Head over to Bjorn3d forums, participate in this contest and you'll have a chance to win two XFX 8800GTS 320Mb cards!
So here is what you have to do to have a chance to win the cards.
1. Be a forum member.
2. Post at least 10 post in the month
3. Make a video telling us why you should win the cards.
But hurry up!!! Contest is open until 31.3.2007, so you have only 6 days to compete on this.
http://www.bjorn3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12643
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Commodore's Gaming PCs Revealed
Ghost Recon 2 painted Commodore is indeed back but it's no different from everyone else this time around. DailyTech previously reported that Commodore was expected to make a splash back into the gaming scene by introducing computers targeted specifically towards gamers. The company left the scene more than two decades ago after launching the famous Commodore64. Commodore confirms the reports after it launched its new website and revealed upcoming system specifications. Officially called the Commodore xx, the new flagship system will be based on current off-the-shelf components.
Official specifications include:
Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core processor QX6700: 2.66GHz 8M Cache
ASUS P5N32-E nForce 680i SLI motherboard
2x 150GB 10000 RPM SATA Raid 0 and 2x 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Raid 1 hard drives
4GB Corsair Dominator 2xTwin2x2048-8500C5D memory: 1066MHz
Philips DVD-RW optical drive
1000W ICE Cube power supply
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
2x NVIDIA 8800 GTX 768MB graphics cards
I would just like to add that It's a great idea! I remember playing on my first-ever computer C64 some legendary games like Laser squad, Ghosts'n'Goblins, Rick Dangerous, Commando etc, etc...
It's really nice to play on PC thinking it's powerfull as much as legendary C64.
Ah... memories come to life with this computer. My first 'bloody eyes effect' happened with C64 and an old TV :-) ... ah, the nostalgia is all around me :-)
NVIDIA Ships 128-Core Graphics Cards for High-End Film Editors
NVIDIA just cranked up its highest-end Quadro graphics cards a notch or two, rolling out three products, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600 (pictured above), and NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Model IV that the company says represents the biggest leap in performance for its graphics cards yet. One giant leap indeed, because these parallel processing monsters have the rough equivalent of 128 1.35GHz processors cranking away at graphics in a whole new way.
These cards have more circuitry than ever, with three quarters of a billion transistors on board, and NVIDIA says not only can they display larger graphics faster than ever but use a concept called GP-GPU, allowing general-purpose programs to run on the GPU instead of the CPU.
These cards have more circuitry than ever, with three quarters of a billion transistors on board, and NVIDIA says not only can they display larger graphics faster than ever but use a concept called GP-GPU, allowing general-purpose programs to run on the GPU instead of the CPU.
Sharing some of the same technology with NVIDIA's GeForce 8 series of consumer cards released last November, these cards are aimed at high-end film effects artists and oil and gas explorers, and maybe a few absolutely fanatic gamers. More info, pics and pricing, plus a tantalizing hint from NVIDIA about Apple's interest in this technology, after the jump.
Additional features in the new Quadro solutions include faster 3D texturing and massive 8Kx8K texture processing for better performance when zooming and panning of high-resolution images; NVIDIA® SLI™ technology for improved graphics performance; dual dual-link display connectivity; and NVIDIA® PureVideo™ technology for outstanding picture clarity, smooth video playback, and accurate color and precise image scaling for SD and HD content. NVIDIA GSync and HD SDI options are also offered.
DDR2 Memory latency performance with nForce 680i SLI chipset
Recently published an article titled “DDR2 Memory Frequency Performance” which looked at the value of high speed memory. The reason I found the need to write such an article was to demonstrate that there really is no need to try and overclock your memory when pushing a Core 2 Duo processor to the max. Often readers complain about poor Core 2 Duo overclocking performance and 99% of the time it comes down to memory instability at higher frequencies. This article showed that when running a Core 2 Duo E6700 on a 500MHz FSB, DDR2-667 was just as fast as DDR2-1181 memory and in some cases even faster.
The point of the DDR2 Memory Frequency Performance article was to prove that when overclocking, the 1:1 ratio is not important and we proved this with the 1066MHz configuration. Moving on, there were a few good suggestions made by readers about the first article that they would have liked to have seen. That being a broader range of memory timings, not just memory frequencies, so it could be determined whether low-latency DDR2-800 memory for example, was really required. While this kind of testing could have been done with DDR2-533 or even DDR2-667 memory, we chose DDR2-800 memory as it is the more popular choice. Furthermore, the price difference between these three standards is often very minimal.
Therefore the DDR2-800 memory was tested with CAS 3-3-3-8 T1, CAS 4-4-4-12 T1, CAS 4-4-4-12 T2, CAS 5-5-5-15 T2 and even CAS 6-6-6-18 T2 timings. This time all the testing was done on the ASUS Striker Extreme which uses the Nvidia nForce 680i SLI chipset with the Core 2 Duo E6700 processor clock at its default operating frequency. Again this is primarily gaming related and not a general usage article, since high-speed expensive memory is generally associated with gaming!
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The point of the DDR2 Memory Frequency Performance article was to prove that when overclocking, the 1:1 ratio is not important and we proved this with the 1066MHz configuration. Moving on, there were a few good suggestions made by readers about the first article that they would have liked to have seen. That being a broader range of memory timings, not just memory frequencies, so it could be determined whether low-latency DDR2-800 memory for example, was really required. While this kind of testing could have been done with DDR2-533 or even DDR2-667 memory, we chose DDR2-800 memory as it is the more popular choice. Furthermore, the price difference between these three standards is often very minimal.
Therefore the DDR2-800 memory was tested with CAS 3-3-3-8 T1, CAS 4-4-4-12 T1, CAS 4-4-4-12 T2, CAS 5-5-5-15 T2 and even CAS 6-6-6-18 T2 timings. This time all the testing was done on the ASUS Striker Extreme which uses the Nvidia nForce 680i SLI chipset with the Core 2 Duo E6700 processor clock at its default operating frequency. Again this is primarily gaming related and not a general usage article, since high-speed expensive memory is generally associated with gaming!
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XFX showcased 680 LT SLI at CeBit
XFX wants to make a lot of noise with Fatal1ty and we saw Jonathan playing around XFX boot and fragging some butts. If you didn’t get yourself arrested by XFX police girls you would be able to take a picture of a new stuff that is coming from this company.
The most interesting one is of course Mother board how XFX calls it branded as 680LT SLI. This is nothing more than 680I stripped for some features. The board looks very reference to me and you can notice that two PCIe 16X are far from each other and there will be a lot of place for two 8800 GTX dual slot cards. The board also has two PCI slots but its clear that if you have two 8800 dual slot cards inside that you will lose one PCI slot. You can plug four memory modules DDR2 only of course. The board supports socket 775 CPUs only and it is designed by Nvidia. Lets simply say it’s a reference board as much as EVGA is reference but with a nice XFX sticker on.
The most interesting one is of course Mother board how XFX calls it branded as 680LT SLI. This is nothing more than 680I stripped for some features. The board looks very reference to me and you can notice that two PCIe 16X are far from each other and there will be a lot of place for two 8800 GTX dual slot cards. The board also has two PCI slots but its clear that if you have two 8800 dual slot cards inside that you will lose one PCI slot. You can plug four memory modules DDR2 only of course. The board supports socket 775 CPUs only and it is designed by Nvidia. Lets simply say it’s a reference board as much as EVGA is reference but with a nice XFX sticker on.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Eurocom LaunchesWorld’s First Workstation-Class Gaming Notebook with .... Nvidia modular MXM-HE SLI technology
Eurocom LaunchesWorld’s First Workstation-Class Gaming Notebook with FSB1066, 600GB of HDD with RAID 5, Intel Pentium Core 2 Extreme and Nvidia modular MXM-HE SLI technology
Eurocom, the world's leading developer of highly personalized, high-performance notebook PCs and LCD PCs, introduced the EUROCOM D900C PHANTOM FSB1066 Mobile Workstation with Nvidia’s MXM-IV upgradeable VGA technology. EUROCOM D900C Notebook PC provides workstation-calibre performance, powerful graphics capabilities, high performance storage with three physical SATA-II hard drives and RAID 0/1/5, and super-powerful Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor for high-end computing wherever work takes place.
Featuring two NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX GPUs or two NVIDIA Quadro FX2500M running in SLI (Scalable Link Interface) Video Technology mode and powered by Intel Core 2 Extreme dual-core processor technology, the D900C PHANTOM also features the largest storage capacity on the market today - a 600GB with RAID 0/1/5 - making it the perfect laptop for users who demand large capacity storage and reliability for true portable workstation-calibre or server experience.
Geforce 8800GTX Sli review
On the 8th of November Nvidia released the Geforce 8800 Series, the world's first DirectX 10GPU. The product (in its GTX form) was widely hailed, and rightly so, as the fastest graphics card available at that time of writing. Since then ATI's AMD's new Radeon has been delayed and the graphics card market hasn't moved on, leaving the 8800 as the highest performing solution available. Shortly after the release of the 8800 series was available Nvidia launchedthe 680i chipset, designed with SLI's 8800's in mind.
We're sure that many of you who are reading will have seen the performance of 8800's in SLI already and so we are going to add a little bit of a twist to our review. As well as benchmarks at stock settings combined with an Intel QX6700 we are also going to take a look at how the product performs when paired with the Core2 Quad Core at 4 GHz and if that wasn't enough, we're going to show how the 8800 in SLI performs when overclocked and combined with the 4 GHz quad core. We also have over half a gigabyte of high definition content so you can see it all for yourself. Here's the review of Foxconn, Asus & XFX 8800GTX SLI-capable cards
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We're sure that many of you who are reading will have seen the performance of 8800's in SLI already and so we are going to add a little bit of a twist to our review. As well as benchmarks at stock settings combined with an Intel QX6700 we are also going to take a look at how the product performs when paired with the Core2 Quad Core at 4 GHz and if that wasn't enough, we're going to show how the 8800 in SLI performs when overclocked and combined with the 4 GHz quad core. We also have over half a gigabyte of high definition content so you can see it all for yourself. Here's the review of Foxconn, Asus & XFX 8800GTX SLI-capable cards
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eVGA's nForce 680i SLI Special Edition - pre-fitted with FOUR waterblocks
EVGA has a rightful claim to be considered NVIDIA's most enthusiast-oriented partner. In addition to launching a number of overclocked GeForce SKUs, the company has branched out into motherboard production, headlined by its excellent nForce 680i SLI board. Bring to bear its close relationship with innovatek - the cooling specialists - EVGA is launching a pre-fitted four-waterblock nForce 680i SLI that's designed to complement the Black Pearl series of cards. Innovatek's high-quality blocks are used for the CPU, PWM, northbridge and southbridge - the hottest-running parts of the board. We like the fact that the CPU block installs via the reference push-fit clips, making removal and reapplication a cinch. The southbridge block is small enough to allow a long-ish PCIe card to fit into the third slot, as well. Pricing is reckoned to be around Ł330. Expensive, yes. Quality, definitely.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 640MB vs. 1280MB in SLI mode
Tweaktown have had a look at the 320MB nVidia GeForce 8800GTS graphic card offering a few times here at TweakTown in the past - we have looked at it in its stock form, overclocked and in SLI. It’s a fantastic card and doesn’t disappoint but in our first article we mainly focused on how it compared against the 640MB in single card configuration. Today they are going to be re-focusing on this situation but when the cards are used together in SLI mode.
With in excess of 1.2GB of memory on offer when the 640MB cards are enabled in SLI mode, you have to wonder are we simply at a point of overkill. Are the 640MB cards for non-SLI and the 320MB cards for SLI? These are some of the questions we hope to answer today.
Opportunity of life! 365 Days of Winning. $100,000 in prizes! - Who else then Slizone
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Who else would give you a chance to win so much prizes then Slizone?!?
This is really great chance for all of you gamers to win new hardware... and since most contest have 2 or 3 prizes in their contests, 365 chances is really a lot! So hurry up, since about 90 prizes have already been given away
What is SLI - Scalable Link Interface?
Long has passed after this technology has been brought to IT market, but for those who don't know much about it, here is link to free content encyclopedia definition on -what else then -Wikipedia SLI definition
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA for linking two (or more) video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics. With SLI, it is possible to theoretically double the power of your graphics solution just by adding a second identical video card.
The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full name Scan-Line Interleave, which was introduced in 1998 and used in the Voodoo2 line of graphics accelerators. When 3dfx collapsed financially, its intellectual property was purchased by NVIDIA. NVIDIA later reintroduced the SLI name in 2004 and intends for it to be used in modern computer systems based on the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. However, the technology behind the name SLI has changed dramatically.
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But ofcourse on site is the best source of information for everything regarding SLI, and that's ofcourse Slizone. This page has a really good flash animated movie on how SLI works, and of which parts it consists of..
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Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA for linking two (or more) video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics. With SLI, it is possible to theoretically double the power of your graphics solution just by adding a second identical video card.
The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full name Scan-Line Interleave, which was introduced in 1998 and used in the Voodoo2 line of graphics accelerators. When 3dfx collapsed financially, its intellectual property was purchased by NVIDIA. NVIDIA later reintroduced the SLI name in 2004 and intends for it to be used in modern computer systems based on the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. However, the technology behind the name SLI has changed dramatically.
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But ofcourse on site is the best source of information for everything regarding SLI, and that's ofcourse Slizone. This page has a really good flash animated movie on how SLI works, and of which parts it consists of..
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