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The ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series – something for everyone!

My neighbor in the office, Dave Baumann, and I have been keeping busy over the last few months helping to bring you some very cool products that are just in time for the holidays. He helped launch the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 graphics series on September 23, and we launched the ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 graphics series just three weeks later. When he mentioned he was writing a blog about how the community helped inspire the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, I figured it was a great opportunity for me to write about some of the questions I get while talking to members of the community.
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ATI Catalyst™ 9.10 Driver – What’s New?

I would like to thank Ian McNaughton for doing such a FANTASTIC job at informing and building the following that he has on AMD at Play.  Ian has handed the reins of the blog covering our ATI Catalyst software suite over to me as he is focusing on adding more diverse content to AMD at [...]
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ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Graphics Cards – Designed by the Community

The ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics card were released today and AMD Product Manager David Baumann expands on how these graphics cards have been effectively designed based on product and feature feedback provided by you!
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ATI Catalyst 9.9 Driver – Everything you want to know and why you should care

With six months of ATI CatalystTM driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a growing engagement from the community via this blog site. Please keep up the great comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can. So, without further ado – let me introduce the ATI Catalyst 9.9 [...]
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Its not just about Gaming: ATI GPU Encoding and Video Playback

You know, the “other” stuff your PC can do… Back when I started my career with ATI, I was working in marketing for a product called the ATI All-in-WonderTM HD Card (AIW) --basically a high performance graphics card for gaming coupled with a TV tuner to allow you watch, record, and edit HD content. It was [...]
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DirectX 11 – What to expect!

Realism like never before   Have you wondered what all the hype around Microsoft Windows 7 and DirectX 11 is all about? We will shed some light and answer some of those questions in this blog. Let’s start with Windows7, everyone, including my own mother, is talking about this amazing operating system. Microsoft is rumoured to be launching [...]
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ATI Catalyst™ 9.8 Driver – Everything you want to know and why you should care

With five months of ATI CatalystTM driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a growing engagement from the community via this blog site.  Please keep up the great comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can.  So, without further ado – let me introduce the ATI Catalyst 9.8 [...]
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What’s a good title for a Quakecon blog?

It has to be about the “Future”… “Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t take Lorraine out that he’d melt my brain”. – George McFly Well, its day 2 at Quakecon 2009 and my brain hasn’t melted, but I have seen a Darth Vader or two… In [...]
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Wolfenstein and Quakecon 2009

The game that started the FPS phenomenon!  Back in the early nineties, there was a game that truly defined all video games that followed, do you remember? Well, for those readers who were not born yet, the game was called Wolfenstein 3D and its introduction was a defining moment.  Some believe that Wolfenstein 3D defined [...]
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A Groundbreaking Future

It’s rare that one gets to experience a watershed moment that you know will make history in the future. Last week, I was able to witness the  start of something very big for AMD and our partner, Globalfoundries -- the groundbreaking ceremony for “Fab 2″ -- where the next generation of hi-tech computing will be [...]
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Xtreme Conditions

Starting on  May 21st 2009, AMD filmed world renowned overclockers K|ngp|n, chew* and Gomeler overclocking AMD Phenom™ II X4 processors on Dragon Platform Technology using some of the most extreme liquid cooling ever seen.

Guest Blog: John B with Dell talks liquid cooling

Overclockers everywhere rejoiced when AMD launched its Athlon X2 Black Edition processors. The award winning CPU let loose a computer’s overclocking potential with its factory unlocked multiplier. Even with stock air cooling, enthusiasts were able to really push the limits of what their CPU could do. With liquid cooling the sky promised to be the limit.

AMD Shows First OpenCL-Based Game Physics: Havok Cloth™

 

Game physics demonstration using OpenCL shows the future of ATI Stream technology, Open standards based development where workloads can be directed at CPU and/or GPU resources to achieve optimal performance.

Tom Clancy’s HAWX™ – Play the Demo!

 

Check out the awesome flight combat in the new demo and see the full DirectX® 10.1 glory supported by ATI Radeon™ Premium graphics.  Download Now!

 

 
 

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