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The timing could barely be better! ATI launch a new line of graphics processors and what do we do? We finally get round to looking at Fermi. Alex was at the controls again for this one, beating GF100 in GeForce GTX 470 form up with a new suite of software and a very deep, in-depth analysis of how the majority of the chip and architecture work. It's the de-facto public analysis and a must read.
In the first of a triplet of stories about NVIDIA AIB partner Galaxy, we bring you a look at their PCI Express x1 GeForce 7300 GT.
ASUS's external ExpressCard graphics solution is at CeBIT, with ASUS claiming it's now fully production ready and should be available standalone for around $100 USD.
If you're into getting the most out of your graphics card purchase via overclocking, ASUS have a hardware extra for their graphics boards that lets you do it without software.
We mentioned yesterday that we thought there was a sneaky R600 running around CeBIT somewhere and that we might get pics today. And indeed there is a board, which we duly sat down to look at this morning in person. It's big.
This is the last time we'll bring you a supposed 8-series GeForce shot from MSI's stand at CeBIT. Promise.
MSI, in their keenness to hide the fact they have G86 on their stand, may have inadvertently given a big clue as to the GPU's die size. Wandering back past the boards today to get a closer look, we noticed that the stickers they've employed seem to closely match the…
SCEI and Stanford University's effort to bring the Folding@Home distributed computing project to the Playstation 3 - first made public by Stanford last August - will come to fruition by the end of this month. Announced via press release earlier today, the application will be available as a 200MB…
We expect AMD to announce Crossfire support for Intel P35 on the chipset's launch, if this Foxconn presentation slide is anything to go by at least.
The Foxconn board we've snapped showing the Crossfire support looks suitably high-end, with support for up to 8GiB of DDR2-800, a 1333MHz front-side…
The Foxconn board we've snapped showing the Crossfire support looks suitably high-end, with support for up to 8GiB of DDR2-800, a 1333MHz front-side…
Foxconn's stand is the place to be for inside info on NVIDIA G86 and G84 (powering the upcoming GeForce 8600 and 8500 products, to launch mid-April). As part of a product presentation running on their stand today, you can see how the various G86 and G84 SKUs lineup in the…
CeBIT 2007 seems to be the place for mainboard vendors to start showing their NVIDIA MCP73-based wares. MCP73 is NVIDIA's single-chip IGP core logic for Intel-based PCs, containing all northbridge, southbridge and graphics logic on one die.
Seems that MCP68 has broken cover at CeBIT, via ECS's unveiling of a GeForce 7050SE plus nForce 630a mainboard called MCP68M-M.
One of the biggest things at this year's hilariously quiet CeBIT is the introduction of DDR3-supporting mainboards. Intel are bringing support for the new memory standard this year with their upcoming Bearlake core logic, and a few vendors have boards on display.
ATI RV610 isn't the only new graphics chip from AMD to steal R600's thunder here at CeBIT. We've got snaps of the mid-range RV630 too, set to power products from $149 upwards until R600-based hardware takes over at the upper end of the pricing scale.
GeCube have finally brought their RV560-based Gemini dual-chip single board project to completion, and are now looking forward to doing the same thing with RV630. Running a live four-head demo on their stand at CeBIT, their X1650 XT Gemini pairs two RV560 ASICs and a PCI Express bridge IC on a single…
AMD held a press conference at the CeBIT Messe today to talk about how their general business is going, with Rick Bergman talking about their next generation of graphics products in the middle of it.
SiS are getting closer to finalising their first D3D10 silicon with news from CeBIT that they're targetting Q3, possibly Q4 for the release of their Mirage 4 IGP, which supports the new D3D revision in hardware.
I can't believe I missed these boards while we hit MSI's stand at CeBIT earlier, but as these images will show you can clearly see mid-range 8-series GeForce hardware on display, which fits with a mid-April release date for 8600 and 8500 GeForce products.
More MCP73, this time from MSI. Their P6NGM sports HDMI, dual-link DVI and analogue VGA, solid state caps and a single PCI Express x16 slot.
Part of Intel's next round of core logic updates, and with support for DDR3 (and DDR2) memory and 45nm quad-core processors, Intel P35 has also been confirmed to support Crossfire, at least if Foxconn's documentation for their P357AB-8EKRS2H DDRIII is to be believed.
Possibly not the most newsworthy graphics hardware on display at CeBIT this year, this Gigabyte GeForce 7600 GS design caught our eye nonetheless.