Both NVIDIA and AMD partner Club 3D has just unveiled a non-reference version of AMD’s Radeon HD 5850 graphics card which it simply calls the Radeon HD 5850 Overclocked Edition with its higher clock rates on tap. There’s more to the card than just higher clock speeds, however. It uses a custom PCB and cooler [...]
Archive for February 9th, 2010
9 Feb
ATI Radeon HD 5570: Reasonable Gaming Performance For $80?
In September of 2008–almost a year and a half ago–ATI surprised everyone on a budget with the launch of its Radeon HD 4670. Released at $80, the card was priced to fight the entry-level GeForce 9500 GT, and yet the 4670′s specifications were comparable to the previous-generation’s Radeon HD 3870 flagship. To make a long [...]
9 Feb
AMD details Fusion innovations at ISSCC
AMD is to disclose details of its first Fusion processor today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, with an emphasis on design features that will boost the energy efficiency of the forthcoming chip. Fusion aims to combine standard CPU and graphics processor (GPU) technology into a single chip capable of [...]
9 Feb
ATI FirePro™ professional graphics earn certifications for AutoCAD® 2010 and Autodesk® Showcase® 2010
AMD (NYSE: AMD) has announced its entire currently available family of ATI FireProTM professional graphics have been certified by Autodesk® for AutoCAD® 2010 software on Windows® 71. As an industry leader in 2D and 3D design and documentation software, AutoCAD 2010 technology supports the latest Microsoft operating system to help deliver fast performance and exceptional [...]
9 Feb
ATI Radeon(TM) HD 5570 Graphics Brings a Big Visual Experience to Small Form Factor PCs
AMD /quotes/comstock/13*!amd/quotes/nls/amd (AMD 7.40, -0.02, -0.27%) today introduced the ATI Radeon(TM) HD 5570 graphics card, perfect for end-users seeking an energy efficient, low-profile DirectX(R) 11 card for small form factor PCs. The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card joins the award-winning line of AMD graphics that fully support DirectX 11, as well as ATI Eyefinity [...]
9 Feb
Retailer internal computer systems never lie — New Macbook Pro’s all but certain.
Are new Macbook Pros right around the corner? You could say the leaked images a couple of days back showing a Core i7 Macbook Pro being put through the paces as nothing more than some clever Photoshop mastery. I’m more of an optimist however. I’m choosing to take the higher road. A road which eventually [...]
9 Feb
Sony Is Looking at the Tablet Computer Market
It looks like Sony is also planning to manufacture the tablet computer because one of its head showed his interest in the emerging sector. At the conference that took place in Tokyo, Sony’s CFO Nobuyuki Oneda said that the company is interested in the market of tablet computers. It happened that Sony introduced its W [...]
9 Feb
Student loses phones and computer
KUANTAN: A student lost two handphones and a laptop computer worth about RM3,000 to a man who impersonated a policeman in Jalan Besar here. The incident occurred at about 2.45pm on Sunday when the victim, who was riding a motorcycle, was stopped by the suspect.
9 Feb
Intel, IBM roll out new computer network chips
SAN FRANCISCO — US technology titans IBM and Intel have rolled out powerful new computer chips designed for businesses continually demanding more from networks and data centers. Intel introduced an Itanium processor 9300 series developed under the code name “Tukwila” that it touts as delivering twice the performance of prior generation chips.
9 Feb
Mobile Broadband Providers Being Dishonest About Average Speeds
Mobile phone networks need to come clean about the true speed one can expect to achieve when getting mobile broadband services instead of providing with “unrealistic claims” says Broadband Genie. The broadband comparison website says that in 2009, the average mobile broadband speed was a mere 1mbps, a far cry from the 7.2mbps that some [...]
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