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Real-time Gaming from the Cloud

Will we soon game from the Cloud?  While social media has been the “new shiny toy” for some time, attracting the headlines and the VC dollars as companies and individuals try to  monetize this phenomenon, another, related subject may be about to thunder and lightning. Yes, I’m talking about the “Cloud”. For this hardcore audience, my question ...
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Finding the processor that fits you – maybe dual core is jusssttt riiight

Look carefully at these 2 processors before buying anything else!  The mainstream CPU market is awfully crowded these days, a full line-up of model numbers from AMD and a further full line-up of confusing model numbers from Intel.  Is the C2D E8600 better than a C2Q 8200, what about an i7920, is a 920 better ...
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ATI Catalyst 9.6 Driver - Everything you want to know

  With three months of ATI Catalyst™ driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a steady engagement from the community via this blog site.  Please keep up the comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can.  So, without further ado – let me introduce ATI Catalyst 9.6!          Please ...
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Water Cooling – Are you nuts

Does the CoolIT Domino make the grade?  When the guys from CoolIT approached me for a quote for their Domino press release, my immediate reaction was, “Let’s get it in the lab and send me a review unit to test”… Here at AMD we have a full scientific test lab for thermal devices. We all know ...
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Why we should get excited about DirectX 11

With DirectX 11 just around the corner there are a lot of reasons for gamers and developers to be excited. Offering a dazzling array of new toys DirectX 11, in combination with new graphics hardware, and in some cases Windows 7, brings significant changes to the computing experience - upcoming games and other applications are about to get a lot better.
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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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