ASUS shows G-Panel of ROG series in CES2009 |
NVIDIA PhysX V9.09.0010 Leaked |
NVIDIA PhysX v9.09.0010 system software has been leaked by toomanydownloads. It comes with support for GeForce 8, 9, and GTX200 Series graphics cards (with at least 256MB of memory), Ageia PhysX cards.
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Vote: Who Will Be The First One to Leave Motherboard Market? |
When the Taiwan website Digitimes had an interview with Henry Lu, Vice President of products at MSI, Lu predicts that, due to global economic slump and limited expansion of the market, one of the top-four motherboard makers (Asustek, Gigabyte, MSI and ECS) will have to drop out of the motherboard market within the next few years. Only if one of these four first-tier motherboard makers quit, can the other three remain profitable.
Gigabyte Announces AM3 Motherboard Added Support for DDR3 |
Gigabyte has announced three models of AM3 motherboards supporting DDR3: GA-MA790FXT-UD5P, GA-MA790XT-UD4P and GA-MA770T-UD3P. As AMD doesn’t have plan yet to offer new chipset for motherboard which is compatible with AM3 processor, the above Gigabyte motherboards are all based on AMD 7 Series chipset. The image of GA-MA790FXT-UD5P featuring AMD 790FX+SB750 has already been unveiled.
PureSilicon Debuts World’s First 1TB 2.5-Inch SSD |
PureSilicon debut a 1TB SSD at CES, which doubled the capacity of Toshiba’s latest 512GB SSD.
Western Digital to Launch 2TB Hard Drive This Week |
Last December, the etailer Czech Computer ever reveiled Western Digital’s 2TB hard drive (Model: WD20EADS). Now, we finally get some exact information about this large-capacity drive.
Kingston & Intel Show off SSDs Together at CES 2009 |
According to friends at LegitReviews, Kingston has announced to team up with Intel to offer SSD. Now we can see the products that they complete together.
Kingston Booth at CES 2009
Marked with Logos of Kingston and Intel, the SSD lineup showed at CES 2009 includes SSDNow E and SSDNow M Series.
AMD Announces Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series GPU |
AMD announced ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series graphics processors at CES.
Radeon HD 4000 Series desktop GPU was a great success last year, and now AMD brings it to notebooks. Ranging from high-end to low-end GPUs, Mobility Radeon HD 4000 family consists of 4800/4600/4500/4300 Series.
ATI Catalyst Beta Driver Package for Windows 7 |
At the same day of ATI Catalyst Driver 8.12 Hotfix updated, ATI Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows 7 was also made available. If you’re using Windows 7, I guess you don’t want to miss it.
Windows 7 Beta Officially Released |
Yesterday Microsoft offered the downloading of Windows 7 Beta. But their servers seem to have been overloaded. Let’s see what Microsoft said, “Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal — we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the delay and we’ll re-post the Beta as soon as we can ensure a quality download experience.” We can see how popular Windows 7 Beta is.
AMD Cuts Price of Radeon HD 4870 X2 in Response to GeForce GTX295 |
With the emergence of NVIDIA GeForce GTX295, the high-end graphics cards market might be faced with reshuffle. AMD react very quickly by announcing to slash the price of its flagship Radeon HD 4870 X2.
Review of GeForce GTX295 Who Brings NVIDIA Back to the Throne |
We had an interview with the general manager of GeForce — Ujesh Desai at ComputeX 2008. We ever asked him whether NVIDIA had plan to launch dual-GPU GT200 graphics card, but he hedged the question. At the end of that month, AMD slashed Radeon HD4800 Series, which thoroughly changed the situation that NVIDIA held complete control of the market. Radeon HD4800 Series sold very well, which helped AMD to regain initiative. NVIDIA ever took measures to fight back, such as cutting price of GeForce GTX200 Series and upgrading GeForce 9800GTX. Even so, none of the existing products of NVIDIA is able to take back the crown which grabbed by HD4870X2. For the proud NVIDIA, this is really hard to accept.
GeForce 181.20 WHQL Supporting GTX285 and GTX295 |
NVIDIA slashed GeForce 181.20 WHQL as soon as GeForce GTX295 was officially introduced at CES 2009. Besides GTX295, the new driver also adds support for to-be-launched GTX285 graphics cards.
ATI Catalyst 8.12 Hotfix Updated |
ATI has updated ATI Catalyst 8.12 Hotfix quietly. The new release has improved DirectX10 performance in various applications in multi-core CPU systems, and also resolved BSOD issues using dual ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 with ATI CrossFireX™ tech.
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