An Israeli website by the name of NGOHQ.com reported that they have successfully run Nvidia's PhysX on an ATI 3800 video card. The site did not get a hold of the 4800 card because AMD was in short supply of the card and parts and especially short in Israel. This is good news for ATI to take advantage of Nvidia's PhysX.
The new Intel Blomfield processors, which are scheduled for release in Q4, are the newest quad core processors based on the Nehalem architecture. There will be three different versions of the processors, Extreme, performance, and upper mainstream. The prices will be $990, $555 and $285 respectively.
Over one year old now, Windows Vista has crossed over the 140 million copies sold. In the first couple of moths Bill Gates announced that Microsoft sold over 40 million. Since then they have sold over 100 million! These numbers come as great news to Microsoft because the have reached their 60 billion annual revenue goal.
Consider that even the Great Windows XP took 51 months the reach the 400 million mark and vista hit 140 million in 18 months!
All of these new cards have been bench marked head to head against each other. With the ATI 4870 preforming 75% of the GTX280, and the 4850 preforming within 1-2 fps of the GTX260. In this review they will be testing both Crossfire 4850 &4870.
Being that the 4870 is half the price of the GTX280 and 75% of the performance, It should be interesting how one card preforms as well as a single card.
Nvidia is still trying to get more sales of there new cards, so that is why the had a 30% drop in prices for the GTX280 and 260. The GTX280 will now be around $499 and the 260 will be around $299.
All in all the 4870CF setup beats them all in all of the test except for Crysis at 2560X1600.
Microsoft has confirmed that they will be selling the 20gb Xbox 360 for $299. This price cut comes to no suprise as Microsoft is set to release a 60gb model of the Xbox 360. Microsoft is still trying to sell more units than Sony and the PS3. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think I read somewhere that Sony is selling more units that the Xbox 360. I also do not think that sony can afford to have another price cut on the PS3. They have already tried to match Microsoft's cuts, but just connot keep up on the price.
