Monday, July 4, 2011

AMD Catalyst hotfix driver 11.6a and profiles CAP2

AMD has released Catalyst drivers 11.6a Hotfix dedicated to the Radeon HD 6550D and 6530D iGPU integrated APU in Llano desktop. AMD Catalyst Driver Hotfix 11.6a Feature: AMD Catalyst driver support for systems with AMD. The following products installed: A8-3850 - AMD Radeon HD 6550DA8-3800 - AMD Radeon HD 6550DA6-3650 - AMD Radeon HD 6530DA6-3600 - AMD Radeon HD 6530D In addition, it was released a new set of profiles (CAP Catalyst Application Profiles) for the latest release of ATI's Catalyst drivers.

The Catalyst 11.7 reveal the code names of Southern Islands

The preliminary version of Catalyst drivers 11.7 contains some items related to the future home of GPU AMD probably caused by the architecture Southern Islands. With Southern Islands indicates the next generation of AMD GPUs Radeon VLIW4, conducted at 28Nm and designed to cover all market segments. The code names found in the drivers include the high-end version of "Tahiti", which will perhaps be available in two versions (Pro and XT), The "New Zealand" which will use two chips and then Tahiti "Lombok" mentioned as a possible model mid-range desktop.

The Sandy Bridge CPU-and postponed to the first quarter of 2012

The launch of Intel's Sandy Bridge-E for desktop and workstation seems to have been postponed from fourth quarter 2011 to first quarter 2012. In return it is VR-Zone, adding that the announcement will probably come in early January just in time for the International CES. Sandy Bridge-E is the update of the architecture of high-end Intel CPU, thanks to which models will be introduced to 4 or 6-core, quad-channel memory controller for DDR3 and PCI-Express 3.0 capable of controlling up to 4 graphics cards .

The Celeron 857: 32 nm and a TDP of 17 W

Intel has released a new mobile Celeron, the Celeron 857 is a variation Sandy Bridge, which adds to the Celeron 847 introduced last June. The difference between the two is only at the operating frequency with a gap of 0.1 GHz. They are currently priced the same, but the 847 will soon fall. The Celeron 857 is clocked at 1.2 GHz, 1.1 GHz against the Celeron 847.

It has two cores, a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, 2 MB L3 cache, a chipset capable of decoding video streams, but that does not support Quick Sync and Clear Video HD. For the record, Quick Sync is a unique circuit in Sandy Bridge, which is dedicated solely to video.

AMD presents the APU A8 and A6-3850-3650 Llano

AMD has officially launched its APU-3850 A8 and A6-3650 aimed at desktops, have four cores and integrated graphics and HD6530D Radeon HD6550D. The new APU from AMD, A6 and A8-3850-3650 are manufactured in a 32nm GPU, have four cores, support for DirectX 11 GPU for Integrated controller, dual channel DDR3 memory with support for graphics technology combined AMD Dual Graphics Technology.

The new APU will target AMD motherboards with FM1 soscket under the AMD A75. A8-3850 model has four cores at 2.9GHz, Radeon HD graphics with 400 Stram 6550D Processors at 600MHz, 4MB L2 cache and a TDP of 100W. Moreover, the A6-3650 also has four 2.6GHz cores but with graphics Radeon HD 3530D with 320 Stream Processor GPU 443Mhz, 4MB L2 cache and a TDP of 100W.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

TechPowerUp a new version of GPU-Z 0.5.4

TechPowerUp has released the latest version of its popular GPU-Z, a monitoring software for graphics cards. Version 0.5.4 contains a number of changes, starting with a faster startup, support for the entire line of NVIDIA graphics 500M Series, improved support for APUS AMD or the new Intel graphics models and Sandy Bridge AMD Radeon HD 6000m Series.

GPU-Z has solved the problem been suffering with AMD Radeon graphics with which the start was pretty slow. It has also improved the boot time of the application with NVIDIA graphics. Fixed problem with ROPs Radeon HD6790 AMD in graphics and have fixed the problems with sensors Caicos, Turks and Whistler.

Scythe has extended its range of boxes with Ikazuti

Scythe Japanese company presents its new series of mid-tower cases Ikazuti available with three different colors on the front panel of brushed steel. With a sleek design, the new Ikazuti promise a good indoor ventilation capacity thanks to its four grids (two side, one rear and one above) to 120mm fans, making the low noise of the system.

To help with the cooling Scythe in all of its Ikazuti a pair of Slip Stream 120, almost dumb when you consider their 10.7dBA at 800 revolutions per minute. The sobriety of the front is secured with the small front cover, which covers two USB ports, one eSATA and audio input and microphone Easy installation and maintenance.