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40 Nights of Dogfights

Written by Chris Tom
Thursday, 11 June 2009 12:22
XFX and AMD are sponsoring a gaming competition. Details are available here. XFX and AMD are proud to announce this summer’s hottest gaming competition extravaganza where you can play for a chance to win one of many great gaming prizes. All you have to do is register for your chance to win…but that’s not all! All registered entrants will be entered for a chance to play in an exclusive online Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. online tournament, hosted by TGL (Total Gaming League). The Grand Prize will be a fully decked out gaming rig from CyberPower, fresh with two XFX Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics cards in CrossFireX™ mode!

20 GPU-CPU setups tested with Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3

Written by Chris Tom
Sunday, 31 May 2009 14:36
PC Games Hardware has tested out 20 different CPU and CPU combos to see how they scale. If you look at the chart, you are barely, barely better off going from a X2 5000+ to a Core i7 940. That explains what we have Athlon 64 X2s at Tek Republik, and we have only upgraded the graphics. Without a fast graphics card modern games don't run smooth, but without a capable CPU on the other hand the performance of high-end graphics cards is lowered noticeably. While a 3D accelerator like a Radeon HD 4850 or a GTS 250 is satisfied with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 or Phenom X4 9950 BE, a Radeon HD 4890 or Geforce GTX 285 can deliver the full potential only in combination with a Phenom II X4 955 respectively a Core 2 Quad Q9650 or a faster processor - but only if you don't use exaggerated graphics settings.

Apple Is Making A Console

Written by Chris Tom
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 15:38
Charlie believes Apple is making a console after headhunting AMD employees. I say no, they are making 3D improvements to the iPhone so it can play more intensive games. Apple tried to make a console once, and it was a complete failure. They have no pull in the mainstream gaming community, but they could get much more simple phone games made. If you think they can compete with Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo in a home console you are wrong. Now if Sony and Nintendo decide to make gaming phones, it would get more interesting. My money would be on Nintendo. Either way, whatever any of them will make, it will break a lot, and we will fix it at Tek Republik. In the end, the course is clear. There have been a lot of whispers floating around the valley regarding Apple and consoles. Take a hugely underrated Mac Mini or Apple TV, throw in a low power PPC SoC with a solid GPU, fire up itunes, and you have a console. Not only that, but one that snakes the living room out from under MS. If you recall, that is the very reason they developed the 360, to block Sony from owning that nexus.

Steam Hardware Survey April Results

Written by Chris Tom
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 12:51
Valve has updated their latest Steam hardware survey with April numbers. Contrary to Q1 CPU numbers AMD lost .24% of share to Intel in CPUs. Overall AMD has 33.75% share while Intel has 66.24% with .01% probably going to VIA. Windows XP still has over 61% share while Windows 7 already has almost 2% and it isn't even out yet. OSX remains at 0%. cry Windows XP 32 bit actually gained .28% while Vista 32 bit lost almost 1%. On the GPU side Nvidia has 65.81% while AMD has 27.34% share overall. A whopping 2% use more than one GPU, most of which is SLI.

AMD Havok Physics On GPU and CPU

Written by Chris Tom
Friday, 03 April 2009 11:47
Fudo reports that AMD is commited to having Havok physics running on the GPU and CPU. AMD just demonstrated its Cloth and Destruction demos based on the Havoc engine, and AMD was able to balance the performance between CPU and GPU. Godfrey confirmed that AMD believes in open standards such as OpenCL, and therefore AMD was happy to demonstrate graphics accelerated physics with the Havok engine. The funny part is that Intel owns Havok and this cooperation between Intel and AMD works really well, at least on a technical level. OpenCL lets AMD choose if the physics should run on GPU or CPU and demos even had toggle scrolls between CPU and GPU acceleration.

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