Quad-core CPU’s too much for you? AMD will have the solution
Triple core CPU’s.
Yup, not four cores, not two cores - three cores. AMD has announced that they’ll be adding triple-core processors to their Phenom processor for Q1 next year.
AMD’s reasoning for this is that quad-core processors only make up about 2% of the desktop market this year. I guess they assume that people who didn’t [...]
Intel buys Havok
I’m not really into just posting news blurbs here at HCW Tech Blog, but this is probably going to be a slow weekend anyway, as I am still settling in from vacation (and suffering some jetlag). This press release just popped up on Friday night, regarding Intel’s impending purchase of Irish company Havok, the makers [...]
Playstation 3 80GB’s PS2 backwards compatibility sucks
We’ve hinted at it in the past, that removing the Emotion Engine chip from the 80GB (and future) Playstation 3 consoles would ruin backwards compatibility with many Playstation 2 games. Without it, the console runs these games via a software emulator. You may not even care about this feature if you no longer play [...]
Rumor: Another PS3 price drop; 40GB version at $399
Today’s rumor once again involves the PS3. Most of the previous PS3 rumors we posted ended up being true, which makes this one particularly interesting. This one comes from Ars, which suggests that this holiday season (once the $499 60GB version is sold out), the 80GB will receive a $100 price cut, taking over [...]
AMD Barcelona benchmarks; somewhat disappointing
Barcelona is here, and Tech Report have the first official benchmarks. The results? Not too great, if you were looking forward to seeing AMD take the overall performance lead with Barcelona.
In server and workstation applications, Barcelona exceled because of its native quad-core architecture. However in floating-point-intensive apps, there is not a huge gain. Overall, [...]
AMD’s New Barcelona Architecture is Coming
DailyTech has a good summary of it. The most interesting things to me are the fact that it’s designed from the ground up to be quad-core, unlike Intel’s offering, which takes two dual cores and slaps them together (to explain it crudely). It’s thus easier for each core to act independently as the [...]
New Intel Mobile G965 video driver is here
Almost 3 weeks ago, Intel released a driver for their G965 integrated graphics that, well, made it something other than a worthless piece of crap in gaming. Unfortunately though, it was only for the desktop part.
Today though, Intel has a driver for the Mobile 965 Express chipset that will do the same for the [...]
