Catalyst 11.4 : Early Preview

Maybe you guys have read review 6990, and got some mixup. Its like, what catalyst should I choose ? Its come at March, should I use 11.3 ? Or wait for 11.4 ? Well you got the answer, you can using Catalyst 11.4 right now.

AMD Catalyst™ Driver 11.4 early Preview Features:

·         Delivers performance enhancements for the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series & Windows 7.

·         Includes enhancements to the AMD Catalyst Control Center™

o    New task based Display Management controls

§  Simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings

o    New Eyefinity setup group

§  Setting up an Eyefinity group has never been easier

o    New branding (based on system configuration)

§  AMD based platform  – AMD VISION Engine Control Center

§  Discrete AMD GPU with Intel CPU – AMD Catalyst Control Center™

o    AMD Catalyst update notification (found within the Information Center)

§  Please note this functionality is not yet enabled, but will be in a future AMD Catalyst release

§  This feature will be used to notify users that new AMD Catalyst software packages are available

·         Fixed cases where Dragon Age 2 would hang in DirectX11 on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series products.

You can download it here :
Catalyst 11.4 for Win XP/Vista/7 at 32 and 64 bit

Review : AMD HD 6990

Another months has passed, now the Red will takeover the crown as the fastest GPU board in the world. As we know before, March 2011 is 6990 month. Two best chips on a plate is how they do it. And offcourse, you need big cash for this big monster. 709 USD is the lowest price. Let's go to the review...

Like always, the spesification goes first.

As you see above, there are HD 6990 and HD 6990+. The first one is the downclocked one. HD 6990 was derivative from HD 6970, so there is no way it only has 830 Mhz at GPU. While the second one has as 6970, 880 Mhz. But still it can go another step or two. The best and posible overclock with stock cooling were about 10% from the plus one. So it will goes smooth at 950-960 Mhz in GPU and memory can be pushed to 1350-1400 Mhz.

System :

Motherboard VGA X58 Classified
Processor Core i7 965 @ 3750 MHz

Graphics Cards Radeon HD 6990 Reference 4096MB

Memory 6144 MB (3x 2048 MB) DDR3 Corsair @ 1500 MHz

Power Supply Unit 1200 Watt

Monitor Dell 3007WFP - up to 2560x1600

OS related software Windows 7 RTM 64-bit

Can wait to game review right ? Here are some review from guru3d.com :

Theres some "issues" at Anno 1404 when 5970 at the top. But who cares, it still more than enough FPS to enjoying the game while waiting the driver done. And like you see, overall the HD 6990 has taken the crown as the fastes single card GPU. In a month or two, the green will answer this call. What about you ?

MOBILE GAMING Q1/2011

Zup guys, its already months away from my last post. I got some work at somewhere not listed on a map. And here I back again with tons of news. For starter, lets read this first article at 2011.

For this moment, I dont have any mobile gaming that very superior from before. Its just some new technology appears base from before. Because this website still focussing at gaming and offcourse GPU are my top priority, so now we will discuss a GT 540M and HD 6650M

As the name mentioned, GT 540M is a brand from Geforce which 540 are derivative from 5xx series. And the GT means its targeting mainstream market. Mean while the HD 6650M from the green ultimate rival, AMD, and using 6xxx series for its base architecture. They using M at the back as sign of mobile GPU.

Acer Aspire AS5742G-6600 15.6" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Notebook

Lets see the green one at Acer Aspire AS5742G-6600. It use a large 4GB DDR3 with Intel Core i5-480M at 2,66Ghz. Using 15,6 inch LCD and 1366x768 resolution to show the power of GT 540M pack with 1GB memory. Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit at 500GB HD, that about 100.000 storage of MP3.



 
Acer Aspire AS5742G-6600 15.6" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Notebook

With its red flag are at the same laptop brand, at Acer Aspire AS7552G-5430. Still with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit is standby but with 640 GB HD. It play really good with its engine AMD Phenom II Triple Core N830 at 2.1Ghz. 4GB memory of DDR3 are they good friend afterall. AMD Radeon HD 6650M will start the party on a nice 17,3 LCD with 1600x900 resolution.



Like you see above, despite their colour, they have very similiar shape. Even they have a same price at $699.99. The green "hornet" with their fermi architecture or the red "blood" at 17,3 LCD and 1600x900 resolution, which one do you choose ?

Post your choose below hehe \\n.n//