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From a technology roadmap respective, ensuring that TFC is minority-owned by AMD removes the conflict of interest between IBM's chip business (which makes Power chips, Cell processors) and AMD, and should enable the company to get the benefits of resource pooling through the IBM Alliance, which now has 9 members (which includes Sony, Toshiba, NEC, Freescale, Infineon Technologies AG, Samsung, and STMicroelectronics). AMD notes in a presentation that it will get access to leading edge technologies like SOI (Silicon on Insulator) and bulk silicon (3D stacking of thin wafers) to enable the transition down to 32nm and 22nm in a new deal that runs through 2015. The fact that AMD is really the only competitor to Intel in chips is important to note, and co-operating with the other 8 IBM Alliance companies is a good thing from AMD's perspective.With costs for next-generation manufacturing expected to triple and quadruple from current levels (moving towards 22nm geometries), AMD partnering on process development was only a matter of time.

For AMD, assuming $1.2 billion of debt into TFC plus $1 billion in new cash will help to put a dent into its $5 billion in LT debt, and will help ensure that AMD's chips stay within reach of Intel from a technology perspective. AMD will look more like a fabless company post restructuring in terms of its income statement - GM was under 38% in 2007 (down from 49% in 2006), and in a downturn, a capacity-driven business like chip manufacturing hurts. With a minority ownerships position in TFC, AMD won't have to consolidate these operations and hence unused capacity won't hurt AMD's operating metrics - excess wafer ordering will still kill gross margin (in the cases where inventory builds up and needs to be written off) but AMD can manage this if they can forecast their demand properly. The offset to this however is that in a good market, AMD won't realize the full margin potential (TFC will demand substantive margin points especially in the face of other chip manufacturers looking for spare capacity).

The bigger issue for AMD is that the fundamental competitiveness of the company is only marginally better than it was before. The cash infusion is a big plus (justifying the big rise in the stock this morning), but from a market perspective, Intel still dominates in market share in desktop and mobile with a very good Core processor platform, and still uses its manufacturing edge to drive volume against AMD. The big hope of the ATI acquisition for AMD was the hope of developing the next generation of processors with integrated graphics capabilities - a sort of hybrid processor. The need for such an innovation seems not especially pressing, with low-power Netbooks putting pressure on OEMs to deliver more light, cheap and modestly functional devices onto the market. The roadmap for AMD to drive significant shareholder value in my mind isn't all that clear, compared with other chip firms which have been beaten up like Nvidia (now trading under 10x forward earnings at around $7.40. The chip making game has clearly become a winner-take-all, volume commodity game, and Intel doesn't show any signs of stumbling in this regard. Bottom line, this was an absolutely necessary deal for AMD to stay afloat in the PC chip business, but I don't think this changes the competitive dynamic in the CPU chip market for AMD.

With the deadline for Apple's laptop refresh looming there are lot of rumors doing the rounds alongwith some very interesting photographs of the purpoted new laptops. The reports about Nvidia playing an important part in the new Apple laptops have also sparked a new speculation - the laptop shown on Nvidia's home page is actually the new Apple Macbook Pro. Take a look:

There have been reports that Nvidia has been showing off the graphics capabilities on the new Macbook Pros running on Nvidia chipsets to its employees. So there might be some credence to these rumours.

The design shown in the photo is more inline with Apple's design philosophies as demonstrated in its previous models. But is this the one? Well we just have to wait to know the answer to that one.

Here is a list of parts that i salvaged from my old Dell Dimension E520.

CPU- Intel Duo Core 2.13 Ghz

Philips DVD Burner

Nvidia 7300LE Video Card

Parts I Bought New from Newegg.com:

Asus P5K PRO Motherboard

Xion II w/450w PS

Thermaltake Blue Orb II CPU Heat Sink

320GB Seagate Barracuda HD

4 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer Ram

2- 120mm intake and exhaust fan, 1- 80mm intake fan

Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Sound Card

Parts I got from a friend to Finish it off:

2 Blue cold cathode tube neons

Now that its done I really want to build another one. I'm in the process of looking at parts and doing some research. I plan to build a smaller system for just normal everyday use. E-mail and internet pretty much.  And a Larger system for a dedicated Gaming rig. Just looking at parts right now, hopefully soon i will have time to do another.

The hell with dell don't neeed them anymore spent a little more and got a way more stable system doing it myself.

Comenten que les parece el video, espero sus comentarios y .... ya nos leemos.

Most Mac Heads know that rumors are spreading of Apple switching over to NVIDIA for their integrated graphics chipsets. As of recently, its been reported that NVIDIA executives have and are showing off MacBooks powered by NVIDIA. If so, we may have a better Apple consumer level gaming laptop on our hands. We should find out during the next Apple product launch in eight days!

