PowerColor Radeon HD 4730 Available Soon |
A recent post at Fudzilla indicates that PowerColor’s HD 4730 is going to be available by the end of this month.
Radeon HD 4730 in The Works |
Radeon HD 4770 has been hardly available because of the 40nm yield issue, especially in China. As the stock of HD 4830 reduces, AMD doesn’t have advantage any more at this price point. Therefore, AMD is planning to push something called Radeon HD 4730.
Download: Radeon BIOS Editor V1.21 |
TechPowerUp has updated the Radeon BIOS Editor to Version 1.21. The new version brings a few changes that enhance the application’s functionality and stability.
Intel to Detail 8-core Server Chip Next Week |
The news site Cnet has revealed that Intel is planning to announce details of an 8-core processor for the high-end server market next week, but the chip will not ship until late 2009 or early 2010.
ATI Catalyst 9.5 Available Now |
ATI has finally made Catalyst 9.5 official on its website, four days after it was leaked to the web. Catalyst 9.5 hardly brings performance improvement over Catalyst 9.4, according to our test.
Asus Makes Crosshair III Formula Motherboard Official |
Asus has today lauched the ROG (Republic of Gamers) Crosshair III Formula motherboard based on AMD Socket AM3 platform.
Decent Water-Cooling Kit For Asus Rampage II EXTREME |
Asus’s ROG (Republic of Gamers) Series Motherboard represents high-end performance and deluxe design. One of our readers Mo Lan has made a water-cooling kit for Asus Rampage II EXTREME motherboard, and sent us for our review. Let’s have a look at his awesome creation first.
Asus Unveils Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim Sound Card |
After announcing Xonar DS and Xonar Essence ST sound cards, Asus today adds a new member to its HDAV family: Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim sound card.
NVIDIA’s G300 Clockspeeds Leaked Out |
Since NVIDIA G300 has been already taped out, the engineering sample is expected to be out soon. The German hardware website Hardware-infos has unveiled the frequencies of G300.
The samples of G300-A1-Stepping are coming with core/shader/memory clock of 700/1600/1100MHz. As we reported, the G300 features 512 stream processors, so the theoretical computing capacity should reach 2457GFLOPS.
NEC Introduces First USB 3.0 Host Controller |
NEC today announces the world’s first USB host controller for the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard supporting USB transfer speeds of up to 5Gbps.
ATI Catalyst 9.5 Hardly Brings Performance Improvements |
ATI Catalyst 9.5 Driver was leaked last Saturday, but the new driver is still unavailable at AMD website. The changelist is unknown yet, but there should be some compatability enhancements and bug fixes. Besides, Catalyst 9.5 has added support for Radeon HD 4770.
Catalyst 9.4
GT300 Taped Out Already? |
NVIDIA’s next-generation GPU GT300 was rumored to be taped out in June, but according to the tech site Brightsideofnews, GT300 has been taped out between January and March. The silicon is A1, but NVIDIA might be forced to tape out A2 silicon to get production-grade yields.
NVIDIA’s GT300 chip has several codenames to avoid any confusion. The GT300 is destined to become a Tesla part, G300 is the desktop GeForce card, while G300GL is upcoming Quadro part.
Zotac Overclocking Competition 2009 Opens Grandly |
Today we’re very proud and pleased to announce the opening of ”Zotac Overclocking Competition 2009″ organized by Expreview and Zotac China. All the hardcore overclockers in Mainland China may participate to win the “Lord of Overclocking” title and incredible prizes including Zotac GTS 250 graphics card.
Download: EVGA SLI Enhancement Patch V11 |
EVGA has now released the SLI Enhancement Patch Version 11 (05.15.09) based on NVIDIA GeForce 185.85 Driver, which is compatible with Windows Vista and XP 32/64-bit operating systems.
Asus Plans Xonar Essence ST Sound Card |
Asus has recently unveiled the new Xonar Essence ST sound card which looks quite decent.
