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Hello Everyone. We just wanted to let you all know that we have a new article posted where we evaluate the salient features and performance profile of the new Asus P5W64 WS Professional motherboard. This product targets the workstation professional and enthusiast segments by offering four X16 PCI Express slots through the implementation of a 24-lane PCI Express Switch along with the Intel 975X chipset. Here's a snip from the article: "The Asus P5W64 WS Professional offered virtually identical performance to its more mainstream counterpart, the Asus P5W DH and held a slight advantage in most of our benchmarks over the Intel BadAxe motherboard. In our testing with the P5W64 WS configured...
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The call of most computing enthusiasts or workstation professionals has always been "more power, more bandwidth and more features, please". The advent of serial PCI Express-based computer architectures was the foundation of an enabling technology that provided a much needed solution to the bottleneck problems associated with the aging PCI bus architecture. Unfortunately, though NVIDIA heard the call and answered with their nForce 4 SLI X16 and nForce 590 chipsets recently, Intel hasn't yet seen fit to expand beyond the more limited PCI Express connectivity options in their 965 and 975X chipsets. Asus recently saw this hole in Intel's...
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It looks like Asus is just about ready to launch one of the most advanced motherboards to ever grace their product line-up, the P5W64 WS Professional. As you can see, the P5W64 WS Professional is outfitted with four PCI Express x16 slots (with varying electrical connections). Here's what Asus has to say about this motherboard... P5W64 WS Professional The board shows the ASUS innovation of 4 PCI-E x 16 slots (@ x8, x8, x4, x8, or @ x16, x0, x4, x0). 1. For finance usage, this board supports 4 graphics cards and support up to 8 displays. 2. For power users, this board can support dual graphics, SCSI RAID card and a high speed LAN card while there are still 2 PCI slots available. 3. For...
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NVIDIA Professional Graphics Boost High-End Visual Computing in Latest Sun Ultra 40 Workstations NVIDIA Quadro FX Graphics Deliver Powerful Features and Performance for Advanced Graphics SANTA CLARA, CA - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced an array of NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics are now available in the high-performance 64-bit Sun Ultra 40 workstations. Prominent in the film and broadcast, digital content creation, oil and gas, geosciences, mechanical computer-aided design (CAD) and medical imaging industries, Sun Ultra 40 workstations deliver record-setting performance in many industry benchmarks and offer ultra-fast...
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Professional video gaming is set to debut on cable television later this year, potentially paving the way for the kings and queens of game controllers to become as familiar to American households as the faces of Johnny Chan or Annie Duke in televised poker. Major League Gaming, the world's largest organized video gaming league, on Monday will announce a programming deal in which USA Network will air seven one-hour episodes in the fall, featuring the pro circuit and its players.Though video gaming fans have been able to follow competitions on game Web sites for years already, MLG's television deal marks the first time regular TV viewers would...
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NVIDIA Professional Solutions Capture Mobile Workstation Graphics Leadership Three new NVIDIA Quadro(R) FX mobile solutions deliver desktop workstation graphics features and performance to address the needs of 3D Professionals SANTA CLARA, CA — March 29, 2006 — NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced a new line of NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics solutions. This new line-up includes: * The NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M – the Company's first professional GPU designed specifically for thin and light mobile workstations. * The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M – offering outstanding application performance and the industry's...
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Equipped with a full 1GB of memory, this workstation is similar to it's gaming cousin, but designed for entirely different purpose. In their latest review, X-Bit labs puts ATI's FireGL V7350 against Nvidia's Quadro FX 4500, using programs such as AutoCAD 2006, Maya 6.5, and 3ds Max 7 to judge performance."We would like to offer you a review of the professional graphics accelerator from ATI based on R520 architecture. The gaming graphics cards based on this chip have already conquered their niche in the market. But will the solutions based on this chip win the professionals' hearts? Let's find out now!"...
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Good morning folks. We've got some interesting news this morning, by way of NVIDIA. They have just announced their new nForce Professional MCPs that bring PCI Express, SLI, and a few other new technologies to AMD's Opteron platform. Dave and I spent some time talking with NVIDIA about the nForce Professional, and its various implementations, last week and we both came away impressed. Here's a snip from the official PR... NVIDIA Enters Server and Workstation Segments with New PCI-Express Core-Logic Solutions NVIDIA nForce Professional MCPs First PCI-Express Core-Logic for AMD Opteron Processor-Based Workstation and Server Computing Environments SANTA CLARA, CA - JANUARY 24, 2005 - Following the...
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