Flying with the Blackbird

Posted by Ted Pollak on May 19th 2008 | Permalink
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Ted Pollak

HP’s top of the line gaming computer, the Blackbird 002 LCi, is named after the king of all airplanes, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.

Futuremark’s 3DMark vantage benchmark

Posted by Robert Dow on May 5th 2008 | Permalink
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We’ve been testing Futuremark’s 3DMark Vantage since early March, and you may have noticed it in some of our previous reports. Well, the program is completely vetted now, and it’s gone from the early beta we first got to Gold. Along with it have been some driver tweaks by AMD and Nvidia, and no doubt Intel and S3 will follow suit.

AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 3870 on Vantage

Posted by Kathleen Maher on May 5th 2008 | Permalink
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AMD released a 3DMark Vantage Hotfix (Catalyst 8.4.71.1 for those of you scoring at home—not quite Tinker to Evers to Chance but you get the idea. The new driver release is designed to deliver performance enhancements and bug fixes for 3DMark’s new Vantage Benchmark.