M for full-HD netbooks

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2008 1 Comment

NVIDIA have unveiled plans to add extra graphics capabilities to Intel Atom powered netbooks, using a new, full-HD capable chipset. The so-called Ion platform comprises the company’s new GeForce 9400M graphics chipset with Intel’s Atom processor, replacing the typical Intel GMA 945 chipset and improving graphics and video transcoding by a factor of ten.

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Fujitsu AMILO GraphicBoost tested: it works, but questions remain

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2008 No Comments

On its own, Fujitsu’s AMILO Sa 3650 notebook is par for the course; its claim to fame is the GraphicBooster box the company offer with it. Packing an external ATI Radeon HD 3870 video card and dual outputs, Fujitsu boast a whopping 470-percent increase in video performance over the notebook’s standard ATI Radeon HD 3200 on-board graphics. Electricpig have tried it out, and while it works they still have questions about its practicality.

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WITECH Multi-I dual-display USB video card

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Dec 4th 2008 1 Comment

WITECH have announced the Multi-I USB video card, offering two VGA connections from a single USB hook-up to your PC or Mac. Based on DisplayLink technology, it can drive two new monitors at up to 1400 x 1050 resolution, together with offering the ability to daisy-chain further Multi-I units.

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Fujitsu AMILO Sa 3650 ultraportable with external GraphicBooster video card

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 28th 2008 No Comments

Fujitsu have announced their latest ultraportable, the 13.3-inch AMILO Notebook Sa 3650, and its external video companion, the AMILO GraphicBooster. Offering up to 470-percent increased graphics performance, the GraphicBooster is an external ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics card with 512MB memory, DVI-I and HDMI outputs, and two USB 2.0 connections.

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Hynix 7GHz GDDR 5 Video RAM

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 25th 2008 No Comments

Memory manufacturer Hynix have announced the world’s first high-speed GDDR 5 RAM capable of running at 7GHz. The video memory is over a third faster than existing 4.5GHz video RAM, and will initially be available in 54nm 1Gb chips. It’s capable of processing up to 28 gigabytes of data per second.

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NVIDIA QuadroFX 5800: 4GB memory & 240 parallel cores

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 10th 2008 No Comments

NVIDIA have announced the Quadro FX 5800, the first graphics card to include 4GB of memory as standard, and outfitted with up to 240 CUDA programmable parallel cores. The FX 5800 is intended for interactive 4D modelling such as is required for oil and gas exploration, medical imaging, styling and design, and scientific visualization. To that end it’s capable of fill rates that exceed 52 billion texels per second and geometry performance of 300 million triangles per second.

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ATI Radeon HD 4830 announcement on Thursday October 23rd?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 21st 2008 No Comments

Today is the day that AMD were rumored to be announcing the ATI Radeon HD 4830, a sub-$150 video card that would directly rival the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT. However, according to a leaked pre-embargo slide from Engadget Chinese, it looks as though we may have to wait a couple more days: the NDA doesn’t lift until October 23rd, suggesting the HD 4830 will be officially announced this Thursday.

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