According to
NodicHardware Nvidia is planning a big bang like when SLI first came out. Nvidia did not say what, but it is not going to be the GT200B, that is supposed to spoile the 4870X2 debut. The bang might be a very good up-scaling SLI capability almost to the point where two cards would be 2X instead of 1.4X.
Hexus has the first review up for the Shapphire 4850 TOXIC card. The card comes with higher clocks then the stock 4850. As far as the test results, the TOXIC only beats the stock 4850 by around 5-6% of the performance. The only test where it seems to not beat the stock 4850 was with Crysis @ 1680X1050 DX10.
The main difference from the looks of the stock 4850, is Shapphire has added a custom cooler the the TOXIC 4850. With an ambient temperature between 22 C and 21 C the Shapphire 4850 TOXIC averaged 30C lower on idle and load temperatures were 16 C lower. That is a huge difference from the stock cooler.
The highly anticipate MacBook Touch is supposedly set to release in October. This new MacBook is fully interactive with a touch screen, hints the name "Touch."
This thing look so nice and sleek to the eye and it will be on my to buy list as soon as it comes out! Reports say that it cost Apple a lot of money to put this new technology together, but they are going to sell it at a very low starting price for the technology it uses. The price was not released, but expect it to be around $2000.
It the reports it states that it will come with Mac OS X, Slot-loading Superdrive,Accelerometer and GPS.
This is a very nice MacBook that every body will be waiting for it they can afford it!
A source close to Nvidia found out that they will be releasing that anticipated GTX280 55nm! It will be launched at NVISION 08 in San Jose, California. NVISION goes from August 25th-27th. With the shrinkage of the die from 65nm to 55nm you can expect that the Core clock, shader, and memory will be set higher.
The 55nm core basically lets the companies run a cooler card and let the costumers overclock the card better and stay cooler.
Guru3D has there ATI 4870X2 preview up and so far so good! It is like all of the other previews and almost all of the same games. The 4870X2 was paired up with an:
E8400 @3.0ghz
2gig of DDR3 memory
1000 watt Enermax power supply
Windows Vista 32 bit and XP 32 bit.
The games that were tested were:
Call of Duty 4
Race Driver: GRID
Mass Effect
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
3DMark Vantage
In all of those tests the 4870X2 and 4870 crossfire beat out the GTX280 in all of the tests. As far as overclocking, the 4870X2 does not overclock very well and Guru 3D put this on the overclocking page
"All in all... do it at your own risk."
