Following a long and difficult waiting period,
which has already lasted for months, NVIDIA seems to have finally broken
the silence. After it kept quiet about its upcoming cards' performance
even at CeBIT, end-users had most likely resigned themselves to waiting
for the official launch before finding out anything specific.
Now, however, the GPU maker has finally released the first real video
demonstration of one of its upcoming GF100-based Fermi graphics adapter,
with the not so little bonus of revealing triple-display 3D.
A
video starring Tom Peterson, NVIDIA's Director of technical Marketing,
shows the first real Unigine benchmark test being run on the GTX 480.
Peterson explains tessellation rendering and practically teases watchers
with its up close shots of the crystal clear and realistic graphics
that the card is capable of. Not only that but he even shows a
comparison between the GTX 480 results at those of the ATI Radeon HD
5870. According to the chart, the Fermi card was above its rival in most
respects, sometimes even by a significant deal.
The Unigine
benchmark, however, is only half of what NVIDIA seems to have in store
for its customers. The other feature it has been working on is 3D
Surround gaming. Basically, this is NVIDIA's own version of Eyefinity,
only, in this case, the three monitors are in 3D and an SLI
configuration is needed. Basically, NVIDIA enables triple 3D display
scenarios, for an unprecedented level of immersion.
Unfortunately,
NVIDIA's video only briefly shows the three-display setup at the end,
without any tests or demonstrations being performed. Still, all is not
lost, because the folks over at Engadget
managed to shoot their own video of the 3D Surround at CeBIT.
Unfortunately, setting up such a scenario will be financially difficult,
because it takes not only a pair of top-end GTX 480 in SLI, but also
three identical 3D monitors.
NVIDIA will officially launch its
card at PAX 2010, on March 26 or 27.
The adoption of a technology is always a lengthy
process, and it seems that USB 3.0 will make no exception to this rule.
According to an Intel representative, it will be another couple of years
before USB 3.0 will be able to replace its predecessor, version 2.0,
which is currently ubiquitous. This, despite the obvious advantages
offered by USB
3.0, especially related to data-transfer speeds. Intel
Manager Steve Peterson, attending the CeBIT Global Conference in
Hannover, Germany, revealed that he expected USB 3.0 to become
mainstream only with the advent of the next iteration of the Windows
client, Windows 8.
Microsoft released Windows 7 to the public on October 22nd, 2009, at
which time it had already kicked off the planning process for its
successor. By all estimates, Windows 8 is expected to be released by the
end of 2011, but more probably in 2012. Microsoft has yet to announce
any specific details related to the timetable, the development process
or what the OS will bring to the table.
However, it is clear,
from what Peterson told Heise
Online, that Intel is working with Microsoft to ensure
that Windows 8 will fully support USB 3.0. Although products featuring
the technology have already started rolling out after the 2010 Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Peterson expects only high-end PCs to
feature USB 3.0, as a general rule, at least for the coming years. The
CPU maker expects Windows 8 and the evolution of computers to make USB
3.0 ubiquitous, but, obviously, Intel is not overoptimistic when it
comes to the mainstream adoption of the technology.
Speculation already indicated that the first
service pack for Windows 7 might include USB 3.0 support.
Microsoft has yet to confirm or deny this piece of information, but the
company certainly wasn’t the source. Windows 7 SP1 support might boost
USB 3.0 adoption, especially as the operating system will ship
preinstalled on new computers, making OEMs embrace the technology.
USB 3.0 is capable of delivering dramatic performance improvements over
version 2.0, which maxes out at 480Mbps. By contrast, provided that a
computer’s hardware (the type of storage drive and motherboard) play
nice with USB 3.0, the technology can, at least in theory, deliver
transfer rates of up to 5Gbps. One of the best things about USB 3.0 is
the fact that it’s fully compatible with its precursor, version 2.0.
Two builds of Windows 7 SP1 were reportedly
already produced by the Redmond company in March, 7601.16517.100301-1718
and 7601.16518.100302-1530. Both belong to the winmain_sp branch. Wzor
claims that it could leak any of the Windows 7 SP1 interim Builds that
have been put together by Microsoft, but that it doesn’t see any point
to this action until the service pack reaches the Beta development
milestone.
As far as the 7601.16518.100302-1530 build string
is concerned, 7601 represents the major build number, 16518 the minor
version, and 100302-1530 the date and time at which the release was
compiled, namely March 2, 2010 at 15:30.
