GTX485 picture & Specifications out ? no its a fake.

Today is the 1st April.. got some information from the plaza.fi , its not the official picture and numbers ,  any way just take a look :

Good photoshop work just take a look again at the first heat pipe from the left, its the same heatpipe copied .. busted .
so don't care about the specifications below ;)

Geforce GTX 485 VS GTX 480 Specifications:

Intel 8 cores Xeon 7500/7560 Specifications

Intel has announced what they call the largest performance leap in Intel Xeon processor history , via guru3d the new CPU have the folowing features and specifications:
The new CPUs have up to eight processing cores and Hyper Threading (16 threads), which means they can scale up to 32 cores and 64 threads in four-chip platforms or even 64 cores and 128 threads on eight-chip platforms !  The most capable of the lot is the Xeon 7560, which has a clock frequency of 2.66GHz and 24MB of Intel Smart Cache memory, as well as Turbo Boost technology and four Intel QPI links. This chip is intended for super node high-performance computing applications in financial services and science. The thermal design power (TDP) of all processors can range between 95W and 130W.

In addition to their basic specs, all CPUs are built with over 20 reliability features, such as the Machine Check Architecture (MCA) Recovery, which enables a configuration to recover from system errors that would otherwise be fatal. This feature set makes Intel's new line capable of better protecting data integrity and minimizing planned downtime.
“The Xeon 7500 brings mission critical capabilities to the mainstream by delivering the most significant leap in performance, scalability and reliability ever seen from Intel,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel’s data center group. “This combination will help users push to new levels of productivity, and accelerate the industry’s migration away from proprietary architectures. We are democratizing high-end computing.”
The Xeon 7500 processors will be launched as part of systems from Dell, Fujitsu, Cray, IBM, SGI, HP, Cisco and Oracle
  
update:
Intel has announced their Intel 48 core CPU more details HERE

Cheap Nvidia GF100/GTX400 this summer

Last week there were also reports that cheaper, DX11-capable Fermi-based GeForce graphics cards will be arriving sometime this summer, possibly June. We contacted Nvidia to find out whether this was the case or another churn in the rumor mill. According to the company, that is indeed the case, and was actually mentioned by Nvidia executives at a recent financial conference.

It's certainly clear that Nivida needs to churn out a few low-priced GF100 cards rather quick for the budget gamer. 

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Athlon II X2 250e 245e Specifications

According to a report, AMD prepare a new CPUs ,
the Athlon II X2 CPUs with a TDP of 45W. One of them is the Athlon II X2 250e, with a frequency of 3GHz, the other one is the Athlon II X2 245e, @ 2.9 GHz.
Possibility these chips will use the C3 stepping, the chips will add to the existing pair of Regor-based central processors, namely the 2.8GHz Athlon II X2 240e and the 2.7GHz Athlon II X2 135e.
Both have the same thermal design power (TDP) of 45W,
These chips will also consume 45W and are known as the Sempron 180 and Sempron 145. The former's clock is unknown,

 

img via apcmag.com

GTX 400 DX11 demo: Supersonic Sled Tech by NVIDIA

Supersonic Rocket Sled – DX11 and PhysX technology demo from Nvidia is finally available for download (221 mb). Unfortunately, you won’t be able to run it until you have a GTX 400 Series GPU. 

 

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GTX 480/470 Design Garage Tech Demo by Nvidia

The Garage Design is a demo based on OptiX, NVIDIA’s real time and programmable ray tracer optimized for GPUs.

via nvidia forum :
"We just released a demo called Design Garage for the GTX 480 launch that is a good example of using both SceniX and OptiX: This demo uses SceniX for its 3D framework and OptiX for all of its rendering, and you will find it runs about 3.5X faster on a GTX480 than on a GTX 280.

Of interest to SceniX developers – the demo is built upon SceniX 5.5 and uses QT toolkit along with its Kinetic extensions for its GUI. The OptiX shaders use the standard SceniX ray tracing traverser, and the demo uses standard SceniX APIs. In short, this demo could have been developed entirely outside of NVIDIA on our standard SDKs.

