Articles by Theo Valich | Tom's Hardware

NVIDIA To Replace Dated GeForce 6/7/8 WHQL Drivers Next Week

By Theo Valich published 2 May 08

A reader recently contacted us asking about 3DMarkVantage and Nvidia WHQL drivers for his GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB.

New Camouflaged Memory Emerges From OCZ

By Theo Valich published 30 April 08

AMD Promises New CPU Architecture Soon

By Theo Valich published 30 April 08

FSB Limits Exposed: Intel CPUs Don't Scale Very Well In UC Berkeley Test

By Theo Valich published 29 April 08

3DMarkVantage Uses Ray-Tracing

By Theo Valich published 28 April 08

Cost Of A Benchmark Today: 3DMarkVantage Budget Was $5 Million

By Theo Valich published 28 April 08

Espoo (Finland) - Futuremark Corporation has released its 3DMark Vantage, and it cost $5 million to get it here.

3D Monitors Coming Down In Price, But Still Expensive

By Theo Valich published 25 April 08

San Diego (CA) - iZ3D has been shipping 19" and 22" 3D monitors for ages now, and their software/hardware solution was often touted as one of best possible 3D experiences - sans the price.

Windows Data Copy Limits Exposed, Sort Of

By Theo Valich published 25 April 08

Redmond (WA) - Is there a limit how many files you can copy in one step?

AMD "Puma" Can't Compete With Core 2 Duo

By Theo Valich published 25 April 08

Leak: ATI Radeon 4800 Gets 480 Stream Procs

By Theo Valich published 23 April 08

GPU supercomputer: Nvidia Tesla cards to debut in Bull system

By Theo Valich published 22 April 08

AMD's Radeon 4800 In Production

By Theo Valich published 22 April 08

AMD Asset Smart Caught In A Catch 22

By Theo Valich published 18 April 08

Mountain House (CA) - AMDs Q1 presentation was different - different from what we had heard in the past five quarters.

Overclockers Push 8-core Skulltrail To 6 GHz: Dual-socket Overclocking Confirmed

By Theo Valich published 18 April 08

Las Vegas (NV) - When Intel released its Skulltrail platform , the main focus of this extreme computing platform was on overclocking capabilities. Now it has been pushed to 6 GHz by overclockers.

Analysis: AMD Asset Lite Strategy Will Create MAD AMD

By Theo Valich published 17 April 08

To what end is AMD's corporate culture contributing to its decline? We contacted several current and former staffers along with partners in and around AMD's ecosystem to ask just that question.

AMD Phenom Triple-cores More Expensive Than Quad-core

By Theo Valich published 14 April 08

AMD's triple-core processors have a very simple mission - to protect the higher-end Phenom quad-core processors from pricing threats originating from Intel's dual-core processors.

Nvidia GPU Physics Engine Up And Running, Almost

By Theo Valich published 14 April 08

Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia told analysts that that the conversion of Ageia's physics application interface to CUDA is almost complete.

PNY Releases Quadro FX 5600 SDI Card With 1.5 GB Of Video Memory

By Theo Valich published 11 April 08

PNI has a new flagship workstation graphics card in its SDI series, which, according to the company, up is "seen all over NAB 2008".

AMD Leads Formula 1 Supercomputer Championship

By Theo Valich published 11 April 08

Enstone (UK) - Appro said it has started with the installation of a new AMD Barcelona B3-based supercomputer at the Renault F1 HQ in Enstone.

IBM Watercools Successor Of Record-breaking Power6 Supercomputer

By Theo Valich published 9 April 08

San Francisco (CA) - IBM announced the replacement for its record-breaking Power 570 supercomputer.

Toshiba Launches IBM Cell-based Video Processor For The Blu-ray World

By Theo Valich published 9 April 08

Tokyo (Japan) - There has been been a lot of speculation what Toshiba will change its high definition strategy now that HD DVD is officially gone .

4K RED One Camera - Unwrapping The Lamborghini Of Video Cameras

By Theo Valich published 7 April 08

Mountain House (CA) - The story of RED reminds me of a story from the automotive industry.

Intel Pricing Snafu Could Shed Light On Skulltrail Future

By Theo Valich published 5 April 08

Santa Clara (CA) - Earlier today, TG Daily received an updated Intel processor pricelist, which reveiled the prices of standalone Atom processors for Mobile Internet Devices.

First Look At Asetek's 9800GX2 Waterblock: Water-cooling For The Masses

By Theo Valich published 4 April 08

San Jose (CA) - Water-cooling and mainstream are words you typically don't mention in one sentence.

Vadim Launches 9800 GX2 And 9800 GTX Modular Waterblocks

By Theo Valich published 2 April 08

Vadim Computer announced today the release of its BlastFlow waterblock for 9800 GX2 and a plate for the recently released 9800 GTX graphics cards.