NVIDIA seems very unhappy with Intel, not only showed us upgrading CPU is useless and even hinted Intel’s upcoming graphic solution Larrabee will be a vaporware:
“Larabee is a PowerPoint slide,I haven’t met a product on my PowerPoint slide that I don’t like. You know, they’re floating Larrabee out there just to put a shadow over us, cast a cloud over us. They’ve already slipped it two years from the time they talked about. They would love to slip it another four years and leave a cloud over me.” (NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, CNET interview)
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We got infos from our sources that several CPU will become EOLed in few months, because new products have been launched, and they are no longer meet the needs of Intel’s strategic. These CPU not only Pamtium and Core 2 Duo, but also includes two Core 2 Extreme processors.
EDIT:
PDN: Production Discontinue Notice
EOL: End Of Lifecycle
Right after AMD officially release the Phenom X3, Korean website BrainBox have posted an review of Phenom X3 8750. Pervious reports from TGDaily said that Phenom X3 is expensive, even few bucks more than a Phenom X4 9750. But in the review (in Korean) X3 8750 performs quite well. Google translation is not good, but you can still reads the numbers from here.
Other reviews:
PC Perspective
TechReport
Overclockers Club
HotHardware
HEXUS.net
PCWatch (in Japanese)
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One years ago, the most powerful NVIDIA GFX card you can buy is 8800GTX, 8800 GTS 640MB and 8800GTS 320MB. And six month ago, 8800Ultra stands in the top of the hill, but the price is so scary to those people without a deep pocket.
And today, 8800 Ultra have been End of Life cycle, and 8800 GTX/GTS is too old to buy. That’s because some new products available in the market, eg. G9x cards. Anyway, as a first gen of G80 architecture product, GeForce 8800 did a good job in late 2006 to 2007 and now they are fading away. but it is still interesting to round them up with today’s G9x product. Do you still think 8800 Ultra/GTX/GTS can stand in the front of the line?
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As an mid-end product, Intel‘s Core 2 Duo E7300 will facing its rival, AMD’s Phenom X3 8600 in the near future. So who will win the up-coming mid range war? China-based website IT168.com has posted an comparison review, featuring E7200, E7300, and a Phenom X3 8600.The full review is here, and here is our highlights.
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What’s Intel Atom? Intel’s Atom is a basic moblie platform, including N270 CPU and 945GSE/ICH-7M chipset. N270 is a 1.60GHz/533MHz/512K L2 cache/Single Core/2 Threads small CPU. They developing under codename Diamondville.
What can Intel’s Atom do? According to Noury Al-Khaledy Intel’s manager of Atom division, the platform can let you surfing on net, or playing normal movies. Don’t expect the platform can have much power, it is only a 1.6GHz 512K L2 thingy. The small platform can run Win Vista Starter, WinXP, and Linux.
What intel gonna do is to make it a ultra mobile nettop, and make lots of money from it. According to PCGH, the price ranged from 199USD to 250USD.
AMD finally fixed the annoying TLB bug in their Phenoms and pushing it out again with stepping B3. Phenoms with B3 stepping will be called 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150. All of them will hit the market within two weeks, according to Digitimes.
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Today XbitLab released a comparison of AMD/Intel dual core processors. The article is mainly focus on CPU’s price and performance, also the article shows the 45nm Wolfdale is quite powerful. Here is some highlights:
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So it seems Ncc-1709 in Xtremesystem got a QX9650 all four cores working on a EVGA 680i. And it even can be further overclocked. The CPU-Z validation proof is here, and the main thread is here.
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Finally, Wolfdale hits the market of east asia in January 20. They are E8200, E8400 and E8500.Click here to read our E8400 review.
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In USA someone have already got a QX9650 of the second shipment. And it seems Intel finally get rid of the cold bug that block Overclocker’s way. It is said the CPU can “easily” go over 6G now. Because of ASUS P5K premium’s voltage protection so the score can not go further:
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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
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TechARP released loads of pics of complete CPU list and name it “Desktop CPU Comparison Guide Rev. 4.2″. from the list you can looking for any CPU you want, of course with its specs, that will make you cool when you debate with another geeks about ancient CPU’s performance..
The pics set is right here. Thanks TechARP! but bulid a database with the CPU’s spec and a search engine will also be great.
These days we manage to take some tests with an OCed engineering sample Phenom X4, And received lots of feedbacks. Some of you think an ES version Phenom X4 can not represent the upcoming retail version so today we put some score of two retail versions here.
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