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Folding@Home NVIDIA GPU Client Confirmed

DSC — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:16:51 +0800

http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=5679

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Yes, it's finally coming - the NVIDIA GPU client we have all wanted since first seeing and tasting the power of the ATI GPU Folding@Home client.

Vijay Pande, the man behind the Folding@Home project, was on hand to demonstrate the first showing of the NVIDIA GPU client.

I don't think I'll be spoiling anything by saying the new GPU was incredibly fast and the upcoming GPU will be faster than any Folding client today including the PS3; you will be impressed.

Nvidia Readies Major Product Launch of Tegra

DSC — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:25:25 +0800

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display...h_of_Tegra.html

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Nvidia Corp., the main supplier of discrete graphics adapter as well as variety of multimedia chips, prepares to release a product called "Tegra". Few details are known, but this is very likely to be a major product launch.

Nvidia recently applied for "Tegra" trademark with the U.S. patent and trademark office, but did not disclose any details about the product. However, there are various signs which indicate that Tegra will be a major product for Nvidia, the company which is not known for registering multitude of trademarks that are not eventually used.

The description of Nvidia Tegra at the U.S. patent and trademark office is short "G & S: Integrated circuits" and does not provide any details about the forthcoming product. It is not clear whether Tegra is Nvidia's and Via Technologies' mobile computing platform, a new specialized platform like Tesla, a new name on the market of discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) or a completely new multimedia chip from the graphics giant.

Nvidia Hybrid SLI technology

DSC — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:01:29 +0800

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html...W50aHVzaWFzdA==

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/13879

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3193

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We'll start things off with a shocker then: NVIDIA is going to putting integrated GPUs on all of their motherboards. Yes, you're reading that right, soon every NVIDIA motherboard will ship with an integrated GPU, from the highest end enthusiast board to the lowest end budget board. Why? Hybrid SLI.

It's no secret that enthusiast-class GPUs have poor power performance, even when idling they eat a lot of power. It's just not possible right now to make a G80 or G92 based video card power down enough that it's not sucking at least some non-trivial amount of power. NVIDIA sees this as a problem, particularly with the most powerful setups (2 8800GTXs for example) and wants to avoid this problem in the future. Their solution to this is the first part of Hybrid SLI and the reasoning for moving to adding integrated GPUs in every board, what NVIDIA is calling HybridPower.

I can't wait to see how this works in the real world.

Intel "Nehalem" Taped-out and Running Windows

DSC — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:30:49 +0800

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8927

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel...aspx?i=3101&p=2

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Intel announced that in its largest configuration, Nehalem (2H 2008, 45nm) will feature 8 cores on a single die, each core supporting 2 threads per core (welcome back Hyper Threading) for a total of 16 threads per physical chip.
The Nehalem design is now complete, it was finished about a month ago, and Intel had a wafer of Nehalem at its 10-year anniversary IDF.

Each octo-core Nehalem is built from 731M transistors, nearly double that of Penryn for obvious reasons. Nehalem will sport an on-die memory controller and a new system interconnect called Intel's QuickPath Interconnect (Intel's answer to Hyper Transport).

Nehalem is fully expected to close the gap between AMD and Intel when it comes to memory performance and multi-processor scalability.

In its usual fashion, Intel demonstrated a fully functional Nehalem based on silicon that's only 3 weeks old. The silicon is booting both Windows XP and OS X, although we only saw the XP demo.

Intel just made K10 Opterons and Phenom obsolete.

New bridge chip to bring GeForce 8 series to AGP

DSC — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:56:09 +0800

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20070904PD209.html

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Due to continued demand, particularly from Internet cafe and emerging markets, for AGP-based products, Nvidia is scheduled to launch an updated bridge chip which supports the company's newer GPUs in October, according to sources at graphics card makers.

Nvidia's BR02 chip was designed to convert the company's PCI Express-based GeForce 7600 (G73) GPU to support AGP, however, this chip is not compatible with GeForce 8 series GPUs. A new version, A05, will work with current GeForce 8600 (G86) and 8400 (G84) GPUs and well as the upcoming G92 and G98, noted the sources.

G8x vs R6xx in DX10

DSC — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:45:45 +0800

http://www.ixbt.com/video3/rightmark2.shtml

Quote from Beyond3D forum sums it all up nicely.

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Result for pixel shader - Fire are excellent

Sony Prototype OLED Displays

DSC — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:33:17 +0800

http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2904&p=3

All I can say is WOW!

Forget about LCD TVs. OLED TVs if they ever ship to the market with reasonable pricing just BLOWS away LCDs when it comes to picture quality. Just stunning, look at the photos.

OLED is the real deal.

Bluegears b-Enspirer Review

DSC — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:43:42 +0800

http://www.penstarsys.com/reviews/sound/bl...irer/index.html

How the manufacturers of this card manage to fit in 4 AKM4396 flagship DAC onto the card while costing slightly more than the EMU0404 with a single AKM4396, I probably never know. Looks to be a very nice card in terms of sound quality, though the drivers seem to be rough and rather buggy.

GeForce 7900 GS to hit the retail market?

DSC — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:11:32 +0800

http://techreport.com/ja.zz?comments=10529

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Much like the GeForce 7600 GS is a cut-down GeForce 7600 GT, the GeForce 7900 GS appears to be a cut down GeForce 7900 GT. It reportedly runs at 450MHz with 20 pixel shader processors, seven vertex shader processors, and 256MB of memory clocked at 660MHz. In short, the card runs at the same speeds as the GeForce 7900 GT, but it shaves off four pixel shaders and one vertex shader.

Pricing on the GeForce 7900 GS will supposedly reach almost a hundred bucks below the GeForce 7900 GT to the $179-199 range, which could make the GS a very appealing mainstream card. NVIDIA reportedly plans to cut the GeForce 7600 GT to $130 to accommodate the new retail introduction, too.

Byousoku 5 Centimeter

DSC — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:02:50 +0800

http://5cm.yahoo.co.jp/

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=29818

If you have seen Hoshi no Koe/Voices of a Distant Star and Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho/Beyond the Clouds, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, you will be familiar with the name Makoto Shinkai. His works are fabulous and this one looks to be another beautiful piece of art from him. I'm very much looking forward to this, the teaser was very nice.

Team E-MU

DSC — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:59:55 +0800

E-MU soundcard users (0404, 1212M) come and share your experiences here.....

Team AV-710

DSC — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:05:21 +0800

Fanclub thread started for the budget steal of the soundcard world, Chaintech AV-710. Anyone else here besides me and richx(whatever happened to him, MIA for a long time) that has the AV-710?

Head-Fi Review
http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71477

Installation, tweaks, mods, etc :

http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75655
http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75454
http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=98588