Of interest to OptiX developers - the demo has two rendering modes (interactive and photoreal) which are similar to "Whitted" and a physically correct path tracer. The demo’s rendering is produced by a paired set of 4 shaders (with the help of OptiX of course) which use Whitted for navigation and path tracing on mouse up. The shaders themselves are Phong, Glass, Metal and Car Paint.

Finally, while this demo has similarities to the path tracing example we showed last SIGGRAPH in New Orleans (also running on SceniX with OptiX), it’s completely new. Members of the OptiX team began first began writing the shaders after shipping OptiX in November, and the completed them before the holidays – showing you can get very far, very quickly on top OptiX. "

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GTX 400 OC tool Afterburner 1.6.0 Beta 1

A few important notes on initial GTX 400 series support.

• It is no longer possible to adjust core and shader clocks independently on GTX 400 series. Shader clock is the primary and the only controlable GPU clock for this NVIDIA GPU architecture, the rest parts of core are clocked @ half of shader clock (1/2 ratio is hardwired). So you will have only shader clock slider unlocked on GF100 GPUs, core clock slider is no longer available on these cards. That is by design and must be so.
• It is no longer possible to downclock memory for 3D mode. So the minimum limit for memory clock matches with default 3D clock. It is also by design and must be so.
• Currently available public GF100 drivers have open issue with fixed fan control mode on GTX 400 series: once you enable fixed fan control mode, it is impossible to switch fan control back to default automatic fan speed mode. Reboot is required to restore automatic fan control mode. NVIDA are aware about issue and the fix is already available in new drivers (not available to public yet). So keep it in mind and in meanwhile don't forget to reboot the system to resotre automatic fan control mode if you play with fixed fan control mode in any tool. Alternately, just enable Afterburner's software automatic fan speed mode. It will do the job instead of NV driver until the fix is available.
• Voltage control for GTX 400 series in not implemented yet.

[Changelog] Afterburner 1.6.0 Beta 1
- Added initial NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards support
- Added basic screen capture support by means of built-in screen capture engine of MSI On-Screen Display server. Now it is possible to assign the hotkey for capturing screenshots in BMP, PNG or JPG formats in DirectX applications and in BMP format on desktop or in OpenGL applications
- Added hardware monitoring history logging support. Now MSI Afterburner is able to save history in native RivaTuner Hardware Monitoring Log file format. The log files captured with MSI Afterburner can be viewed in any text editor like Notepad or in graphics form in RivaTuner's HML file viewer (RivaTuner must be installed for viewing log files in graphics form)
- Added new safety option allowing forcring constant voltage on some cards with voltage regulators supporting programmable dynamic voltage management (e.g. VT1165 or uP6266). New safety option may improve stability on some systems as well as provide power state independent voltage control on the systems with non-standard voltage control implementation
- MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.7.0. New server gives you a lot of improvements including:
- Stealth mode automatic disabling feature. Now the server is able to disable
stealth mode automatically if incompatible application like FRAPS is active.
You no longer need to disable stealth mode manually if you need to run the
server simultaneously with FRAPS, but keep in mind that stealth technologies will not be active in this case
- DirectX11 On-Screen Display and screen capture support
- Screen capture support for DirectX10 and DirectX11 applications using
multisampled antialiasing or non-standard frame buffer formats (e.g. sRGB)
- Optional On-Screen Display 3D rendering mode. New mode uses 3D accelerated DirectX functions to emulate previously used 2D framebuffer access function and render 2D text. New rendering mode provides On-Screen Display support in DirectX10 and DirectX11 applications using multisampled antialiasing and can also drastically reduce OSD related performance hit on the systems with badly optimized 2D acceleration in display drivers
- Now screenshot file extension is forcibly set to BMP if JPG or PNG screen capture is requested on desktop or in OpenGL application
- Simplified On-Screen Display coordinate space settings. Rarely used desktop and window coordinate space modes have been merged into single framebuffer coordinate space mode
- Now the server automatically selects framebuffer coordinate space instead
of viewport coordinate space when viewport is not accessible (e.g. if pure Direct3D8 device is in use)
- Improved application notification scheme during runtime profiles adjustment. Now runtime changes in OSD application profiles (e.g. OSD zoom ratio change on the fly) are reflected in affedted application almost immedaitely instead of approximately 1 second delay in the previos versions
- Reduced runtime skin engine memory footprint due to dynamic skin storage
unloading
- Updated profiles list
- Now MSI Afterburner distributive includes original 128x128 PNG application
logo (stored in .\Graphics folder) for dockbar applications like RocketDock
or ObjectDock
- It is no longer necessary to close the application to save monitoring window
attachment state
- Added Ukrainian localization

