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NVIDIA GTX 275 and ATI HD 4890

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Sorry for the delay :)

Nvidia and ATI both introduced 2 great cards with reasonable prices.

NVIDIA GTX 275 and ATI HD 4890.

NVIDIA GTX 275 is basically a down clocked GTX 285 and it performs very close to it,on the other side HD 4890 is an OverClocked version of HD 4870.

Review links:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3539

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3539&p=1

http://hothardware.com/Articles/ATI-Radeon-HD-4890-RV790-Unveiled/?page=1

http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-275-Unveiled/

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd4890.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-4890-review-test/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-275-review-test/

Both HD 4890 and GTX 275 are good cards and have an excellent price/performance ratio,in some games HD 4890 takes the lead and in some games GTX 275 takes the lead.

Happy new year

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Happy new year too all Iranians,i hope the best for your and your family:)

IPHONE OS 3.0 with over 100 new features

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Apple presendted their Iphone OS 3.0 yesterday and it has over 100 new exciting features,here are the key features which this OS brings:

System-wide Cut, Copy and Paste feature 
Stereo A2DP Bluetooth streaming is on (not available to iPhone 2G) 
System-wide landscape keyboard 
A system-wide search Spotlight is added now including Mail, Calendar, Notes, iPod and web 
There's now MMS support (not available to iPhone 2G) 
You can forward and delete individual messages 
Notes can now be synced with iTunes 
WiFi auto-login for hotspots 
Bluetooth peer-to-peer connection with file exchange and remote control (over Bonjour only) 
Safari gets password login manager 
Support for YouTube accounts and YouTube subscriptions 
New action button in Photos lets you choose multiple pictures to attach to a mail message 
There are Voice Memos, which can be edited, cropped and shared using email or MMS 
Calendar gets Exchange support and will be able to sync with Google and Yahoo calendar services 
Stocks app will be getting news stories and stock details 
iPod gets shake-to-shuffle function 
Anti-fishing tool in Mobile Safari 
Increased number of supported languages 
Parental Controls are extended to movies, TV shows and App Store content 
Calls Log 
iTunes store account creation 
Proxy support 
Live video and audio streaming 
Tethering is now supported (but available optionally) 
Voice recording

However there's still no Flash support in Safari web browser, no video recording, and no real multi-tasking,i hope APPLE will cover these things too.

APPLEs new iMAC,Mac Mini & MacPro

Hi all hope u are fine :)

After updating the Macbooks and Displays,its now time for iMAC,Mac mini and Mac Pro to be updated,here are the specs and prices of new products of apple :

iMac

- $1199. 20-inch 2.66 GHz iMac. 2GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Integrated graphics. 320GB HD. Mini Display Port
- $1499. 24-inch 2.66 GHz iMac. 4GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce 9400M Integrated graphics. 640GB HD. Mini Display Port
- $1799. 24-inch 2.93 GHz iMac. 4GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. 640GB HD. Mini Display Port
- $2199. 24-inch 3.06 GHz iMac. 4GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce GT 130. 1TB HD. Mini Display Port

The new iMAC supports ATI HD 4850 too which is a powerful card.

Mac Mini

- $599. 2.0GHz Mac mini. 1GB 1066 MHz DDR SDRAM, GeForce 9400M integrated graphics, 120GB HD, 8x SuperDrive, Mini DisplayPort and mini-DVI, 5 USB Ports, One FireWire 800 Port
- $799. 2.0GHz Mac mini. 2GB 1066 MHz DDR SDRAM, GeForce 9400M integrated graphics, 320GB HD, 8x SuperDrive, Mini DisplayPort and mini-DVI, 5 USB Ports, One FireWire 800 Port

Mac Pro

- $2499. One 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3500 Processor. 3GB of RAM. NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. 640GB HD.
- $3299. Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 Processor. 6GB of RAM. NVIDIA GeForce GT 120. 640GB HD.

NVIDIA GTS 250 Card

Hi all hope u are fine ;)

Well Nvidia announced Geforce GTS 250 (which is a new-old card) ,the reason i say its new is because it has announced recently and the reason i say its old is because it uses G92 technology.

It has the exact same specs of Nvidia 9800GTX+ with the expection of frame buffer,which 9800GTX+ has 512MB and GTS 250 has 1GB.

I can't say much about this card since as i said its not a new card actually but its good for gamers who have a 22" monitor with the resolution up to 1600x1200,if you go more than that resolution to something like 1920x1200 or higher,this card will struggle in most games.

