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ATI Catalyst 9.9 Driver – Everything you want to know and why you should care

With six months of ATI CatalystTM driver blogs under our belt, we are seeing a growing engagement from the community via this blog site. Please keep up the great comments and suggestions and we will endeavor to answer as many as we can. So, without further ado – let me introduce the ATI Catalyst 9.9 [...]

Its not just about Gaming: ATI GPU Encoding and Video Playback

You know, the “other” stuff your PC can do… Back when I started my career with ATI, I was working in marketing for a product called the ATI All-in-WonderTM HD Card (AIW) –basically a high performance graphics card for gaming coupled with a TV tuner to allow you watch, record, and edit HD content. It [...]

DirectX 11 – What to expect!

Realism like never before   Have you wondered what all the hype around Microsoft Windows 7 and DirectX 11 is all about? We will shed some light and answer some of those questions in this blog. Let’s start with Windows7, everyone, including my own mother, is talking about this amazing operating system. Microsoft is rumoured [...]

What’s a good title for a Quakecon blog?

It has to be about the “Future”… “Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn’t take Lorraine out that he’d melt my brain”. – George McFly Well, its day 2 at Quakecon 2009 and my brain hasn’t melted, but I have seen a Darth Vader or two… [...]

A Groundbreaking Future

It’s rare that one gets to experience a watershed moment that you know will make history in the future. Last week, I was able to witness the  start of something very big for AMD and our partner, Globalfoundries — the groundbreaking ceremony for “Fab 2″ — where the next generation of hi-tech computing will be [...]

ATI Catalyst 9.7 Driver – Everything you want to know

Do you regularly update your graphics drivers?  With four months of ATI CatalystTM 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 [...]

Windows 7 – The birth of a great OS

    Did you skip Windows Vista waiting for Windows 7 with bated breath?    Let’s call out the “white elephant” in the room: Gamers have resisted Windows Vista in favour of Windows XP.  I have to admit, I was one of those gamers, just didn’t see the benefit vs. cost to upgrade my OS, [...]

AREA 64 Presents: The TWKR…

When fast just isn’t fast enough!  What do you get when you cross extreme engineering with extreme overclockability? You get an AMD TWKR CPU. **WARNING: Extreme overclocking is an activity that should be carried out only by experts, using expert tools in a safe and secure environment. Use of extreme cooling methods and materials, including [...]

Real-time Gaming from the Cloud

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”. For this hardcore audience, [...]