[Changelog] Kombustor 1.02
! Change: Xtreme burning mode displays a warning message (high power draw can cause instability).
! Change: GPU indices inversion to match Afterburner indices.
* Bugfix: in OpenGL 3 rendering, the instructions for use were wrong
* Bugfix: in clocks display (core, memory and shader) for NVIDIA boards.

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Driver Sweeper clean DLL/reg files for NVIDIA/AMD and more

Driver Sweeper is great tool from guru3d.com it clean and remove driver leftovers from your system.

Driver Sweeper is an important tool if you have drivers installation problem , it kill and delete any trace of drivers installed on your operating system , its compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows & 7 RC 32bit and 64 bit , you can use it for free .

Standard version Driver Cleaner
How to use ?Guru3D - Driver Sweeper is very easy to use. You only have to select the drivers you want to clean.


What can it be used for ?The current supported drivers are NVIDIA (Display and Chipset), ATI (Display), Creative (Sound), Ageia (PhysX), MMouse and Realtek (Sound). 


System requirements:
The Guru3D - Driver Sweeper is fully tested on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows & 7 RC. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are supported.

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Palit GTX 470 , 480 Specifications

Palit Microsystems Ltd, the leading graphics card manufacturer, announces the world’s fastest GPU GeForce GTX 400 Series: GTX 480 and GTX 470. Armed with the latest Microsoft DirectX 11 technology and NVIDIA newly designed Fermi Architecture, the GeForce GTX 400 series are ready to enable a totally new class of physical gaming interaction!

Process technology	Palit GeForce GTX 480 40nm	Palit GeForce GTX 470 40nm
DirectX	DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Processor Cores	480 cores	448 cores
Memory Amount	1536 MB	1280 MB
Memory Interface	384 bits	320 bits
Graphics Clock	700 MHz	607 MHz
Processor Clock	1401MHz	1215 MHz
Memory Clock	1848 MHz (DDR 3696)	1674 MHz (DDR 3348)
DRAM type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth	177.4 GB/sec	133.9 GB/sec
Texture Fill Rate	42 billion/sec	34 billion/sec
Video Support	Dual DVI. Mini-HDMI	Dual DVI. Mini-HDMI

eVGA GTX480 , 470 Specifications

eVGA launches its Nvidia Geforce GTX 400 series with these cards:

• GTX 480 and 470
• GTX 480 and 470 SuperClocked FTW
• GTX 480 and 470 Hydro Copper

“EVGA is here to deliver what the community demands: the next level DirectX 11 gaming and compute accelerator. The EVGA GTX 470 and 480 cards offer the fastest Tessellation and Ray Tracing performance on the planet, indeed these are very exciting times for our customers,” said Bob Klase, VP of Sales at EVGA. “We are thrilled to be offering the best NVIDIA products and support in the industry.”

Specifications GeForce GTX 450, 440, 430

According to the latest rumors the company is already planning their mid-range and entry-level alternatives.  to be on track for a June 2010 launch at the earliest, according to 3dcenter.org three of the cards will use the 40nm GF104 core with up to 256 shader cores, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory bus.  Although naming isn’t finalised, they’re believed to be known as the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 440 and 430. 

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Some specifications that I found :

The GF104 core Fermi chips specs will be like this:

- GF104 core, 256 shader cores, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 256-bit memory.
- GTS 450 in similar performance/price to HD 5830, GTS 440 comparable to HD 5770
- GTS 430: 192 shader cores, 48 TMUs, 24 ROPs, 192-bit memory.

