ASUS P6W7 WS SuperComputer motherboard

Written by IT News on 4:21 AM

World’s best motherboard manufacturer, ASUS, has recently updated its range of X58-based motherboards with the introduction of the new super computer P6T7 WAS model is especially designed for the execution of the current high-end desktop workstations. Coming with support for Intel's fastest processors available today and multi-GPU configurations, the new supercomputer motherboard from ASUS offers an impressive 7 PCI-Express 2.0 expansion slots.

The names of the new ASUS board may be a bit confusing, especially since ASROCK has its X58-based Super Computer Board. However, ASUS 'new administration takes things a bit further, using two NVIDIA NF200 chip, which the Board to seven PCI-Express gen.2 expansion slots, with support for NVIDIA GeForce 3-way SLI or ATI's CrossFireX Quad technologies. Moreover, the Board Supports Intel Xeon E5502, E5504 and E5506 workstation processor and 24GB of DDR3 memory with the help of three Triple-channel ready DIMMs.

To support the performance requirements of today's high-end desktop workstations, the new Council is presented with the Intel ICH10R controller supporting 6 SATA 3Gb / s RAID devices to 0.1, 5, 10 support. In addition, Marvell 88SE6121 SATA controller offers two eSATA ports, while Marvell 88SE6320 SAS controller provides two SAS ports. The Board of Directors of the rear panel sports two external SATA ports, an S / PDIF out, IEEE 1394a, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, six USB 2.0 ports, 8-channel audio and a PS / 2 port.

Besides the high performance specifications and support, the new supercomputer ASUS P6T7 were on board is packed with some of its properties, including Express Gate, EPU, CrassFree BIOS 3 EZ Flash 2, OC Profile and more. Unfortunately, ASUS has not detailed the management of availability and price.

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NVIDIA adds new APEX technology to PhysX

Written by IT News on 4:11 AM

NVIDIA has been active for the PhysX technology as a necessary tool to improve the visual quality and overall performance of PC gaming applications. In this high opinion, the graphics chip maker has announced today that there is a new product called NVIDIA APEX, which is a new opportunity in the enterprise technology PhysX SDK. According to NVIDIA, the new opportunities to offer artists, level designers and game developers access to a set of tools to streamline the process of implementing scalable physics on multiple platforms.

"Physics is an important part of the gameplay experience and NVIDIA is committed to develop as possible to the most realistic game experience," said Tony Tamasi, Senior Vice President of content and technology at NVIDIA. "With the growing importance of physics, we believe that all games and each developer, the best tools to be creative in this area. With NVIDIA PhysX technology and APEX, physics-based game design just moved from programmers to artists that we believe will lead to a new level of truly compelling and realistic games in the future. "

As some of you may recall, NVIDIA recently with a number of large companies as Nintendo and Sony for the licensing of NVIDIA PhysX for their game consoles, the Wii and PlayStation 3. The recent announcement of the PhysX chip maker takes its technology to the next level by introducing a new module that allows game developers improve the visual quality of their game program by physics.

Physics and the importance of physics have developed rapidly in recent months as more and more developers to apply this approach in their recent releases. Physics is supposed to identify the elements in game applications closer to reality.

According to NVIDIA the participants at the GDC will be invited to a live demo of the new PhysX capabilities in the NVIDIA booth, where they must participate in APEX: The fastest way to High Definition Content Dynamics presentation.

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NVIDIA going strong in Q1 2009

Written by IT News on 4:01 AM

Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA States has an impressive first quarter of 2009, the company has succeeded with its position as number one seller on the GPU market. The news comes after earlier reports that the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices took a market share of around 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008. However, NVIDIA now claims that its market share has increased to an impressive 68 percent, compared with the results in the fourth quarter of 2008.

According to a recent news article on Bit-tech, citing sources in the Research Mercury Research and Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA managed to increase its market share by 0.3% in Q1 2009. Meanwhile, his competitor, the figures of 1 percent, as chip maker continued to consolidate its dominant position in the GPU market. NVIDIA's overall share of the entire desktop discrete graphics market is currently 67%, with a profit of 5.4% compared with last year's figures Q4.

The total market for discrete graphics solutions, both desktop and notebook computers, chip maker's position is dominant. According to information from the company is a market leader with a market share of 66 percent. NVIDIA managed to take back 3 percent of market share compared with the results for last quarter. The figures also place the desktop graphics business before his laptop graphics business.

There is a segment where the company is still having trouble establishing itself as a leader. It is the market for integrated graphics chip, which Intel still has its way with a massive 49.7 per cent of the total graphics market, according to the figures presented by Jon Peddie Research.

NVIDIA has some of the emissions at the beginning of the year, including the company's latest 55nm GT200 series GPU's, which raised the performance on the desktop graphics market.

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