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Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA recently announced
a new technology that it plans to officially introduce at beginning of
this month. Dubbed Optimus, the solution was said to target the notebook
segment, providing consumers with the tools to boost system
performance, but not having to worry about battery life, due to said
increment in graphics performance. On that note, the outfit is said to
be planning the release of said technology on February 9th, according to
sources on the Internet.
Our colleagues over at xbitlabs have it on their own sources that the
graphics chip maker will officially reveal the Optimus technology on
February 9th. However, the solution will apparently be based on one of
the company's older technologies, known as "Hybrid SLI” and "Hybrid
Graphics,” according
to xbitlabs. Optimus will enable consumers to automatically switch
between discrete and the integrated graphics chips.
NVIDIA's
Optimus technology will basically enable consumers to take advantage of
the performance enabled by a discrete graphics chip, when that is
required, while switching back to Intel's integrated graphics to save
battery life. Switching between the integrated graphics or the discrete
graphics chips should be pretty straightforward, due to Microsoft's
Windows 7 operating system, that allows users to install two graphics
drivers at once.
The NVIDIA Optimus technology should enable
NVIDIA to remain active on the notebook market, as Intel gains more
share with its new processors with integrated graphics chips. Currently,
NVIDIA only offers the GeForce 9400M integrated graphics chip
compatible with Intel's processors, but the chip will slowly lose its
appeal, as Intel continues to update its products.
Unfortunately, we have no way to confirm the news, as NVIDIA did not
make any comments on the unreleased product. However, the company should
introduce Optimus in the upcoming days, as the company wants to keep to
its promise.
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Added by: UnkAlex |
Date: 2010-02-06
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Details on the actual specifications of the upcoming six-core processors from Intel and AMD are still rather scarce, but consumers have been steadily getting an idea of what they can expect from these products. Advanced Micro Devices has mostly chosen not to disclose too much data on the Phenom II X6 "Thuban”, but this does not seem to have affected the spawning rate of related rumors. A more recent report hints at the possibility of the Thuban being built with dynamic performance boost features,
a completely hardware-based functionality that will directly manage the operation of each core depending on the applications that are running.
The multi-core processor technology has been advancing at a very rapid pace when compared to the software industry. Dual-core and quad-core CPUs have very high capabilities, but the largest part of applications do not recognize or are not capable of taking advantage of such chips, relying solely on clock speeds. As such, hardware makers find themselves in need of technologies that can somehow make up for this limitation. Intel already has the Turbo Boost technology, which can slow down cores in order to speed up the others. AMD is reportedly planning on including a similar functionality in its Thuban.
The dynamic performance boost technology is currently known as "C-state performance boost” and will supposedly be able to detect when single-threaded operation is needed. In such cases, the idle CPU cores will be automatically disabled and the clocks of the ones used will be boosted to as high a level as possible. The limit will be determined by the general thermal design power. Unfortunately, even though the Thuban will be compatible with AM3 and AM2+ motherboards, it is still uncertain whether the C-state boost will work on all of them.
Predictely, AMD refused to comment on the rumors.
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Added by: UnkAlex |
Date: 2010-02-06
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices
announced today the expansion of its family of Radeon HD 5xxx graphics
cards, with the addition of the new HD 5450 model. Designed to provide a
wider range of consumers with the benefits enabled by the card's
DirectX 11 capabilities, the new option becomes AMD's lowest-priced 40nm
GPU with support for Microsoft's latest API. The new card comes
approximately two weeks after the release of AMD's first sub US$100
DirectX 11 card, the HD 5670.
By comparison to all of the previous Radeon HD
5xxx series, the new card features just 80 Stream Processors, coupled
with 8 Texture Units, 4 ROPs and 292 million transistors. Codenamed
Cedar, the new card has a GPU speed of 650MHz with support for up to 1GB
of DDR3 memory, clocked at 1600MHz and a 64-bit memory bus. The
graphics processor is built on the same 40nm manufacturing process and
features a low TDP of just 19.1W, smaller than what was available with
the previous generation, namely the HD 4550.
In addition, the
card will offer support for AMD's multi-display technology, ATI
Eyefinity, enabling users to enrich their graphics experience by
combining three monitors in a single setup. Price-wise, this card will
target the value market, with an estimated street pricing of less than
US$60, according to AMD. Due to its technical specifications, the new
card can be equipped with a passive cooling solution, making it a
noteworthy alternative for HTPCs.
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Added by: UnkAlex |
Date: 2010-02-04
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i9 coming in 1st quarter of 2010 ,great news for peoples who are now
having X58 based mobos as they dont need to shell out more money to
upgrade .However peoples who still own Dual core,core2duo may soon feel
like killing themselves 
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Added by: UnkAlex |
Date: 2010-02-04
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Article Written by Albert from http://nerdlove.tumblr.com/ : EVGA W555 - I’ve been meaning to blog about this motherboard ever
since I saw it at CES, but until recently there was very little
information or pictures of it available. Until now that is; Bit-Tech.net
has received some pictures and info of the W555 board directly from
EVGA’s PR department and the information and pics do not disappoint. The
W555 features two LGA-1366 sockets that allow you to run dual W5xxx
series Xeon Core i7 chips, and even the future "Gulftown” chips that
would provide 12 physical cores and 24 logical cores w/ hyper-threading.
It also features 2 x 8pin for EPS +12v power and an additional 3 x 6pin
PCIe connectors to help power the 7 PCIe slots that take up most of
this boards free space. How do you get that much PCIe bandwith to the
CPUs you might ask? With 2 x Nvidia NF200 chips and an Intel 5520
chipset to bring it all together. BTW: It also has 2 x SATA 6Gbps
ports..BONER!!!!
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Added by: UnkAlex |
Date: 2010-02-04
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