At this point in
time, work continues on Windows 7 SP 1 with Microsoft keeping mum on all details related to
the service pack. Wzor notes that the software giant is expected to
make available Windows 7 SP1 Beta in mid-April 2010. Of course, the
Redmond company has yet to either confirm or deny such a scenario.
ASUS has been a long time an futuretech company for highend products Xclusive for Xtreme Gamers and energy saving desktops and gaming laptops. CeBIT 2010 includes a number of Republic of Gamers, and now after MSI GT660 and other 2010 ,,concepts" (further releases), ASUS will delight our eyes and mind with the new 890GX-based Republic of Gamers (RoG)
motherboards, wich are damn hot.
The two models that the company will have on
display at this year's Hanover show are the RoG Crosshair 4 Formula and
the RoG Crosshair IV Extreme. These two devices are aimed at hardcore
gamers and are powered by AMD's new 890GX+SB850 chipset.
The RoG Crosshair IV Formula comes with four DDR3
memory slots that support dual channel setups, and no less than four PCI
Epxress x16 slots. Seeing that the board itself is meant for gaming,
there is little doubt that CorssFireX or Hybrid Crossfire modes are
supported, an idea proven beyond doubt by the quad CrossFireX
configuration installed on the Crosshair IV Extreme. The Formula will
support AM3 central processing units and, as is already known, the
chipset's southbridge has built-in support for SATA 6.0Gbps.
It is quite clear that the Formula's capabilities
are top-end, which can only mean that the RoG Crosshair IV Extreme is
meant for overclocking enthusiasts. This fact is confirmed by the
configuration that ASUS will be using to prove the might of its board.
The Extreme is combined with an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition and
no less than four ASUS EAH5870 graphics cards. Still, what is most
impressive is the unusual ability of this mainboard to be overclocked
via a Windows mobile phone through use of the ROG Connect and RC
Bluetooth.
Firefox 3.7 a2 from mozilla shows us great improvements, as far as hardware acceleration is concerned, Firefox 3.7
Alpha 2 will play nice with DirectWrite & Direct2D in DirectX 11
(Windows 7 and Windows Vista).
"DirectWrite and Direct2D are Windows Vista and
Windows 7 APIs for text and 2-D graphics that can be hardware
accelerated,” revealed Asa
Dotzler, director of Community Development, Mozilla. "This
is brand new code and there are sure to be bugs. If you'd like to help
us test these changes and you're on a supported platform, please
download the latest nightly build and make these changes to enable the
features: 1.Enter 'about:config' ; 2.Click through the warning, if
necessary; 3.Enter gfx.font in the 'Filter' box; 4.Double-click on
'gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled' to set it to true; 5.Below
this, right click and select New > Integer to add a pref setting;
6.Enter 'mozilla.widget.render-mode' for the preference name, 6 for the
value; 7.Restart. (To disable, set
gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to false, delete
mozilla.widget.render-mode, then restart.)”
Out Of Process Plugins (OOPPs) is a new feature
currently under development designed to divorce the open source browser
from its plug-ins. Starting with the upcoming version of Firefox, the
plug-ins will run in different processes from the browser. Flash, Java,
Silverlight, and Quicktime will all run separate from Firefox and will
have no impact on the browser’s performance, stability or reliability.
Sapphire wants to introduce a Radeon HD 5970 with 4
GiByte video memory, a HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition and several other
products at the Cebit 2010
Graphics card manufacturer Sapphire just announced
that new products will be introduced at the Cebit electronics
entertainment trade show in Hanover, Germany. In the press release (see
below) Sapphire mentioned several graphics cards among which two devices
might attract a lot of attention: A 4 GiByte version of the Radeon HD
5970 dual GPU card with custom cooling solution and increased
frequencies - it is described as the fastest graphics card of the
planet. Besides that Sapphire announced a HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition
which is a HD 5870 with default frequencies, 2 GiByte VRAM and six
Mini-DisplayPorts instead of the common output array.
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After 3 days i got an email telling me that my mod was accepted in the Softpedia Database, that bringed a smile on my face, and finally today (27 february, on my fathers birthday, happy birthday dad) i decided to reopen Reality Touc Systems/Designs !!!!
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products: the EVGA Killer Xeno Pro. Designed to accelerate real-time
internet gameplay, the EVGA Killer Xeno Pro fights game lag, smoothes
game play and boosts frame rate during intense network gameplay
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is always injected into the game the instant it arrives.
Offloads packet processing for latency intensive
applications, like VoIP, to provide clear and clean communications
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computations.
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