Benchmarking Nvidia’s GTX 480 Fermi AIB
Posted by Jon Peddie on March 30th 2010 | Permalink
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Last week in Boston at the PAX conference Nvidia officially announced the GTX 480 and 470 AIBs based on the GF100 Fermi GPU. We’ve written it up in this issue of TechWatch (see page 1.) The board is unremarkable in its appearance, and we could not find any wood screws. As you might have heard, some who saw early versions of Fermi AIBs claimed to have spotted wood screws holding the thing together – evidence that the boards were mock-ups. We tested the Nvidia GTX 480 in an Intel Core i7 x980 3.33GHz 6 cores (12 logical processors), DX58SO X58, 3GB DDR3…
AMD’s new/last IGP motherboard—the 890GX
Posted by Kathleen Maher on March 19th 2010 | Permalink
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AMD has continued to impress us with their chipsets and the new ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 is one of their finest. The 890GX represents the last IGP chipset from AMD before the move to Fusion. The basic specs are formidable. It has an AM3 socket for a Phenom II (and several other processors). It can run up to four 1333 MHz DDR3 memory DIMMs (dual in-line memory module), has a VGA, DVI, and HDMI video outputs, as well as 1394, SATA, and 12 USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.0 ports—one of the first boards to embrace the new specification. The 890GX…
Lenovo’s new light-weight notebook—a road warrior’s delight
Posted by Jon Peddie on March 19th 2010 | Permalink
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Lenovo made the mistake of letting us play with their new X201s. It was a mistake because they’re going to have to pry my cold dead fingers off it to get it back. The specs: Core i7-620LM 2GHz; 4GB DDR3; 160GB hard drive; Bluetooth spacer, Intel HD graphics; Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit; 802.11n; 1yr warranty, stated battery life 12 hours with (optional) 9-cell battery. Price: $1,349 The specs I care about: The screen is 12.1-inch with resolution of 1440 x 900 (WSXGA) LED backlit. It weighs a mere 2.7 pounds—1.22 kg. When on the road weight and screen size mean…
Corel Photo & Video Bundle
Posted by Kathleen Maher on March 19th 2010 | Permalink
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True to its heritage, Corel has released a powerful set of tools for photo and video professionals in its Photo and Video Pro bundle. Corel disrupted the drawing and illustration market by adding a broad range of tools in Corel Draw including raster to vector tools and most recently dimensioning and other tools for professional users (we’ll talk about CorelDraw in an upcoming review). In the case of the new bundles the company has been releasing for its video and photo products, you can argue that Corel is late to the party but the Photo & Video Pro Bundle is a…
Sony Vaio VPCW2
Posted by Kathleen Maher on March 19th 2010 | Permalink
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The smaller the computer the better as far as I’m concerned; and the new Sony Vaio VPCW2 line of computers is pretty darned small. It’s an example of the newest netbooks coming out based on the new lineup of Atom processors. This computer weighs 2.9 lbs and it’s 2 inches thick. It’s basic. The Atom N450 is a dual-threaded processor that runs at 1.66 GHz, it has integrated Intel 3150 graphics, a 667MHz frontside bus, a 512 L2 cache and 1GB DDR2 memory. It features a 10.1-inch display, 1366x768, with web cam and microphone. The video technology includes face tracking. It…
Review: ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics AIB
Posted by Kathleen Maher on March 2nd 2010 | Permalink
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ATI-AMD continued to roll out products in its Evergreen line this week, adding to the Enthusiast segment with the HD 5830. The HD 5830 fits in the lower end of the Enthusiast segment in between the HD 5850 and the HD 5770 with a $240 price point. The following chart puts the new board in perspective with its peers from AMD. HD 5770 HD 5830 HD 5850 GTX 260 Core 216 1.36 TFLOPS 1.79 TFLOPS 2.09 TFLOPS 850 MHz 800 MHz Core Clock 725 MHz 1.2 GHz Core Clock 800 Stream Processors 1120 Stream Processors 1440 Steam Processors 240 Processor…
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