TweetThe answer is, “of course you don’t need that.” The response that follows, however, is, “but that’s not the point!” Face facts buddy, you’re never going to own a real Delorean let alone one with a flux capacitor and Mr. Fusion on the back so that’s why we buy models. But why get a 1/18th [...]
TweetYes, it’s true, the new AMD Radeon HD 6800 series of cards (Barts core) perform slightly worse than the previous generation of 5800 series cards … on purpose. It might be hard to wrap your head around the concept of increasing a model number while decreasing performance but AMD’s thinking is that they wanted to [...]
TweetOK, so you can’t really buy it or anything but at least AMD is finally showing off hardware prototypes of it’s 32nm Llano APU (Accelerated Processing Unit, according to AMD). No idea what any of that mean? I forgive you, it’s been a while since AMD promised us this golden age. The Fusion APU’s are [...]
TweetThat image, dear friends, is the future. Well, OK, the future of ATI AMD’s line of Radeon video cards anyway. And for the moment, that’s about all we know. AMD teased us with a barrage of images but the specs will have to wait until a Friday reveal. Until then I can tell you that [...]
TweetJohn McCain, presidential candidate and self professed technology curmudgeon, who admitted during his presidential campaign to having little or no knowledge or interest in modern technologies like email or the Internet, seems to suddenly be very interested in it’s ‘freedom‘. His new bill, the ‘Internet Freedom Act’ sets out to stop the FCC from going [...]
TweetAs promised, it’s here, the new Radeon HD 5870 from AMD. In case you forgot this card is basically double everything you had in the RV790 chips (Radeon HD 4890) running in the same power envelope with lower idle power consumption. Not bad eh? It’s built using TSMC’s 40nm process allowing those 2.15b transistors to [...]
TweetLike the idea of running a gaming rig with multiple GPU’s a-crankin’ but don’t want to be tied down to one chipset or graphics card manufacturer? Well Lucid’s gotcha covered. Enter the Hydra 200 real time distributed processing engine. When first announced over a year ago many people, myself included, expected nothing. A chip that [...]
TweetBoth AMD and Nvidia are gearing up to release new DirectX 11 capable cards in just a few weeks and it seems like AMD has come out swinging. Their new RV870 core powered cards, to be called the Radeon HD 58xx series (no surprises there), effectively doubles the processing power over last generations Rv770 with [...]
TweetScientists at UMass Amherst and UC Berkeley have developed a new way to align nanoscale block copolymers using commercially available sapphire crystals. Got that? No? Well let me see if I can break it down a bit. Block copolymers, which are two or more chemically dissimilar polymer chains linked together, have this habit of organizing [...]
TweetLogitech may have gone completely insane. Announced for a release in May is the G19 keyboard, an upgrade to the popular G15, the first keyboard to contain an LCD screen on it. For the most part it has a lot of the same features as the G15, the macro keys and all of that, with [...]
