*Update* Hero is not from PowerColor
*Update* Hero is a separate company, not form by PowerColor, Source updated.
Inno3D begin to make AMD/ATI’s card by introducing Force 3D.
HydroJet finally shows up!
WaytronX finally shows the fantastic CPU cooler, HydroJet. The cooler uses cabon nanotube, a efficient technology for transmitting the heat.
GeForce 9800 GX2 Dismantled
9800 GX2 will be delayed, but reviewers who got the card can not resist their happiness and leaking these dismantling pics:
The cooler have two sides. That means the two GPUs are standing face-to-face.
NVIDIA delays almost all their new products to March
Almost all NVIDIA’s upcoming products will be delay to March, according to our sources.
Delayed new products including 780a, 750a, 790i, 790i Ultra, and 9800 GX2. All these products should be announced in Feb, 2008. Sources did not mention the reason why NV hold the upcoming releases. And we guess that’s because of factories are running into Chinese new year holiday.
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HD 3690 128bit/256MB got reviewed
It is a HD 3690, don’t be fooled by that eight memory chips.
HD 3690, based on RV670 but only for $124. The price is cheap enough but how about the performance? more than we can expected.
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HD 3870X2 in Crossfire
Tom’s Hardware try to run benches on HD 3870X2 Crossfire. But their Catalyst 8.452(guess it is an RC version) seems still not ready for Crossfire. Because after their benchmark the 3DMark06 score is only 16795. They even complain that Crysis can not run normal when AA/AF turned on.
More details about Sapphire HD 3690
Those HD 3690 is all made by Triplex, but not this one. Sapphire’s HD 3690 use their self-designed PCB. The card supports PowerPlay, and factory-overclock to 701/1800MHz（core/memory）. It seems to be the fastest HD 3690 card.
The quick bench and specs is posted in our earlier post.
Catalyst 8.1 WHQL test
The latest Catalyst is 8.1, released in January 17. Catalyst 8.1 WHQL now supports MultiView. Multiview provides for hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering across multiple graphics adapters. But this feature now only supports Windows XP(32/64bit). The feature will support Vista in later releases.
AMD-ATI promises each month a new driver
ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 gallery
Computer hardware companies prefer girls on their card stickers. Even the MSI’s robot head looks like a female. Which is the eye candy?
ASUS:
