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AMD recently unveiled the 6-monitor EyeFinity, in the form of their ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition. There's coverage on HardOCP, PC Perspective, HotHardware, Tweaktown, Rage3D, Guru3D and NeoSeeker. Meanwhile PCPerspective tried curved displays with EyeFinity. Engadget say there's a fatal flaw, though.
The other big thing that happened over the weekend was Apple's iPad hitting the streets. Engadget have an unboxing video and review. In fact there's a pile of reviews listed here on MacTalk. But's not all positive, with some people suggesting you wait before buying one or don't bother at all. Also, the Wall Street Journal will be $17.29 per month on your iPad. WTF.
Kosta spotted an interview on Atomic with AMD and NVIDIA about game physics. Nadeem from NVIDIA reckons the benefits of PhysX are clear. "PhysX makes a huge visual difference, and the most excited people every time we talk to a developer are the artists - their vision of what they want to do is always curtailed by the lack of technology". But if Richard thinks that PhysX doesn't offer enough to users, what about AMD's competing solution, Bullet?
Corsair have set a PC Mark Vantage world record with a SSD RAID setup and LN2. Using eleven Force Series F200 solid-state drives and the Corsair Dominator GTX2 DDR3 memory modules the record was set to 32,947 PCMarks. The system contained the brand new Intel® Core™ i7-980X six-core processor cooled with liquid nitrogen on the EVGA® X58 Classified. This combination would allow the CPU frequency upwards of 5.5GHz and memory clocks of 2000MHz+.
Ubisoft's "always online" DRM continues to annoy people, particularly Australians, thanks Brian. The problem reportedly strikes after the game has already confirmed an active Internet connection, and prevents the user from playing even the single-player campaign, and returning the error "server not available". But they are available, because other people are logged into them and merrily playing away. Seeming to affect players in every territory at random, and Australians in particular, the server error has caused both intermittent and continuous connectivity problems, with some players as yet unable to play the game at all.
HotHardware have a P55 motherboard roundup, with boards from Asus EVGA, Gigabyte, Intel and MSI. Shopping for a motherboard can be arduous and complicated. In particular, the mountain of options available only adds to the challenge, especially when you analyze the different features of each board at various price points. Fret not system builder, HotHardware has recruited a small army of P55 motherboards in order to compare the features and performance of each. HWHeaven meanwhile have a notebook cooler roundup.
To better understand the challenges of an expedition to Mars, six people are spending 520 days in a mock-up of a Mars mission. The facility, which mimics the red planet's landscape, includes a mocked up interplanetary spaceship and Mars lander. For the simulation, the crew will spend 250 days in a spacecraft traveling to Mars, then 30 days exploring it's surface, during which 3 people will move to the surface simulator and the others will remain in the spacecraft. The remaining 240 days will be spent traveling home.
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