Posted by Mr Canella on May 21st, 2008
Every few months valve’s run a hardware survey on Steam. Valve has released an updated snapshot of over 1.7 million gaming PCs which use the Steam client in the form of their Hardware Survey. The results are interesting as always, and include such facts as: a 42% vs. 58% split between AMD and Intel systems; a 62% vs. 30% breakdown of Nvidia vs. The survey is incredibly helpful for gamers and game developers. AMD graphics card users; approximately 74% of users on 4:3 aspect ratio monitors; and almost 40% with 2GB of RAM or more.
Posted by Mr Canella on May 21st, 2008
Long days gone since AMD was the game king with the Athlon FX Series but this was on the enthusiast segment, nowadays AMD is trying to hit the mainstream segment. AMD has established a new logo program called AMD GAME!. The idea behind AMD GAME! is to guarantee that anyone buying a PC with this logo will have a good overall gaming experience with it.
The standard AMD GAME! logo unfortunately has more lax requirements; all you need to get this logo is an cpu Athlon X2 5600+ and a graphic card Radeon HD 3650 as well as an motherboard AMD 770 or nForce 500 series chipset.
A PC bearing the regular GAME! logo is better than your run of the mill desktop with integrated graphics, but honestly I’d prefer for there only to be one logo and for it to carry as much weight as the GAME! Ultra specs.
This combination of data ensures that, for the most part, people who buy PCs with the GAME! Ultra logo will get a good gaming experience on current titles, at default settings, at 1600 x 1200. Those who buy PCs with the regular GAME! logo should also be guaranteed a good experience, albeit at 1280 x 1024 instead.
Ever since the introduction of Intel’s Centrino brand, manufacturers have attempted to duplicate its success by pushing the importance of a platform. Today AMD has come the closest I’ve seen since then by, at least with its AMD GAME Ultra specification, putting together a list of components that can actually guarantee a good experience.
Posted by Augusto Triste on May 21st, 2008
Latest creative sound card from Fatalaty Series, Creative has announced that it is offering a new range of internal Sound Blaster cards from Fatality Series that promise even better performance than the company’s current range. The new PCI Express Creative sound cards will be available in two amazing models, the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series and the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion.
The Champion series sound card includes all the same features as the Professional range, however adds an internal I/O drive for quick front panel connection to headphones and headsets to save gamers fiddling around under their desk. Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel is the best-known professional gamer in the world with 38 First Place wins in eight years of tournament play. Championship Gaming Series™ (CGS) is the only worldwide professional video gaming league. Only the best gear is rigorously tested and approved by CGS for the highest level of professional gaming.
Posted by Augusto Triste on January 12th, 2008
The first to jump the 2000 MHz “fence” in the memory business was Adata with their Vitesta DDR3 2000X offering. The other memory manufacturers have also started offering DDR3-2000 chips and modules, but these almost never go beyond the gigabyte limit per card. Kingmax has made a comeback in the spotlight and presented its 2GB DDR3 memory module to reach a blazing frequency of 2000 MHz.
The company was also showing DDR3-2000 without heat spreaders, plus several other modules including a 2 gigabyte DDR3-1066 notebook part (SO-DIMM). The majority of the parts shown are already shipping, and Kingmax is ready to take orders on its DDR3-2000. The fins increase surface area for improved heat dissipation, and the DDR3 modules shown are rated at 2000MHz data rate and 9-9-9-24 timings using 2.15 volts.
Posted by Augusto Triste on January 5th, 2008
This is only a preview and specs aren’t quite sure yet but the new top of the line for nVidia graphics card range, the GeForce 9800GX2 is like the older 7950GX2, two graphic cards in one, it will consist in two 8800 with 65nm (most likely G92s with 128 stream processors) and SLI on to one board, 1 GB of memory (512 MB for each GPU) and two DVI outputs, and HDMI output, expectations for the new GeForce 9800GX2, is supposed to be 30% faster than the 8800 Ultra, will support Quad SLI configurations. The expected price: around $449 US. Expected announcement date: February 14, 2008.
- 1GB frame buffer
- Two graphic cards in one
- 65nm GPUs
- 256 Stream Processors
GeForce 9800GX2 Front
GeForce 9800GX2 Back
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