Sebenarnya Nvidia mangandalkan penjualan seri 8800GT, namun setelah peluncuran Ati HD4800, penjualan 8800GT menurun drastis. Awalnya, HD4850 diprediksikan sedikit lebih cepat dari 8800GT dan HD4870 15% lebuh cepat dari Geforce 9800GTX. Namun kenyataanya, HD4850 mampu bersaing dengan 9800GTX dan HD4870 mampu mengancam GTX260. Nvidia pun melakukan price drop untuk seri mainstream dan high end. Awalnya GTX260 seharga $400-an sekarang sudah dibawah itu demi bersaing dengan HD4870. Sebenarnya performa GTX260 sangat baik, setidaknya 20%-40% lebih cepat dari 8800 Ultra, hanya saja penetapan harganya terlalu mahal dibanding kompetitornya. Di sebagian benchmark besar benchmark yang dilakukan situs review, ternyata HD4870 lebih cepat dari GTX260, maka Nvidia merespon dengan meluncurkan GTX260 dengan paningkatan spesifikasi hingga mendekati flagship-nya, GTX280. Berikut perbandingan spesifikasinya...

Dari tabel diatas terlihat bahwa core 216 masih menggunakan proses fabrikasi 65nm yang berarti harga produksinya sama dengan GTX260. Nvidia tidak merubah namanya, namun partner-partnernya memberi nama yang berbeda-beda. Menurut saya sie sebaiknya namanya beda, agar konsumen nantinya mudah membedakan mana yang biasa, mana yang core 216. Harga GTX260 ternyata diatas $300, tidak seperti yang direkomendasikan Nvidia, yaitu $279. Tantu saja harga kompetitornya, HD4870 lebih murah. Jika da arsitektur HD4800 terdapai SIMD core, maka di GT200 terdapat TPC (Texture/Processor Cluster) dimana setiap TPC terdapat 24 stream prosesor. Berikut perbedaan GTX260 dengan GTX260 core 216...

GTX260 core 216, 9 TPC, 216 stream prosesor

GTX260, 8 TPC, 192 stream prosesor

Bagai mana perbedaan kinerjanya?? Tidak terlalu signifikan jika dibanding seri GTX260. Berikut hasil benchmark dari situs anandtech.com...

Di game Age of Conan, HD4870 masih cukup perkasa untuk mengalahkan GTX260 core 216 meskipun tidak telak...

Crysis adalah game terberat saat ini, GTX260 core 216 mampu mengalahkan HD4870...

Kembali GTX260 core 216 mengalahkan HD4870 di game elder scrolls:oblivion...

Di game balapan GRID yang memiliki tampilan grafis yang indah, HD4870 tampak perkasa, bukan hanya 2 GTX260 tapi juga GTX280 mampu dikalahkanya...

GTX260 core 216 menang tipis...

Satu-satunya game yang mendukung directX 10.1, GTX260 core 216 masih kepayahan melawan HD4870...

GTX260 core 216 kembali mengalahkan kompetitornya...

Disini terlihat keperkasaan GTX260 core 216...

Konsumsi daya sistem saat idle, GTX260 dan GTX260 core 216 terlihat lebih hemat, terpaut 45 watt dengan HD4870...

Saat full load tidak jauh berbeda...

Performa GTX260 core 216 sudah pasti mampu melibas GTX260 lama, namun masih belum melibas kompetitornya, HD4870. Bahkan, Anandtech masih merekomendasikan HD4870. Meski begitu, Ati dan Nvidia memiliki kelebihan sendiri-sendiri, Nvidia dengan CUDA dan PhysX sedangkan Ati dengan Havok dan dukungan DirectX 10.1. Review ini bersumber dari anandtech dan beberapa situs review lainya. Buat yang udah punya GTX260 tidak perlu terburu-buru upgrade ke core 216 karena peningkatan performanya tidak signifikan.

]]> http://giammarco.wordpress.com/?p=728 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:17:32 +0000 Giammarco http://giammarco.pt.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/azioni-nvidia-ancora-in-calo/ Dopo aver perso ingenti quantità di denaro per i problemi di malfunzionamento delle proprie GPU nel settore notebook, le azioni nVidia continuano a calare.

Nel mercato desktop la concorrenza AMD è sempre più forte, i nuovi prodotti Radeon HD 4800 e HD 4600 riscuotono un successo superiore rispetto alle proposte di pari fascia nVidia e alcuni storici partners del colosso di Santa Clara, come Gainward, hanno scelto di commercializzare schede basate su GPU ATI Radeon.

