HP ENVY17 3D Review - a 3D entertainment system and more
Posted by Jon Peddie on April 15th 2011 | Permalink
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The HP 17-inch ENVY laptop is delightful. It has one of the best 3D screens I have ever seen, and it comes with one set of 3D shutter glasses. It can show 3D movies and S3D games, as well as show 3D photos and Google Earth in 3D. The system's screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 on a 17.3-inch panel with 120 Hz refresh, TN panel with sRGB+ gammut and 400 NITS brightness. The display controller is an AMD Radeon 5850 with 1GB DDR5 video memory. It has an Intel Core i7Q740 Processor running at 1.73 GHz, with 4 GB DDR3…
Testing the AMD HD 6990 with five screens - The more you see the more you like
Posted by Jon Peddie on April 12th 2011 | Permalink
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The first Eyefinity AIB we tested was the HD 5870 in October 2009 with six monitors in a 3x2 planar configuration. It was thrilling to see that much landscape but it quickly became apparent it wasn't the ideal setup for game play. The problems were the screen height was a bit too tall for learn forward FPSs, the planar setup made you lean back a bit and turn your head, and worst of all the gun sights landed right in the middle of the two rows of monitors—as one person said, the bezel becomes your gun sight; cute, but not very…
Review: AMD’s HD 6990 and Nvidia’s GTX 590 - Dueling dual GPUs, and AIBs
Posted by Robert Dow, Alex Garovi, and Jon Peddie on April 12th 2011 | Permalink
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The dual GPU AIBs are marvelous products. They are awe inspiring, and not for everyone because of their price, but they are the Ferraris of the market in every sense. Nvidia officially released the GeForce GTX 590 dual GPU AIB 24 March, 2011, just 16 days after AMD introduced their dual GPU AIB the Radeon HD 6990. That's not a big gap in time relative to what these designs represent, and more of a marketing move between the two companies than a technology gap or indication of any problems. Nvidia is the more clever of the two at marketing and in…
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX550 Ti Review
Posted by Robert Dow and Jon Peddie on March 25th 2011 | Permalink
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Fastest Midrange AIB Nvidia has introduced the latest in their new Fermi gen2 products, the GeForce GTX550 Ti, (Titanium. Same nomenclature as the 560 Ti) based on the 193 core Fermi GF116 GPU. Compared to other Nvidia GPUs and the price equivalent AMD part (HD5770), the balance of feature and specifications show Nvidia did some careful selections to hit the price-performance point they wanted. Table 1: Comparison of five AIBs GTS 450 GTX 460 GTX 550 Ti GTX 560 Ti HD5770 Core Clock (MHz) 738 675 900 822 850 Memory Clock (MHz) 902 900 1,026 1,002 1,200 Memory data rate…
Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Review
Posted by Robert Dow and Jon Peddie on March 24th 2011 | Permalink
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Let no pixel go un-accelerated Right on the heels of their most recent midrange product launch, the GTX 550 Ti, Nvidia rolled out their flagship AIB the dual GPU GTX 590. This top of the line, take no prisoners, 3GB GDDR5 AIB with a massive 384-bit memory bus (per GPU) has delivered some impressive scores, but doesn't beat two GTX 480s or 2 GTX 580s in SLI configuration—it doesn't cost as much either The AIB has a 12-layer PCB and to help disperse heat more effectively across the PCB, two ounces of copper are used for each of the board's power…
Nvidia’s GF580 versus GF480 review
Posted by Webmaster on March 8th 2011 | Permalink
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We've been running a 3D Surround Vision system for a while that was originally built using GeForce GTX 480 AIBs. No complaints, they do a great job This week we decided to do run some caparison with dual Nvidia AIBs in stereo and with SLI on and off to see if the Nvidia GTX580 is OK, better, or a whole lot better than the GTX480 It's a whole lot better We ran four benchmarks without S3D on a single processor Core i7 980 3.33 GHz machine, and two benchmarks with and without S3D on a dual processor Core i7 960 3.67…
Lucid’s Virtu unites any and all GPUs
Posted by Robert Dow and Jon Peddie on March 8th 2011 | Permalink
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Lucid (formally LucidLogix) came up with the idea for a PCIe sniffer that could intercept API calls, back in 2006. The company stayed in stealth mode, living on VC money and didn't actually show a product till 2008. The original idea was that Lucid would build a chipset that would allow any two (or more) AIBs to operate together in a complimentary way – what AMD calls Crossfire, S3 calls Multi Chrome, and Nvidia calls SLI. However, Lucid promised to enable any of them, any combination of them, any generation or SKU of them, to run together and boost each other.…
Review AMD’s Ontario Fusion – Mity might takes on Monster math
Posted by Webmaster on February 10th 2011 | Permalink
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Nvidia GTX 560 Review
Posted by Robert Dow on January 25th 2011 | Permalink
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Nvidia’s GTX 560 Ti enters the Performance Segment Nvidia’s next foray into the Performance segment will take the form of the GTX 560 Ti (Ti = titanium). The performance gamer is in serious need of graphical output but might not have discretionary spending power of his enthusiast counterpart, which is why Nvidia says it puts a premium on price/ performance when it comes to this segment of the market. The GTX 560 Ti, based on a the redesigned GF114 GPU, is a serious boost in power providing 21% better performance per watt and 33% overall performance upgrade from the GTX 460…
Review of the Google TV Revue system from Logitech
Posted by Kathleen Maher on December 8th 2010 | Permalink
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Much as been made of the fact that the networks have closed off access to their streaming TV services. Too much, I’d say since the quality of web content from the networks has declined. Often the networks just offer highlights from shows, ads have increased, and Hulu even charges for content. However, Google has signaled that it’s willing to play ball with the acquisition of Widevine. Widevine offers adaptive streaming for content to a variety of devices – mobile, consoles, TVs, PCs, – and it has strong DRM technology that’s already being used by several big names including AT&T, Dish Network, Nintendo, NBC and Netflix. Not coincidentally, Goolge, Logitech, and Dish have teamed up to offer an integrated system at a discount, $179. When DirectTV joins we’ll get one of them.