NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is the fastest single card GPU

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is the fastest single card GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is the fastest single card GPU

Apple updates Macbook Pro line with Sandy Bridge, AMD GPUs

Apple updates Macbook Pro for 2011 with Sandy Brige, Lightpeak, AMD GPUs and Facetime Apple updates Macbook Pro for 2011 with Sandy Brige, Lightpeak, AMD GPUs and Facetime

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Motorola introduces the XOOM tablet

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ATI unveils Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850

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Nvidia to license SLI for AMD Motherboards

April 28th, 2011 sylv3rblade

If you built a PC today and chose AMD for your processor/platform, chances are you’ll only have the option of getting an AMD (formerly ATI) video card if you want to go multi-GPU. Nvidia’s announcement today gives you the option of having SLI on the next generation of AMD chipsets.

According to Nvidia, SLI support will trickle into AMD’s chipsets starting with the 990FX, 990X, and 970, with support from top motherboard manufacturers Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, and MSI. Looking at the mentioned chipsets, their names that AMD hasn’t officially announced yet but rumor has it that they will be released alongside Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors—the chipmaker’s next flagship CPU family.

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Sony announces S1 and S2 PlayStation Certified Tablets

April 26th, 2011 sylv3rblade

Sony PlayStation Certified Tablets

Pushing forward with the PlayStation Suite, Sony has unveiled a pair of PlayStation-certified Android 3.0 tablets: the 9.4″ S1 media tablet and dual-screen S2. Noting the names, they’re a welcome break from the weird naming convention around current tablets in the market.

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Windows 7 hits 350 million sold

April 22nd, 2011 sylv3rblade

Three years or just 18 months into it’s release, Microsoft announces that it has sold 350 million licenses of its current flagship operating system Windows 7.

In stark contrast to Vista, (which lot of people hated, some for technical reasons, others for no other reason than jumping on the hate machine) Windows 7 is flourishing in sales for both personal use and the enterprise. While this number sports a great number of adoption from people replacing computers and laptops on their usual upgrade cycles (and those purchasing their first units), most of the current user-base are shifters from XP, Vista and other non-Windows OS.

For added incentive for the enterprise market, Redmond claims that deploying Windows 7 will allow businesses to save around $140 per PC per year. Having more companies migrating off XP means less users stuck on Internet Explorer 6—undeniably a boon for web developers the world over.

Windows 7 passed XP in adoption rates in some markets.

If you’re a Windows user and haven’t installed/upgraded Windows 7, tell us why in the comments.

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Windows 7 over takes XP’s Desktop OS market share

April 9th, 2011 sylv3rblade

According to the latest numbers crunched by pingdom, people are finally migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7.  That is, for the U.S. market at least.

The data comes from aggregated visits to over 3 million websites (so for you survey OCDs out there, yes, there’s a huge enough sample group).    Since it’s launch, usage of Windows 7 has been on a steep rise, indicating how much right Microsoft did with Windows 7.  In comparison, Vista never even got close to XP’s market share :/  Poor Vista.

If you take the numbers from Steam:

Yep.  Windows 7 is still up top.

source Pingdom, Steam

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Nikon D5100 16MP DSLR with 1080 video

April 5th, 2011 sylv3rblade

Nikon Reveals 16.2MP D5100 DSLR With 1080p Movie Mode

When Nikon released it’s D5000 DSLR, it no doubt piqued the interests of professional, enthusiast and novice photographers alike as it offered a body with better capabilities than it’s lower end brother, the D3000. An uncommon sight especially with regards to Nikon’s line of DSLRs. Today, Nikon unveils the refresh to the D5000, the Nikon D5100.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is the fastest single card GPU

April 1st, 2011 sylv3rblade

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is the fastest single card GPU

AMD has just released it’s current flagship card, the dual GPU Radeon 6990 and it didn’t take long for Nvidia to respond with it’s own single-card, dual GPU solution. Meet the GeForce GTX 590.

If the Radeon 6990 is basically two 6970 in crossfire configuration, embedded into a single chip, then the GeForce GTX 590 is basically two GeForce 580 in SLI.