Geforce GTX 480 VS HD5970 Benchmark test review

Finally the official Nvidia GTX480 benchmark tests is out in the net on hexus.com web site, so I want to share with you some of the benchmark pictures showing the Tests results between the GTX480 , GTX 480 SLI ,GTX 295 , GTX 285 , GTX 275 and the radeon HD 5970 , radeon HD 5870 ,radeon HD5870 radeon HD5850.

Lets begin with the specifications and features of the two new graphic cards the ATI Radeon HD 5970 and the Nvidia GTX480 .

Nvidia GTX480

 

Nvidia GTX480 Specifications:

GPU Engine Specs:

CUDA Cores GPUs	480 Single
Graphics Clock (MHz)	700 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz)	1401 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	42

Memory Specs:

Memory Clock (MHz)	1848
Standard Memory Config	1536 MB GDDR5
Memory Interface Width	384-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	177.4

The NVIDIA GF100 GPU:

infos about the New GF100 chip :

The GeForce 400 Series is a family of graphics cards being developed by Nvidia but was delayed and instead released in March 26, 2010. Nvidia claimed that the GeForce 400 Series "will mark a milestone in the history of gaming." originally slated for production in November 2009,

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 features:
The first products from the GeForce 400 series were launched on March 26, 2010

, starting with the GTX 480 and GTX 470. The GTX 480 is the highest-end model from the GTX 400 series and comes with 480 CUDA cores, a 700 MHz core clock speed, 1401 MHz shader clock and 1.5 GB of GDDR5 memory. The GTX 480 is roughly 10% faster than ATI's HD 5870 and launched with a price tag of US$499

The GTX 470 comes with a lower 448 CUDA cores, 607 MHz core clock, 1215 MHz shader clock and 1.25 GB of GDDR5 memory. The GTX 470 is around 10% faster than the HD 5850 and launched for price of US$349. Both these cards are the first Nvidia graphics cards to support Direct3D 11.

• Tear it up. Gamers want the fastest GPU on the market and GeForce GTX 480 sets the new standard. Its next-generation architecture delivers unprecedented gaming performance at maximum resolution and quality settings, even on the latest DirectX 11 titles.
• On average, 27 percent faster performance than any GPU on the market in newer DX11 applicationsⁱ. At 19x12 4xAA/16xAF resolution, the GTX 480 is 61 percent faster in Metro 2033, 89 percent faster in Unigine Heaven v2, and 29 percent faster in Battleforge than the closest competitive product.

• Dial it up. The new NVIDIA^® PolyMorph Engine, a scalable geometry processing engine built from the ground up for DirectX 11 tessellation, enables incredibly detailed game characters and terrain with blazing performance. In addition, high-speed 32x anti-aliasing smoothes edges for top-notch visual quality.

• The GTX 480 is also the world’s first consumer GPU to enable interactive ray tracing for ultra photo-realistic scenes.
• Scale it up. New NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Surround technology expands the gaming real estate across three monitors in full stereoscopic 3D – making for a truly immersive gaming experience.ⁱⁱ

• Combined with NVIDIA 3D Vision wireless active shutter glasses, 3D Vision Surround technology lets you feel like you’re in the game
• Capable of rendering more than 746M pixels/second at full HD 1080p for a mind-blowing, 5760x1080 gaming experience.
• Advanced NVIDIA software automatically converts more than 400 games to stereoscopic 3D without the need for special game patches.
• Get a complete view of the battlefield in real-time strategy games.
• Manage inventory windows and quest logs, and track your party in your favorite MMORPGs.
• See your enemy’s movement quicker and react first in first-person-shooters.
• Buckle yourself into the driver seat of your favorite racing game and be immersed in the action.
• Watch Blu-ray 3D movies, view 3D photographs, or stream 3D content over the Web.

• Blow it up. NVIDIA PhysX^® technology brings games to life with dynamic, interactive environments.
• Two times the PhysX technology performance over prior generation GPUs for dynamic game effects, such as turbulence, fluids and smoke.
• New NVIDIA^® GigaThreadTM scheduler allows up to 10-times faster switching between graphics and physics processing, enabling more complex effects to be rendered in real time.

