AMD “Dragon” Platform Logo Made Public Finally |
SPARKLE Brings Us A Sparkle of Calibre P980X+ Graphics Cards With Fly Fan |
Yesterday Sparkle announced its latest production – Calibre GeForce 9800GTX+ Graphics Card. It looks fantastic with exclusively-designed Calibre fly fan. According to the official introduction, it features pure copper thermal base and dual cooling fans with 0.2 mm thin cooling fins. Besides, the two fans of Calibre Fly Cooling System can be adjusted aslant, so not only MOS circuit on PCB can get cooled effectively, the whole cooling efficiency can be improved too.
Microsoft to Finish More Updates Following IE8 Beta 2 |
Microsoft has already launched Windows Internet Explorer Beta2. Perhaps some people prefer to wait for the final release of IE8, but Microsoft has suggested that final release is far from completely finished. More Beta versions will come up in the first quarter of next year whereas we have no idea of when exactly the formal version will be out.
S3 Graphics Card with DX10.1/OpenGL3.0 Support Available at $44.95 |
Chrome 530 GT HDMI 512MB
Lately, S3 Graphics issues Chrome 500 Series VGA Card supporting DirectX10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 applications. It claims to be the first graphics card to support OpenGL 3.0, but NVIDIA had already unveiled a driver supporting OpenGL 3.0 for GeForce 8000/9000 Series. There are no games supporting OpenGL 3.0 as yet. John Carmack from id Software might be interested in working on this.
GeIL launches the First Memory Cooling System |
GeIL has recently announced the 1st memory cooling fan with LED display – EVO Cyclone Memory Cooling System. It features eye-catching appearance and effective cooling performance. Test result shows that it takes the memory temperature from 48.5℃ to 36℃.
TMPGEnc XPress Updated to Version 4.6.3.267 supporting Core i7! |
As an oldline video encoder software supporting CUDA application, TMPGEnc XPress enables GeForce VGA card to share partial task (it doesn’t support G80 core GeForce 8800 GTS/GTX card).
TMPGEnc XPress V4.6.3.267 is launched today to fix the following problems in CUDA support and others (the last version is 4.6.3.266):
NVIDIA Exposes Its First BigBang II Driver |
Today NVIDIA offers its first BingBang II driver – 180.48 WHQL-certified Driver. Its integrated Physx edition is named as 8.10.13. This driver was scheduled to launch at the same time as Intel X58 platform, but actually one day later. According to the nv_disp.inf file, 180.48 Driver was packaged on Nov 12nd.
Galaxy Hits again with Intel G41 Integrated Mobo |
Galaxy ever impressed us with its Intel G31 motherboard sold under $50, and recently it announces Intel G41 integrated mobo to push its advantage. EXP is lucky enough to get it with attached DisplayPort+DVI expansion card.
Intel G41 chipset integrates improved X4500 IGP and also supports high-definition video decoding such as MPEG2/VC1/VC high-defi formats. This is really something exciting for those who are value conscious whereas demand top vision effects.
AMD Dragon platform’s plan and performance exposed |
After trying “spider” platform consisting of Phenom processor, 790FX motherboard and HD3800 series graphics card, AMD decides to bring out Spider’s successor -”Dragon”. “Dragon” includes Phenom II processor, 790 series motherboard and HD4800 series card.
