ATI’s latest AIBs get a workout on Vantage

Posted by Jon Peddie on December 22nd 2008 | Permalink
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This week, we received some more ATI AIBs, specifically a pair of Sapphire Radeon AIBs, and a pair of 1 GB HD 4870 AIBs. We also got a new Catalyst driver, so we decided to run the batch of them, including the 512 MB 4870s, for comparison.

Benchmarking the new Core i7 Nehalem processor

Posted by Jon Peddie on December 1st 2008 | Permalink
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The goal was simple enough, test a new Intel Core i7 3.2GHz (965 Extreme) X58-based machine against previous machines with a couple of different graphics boards. X58 is Intel’s new I/O hub that accomodates the Quickpath interface.