It’s known that G92 Geforce 8800GTS is delayed from Dec.3 to Dec.11. But whatever the date NVIDIA set, Gigabyte always love to release their information early than everyone expected.Here is a big pic of the latest G92 product: G92-8800GTS. And here is what they are going to do:
PAGE 1: Introduction
PAGE 2: Improvements in Wolfdale
PAGE 3: E8400 utilities reading, and test bed
PAGE 4: OC, temprature & power consumption
PAGE 5: E8400 vs E6850 Comparison
PAGE 6: x0.5 multiplier benches
PAGE 7: Final thoughts
Now it is still a long wait for the wolfdale dual core to launch, but lucky enough we got a chance to put our hands on a E8400. It is a mid level product, $183 (wholesale price) is absolutely friendly to our exetreme users.
Intel will unveil their x0.5 multiplier in the latest 45nm products.The lowest multiplier is X6, and between X7 to X13 Intel will add x0.5. This idea is because nowadays CPU’s FSB is already upgraded from 266MHz to 333MHz. If still using the old multiplier idea will led the product line becoming short and can not cover the whole market. Introducting x0.5 multiplier can let company have more models and can have a better product line planning and deployment.
And we got our hand’s on the E8400, Intel’s 45nm wolfdale processor, which will come to the market in Q1 08. Let’s expreience x0.5 multiplier with it.
Intel’s E8400
Because of HD 3850 and HD 3870 is too hot, now almost every non-reference version throw stock cooler away and use a self-design heatsink. Now MAXSUN unveils their HD 3850 and HD 3870. Don’t konw they will sell oversea but two card looks cool.
you should still remember our G98 core shot, GPU-Z cap screen and 3Dmark06 result. In the further test we find out G98 have a very good OC ability.
default frequency: 567/500MHz
790FX is the important part of AMD’s Spider platform, have lot’s of specs like HT 3.0, PCIe Gen2, AM2+ support and CrossfireX. But it’s pity that it still equip with a SB600 southbridge. Today we got our hands on Foxconn A79A-s, a 790FX mobo.
This mobo will have a SB700 southbridge and have a better support for surrounding slots. AMD said SB700 will out in 2008 Q1, but SB700’s sample will send to mobo bulider within a week. Let’s hope 790FX+SB700 can come out early.
A79A-s will be the first mobo to equip SB700 chip
PAGE ONE: Pics of HR-03 GT
PAGE TWO: Explanations and test bed
Six heatpipe design, powerful enough to handle 8800GT’s heat.
Seems Mac mini have anonther brother, the Epson ST110 PC. ST110 is a upgrade version of ST100, only accept BTO(Bulid To Order), won’t sell in the retail market.
In the latest entry we know that RV620 have the same core frequency with refrence HD 2400 pro. For your information, the RV620’s frequency is 525/400MHz (core/mem).
But what about the architecture? Does AMD change the architecture and give athe RV620 a boost like R600 to R670?
So we have a small test here:
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NVIDIA is in driver-mania right now, publishing driver week after week, and each one have performance boosts. Now the latest driver is 169.12 beta. We know that 169.12 actually is a 169.09 with 8800GT standby/hibernate mode BSOD problem. Anyway we still want to test 169.12 beta with 163.75.
Our test bed:
