nVidia's can of whoop-ass not a dead soldier after all
Written by t-readyroc
Thursday, 24 April 2008
nVidia's can of whoop-ass is on its way, in the form of the MCP79, a single-chip mobile chipset aimed at small form factor notebooks. Watching the nVidia/Intel spat unfold's gonna be mighty entertaining...
"Each variant of MCP79 incorporates a DX10-capable GeForce graphics controller supporting Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA's VP3 video processor, and support for Hybrid Power/Hybrid SLI/Hybrid Performance."
There are a slew of sites hosting various details on AMD's 4800-series (aka RV770) and its supposed arrival next month, but TGDaily's got the best overall write-up, imo. Hit the link for the full, two-page read.
"The new GPU has 480 stream processors or shader units (96+384), 32 Texture units (up from 16), 16 ROP (same as 2900/3800), a 256-bit memory controller and native GDDR3/4/5 support (expect GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory versions of RV770 cards)."
Ten power tips for texting at Computerworld
Written by t-readyroc
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Ten tips for texting that are actually functional. I didn't know about the Google calendar one. Pretty interesting stuff.
"Just send a message with the word 'next' to GVENT (dial 48368) and you'll get back the time and details of your next scheduled event."
The general consensus is that while the concept is good, the execution (as has been par for the course lately with AMD) is flawed. If, for some reason, you're forced into buying an AMD CPU right now, go with the X4 9850 Black Edition. The pricing scheme just doesn't make any sense otherwise....