Here are some reviews from the web:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gts-250,2172.html

http://www.guru3d.com/article/palit-geforce-gts-250-2048mb-review-test/

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=674

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1772/galaxy_geforce_gts_250_1gb_graphics_card/index.html

http://driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=725

ASUS New W90 laptop

Hi all hope u are fine :)

I was browsing the net and i found that ASUS recently announced a new laptop called W90 which comes in 3 models,the best model is W90Vp which has this specifications:


CPU support:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9600/T9400 : 2.8 GHz - 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache;Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P8600/P8400 : 2.4 GHz - 2.26 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 Cache

Chipset: Mobile Intel X38 Express Chipset

Memory support : DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM, 3 x SODIMM socket for expansion up to 6144MB SDRAM

Display:18.4 WUXGA Resolution 1920x1080 , Color-Shine (Glare-type),Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology

Video Graphics & Memory: 2xATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in CrossFire(which perform like a desktop HD 4850X2)

HDD:Up to 1TB

As you see the specs are truly amazing,and it can easily replace a desktop.

Nokia's first 8MP Phone

Hi all,hope u are fine :)

Well Nokia made a 8MP phone too(a little bit late though) called Nokia N86 with this specs:

2.6" OLED display with 240x320 resolution capable of showing 16M colors

8GB internal memory(With memory slot which supports up to 16GB)

OS:Symbian S60 rel. 3.2

Camera:8MP with resolution powered by Carl Zeiss lens

Wifi+GPS

3.5mm audio jack

HTC TOUCH DIAMOND 2

Hi all hope u are fine :)

This day seems to be a day of announcing great phones.

HTC Has announced another phone too,HTC TOUDH DIAMOND 2,which has very good specs and is very stylish too.

3.2 Touchscreen display with 480x640 resolution,capable of showing 65k colours

ROM: 512 MB

RAM: 288 MB

5MP Camera with AF

Wifi + GPS

Powered by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz Processor

HTC TOUCH PRO2

Hi all hope u are fine :)

HTC announced a new phone called HTC TOUCH PRO2,which is a pretty good phone,its actually a mixture of TOUCH HD and TOUCH PRO,the reason i say its a mixture of those phones is because of its specs:

3.6" Touchscreen display with 480x800 resolution and capable of showing 65k colours

Touch-sensitive zoom bar

Accelerometer sensor

Full QWERTY keyboard

3.2 MP camera wit 2048x1536 resolution

OS:Windows mobile professional 6.1

288 MB RAM

512 MB ROM

Wifi+GPS

and powered by Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 Mhz processor

0.2" lower screen size than touch HD but its design,CPU,RAM,ROM and screen resolution are like TOUCH HD and it has a QWERTY Keyboard like TOUCH PRO.

SE's EXTREME 12.1MP Phone

Hi all hope u are fine :)

All i can say is WOW! SE announced its new Extreme media phone called Idou,which has these awesome specs:

A 3.5" 16M color touchscreen display with 360x640 resolution

Accelerometer sensor

12.1MP Camera with 4256 x 2832 resolution with Xenon Flash

Symbian OS(The version is unknown yet,but it seems to be more responsive than other phones,including the iPHONE)

GPS+Wifi

As u see the specs are outstanding,lets wait for it to come out and we cant talk more about it.

Samsung OMNIA HD & BeatDJ

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Samsung is working quite hard in these months,with the release of many good phones like OMNIA,PIXON& I8510 INNOV8 in 2008,it clearly shows that Samsung is doing a great job,now at  MWC 2009 in Barcelona,Samsung announced 2 new phones:

Samsung OMNIA HD and Samsung BeatDJ,here are the specs of both:

OMNIA HD :

3.7" OLED widescreen display with 360x640 resolution capable of showing 16m colors

8MP Camera with HD(1024x768) Video recording(The first device with the capability of recording vids in HD resolution

8GB/16GB internal memory with memory slot too 

DivX and DNLA support

3,5mm audio jack 

HDMI Port

GPS

WIFI

And the OS is Symbian S60 5th edition(A lot better than 5800 in terms of responsivity)

Samsung BeatDJ

2.8" TouchScreen OLED display

3MP Camera with LED Flash

DivX support

And the OS is Samsung's TouchWiz

AMD's AM3 CPUs

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Well in last posts i talked about AMDs new PhenomII CPUs,and today AMD just announced new PhenomII CPUs too,here is chart taken from xblitabs site which shows the spec of PhenomII CPUs:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/phenom-ii-x4-810/table1.png

The new CPUs that tech sites reviewd are AMD PHENOM II X4 940 and PHENOM II X3 720.
The first one runs at 3.0GHZ and the second one runs at 2.8GHZ,they both are equipped with 6MB cache with the price of $245 and $125.
According to the reviews from the web,these PhemonII CPUs perform very well and have a very good power consumption plus a good overclocking potential and a great price too which makes them good options to consider.
Also not to forget that these CPUs work with both AM2+ and AM3 motherboards which is very good for socket AM2+ users,they can keep their motherboard and put a PhenomII CPU in it.