The GeForce GTX 590 is clocked a bit slower than it’s single core brother the GTX 580 at just 607MHz and memory speed of just 853MHz. However, as with the case is with AMD’s Radeon 6990, lowering the card’s clock speeds help trim down this monster’s TDP to just 365W.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 specs are as follows:

GTX 590 GTX 580 GTX 570 GTX 560 Ti
Stream Processors 2 x 512 512 480 384
Texture Address / Filtering 2 x 64/64 64/64 60/60 64/64
ROPs 2 x 48 48 40 32
Core Clock 607MHz 772MHz 732MHz 822MHz
Shader Clock 1214MHz 1544MHz 1464MHz 1644MHz
Memory Clock 853MHz (3414MHz data rate) GDDR5 1002MHz (4008MHz data rate) GDDR5 950MHz (3800MHz data rate) GDDR5 1002Mhz (4008MHz data rate) GDDR5
Memory Bus Width 2 x 384-bit 384-bit 320-bit 256-bit
VRAM 2 x 1.5GB 1.5GB 1.25GB 1GB
FP64 1/8 FP32 1/8 FP32 1/8 FP32 1/12 FP32
Transistor Count 2 x 3B 3B 3B 1.95B
Manufacturing Process TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm
Price Point $699 $499 $349 $249

Reviews:
AnandTech
Hothardware
Expreview

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Google allows users to vote on search results

March 31st, 2011 sylv3rblade

A few weeks back, Google introduced the domain-blacklist feature for it’s search engine, allowing you to completely remove domains from your search results page. With the introduction of a feature called +1, you can now “vote” on search results.

Here’s how +1 works

The +1 button will appear next to each search result

 

After pressing the +1 button, you have the option to undo the action immediately
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Firefox 4.0 Now available [Windows, Mac, Linux]

March 23rd, 2011 sylv3rblade

Firefox 4.0 Now available [Windows, Mac, Linux]

Mozilla has finally released the final RTM/RTW build of Firefox 4.0 and it is now available for download on Windows, Mac and Linux.  Firefox 4.0 sports a redesigned user interface (GUI) (most noticeably how tabs are handled), better performance and page rendering speed with Gecko 2.0 engine and new JägerMonkey JavaScript engine, topped off with GPU hardware acceleration support.

Firefox 4.0 also ships with Firefox Sync functionality, allowing you to synchronize settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, open tabs and other customizations across multiple devices.  Yes, the Mozilla Team is been late on the game as similar services are already in place for Opera and even Chrome.

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Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1

March 23rd, 2011 sylv3rblade

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Samsung has officially announced two new additions to the Galaxy Tab family, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Both new models are NVIDIA Tegra 2 based running Android 3.0 Honeycomb and are equipped with WXGA (1280X800) display, 3.0megapixel front and 2.0megapixel back camera, LED Flash, capability to play full 1080p HD videos, Bluetooth v3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 (a/b/g/n), Gyro, Accelerometer, and digital compass and a memory card slot.

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Download Internet Explorer 9

March 20th, 2011 sylv3rblade

Download Internet Explorer 9

The next iteration of Internet Explorer web browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has been released and is now available for download from official IE site, beautyoftheweb.com or Microsoft Download Center

Internet Explorer 9‘s (IE9) new features include:

  • Streamlined design with compact user interface.
  • Pinned Sites for accessing frequently visited web pages directly from the taskbar on Windows 7 desktop.
  • Download Manager with ability to pause and restart a download.
  • Enhanced tabs browsing with ability to tear-off tabs out of Internet Explorer to open the tab’s webpage in a new window, and snap tabs for side-by-side viewing.
  • New Tab page with listing of most often and frequently visited webpages.
  • Search in the address bar with search suggestions support.
  • Notification Bar appears at the bottom of Internet Explorer.
  • Add-on Performance Advisor
  • GPU hardware acceleration to speed up graphics-heavy tasks like video streaming or online gaming.
  • Tracking Protection to limit the browser’s communication with certain websites to help keep information private.
  • ActiveX Filtering.
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