• Open it up. Next-generation CUDA™ architecture unleashes the computational power of the GPU to tackle the most intensive multimedia applications
• World’s most open computing platform, with complete language and API support, including CUDA C/C++, DirectCompute, OpenCL, Java, Python, and Fortran for the broadest compatibility with GPU-accelerated applications.
• Full support for GPU computing under Microsoft Windows 7.

HD 5970

The ATI radeon HD 5970 is a dual GPU graphic card based on HD 5870 so its dual HD 5870 on a single PCB card and it worth about 600$ , this really not a big deal as you can get tow crossfire cards for sub 500$ , keep in mind that anyone can receive the HD 5870 from ebay for only 249$ so think again if you want this 600$ piece.

 

HD 5970 PCB

HD 5970 Specifications:

• Engine clock speed: 725 MHz 
• Dual GPUs
• Processing power (single precision): 4.64 TeraFLOPS
• Processing power (double precision): 928 GigaFLOPS
• Polygon throughput: 1.45 billion polygons/sec
• Data fetch rate (32-bit): 464 billion fetches/sec
• Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 116 Gigatexels/sec
• Pixel fill rate: 46.4 Gigapixels/sec
• Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 185.6 Gigasamples/sec
• Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz
• Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
• Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/sec
• Maximum board power: 294 Watts
• Idle board power: 51 Watts

 Benchmark results :

via hexus.net

HAWX Game Benchmark Test:

Battlefield Bad company2  Game Benchmark Test:

Dirt 2 Game Benchmark Test:

Unigine heaven V2.0 tool Benchmark Test:

Crysis Warhead Game Benchmark Test:

Power Consumption Test:

Temperature comparison:

As you can see in these benchmarks results the HD5970 from ATI beat the new GTX 480 from Nvidia , but keep in mind that the ATI HD5970 is a dual GPU and the new GTX480 is a single GPU , so lets just wait the next Nvidia dual GPU GTX400 serie , may be the GTX 490 .

Overclocking test result :

"increase the fan-speed to 80 per cent (<4,000rpm) and then used EVGA's Precision tool to force up the clocks. From the default 700MHz/1,400MHz/3,698MHz clockings for core, shader and memory, respectively, we hit 800MHz/1,600MHz/ 4,224MHz, representing a 14 per cent increase over stock. System-wide power-draw increases from a peak 475W to 525W.

Looking a the 2,560x1,600 results, Far Cry 2 (8x AA) performance rose from 54.91fps to 61.3fps and DiRT 2 DX11 from 50.69fps to 56.78fps"

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update: nVidia is likely to be showing its most important partners a very serious piece of new kit, The GTX490 Dual GPU.

Metro 2033 startup/launch Error/crash fixed

Hello gamers ,you are here because you are stucked with an error , right ?  

 

You are not alone , you may get some startup problems  when trying to launch Metro 2033 like hearing only the sound or get a black screen and don't hear anything , I can manage to fix this problem after some googling , so I want to share the solution with you.
About Metro 2033:

Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror, and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky for PC , Xbox 360 and PS3 . 

PC System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements:
Dual core CPU (any Core 2 Duo or better will do)
DirectX 9, Shader Model 3 compliant graphics cards (GeForce 8800, GeForce GT220 and above)
1GB RAM
Recommended System Requirements:
Any Quad Core or 3.0+ GHz Dual Core CPU
DirectX 10 compliant graphics card (GeForce GTX 260 and above)
2GB RAM
Optimum System Requirements:
Core i7 CPU
NVIDIA DirectX 11 compliant graphics card (GeForce GTX 480 and 470)
As much RAM as possible (8GB+)
Fast HDD or SSD
Enabling Nvidia 3D Vision:
Metro 2033 utilizes NVIDIA 3D Vision with compatible cards and hardware. To play in 3D you will require:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 and above recommended
A 120Hz (or above) monitor
NVIDIA 3D Vision kit
Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7

Ok , now lets move to the solution .

