HIS is ready with a fanless Radeon HD 7750 graphics card that utilizes the company’s iSilence 5 cooling solution, which is used on the recently-launched HD 6670 iSilence 5. The cooler consists of a swanky-looking aluminum fin stack to which heat is conveyed by four 8 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes, which make direct contact with the GPU die. The heat is then passively dissipated by the aluminum fins.

Our colleagues at one of our European labs were handed an early version of an AMD Pitcairn-based Radeon HD 7850. What made this AFOX unit special from the currently existing Radeon HD 7850 reference design that we’ve already peeled apart is that

Because there was such a large savings difference with the AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6220, we decided to do what most customers would do: super-size their configuration choices. AMD was already 25 percent faster in performance, so adding faster processors might not make sense. But what about doubling the memory and adding more drives? We wanted to also make sure that this server was reliable so we added a RAID controller. Now, if customers are putting a RAID controller in their server, they will want more than one hard drive, so let’s make it three hard drivers so that you can do RAID 5

Look what came our way this morning. Google having learnt how it's done from Microsoft is after another victim. Not capitalism at it's best. Good luck to AMD and the worried workforce.  AMD and Google in Race to Buy Out MIPS AMD and Google are locked in a race to buy out MIPS, an application [...]

  More news on the video card front. This from Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012 7:50:00 PM. This is unsurprising since the launch of the Gforce GTX 680     Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. [...]