Come se non bastasse sembra che nVidia sarà costretta a ridurre il numero di partners distributori di hardware sul suolo europeo; nella lista figurano produttori come Foxconn, Club 3D, ECS, Biostar e Albatron.

0.       First press   “Ctrl + Alt + F1” from the GUI.

This gives you a real terminal.

1.       Then enter this code

sudo  /etc/init.d/kdm   stop                        ß for KDE users.

This is important. If you are a gnome user, ‘kdm’(K desktop manager) should replace with ‘gdm’(gnome desktop manager) .

Sudo  /etc/init.d/gdm   stop                       ßfor Gnome users.

This will stop the xserver by shutting down the desktop manager.

2.       Now go to the location where you have put the driver file.

3.       Run the file by typing the name of the file with ‘sh’

Example:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.05-pkg1.run

This will give you some splash screens and then starts to install (may be before this it will ask you to be root). 

4.       After the installation type this code to start  kdm

  sudo  /etc/init.d/kdm   start

                                Or

You can simply start the the  xserver by typing ‘starx’ in command line or press

‘Ctrl + Alt + F7’. This will bring you back to the GUI mode.

All DONE. Now it’s better to reboot your system.

So what might have resolved my freeze issue? I think the key issue is nView - Nvidia's multi-display software that runs by default on a Dell laptop with a Nvidia video card.  While, I do use dual displays at work and love them, you can manage dual displays just fine using built-in Windows capabilities. So, if you are experiencing freeze issues, consider performing the following steps -

1. Disable nView COMPLETELY - all the startup programs related to nView (NvCpl, NvMcTray, nwiz) and the NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc). This is a necessary step to resolving the freeze issue but may not be the only step.
2. Update the nVidia driver - I know that I had tried disabling nView but that did not resolve my freeze issue. I then performed several steps and one of them was to update the nVidia Quadro NVS 140M driver to 174.31 XP WHQL, A05, and I suspect that might have been a critical step.
3. Apply Windows XP SP3 - again, I am not sure if this is needed to resolve the freezes, but I know I did this and it is probably not a bad thing to do if you are running XP.
4. Change power options - again, may not be necessary, but I tend to do this anyways - turn off hard disk sleep in power options.
5. Apply BIOS update - patched my BIOS to A13 - this one I really doubt had anything to do with fixing my issue but I did do this before my issue was finally resolved.

I just hope that I don't have to eat my words that my freeze issue has been resolved - I don't really have the time to deal with this anymore!

In case, this post helps you get past your freeze issue,  do post a quick comment as that might help others who are experiencing the same issue. All the best!

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TUAW believes that the upcoming MacBooks will indeed be powered by NVIDIA chipsets and will be delivered on October 14th.

A source tells us that Nvidia is showing off new MacBooks to their employees, and word is going around that the new versions will be released as soon as October 14th.

Apple was first rumored in July to be incorporating alternative chipsets in future laptops. While Apple would still be using Intel CPUs to power their laptops, the support chips (including graphics) were said to be supplied by a company other than Intel. NVIDIA topped some lists as the most likely supplier. A subsequent report from MacSoda pointed specifically to the use of the MCP7A-U chipset in future MacBooks. This NVIDIA chipset was brieflydetailed by Expreview:

“MCP7A-U is the top class chipset in the MCP7A family. Though it could be named as GeForce 9XXX, it will be come the first mainstream uATX mobo with DDR3-1333 support. Sources inform us the MCP7A-U will be the “fastest mGPU”, but who knows.”

Such a move would address user complaints about the use of Intel's slower integrated graphics chipsets in current MacBooks. The move would also prepare Apple's laptops for the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard which will allow applications to utilize the more powerful graphics processing units.
MacRumors has also heard similar whispers which lead us to believe these reports could be true.

From MacRumors

Other rumors are also suggesting the new MacBooks will ditch the much maligned Intel 'onboard' GPU's in favour of an NVIDIA MCP7A-U chipset. This is supposedly "the quickest mGPU ever made" and on par with the NVIDIA 9xxx series of graphics cards. Website exPreview provide full details on the spec of this mGPU.

Could Apple finally be seeing the MacBook as a viable gaming platform? Or are they thinking ahead to the release of Snow Leopard? Could be both, but well have to wait and see.

One of the more interesting rumors comes from 9to5Mac who claim the much talked about 'Brick' is indeed a term for the manufacturing process of the new MacBooks, and not a code name. It starts with a block (or brick) of aluminum which it then carved to shape using lasers and high pressure water jets. If this is the case it is another sign of Apple taking product design and quality to a whole new level.

