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We've been a bit quiet regarding IDF and CeBit so far, so after the press releases we present a roundup of tasty morsals from the respective trade shows:
IDF - The Intel Developer's Forum:
Xbit have eyes everywhere, here's what they have uncovered so far at IDF. Day 1, more on day 1, and day 2.
Hardware Secrets were drawn to the AMD Turion 64 X2 Prototypes. There were two reference designs for Turion 64 X2 (dual-core version of Turion 64) running, one based on ATI chipset (Xpress) and the other based on nVidia’s (SLI Power).
PC Perspective sat a new Conroe cored CPU from Intel next to an AMD FX-60 and ran some benchmarks. At the more reasonable resolution, that gamers might actually play at, the minimum frame rate is 23% faster and the average frame rate is 11% faster in the favor of Conroe once again. These are much more modest performance gains, but are still very impressive as we have never seen a simple processor change result in this much of a performance gain in an application that normally is a beast on current systems.
Hardware Zone have another set of benchmark results from the above CPU types, as well as some general coverage on the goings on at IDF this year.
TG Daily wrap up IDF. Core, an impressive piece of technology, determined the headlines and will carry Intel through the rest of the decade, we learned. Let's take a step back. What exactly was announced? And what does that all mean? Here's our take.
CeBit:
Love this - The battle for GPU supremacy escalated somewhat at CeBit, with Nvidia and ATI personnel almost knocking each other's block off. Like most fisty cuffs, the incident started in a pub over a girl.
More details on Asetek showing off that 5.5GHz P4 system using a VapoChill cooling solution. The VapoChill LightSpeed system keeps the processor running at a temperature of -33 degrees Celsius when operating at maximum processing loads, while the company's WaterChill system keeps the computer's graphics chip and motherboard components from overheating.
Hardware Zone have quite comprehensive coverage of the event split into the creatively named part 1, part 2, and part 3. A good, long read.
Xbit cover day 1, day 2, and day 3. Another good read if you have the time and interest.
Lots of seperate articles at Hexus, including a look at ASUS's latest AMD Socket AM2 and Intel Core Duo based motherboards, a passively cooled GeForce 7800 GT 256MB graphics card, and ATI's Mobility Radeon X1800 XT in a Clevo-designed chassis.
Hard Info have posted their take on CeBit.
We will keep you posted on further developments!
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