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    Mullins vs Tegra K1, Benchmark scores

    I was reading the thread on S/A and someone commented that the Mullins 3Dmark scores looked really good, considering that it beat the Tegra K1 scores in it. This got me thinking, ive heard people say that the K1 will be ~5watts (under gpgpu load / heavy gpu load), and that the Mullins has a...
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    Microsoft's IllumiRoom peripheral projector (new Xbox's feature)

    This thing deserves a thread.. Only Im not really sure where to put it. So i ll put it in here, where the graphics aficionados live. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154439-microsofts-illumiroom-peripheral-projector-is-the-xbox-720s-killer-feature For more go to link above. However you must...
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    Havoks new Physics Engine

    I was reading a article on TechpowerUp about launch of a new havok engine, and I was thinking "why does this article take up so little space, when its much more intresting than most of these other articles". I didnt think it was getting its fair share of attention. I check other sites from...
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    mrhaandi's: injectSMAA

    When AMD came out with Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA), a post-processing full-scene anti-aliasing technique, that runs via GPU-accelerated DirectCompute, many where quick to try it and then dismiss it again because of some of the faults it had. Nvidia followed with slightly differnt...
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    AION - GameForge Free2play EU - starts 28th feb.

    So tomorrow (the 28th) this MMO is doing a launch of official servers that are free2play. And right around the corner is the 3.0 Aion update titled Promised Lands. In case you've never heard of Aion here is a video: (3.0 trailer's): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WtzP-y-Ua8...
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    hpcwire: NVIDIA Opens Up CUDA (Compiler)

    http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-12-13/nvidia_opens_up_cuda_compiler.html CUDA for everyone one now :) Guess that means more people will be able to use Photoshop CS5, with GPGPU computeing now (since they refused to do anything but cuda). Nice to hear, if you own a AMD GPU. Smart move...
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    [techpowerup] Radeon HD 7970 FOB Price Cut to $475

    http://www.techpowerup.com/158042/Retail-Radeon-HD-7970-FOB-Price-Cut-to-$475-From-$525.html 475$ for a card ~25-30% faster than a 580 :) That ll likely overclock to faster than 6990/590 performance. Alot of people where complaining about price, so this ought to be good for the card.
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    Radeon Branded Ram!? What!?

    http://www.techpowerup.com/150289/AMD-Starts-Selling-Radeon-branded-DDR3-Memory-Modules.html http://www.fudzilla.com/memory/item/23650-amd-starts-flogging-radeon-branded-memory Why would AMD start makeing Ram? Im abit flabbergasted. From some of the comments: So maybe we ll be...
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    THe Sandia Cooler - Breakthrough in Air Cooling design

    https://techportal.eere.energy.gov/technology.do/techID=527 Whats not said is that they have a prototype, thats abit over 10cm in diameter, that funktions at 0.2C/W. And they believe they might reach as low as 0.1C/W. The fact that its 10 times smaller, can cool better than most air coolers...
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    Will Nvidia's 6xx series, be Cypress Vs Fermi again?

    from Faudzilla: So basically ATI isnt haveing the same amount of problems nvidia is with the process, and are gonna have next gen chips out Q3 2011, while Nvidia is gonna be Q1 2012. Does that mean AMD/ATI's GPUs might be out ~5 months ahead again? (and have christmas sales) Giveing us another...
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    AMD and ARM join forces at last (S/A artical)

    Source: http://semiaccurate.com/2011/06/22/amd-and-arm-join-forces-at-last/ So is Charlie onto something here? the peices do seem to fit together. What do you guys think?
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    we.pcinlife: Supposed Llano Leaks

    Its a chinese site, so need google.translate to understand any of it. http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1672481-1-1.html Anyways looks like they benchmarked the Llano @3.1ghz overclock, and got Vantage score of ~4450, and a 3Dmark06 score of ~7643. Apparntly in Vantage a score of about 4500...
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    TechPowerUp: ASRock slides of C.C.R

    Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/144725/ASRock-Uses-Real-AM3+-Sockets-Lists-Out-Advantages-Over-AM3.html?cp=2 The artical there is more details and has other stuff about the new socket, but the main thing that grabbed my notice was the new design. This new bracket, without the plastic...
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    S/A - Intels Thunderbolt pointless? USB3 design upward of 25 Gbps!

    Basically Thunderbolt does the exact same thing USB does... just slightly faster at a much more expensive solution. Great for people that desperately need the speeds? for say lots of external hard drives. However what is the point, if there is soon to be a 25 Gbps USB3...
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    TPU: PowerColor's Radeon HD 6990 LCS Water-Cooled Card

    http://www.techpowerup.com/144010/PowerColor-Readies-Radeon-HD-6990-LCS-Water-Cooling-Ready-Graphics-Card.html A 6990 that only takes up 1 slot of space O_o' The wonders of watercooling, it ll probably be less hot/noisy than a aircooled one too. For some reason I didnt think we d see a 590 or...
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    AMD Bulldozer Dual-Interlagos Benchmarks On Linux

    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_bulldozer_linux&num=1 ^ dual socket old motherboard + 2x 16 "core" engineering sample bulldozers. Check out the Raytraceing Benchmarks for C-Ray v1.1...
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    Tomshardware: AMD Shows 3D Capabilities With HD3D

    From Toms: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/radeon-barts-3d-hdmi-hd3d,12403.html *IF* you want to read the intire thing properly, go visit Toms :) it has all the pretty pictures ect. There was a thread aback with questions about "Stereoscopic 3D".. .and basically it was all Nvidia, with...
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    3DMark 11 scores from Chiphell

    Source: http://www.chiphell.com/thread-141469-3-1.html (ran it though google translate) All this in itself is pretty intresting... then on page 3: (probably just some guy spreading lies but non the less) HD6970: X1807 It ll be fun to see if any of these if these scores are real.
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    Cuda's future

    From S/A forums. Is Mircrosoft makeing a differnt version of cuda that works with intel/amd/nvidia (all) cards? Others are saying the most common use for GPGPU is encodeing... and that Intel new CPUs will have a unit that does that and beats the GPUs at it. Is Cuda destined to fail? What do...