Here are some reviews from reliable tech sites:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/socket-am3-phenom,2148.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/phenom-ii-x4-810.html
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3512&p=1
http://hothardware.com/Articles/AMD-Phenom-II-X3-720-BE-and-X4-810-AM3-Processors/?page=1

My comparison of DX9 and DX10

Hi all hope u are fine :)

I decided to write a review about comparing DX9 and DX10 in games

Well since i cant post screenshots that i want in this blog,so here is the link to my review(56k warning)

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/260077-33-comparison-dx10#bas

TOSHIBA'S WOW POCKET PC

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Today toshiba announced one of the best phones in the world(if not the best),the TG01,here are its amazing specs:

4.1" touch screen LCD display with WVGA resolution (800x480)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHZ mobile CPU(The first phone that uses this technology)

512MB internal storage but it supports microSDHC cards with capacity up to 32GB

3.2 MP Camera

Windows mobile 6.1 + lots of good features like 3D-Thumb optimized user interface with shake controls for answering/ending calls and of course auto screen rotation.

With all of these great specs this phone is only 9.9mm thick and it comes in black and white colour.

Its reported that this phone will hit europe this summer.

Crysis Warhead patch released

Hi all hope u are fine :)

A patch for Crysis Warhead is now availabe for download and the main feature of it is 64bit support.

Other notes about it :

General Fixes/tweaks 


* Windows Vista: Mouse cursor should no longer have an offset in the menu.
* Windows Vista: Unrequested launches in windowed mode should occur less often now.
* Timedemo can now be started from the command line.
* Better dynamic texture support for enthusiast mode. 


New Features 


* Added 64-bit executables for Windows XP x64 and Windows Vista 64-bit version. In Windows XP x64 a new shortcut will be placed under the Crysis Warhead program group. In Windows Vista right-click the Crysis Warhead icon in Game Explorer and choose to run the game in 64-bit mode. 


Known Issues 


* Games saved in 32-bit won't work properly when running the 64-bit version and vice-versa. 


Note: After applying the patch the version displayed (lower right corner of menu) is 1.1.1.710.

Here is the link for download:

http://www6.incrysis.com/incrysis_dot_com_crysis_warhead_patch1.zip

My review of Windows 7 beta

Hello all hope u are fine  
Well i finally Downloaded windows 7 Beta and i installed it here is my opinion on it. 

Boot time: 
WINDOWS 7 Beta boot faster than my VISTA SP1 64bit which is a good thing,i hope the final version will be even faster. 

User Interface: 
When the windows came up i realized that it looks pretty well like VISTA with some changes 

1_New task bar: a really fantastic feature,you can see your open apps and easily switch between them 

2_Windows rate has changed. 


In VISTA the max rate was 5.9 but in Windows 7 its 7.9. 
I found an strange issue with this though.When i ran it,i see i got 2.9 for my Hard disk which was odd,so i did a google search and found that u have to go to device manager and choose your HDD and then go to its properties and Uncheck Enable Write Caching on Drive. 

3_Gadgets: 
Windows 7 doesnt have a side bar like Windows VISTA,but it has gadgets and you can put them anywhere u like. 
Again i found an issue with this too,when i disabled UAC,i found that the gadgets doesn't come up,i again did a google search and found that you have to tweak something in regedit and i fixed it but it was still a little buggy. 

4_Gaming performance: 
I ran Crysis warhead and FarCry 2 with the same settings i used in VISTA,and i got lower FPS in Windows 7 Beta. 
In CRYSIS WARHEAD the difference wasn't much,maybe about 5 FPS. 
But in FarCry2 it was about 10-15 FPS decrease. 
Also PunkBuster isn't supported on Windows 7 Beta which won't let you play online games. 

5_Installing Drivers and softwares. 
I installed Catalyst 8.12 beta for Windows 7 from ATI site and it ran with no problems. 
But when i wanted to install my motherboards driver from its DVD,i got an error that it doesn't support this OS,so i ran it through the trouble shooting application and managed to install it. 

For softwares i tried Photoshop CS4 extended and again when i clicked to install it,it said that my OS isnt supported but it let me continue installing it.When the installing finished i opened it and because i wanted to test it,i opened a picture and clicked on "Radial Blur"(A filter in PhotoShop) and i got the "PhotoShop Stopped working" error and it closed. 


So overall i liked this OS,its still beta thats why i had some issues,i hope things will get better when the final version releases.

HTC TOUCH CRUISE 09

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Another "Touch" Joined the HTC family its called HTC TOUCH CRUISE 09,which is a very good and stylish phone with good specs as below :

2.8" LCD 65k colour with 240x320 resolution

103g

3.15MP camera

GPS receiver

Windows Mobile Professional 6.1

256 MB RAM with 512 MB ROM powered Qualcomm MSM7225 528 Mhz processor

Pretty good specs for a PPC,they are even better than HTC TOUCH CRUISE,and it has a price tag of about $550.

NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 285

Hi all hope u are fine :)

Well another card joined the GTX 200 series and its called GTX 285,which is built with 55nm technology and its specifications are close to Nvidia GTX 280,here is a quick look at the specifications of both cards:

Nvidia GTX 285:

Stream Processors:240
Texture Address / Filtering:80/80
ROPs:32
Core Clock:648Mhz
Shader Clock:1476Mhz
Memory Clock:1242Mhz
Memory Bus Width:512-bit
Frame Buffer:1GB
Transistor Count:1.4B
Manufacturing Process:TSMC 55nm
SLI Support:Yes in both 2-Way and 3-Way
DirectX Version:10

Nvidia GTX 280:

Stream Processors:240
Texture Address / Filtering:80/80
ROPs:32
Core Clock:602Mhz
Shader Clock:1296Mhz
Memory Clock:1107Mhz
Memory Bus Width:512-bit
Frame Buffer:1GB
Transistor Count:1.4B
Manufacturing Process:TSMC 65nm
SLI Support:Yes in both 2-Way and 3-Way.
DirectX Version:10

As u see GTX 285 is actually an OverClocked GTX 280 but with 55nm technology and according to reviews and benchmarks it is about 10% faster than GTX 280 and runs cooler too.

Here are some reviews:

http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-285-Unveiled
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16229
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-285-review--3way-sli/
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3501

Windows 7 beta ready for Download

Hi all hope u are fine :)
Well today Windows 7 beta is officially available from Microsofts site,the good thing about this OS is that it doesn't need a high-end PC to run,unlike VISTA which needed alot of RAM and not all PCs could run it.

Minimum recommended specs call for:
1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
1 GB of system memory
16 GB of available disk space
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
DVD-R/W Drive
Internet access (to download the Beta and get updates)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

The link contains both 64bit and 32bit versions.

Logitech's 7.1 surround sound headset

Hi all hope u are fine :)

In CES 2009,Logitech will announce G35 headset which is a 7.1 surround sound headset,which will be great for games and other applications,the price of it will be $129 which is expensive for a headset but don't forget,its a 7.1 one.

All new APPLE MACBOOK PRO 17"

Hi all,Hope u are fine

APPLE did it again,all new mighty 17" MACBOOK PRO Aluminium notebook,also APPLE claims this new notebook has 8 hours of battery life with a single charge,furthermore APPLE also says that this is the lightest and the thinest 17" notebook (6.6 pounds and 0.98 inch thin to be exact).

About the specs,it has very good specs

CPU : Up to 2.93GHZ Intel Core2Duo

RAM: Up to 8GB DDR2 1066MHZ DDR3

HDD:Up to 320GB 7200 RPM(Supports SSD drives too)

VGA:Nvidia Geforce 9600MGT+Nvidia Geforce 9400M in Hybrid SLI.

Display:17" LCD with 1920x1200 resolution

It starts from $2,799.00.

Very good laptop from APPLE :) but expensive too.

Here is the link of it :

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro

The Dragon Enters the CPU world

Hi all hope u are fine :) 

AMD's new CPUs code named Dragon benchmarks are out and it  will be available on market soon,this new CPU is called AMD PHENOM II X4 which uses 45nm Technology and for now,it has 2 models,one is AMD PHENOM X4 940 BLACK EDITION which runs at 3.0GHZ with 6MB L3 cache and the other one is PHENOM II X4 920 which runs at 2.8GHZ and has 6MB L3 cache as well,according to reviews that i read,AMD has done a good job,this CPUs have a very good energy Consumption in both idle and load,they are even better than Intel's Core i7 and Core2Duo CPUs.

And also according to Tomshardware site,the Phenom II X4 940 BLACK EDITION performs about 22% lower than Core i7 920(Which runs at 2.66GHZ) and is faster than Intel Core2Quad Q6600(which runs at 2.4GHZ) for about 10% which is pretty good.

The price of gathering an AMD Phenom II X4 system isn't very much,its between the price of a Core2 i7 920 rig and a Core2Q6600 rig and its compatbile with current AM2 boards too,which makes it a good buy.So although the PHENOM II X4 940 is slower than Core i7 920 but the price of it makes it a good option.

This current generation of AMD PHENOM II X4 CPUs support DDR2 RAMs but the next generation(AM3) will support DDR3.

So this was a little detail about this new CPU from AMD,here are some reliable and good reviews.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-ii-940,2114.html

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Enter-The-Dragon-AMD-Phenom-II-X4-940

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-phenom-ii-x4.html

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16147

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3492

First Post

Hi all hope u are fine :)

This is my first post,stay tuned for technology news around the world.