Go fast, go long—Intel releases the Lynnfield platform
Posted by Jon Peddie on September 22nd 2009 | Permalink
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Hardware Review
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nvidia
intel
cpu
ram
nehalem
processor
core
Lynnfield is Intel’s first mainstream Nehalem, and is being marketed as Core i5. It’s built in 45nm, has 4 cores, and Hyper Threading, 8MB of shared L3 memory, and Turbo Boost Technology for dynamic frequency scaling. The Core i5, again like the i7, has an integrated 1333 MHz DDR3 memory controller, but the Lynnfield’s is dual channel instead of triple channel. Unlike Core i7, Lynnfield communicates directly with PCI-e 2.0 graphics, though at a maximum of x16 lanes, which requires splitting them x8/x8 in multiple AIB setups. Since the CPU can interface directly to memory and graphics, no northbridge is needed…
Darkest of Days: What if you could travel in time?
Posted by Jon Peddie on September 22nd 2009 | Permalink
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Software Review
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nvidia
gpu
cpu
games
wwii
physics
realistic
physx
You can, and enjoy physics and cinematic visions whilst doing it: the first serious implementation of GPU-based physics. During wars and natural catastrophes people go missing, MIA in the case of wars, simply missing persons in disasters. They could be alive, they could be dead, the ambiguity of their status is the basis for the time travel in the multi-era, Darkest of Days FSP from 8Monkey Labs. In order to avoid conflicts with the time-continuum and prevent you from killing your own grandmother, you have to be in never-never land, or so the game’s story premise goes. I buy it, it…
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