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- SharkyExtreme.com: Interview with Microsoft's Dan Odell
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- SharkyExtreme.com: Interview with Seagate's Joni Clark
- Half-Life 2 Review
- DOOM 3 Review

Buyer's Guides

- July High-end Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
- May Value Gaming PC Buyer's Guide
- March Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide

HARDWARE

  • CPUs

    - AMD Phenom X4 9950 BE & 9350e Review
    - AMD Phenom X3 8750 Review

  • Motherboards

    - Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 Motherboard Review
    - AMD 780G Chipset Review

  • Video Cards

    - PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB Review
    - Gigabyte Radeon HD 3870 512MB Review
    - ASUS EN8800GT TOP 512MB Review





    • 6.4GB/sec Memory Bandwidth
    • 150 million micropolygons/particles per second
    • 150 million transformed and lit polygons per second
    • 100 million polygons per second sustained performance (shading, texturing)
    • 4 simultaneous textures
    • Compressed textures available at 6:1 compression
    • Full-scene anti-aliasing
    • DVD movie playback 1920x1080 maximum resolution
    • HDTV support
    • 256 Audio channels
    • 3-D Audio support
    • Midi/DLS2 support
    • AC3 encoded game audio
    • 1 billion operations per second (1500 times more than a Cray YMP does - whatever that is)
    • 140 Gflops (more powerful than 20 PS2s)
    • but it does not make coffee or do windows

    Today NVIDIA announced that they will be the T'Pau of the semiconductor industry by giving it (the Xbox) a little "heart and soul" (the presentation actually said "NVIDIA is supplying the two processors that are the heart and soul of Xbox" and therefore our version is close enough). First up is the already announced iGPU (integrated Graphics Processing Unit), also known 'round here as "NOT NV20".





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