Solution :

1. First of all install This tools and use it to clean all your Nvidia/ATI and physix driver (the normal uninstaller dont remove all the files from your system).
2. Install the latest Nvidia / ATI driver for your graphic card.
3. Install the latest physix driver from the nvidia website.
4. install the latest C++ Redistributable Package."vcredist_x86_sp1_atl_4053.exe"
5. Install the latest directx from HERE.
6. delete the user.cfg from your user account folder if you cant find the file do a search in your "\Documents and Settings\"  folder.

If this doesnt fix your problem try these tricks from the net:

1. If you are running on a dual monitor, unplug the secondary monitor before launching the game.
2. If it fails to load after the first run, delete the user.cfg file from the game’s installation directory and try again and.

Ghost Recon Future Soldier video trailer

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (previously known as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 4)  is a video game published by Ubisoft and due for release in 2010.  Excluding expansions, it is the fifth installment in the Ghost Recon series, and was announced to be in development by Ubisoft on January 22, 2009. The game will be a futuristic take on the Ghost Recon series.

Initially, the title was revealed to be Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator by an OFLC release.  However in December 2009, "Ghost Recon: Future Soldier" was trademarked by Ubisoft, raising speculation that this could be the name for the upcoming Ghost Recon 4.  This was subsequently confirmed by an official announcement. 

While the release of Future Soldier was targeted for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, Ubisoft later announced that the release date would be pushed back until the 2010-2011 fiscal year to "strengthen" its video game line-up.

OpenGL 4.0 Supported by ATI radeon cards

AMD has announced today that they are happy to be the first to fully support the recently released OpenGL 4.0.
AMD is supporting the 3D interface with its ATI Catalyst OpenGL 4.0 preview driver, which enables all OpenGL 4.0 functionality. The driver will be supported by the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards, including the HD 5400, HD 5500, HD 5600, and HD 5700. All of the new features, are supported right out of the gate on these graphics cards, which is made possible by the OpenGL software team.

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MSI XPower X58 motherboard Specifications

MSI plans to unveil its third Big Bang motherboard, the XPower. This new motherboard uses Intel's X58 chipset and features six PCI Express x16 slots, six DDR3 memory slots, SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0.
The motherboard is designed for hardware enthusiasts, it features 16-phase DrMOS PWM, two 8-pin power connectors, Hi-C capacitors, an extra 6-pin PCIe power input for the PCIe slots, OC Dashboard and V-Kit. Audio is provided by a Quantum Wave audio card with 7.1 channel audio, EAX 5.0 and THX TruStudio PC Suite.
MSI thropws in six (!) PCI-Express x16 slots.  While the ICH10R gives out six SATA 3 Gb/s ports, an additional controller gives two 6 Gb/s ports (colour-coded white). Audio is care of a bundled PCI-Express x1 audio card called the MSI QuantumWave that includes THX TruStudio PC Suite, and support for Creative EAX 5.0 HD. Connectivity includes dual gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.0 ports next to a number of USB 2.0 ports, power-eSATA, FireWire, and a connector for the OC Dashboard module.
It looks like MSI is using a generous splattering of them on the new Big Bang XPower. Q1 in 2010, and it already looks like we're supposed to spell "promising" with the "I" before the "M."  The motherboard looks a bit naked but that's because the photos don't show the cooling solution that will be shipped with the retail models. 

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Opteron X12 AMD with 12 core server CPU Specifications

AMD 12 core server CPU Specifications and price

New Information leaked onto the web about the AMD's upcoming 12-core Opteron processors at the website of an online shop.

Specifications:
The Opteron X12 6164 runs at 1.7GHz and has 16MB of cache and consumes 65W and it costs $797, while the Opteron X12 6136 is clocked at 2.4GHz, packs 18MB of cache and costs $808 consumes 105W, which sounds quite impressive. 

The X12 6176 is clocked at 2.3GHz and it has 18MB of cache, but at $1,491 it's the priciest of the lot. The X12 6174 run @ 2.2GHz  costs $1,250, while the X12 6172 run @ 2.1GHz  is priced at $1,060.