<!-- -->Confermate le notizie sul cambio di nomenclatura delle schede video GeForce. Nvidia abbandona quindi la serie 9000, che con la GPU 9800 chiude definitivamente il ciclo iniziato dall’ormai storica serie 5000, la prima ad utilizzare la denominazione in migliaia. Le conferme arrivano dal solito file .inf contenuto nell’ultima release ufficiale dei driver Nvidia; in particolare si tratta dei Forceware 178.15 nei quali troviamo tre stringhe significative:

• NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0615.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150"
• NVIDIA_G94.DEV_0626.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 130"
• NVIDIA_G96.DEV_0646.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 120"

Da queste informazioni pare quindi che Nvidia sia intenzionata a rinominare tutti i modelli della serie G90, ma non è chiaro se verranno modificate le frequenze di funzionamento o il numero di shaders. Una parziale delusione quindi per chi si aspettava vere novità dell’architettura e delle tecnologie adottate, che sembrerebbero invece identiche a quelle delle schede video 9800, 9600 e 9500. La nuova nomenclatura, che dovrebbe essere introdotta nel giro di due settimane, comprenderà anche il classico schema di sigle così composto:

• Segmento Ehtusiast: Serie GTX
• Segmento Performance: Serie GT
• Segmento MainStream: Serie GS
• Segmento Entry Level: Serie G

Ok, so here is what I have:

• HP Pavilion a808x - this is my first computer for myself, it really still works nice too. It has 512MiB ram (I never felt like paying $20 to upgrade), a nvidia 6200 with 128MiB ram (I only got it for ubuntu's desktop effects...), and a single core 2.2GHZ processor by AMD. It is currently running ubuntu. My brother kind of shares this one with me, so it runs Windows XP as well.
• Dell Inspiron 6250 - This laptop is 7 years old and S-L-O-W! My parents pretty much let it go to me. It has a 20GIB super slow hard drive to begin with, so it already has problems. Then it's a slap in the face with 1.6GHZ single core processor, and 256MiB of ram. But on the bright side has a nvidia 2 go and an Ethernet port. So what do I do with it? Nothing. The batteries shot. It runs XP and occasionally ubuntu, if I feel like running ubuntu on 5GiB of space.
• HP Pavilion DV6885SE - My new laptop. I love it! It has a dual core 2.1GHZ processor, 3GiB of ram, 250GiB of hard drive, a nvidia 8400, a 12 cell battery, and just plain looks awesome being a "special edition". It has WiFi too, something I had never gotten to play with. This is my favorite and newest computer. It runs Vista, which is new as well to me. It's what I am writing this post in right now! I highly recommend HPs now that I have two.
• Sony Handycam DCR-HC38 - My camcorder I don't use much. I am not really inspired to use it at the second, but it's nice to have around, because you never know when you need to video document something without a digital camera, laptop, or phone. Yes people, a device that only records video.
• Apple iPod Nano (2nd Gen) - Had it for a year now, 4GiB of space, it's cool with a case, I use it every day and charge it every two weeks. I don't have a cable for it anymore, so it has only 400 songs I am getting sick of. But I probably won't upgrade, with a case it's fine.
• LG Voyager (VX10000) - My phone, and I like it! With the newest software update it's fine. I always use it for texting, I don't have the money to activate all the other programs. It can do it all though. With the case, I dropped it 6+ feet onto a road, and it only left a scratch. I have a train as a background! I know hacks for it because I really get sick of the locked-ness of the whole thing.

Well I have a old calculator too, It's buried in my bookbag though. Being HP it deserves to make it to the list. As do the pile of cables I have. But as I said, I am good computer wise. I just try really hard to keep my stuff nice!

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A więc żeby gra nam sie odpaliła musimy wklepać owe polecenie jako root:

chmod 777 /dev/nvidiactl && chmod 777 /dev/nvidia0

Oczywiście wskazówka ta dotyczy posiadaczy kart graficznych NVIDIA.

Ale jeśli macie ten sam problem z kartami ATI czy Intela(nie wiem czy to 3D obsługuje) czy czegokolwiek innego wpiszcie to w konsoli:

wine "/sciezka/do/WoW.exe"

I sprawdzcie co tam Wam wywala. Najczęsciej bedzie to problem z dostępem do jakiegoś pliku. Wtedy robimy:

chmod 777 /sciezka/do/pliku/itp/ktore/wywalila/konsola

I powinno działać.

