NVIDIA has recently introduced the NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine, the world’s first interactive ray tracing engine to leverage the GPU.
The NVIDIA OptiX engine is a programmable ray tracing pipeline enabling software developers to easily bring new levels of realism to their applications using traditional C programming, and can be applicated in many fields including photorealistic rendering, automotive styling, acoustical design, optics simulation, volume calculations and radiation research.
Aug 6
Intel X58 is the First and only non-NVIDIA chipset to get SLI technology, and the users of Intel X38/X48/P45 motherboards probably hate the fact that their hardware doesn’t support SLI. However, everything has changed now…
One reader named Firewings [CCG] at Expreview forum (Chinese version) has figured out the way to get SLI support for its Asus Maximus Formula motherboard based on Intel X38 chipset, with one NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT and one GeForce GTX 260 graphics card.
Expreview.com has contacted the reader and run a quick test for validation. We chose Intel QX9650 OC (4GHz) CPU, Asus Maximus II Formular motherboard, one Yeston GeForce GTX260+ 896GD3, and one Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ graphics card for the test.
So anyway, I found this thread on TPC. This guy managed to somehow unlock the 2 other cores of his X2 550 BE and turn into a Quad. And also he’s overclocked it and got it stable up to 3.6 ghz, which is pretty decent for an AMD.
AOpen has reportedly prepared a mini-ATX motherboard based on NVIDIA’s Ion chipset with support for Socket 775.
Codenamed nMCP7AUt-V, the board features built-in GeForce 9400 integrated graphics chip, core/shader clock of 580/1500MHz, and support for advanced technologies including DirectX 10, PhysX and CUDA. As for the connectivities, the board comes with eight USB 2.0 ports and one HDMI/DVI connector.
AOpen’s Ion-based motherboard is now available in Japan for Yen18770, which is around US$199.
Aug 3
| Adding to its “G” series of gaming peripherals, Logitech has released the G13 Advanced Gameboard. The G13 offers 25 programmable keys, 3 quick switchable profiles, a 4 way control stick, and a GamePanel LCD. Read on to see how the G13 fares in a world of keyboards and controllers. |
The G13 arrived at my doorstep in a standard cardboard box; apparently UPS took a dislike to it, because the end was all smashed up.
As we know, Intel is planning for launch of Clarkdale in Q1 next year, and many of you may be eager to learn about its performance - it’s Intel’s first 32nm processor after all.
The folks at our friend site IT168 has managed to grasp a Clarkdale 3.06GHz engineering sample, and given it a quick test. As you can see below, the CPU features 4MB L3 cache and support for Hyper-Threading technology.
You are currently browsing the archives for the Computers category.
Arclite theme by digitalnature | powered by WordPress