Finer details in the Magny-Cours chip. Two six-core chips are connected by four hyperthreaded interconnects and are targeted at two- and four-socket servers, Conway said. It includes a total of 12MB of L3 cache, with each core supporting 512KB of L2 cache. The chips will be manufactured by AMD's spinoff, GlobalFoundries, using existing 45-nanometer technology.
AMD is also working on a new x86 chip architecture code-named Bulldozer. The architecture will be used in chips manufactured using the 32-nm process in 2011. The company has scheduled a 16-core chip code-named Interlagos for release in 2011 [via computerworld].

Phenom II X6 1035T,1055T,1075T ,1090T Specifications

 Phenom II X6 Six-core Thuban "ثعبان" Specifications out

AMD's most high-end (and upcoming) six-core Thuban (thuban is an arab world "ثعبان" mean viper) based processor will sell roughly 300 USD. AMD will launch an entire family of chips, including a pair of lower-clock versions, as well as a high-end model with frequencies to match the Gulftown. it  will also have a great overclocking potential,

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Model	TDP	Clock Frequency	Turbo Frequency	Quarter	Price
Phenom II X6 1035T	95W	2,6GHz	3,1GHz	2nd	$<199
Phenom II X6 1055T	95W	2,8GHz	3,3GHz	2nd	$199
Phenom II X6 1055T	125W	2,8GHz	3,3GHz	2nd	$199
Phenom II X6 1075T	125W	3,0GHz	3,5GHz	3rd	$199-295
Black Edition 1090T	125W	3,2GHz	3,6GHz	2nd	$295

Soket : AM3

Steping: E0

L2 Cache : 6x 512 KB

L3 Cache : 9 MB

Realase date: 26 April 2010

update:

FULMTL who works at a hardware store posted this:
" Just got some in and the price is frickin amazing. I forgot the model number but its 2.8Ghz, 9MB cache, 6 core Phenom for $204. No word on the release date, but Fry's has them. **model number is 1055T. And then he updates with :In short the 1055T is roughly a i7 920/930 for $200. "

Counter Strike Player Get a Knife in the Head !

It happened in China’s northern province of Jilin, inside a net café that does not require the regulated identification cards for those to play. In a group playing Counter-Strike over the LAN, one 17-year-old boy was fingered for using a "wall hack" cheat that obviously angered the other players.

A fight broke outside the internet café, where the 17-year-old boy was stabbed in the head with a 30cm blade that made it through the width of the skull. Astonishingly, the boy remained conscious of what was happening as he was being rushed off to the hospital. After 10 hours of surgery, doctors were able to remove the blade but are still concerned over bacteria and rust particles that may have found their way into the brain.

Doctors say that the 17-year-old boy was lucky that the knife did not damage the intracranial blood vessels, though they are still unsure as what the long-term prognosis is.

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HD 5870 VS HD 5970 in Crysis Benchmark

sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Toxic beat His Radeon HD5970in crysis

A 2GB frame-buffer enables the Radeon HD 5870 GPU to breathe when really taxed. Indeed, it's faster than a Radeon HD 5970 - a card that has to share its frame-buffer between the GPUs.

A near-30 per cent performance increase over a generic HD 5870 is down to more than just clock-speed, clearly. 

HD 5870 Specifications :

    *  Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
    * Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
    * Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
    * Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
    * Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
    * Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
    * Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
    * Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
    * Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
    * Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
    * Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec
    * Maximum board power: 188 Watts
    * Idle board power: 27 Watts

HD 5970 Specifications :

    *  Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
    * Processing power (single precision): 4.64 TeraFLOPS
    * Processing power (double precision): 928 GigaFLOPS
    * Polygon throughput: 1.45 billion polygons/sec
    * Data fetch rate (32-bit): 464 billion fetches/sec
    * Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 116 Gigatexels/sec
    * Pixel fill rate: 46.4 Gigapixels/sec
    * Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 185.6 Gigasamples/sec
    * Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz
    * Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
    * Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/sec
    * Maximum board power: 294 Watts
    * Idle board power: 51 Watts

 Benchmark Test Results

Crysis Warhead 2560x1600 4xAA Result:

As you can see the sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Toxic beat the Default His Radeon HD5970 by 2fps in crysis .

