Archive for July, 2008
PCI Lives!
Here we are, in 2008, heading for the PCI Express 3.0 standard and Albatron Technology comes along and claims that millions of integrated motherboards without AGP or PCI Express slots are still produced. OK, you might find a few AGP cards these days, but cards for the old PCI slot? Are there millions of PC [...]
ATI Catalyst 8.7
The official WHQL Catalyst 8.7 driver from ATI has just been released. The new driver had to stay a bit longer into beta phase, but that is not because of the upcoming HD 4870X2.
ATI’s release notes inform that the newest version comes with some improvements for the Radeon HD 3600 and 3400 products in 3DMark [...]
Liquid Metal Cooler
If you can’t get enough cooling out of those air-based fans and water-blocks, but you don’t really want to waste money on nitrogen and carbonic snow, there’s some new kind of cooler out there that runs on liquid metal.
Well, if you aren’t really into extreme overclocking or case-modding, you don’t have to make the jump [...]
Intel Larrabee - the Lone Wolf?
Intel still thinks it can revolutionize the GPU market with their upcoming Larrabee solution. Of course Intel is capable of doing that and with the help of GDDR 5 memories, they can easily come to par with ATI’s and NVIDIA’s solutions. However, a 12-layer PCB (4 more layers then current graphics card PCBs) will most [...]
More on Quad-CrossFire
Surprisingly enough, AMD is not doing that well these days, although ATI is starting to catch up on NVIDIA. CPUs don’t seem to represent AMD’s ace in the sleeve for the moment and that’s why the company is concentrating more on the GPU sector. Techtree.com managed to interview Raja Koduri, worldwide CTO (Products Group) [...]