With the turn of the year, NVIDIA seems to be slowly but surely turning the tide of the battle. They might have been rudely shocked by ATI’s impressive Radeon 4800 series, but the guys in green are back with a vengeance. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NVIDIA announced a slew of new products, the most significant being its new flagship card, the GeForce GTX 295. Alongside, they also announced the GeForce GTX 285, essentially a 55nm refresh of the GTX 280, but with higher clock speeds and lower power draw. The new GeForce GTX 285 comes clocked at 648MHz at core, 2484MHz DDR at the memory and 1476MHz at the shaders as opposed to the GTX 280’s 602MHz, 2214MHz DDR and 1296MHz respectively.
Although we said in our earlier review that we weren’t too impressed with the GeForce GTX 285, it is still, undeniably and by a long stretch, the fastest GPU on the planet. And while a single GeForce GTX 285 might not be as fast as the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 or Radeon HD 4870 X2, it does have its shining points. Most notably, its performance is not heavily dependent on driver updates. Being of a single GPU design, it’ll work as it should right out of the box, saving users the hassle of worrying about issues like multi graphics cards scaling and driver optimization. Furthermore, its cheaper, consumes less power and if you have the dough and hardware to splash, a second GeForce GTX 285 can be easily added for extra oomph.
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Stop trying to make Intel’s Atom processor do things it wasn’t made to do. I previewed the Atom’s performance last June, here’s the Atom 270 running at 1.6GHz under SYSMark 2007:
The Celeron 420 is the slowest Conroe-based Intel CPU you can purchase today. It’s a single-core processor. The Pentium M 1.6GHz, also a single-core processor, came out in 2004; it’s slower than an Athlon 64 2800+. Both of these processors are nearly twice as fast as the 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor. Stop it.
Intel never intended for Atom to be compared to modern day processors; the core will eventually compete against ARM processors, nothing from the x86 world. It’s being heavily used in netbooks today simply because it’s not small enough or low power enough to be used in anything significantly more svelte.
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Samsung To Launch Its New Full Touchscreen Phones In Europe
Samsung Electronics expects to launch its new full touchscreen phones(mode: S5600 and S5230) in Europe market.
With 12.9mm thickness, the S5600 features a 2.8-inch QVGA full touchscreen, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, a 3M camera, Bluetooth v2.1 and FM radio support.
With 11.9mm thickness, the S5230 supports a 3-inch WQVGA full touchscreen, a 3M camera, 15 fps video recording, DNSe technology to deliver optimum sound, and more.
Source : Aving
Samsung Outs Fabrizio Pavv 450 Series Plasma Hdtvs In Korea
Despite a sudden lack of support, the plasma ain’t dead yet. Just days after announcing its ritzy new Bordeaux PAVV Fabrizio 650 LCD HDTVs over in South Korea, the same company has introduced a new line catering to the unshakable PDP fans across the globe. The Fabrizio PAVV 450 Series includes a 42- and 50-inch version with Sammy’s own Crystal Engine, 0.001 millisecond response time, “Mega Contrast,” and a trio of HDMI sockets. Outside of that, details are still being kept under wraps, but hopefully we’ll know more after these get a US ship date. Wait, these are coming to America, right Samsung?
Source : Engadget
Panasonic Viera TX-P37X10 37In Plasma TV
With Pioneer’s plasma business officially down the toilet, and (refuted) rumours recently that LG was thinking of ditching plasma too, Panasonic probably doesn’t know what to do with itself right now.
Should it punch the air in glee at the death of some serious competition to its plasma business, or should it be seriously concerned that the plasma technology it’s championed and invested in for so long just isn’t what mainstream punters want any more?
Not knowing the answer to this question may explain the extraordinary breadth of Panasonic’s new TV range. For it incorporates no less than eight new series of products, taking in LCD as well as plasma technology, covering a vast amount of features (including some really interesting new stuff on the higher-end models), and satisfying a really broad range of price points.
AMD’s Ati Firepro 2450 Quad-Display Card
It’s a simple premise, and one that we wholeheartedly support: if a single display is good, two displays are doubleplusgood. AMD has always had our back in this regard, and now the company is back with further proof, in the form of a little something called the ATI FirePro 2450 video. This guy supports not two but four monitors, rocking either DVI or VGA, at up to 1920 x 1200 resolution, in a low profile form factor. The device includes support for DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 2.1 visual effects, and Microsoft Windows, and ships with 512MB of memory for $499. ATI points out that this device is aimed at “financial institutions,” possibly a gift for your sweetheart in the foreign exchange market?
Source : Engadget
Sony’s Panorama-Shooting DSC-Hx1 Camera Handled On Video
If you’re looking to craft an epic, 1,500 megapixel panorama image, something like the Gigapan Imager is your best bet. But, for those of us who want to capture a little wide-angle action and then move on before the tour bus abandons us, Sony’s upcoming DSC-HX1 could be the solution. The nine megapixel shooter, releasing in April, comes with a unique (for the moment) panorama mode that allows it to capture 224-degree horizontal or 154-degree vertical shots automatically. Just push the shutter release and then slowly sweep the 20x lens across that wondrous vista before you. The camera internally fuses everything together to create a single 7152 x 1080 image; no post-processing required. It’s demonstrated in a video below (on a quaint little diorama), and while $500 is on the pricey side for a non-SLR digi cam, if you’ve ever tried to stitch photos manually you might think it money well spent — assuming it still works that well without a tripod.
Source : Engadget
PocketCinema V10, A Little Projector That Makes Big Pictures
Remember the days when “video projector” meant the same as “big, heavy thing you have to lug around?” Well, Taiwanese company Aiptek has just unveiled an updated version of a pocket projector that can display big pictures. The aptly named PocketCinema V10 combines a media player and a projector in a gadget measuring just 5 x 2 x 1 inches and weighing about 6 ounces. Despite its compact size, the PocketCinema V10 can project an image as big as 50 inches (diagonal).
The pocket projector uses LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) and White-LED technologies to produce a 4:3 image at VGA (640 x 480) resolution and 10 lumens of brightness. Even if you’ve got nothing worth watching in the surprisingly low 1GB of flash memory, you can connect it other devices like an iPod, camcorder, digital camera, game console or cameraphone. The PocketCinema V10 sells in Europe for $420.
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Motorola Rival A455 And Evoke Qa4 - Specs Unveiled
Although they’re not officially announced, Motorola A455 and Motorola Evoke QA4 have already appeared in press photos.
Now we also have their main features and specs, which confirm the fact that the handsets are not high-end ones.
Let’s start with the A455.
Previously appeared as Motorola Rush 2, the device will apparently be launched as Motorola Rival A455.
We’ve already told you the phone will be outed by Verizon and that it comes with a full sliding QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen display.
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BFG Intros Watercooled Gtx 285 H2o Graphics Card
BFG Tech announced that it is now offering the GeForce GTX 285 with Watercooling. The BFG GeForce GTX 285 HTO is available immediately and will set you back about $500.
BFG Co-developed the ThermoIntelligence copper water block with DangerDen and says that the single slot cooler will deliver up to a 42°C lower GPU temp.
These cooler temps allow the card to come clocked at 666MHz for the core, 1512MHz for the shaders, and 2484MHz on the memory. BFG also says that the higher clocked GeForce GTX 285 H2OC is expected to be available within a week.
You can catch the full press release here.
Source : Tweak Town