Crysis Warhead 1920x1200 4xAA Result:

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Core i5 655K Specifications with unlocking feature

Core i5 655K is a dual-core with four treads clocked at 3.2GHz and based on a 32nm CPU core and 45nm graphics core that are also integrated on the chip.

This CPU certainly supports Turbo and since this CPU is completely unlocked it should overclock much better than the currently available Core i5 650. Core i5 650 is also clocked at 3.2GHz and has 4MB cache but it’s not completely unlocked and you can only have limited success with overclocking.

The new Core i5 655K fits in socket LGA 1156 and has a 73W TDP. The price is expected In the US Core i5 sells for $194.90, In Europe the same CPU sells for some €150 and the unlocked K version is most likely to cost a few euro more. 

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Sparkle Geforce 210 Specifications

Sparkle Geforce 210 features a 128-bit memory interface, which makes it sort of a hybrid between the GT 220 and the regular G210 that has a 64-bit memory interface.

Despite the wider 128-bit memory interface, the new Geforce 210 is still an entry-level card as it features 24 cores, and ticks at 475MHz for the GPU and 1100MHz for shaders. The card is equipped with 1GB of DDR2 memory clocked at 800MHz.

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Sparkle Geforce 210 PCB Picture show one DVI and one HDMI port with a small fan:

ATI Catalyst 10.3 Driver Download

ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 release for Windows XP ,Vista and Windows 7

New Features

ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions

• This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of Microsoft ® Windows® 7 and Windows Vista® for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility Radeon ™  HD 3000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, and planned support future ATI Mobility Radeon ™ products.  
• Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers 

ATI Catalyst™ Control Center – ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements¹

• Display Bezel Compensation
  • Easy-to-use wizard  shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels²
• Per-Display Color Adjust
  • Individual Color, Brightness,  and Contrast controls
• Multiple ATI Eyefinity Technology Groups
  • Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
• Improved Display Configuration switching
  • Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
  • Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes

ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses

• AMD has updated its Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)

For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 (for Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows® XP, and Linux® versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 release notes.

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Unigine Heaven DX 11 benchmark 2.0 tool

Unigine Corp announced its release of the first DirectX 11 benchmark "Heaven" that is based on its proprietary Unigine engine. The company has already made a name among the overclockers and gaming enthusiasts for uncovering the realm of true GPU capabilities with previously released "Sanctuary" and "Tropics" demos. Their benchmarking capabilities are coupled with striking visual integrity of the refined graphic art.

Heaven benchmark excels at providing the following key features:

• Native support of OpenGL, DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11
• Comprehensive use of tessellation technology
• Advanced SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion)
• Volumetric cumulonimbus clouds generated by a physically accurate algorithm
• Dynamic simulation of changing environment with high physical fidelity
• Interactive experience with fly/walk-through modes
• ATI Eyefinity support

Hardware requirements:

• The Tessellation feature REQUIRES a GPU with DirectX 11 support!
• ATI Radeon HD 2xxx and higher or NVIDIA GeForce 7xxx and higher (recommended: NVIDIA 8800 / AMD 4800 series)
• 256 Mb of video memory

Earlier this month the company has announced full support of DirectX 11 features in its top-notch 3D middleware. Updated Unigine engine supports Windows 7 and has successfully incorporated the groundbreaking DirectX 11 capabilities, including the following core features:

• Hardware tessellation
• DirectCompute
• Shader Model 5.0

Unigine has published the second release of Heaven Benchmark, a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on the Unigine engine. Heaven Benchmark 2.0 is more complex than the first edition, it features a heavier tessellation load, major engine optimizations, new objects, more dynamic lights, and other improvements.
Changelog:

• Heavier tessellation load
• Several major optimizations of the engine
• Added new elaborated objects in the world
• Physics-driven flags
• More dynamic lights
• Enhancements of some old assets
• Introduced "moderate" and "extreme" tessellation modes 

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