Jun 24

Real-time Gaming from the Cloud

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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”.
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Jun 24

Finding the processor that fits you – maybe dual core is jusssttt riiight

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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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Jun 15

ATI Catalyst 9.6 Driver - Everything you want to know

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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!       
 
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Jun 15

Water Cooling – Are you nuts

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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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Jun 02

Why we should get excited about DirectX 11

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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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May 19

ATI Catalyst 9.5 Driver - Everything you want to know

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Do you regularly update your graphics drivers? 
With 2 months of ATI CatalystTM driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a steady engagement from you guys in 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 …

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May 08

HP Pavilion dv2- Does it have game

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Does an Ultrathin Notebook ‘got GAME?’ 
 
Recently I got my mitts on a DV2 and I thought I’d have some fun gaming with it.  Now you may not consider the HP Pavilion dv2 a “gaming” notebook, but hold that thought for a few moments…
My HP Pavilion dv2 config as given to me was:
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Apr 30

Hitting 40 has never felt this good

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AMD launched the new ATI Radeon™ HD 4770 graphics card this week. This 40nm processor marks another milestone in AMD innovation; it is the first GPU to market developed on the latest and greatest process node technology.

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Apr 23

And the Oscar goes to…

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AMD’s director of digital media & entertainment, Charlie Boswell, walks down the red carpet of potential when AMD hardware meets Sony Creative Studios new editing software, Sony Vegas Pro 9

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Apr 22

Overclocking 101 with the AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor

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Breaking it down with Pete Hardman in our secret lab 
Does your PC have overclock potential?  Our new AMD PhenomTM II processors certainly do, and to showcase this I ventured over to our super secret lab buried deep inside the bowels of our Austin campus to prove the point!
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