##### POPRAWKA #####

Okazuje się, że i to nie wystarcza, ponieważ obydwa "pliki" same zmieniaja uprawnienia.

trzeba dodać w pliku /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules to:

###################/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules############

##############end of /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules ############

A następnie dodać naszego usera, który ma korzystać z gry do grupy: video (jako root)

adduser nick_usera video

Teraz na bank zadziała :)

]]> http://brucebyfield.wordpress.com/?p=383 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:42:52 +0000 Bruce Byfield http://brucebyfield.pt.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/true-gnu/ It’s tough being pure GNU, especially when hardware is involved.

All my workstation computers are custom-built; I like to know exactly what goes into them, and would do the same for laptops, if I could. The last time I bought a workstation, I decided to break my old habit of buying an ATI video card, and buy an NVidia one instead (Never mind the model number, which usually matters less than the manufacturer would have you believe and is irrelevant here).

The switch seemed a good idea at the time. Not only was the ATI market share being reduced so quickly that the company seemed in danger of disappearing, but free and open source drivers for NVidia seemed closer to competion than for ATI. I felt confident in the decision, and settled down to learn the new arcanery of another manufacturer.

Then, last week I turned on the computer to find that yellow artifacts were cycling down the monitor like something out of The Matrix. I managed to boot once without them, only to have them reappear as I settled down to my morning email. Before long, the artifacts were so thick on the screen that I could no longer read anything beneath them, and I had to do an ungraceful shutdown, haunted by the vague guilt felt by those using a journaling filesystem, who know that, when they do finally manage to reboot, they will be confronted by the announcement, “The filesystem is NOT clean.”

Did I mention that it happened on the morning of the day that I do my usual backup, too? The perversity of the universe was apparently set on stun that day.

Some fiddling with my test computer soon showed that the problem was not the monitor, as I originally thought, but the video card.
Since I had bought the computer system thirteen months earlier, I was sure that the warranty would have just expired. To my surprise, it still had almost two years to run, so I took the system into the shop that assembled it for me.

According to the store’s staff, I was far from the only one whose card was suffering from the same problem. Trouble with NVidia cards of several models were becoming widespread, I was told. Fed up, I switched to an ATI card, also taking the opportunity to double the video memory to 512 megabytes.

I had been thinking of video cards as costing three or four times what they actually do; the old price had stuck in my head, just as I automaticallly assume that a paperback will cost five or six dollars – like most people, for me, the natural price for anything is the price they were when I was newly an adult. I also received a trade-in on my old card.

I switched back because, now, the situation is reversed. Since AMD bought ATI last year, ATI has been regaining market share. Moreover, while AMD’s behavior is far from perfect towards free software, it is still friendlier than any other manufacturer. Now, thanks to AMD, ATI free and open source drivers seem likely to mature first before NVidia ones.

So far, I’m satisfied with the swap. Not only does my workstation run faster, but I can use the highest resolution for the monitor, which I never could with the NVidia card. More importantly, although I can’t use an exact driver for the card, I can use a free one that has at least some degree of support for 3-D, without resorting to an archaic driver like VESA.

All the same, I can’t help thinking that I would probably have had a less troublesome week had I not tried to second guess how the market would react with free software and stuck with my original preference.

Si vives en Santiago y eres bueno para Guitar Hero, esto te podría interesar, pues se llevará el torneo Rock Star Hero Experience en el stand que Dell pondrá en la Feria Digital 2008 de Ripley, en el mall Parque Arauco.

En dicho stand habrá una PC adaptada para el torneo de Guitar Hero 3, y el ganador se llevará nada más y nada menos que un computador Alienware.

El torneo empezará este sábado 4 de octubre (mañana) a las 18:30 horas, y deberás inscribirte antes en el mismo stand de Dell.

Recuerden, Parque Arauco, Feria Digital de Ripley, stand de Dell.

Ahí estaremos sin duda alguna, para reportar en Pixel o' Rama sobre este torneo, de los que no hay muchos acá (hay que aprovechar ahora).

Fuente: Bola Extra

Il nuovo modello prende il nome di N9800GTX PLUS-T2D512-OC, e come si può capire dal nome presenta frequenze overclockate di fabbrica.

Il sistema di dissipazione è una soluzione che MSI ci ha già mostrato su 8800GT e 9600GT. Le frequenze sono 760MHz sul core, 1880MHz per gli shader e 2300MHz per quanto riguarda i 512MB di memoria GDDR3. Il bus è a 256-bit.

La shceda presenta le classiche uscite, quindi due connetori DVI e un TV-Out. Il dissipatore è un dual slot a 4 heatpipe. Nel bundle MSI include il gioco Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

Il costo dovrebbe essere attorno ai 180€.

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