This morning we received a press release from Futuremark announcing the release date of its newest benchmark, 3DMark 11 – November 30th, 2011. That’s right, we’ve got less than two weeks until we have another bench to torture our hardware with!
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2010
It has been over two years since Futuremark released their flagship 3DMark Vantage. With DirectX 11 in full swing, they’re due for an update. We’re happy to bring you that very nice looking trailer as well as some screenshots and info about the bench!
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What started off as a fairly simple program soon snowballed into a full-on collaboration between us to make an AIO system tweaker. This system taker took us over a month of solid work, adding features for every conceivable tweak on each OS (either XP,Vista or 7). This led to a plethora of updates and beta testing stages before we released it to the public.
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Core Temp 0.99.7.7 and the Core Temp Gadget 2.3 have been released.
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Core Temp 0.99.7.3 is in most part a bug fix release and is ready for download now.
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A new version of Core Temp was released this weekend: fixes the frequency issues, improves processor detection and support for the Windows 7 taskbar. Also, an introduction to CoreTempMC, a Core Temp extension for Windows Media Center.
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After the release of Unigine Heaven DX11 late last year and the announcement of FutureMark’s 3DMark11 to be released later this year, it is now time for SEGA and Rebellion to released their own DirectX 11 compatible benchmark program. The new benchmark is free to use and is available for download now.
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The makers of the popular 3dMark benching software, Futuremark, have announced their newest version of its 3d benchmarking software, 3DMark11. This version will use a “native DX11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.” So guess what fellow benchers, we have another new game to play and this time we can flex the muscle of our DX11 cards!
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For those folding participants new to Linux, the CLI (command line interface) can be a bit unfamiliar. And yea, we’ve all had the frustration of getting the necessary tips from the more experienced Linux users. Yet the developers of most Linux distributions have provided a very nice Graphical User Interface for people who well, live in a graphical world! That’s what we are going to take advantage of, just basically 10 quick & easy graphical steps represented in a series of screenshots.
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Since its debut, Windows Vista has taken nothing but flak from almost every demographic one could think of. Everyone from the casual user looking to browse the web and type up a few reports to the benchmark fanatic obsessed with squeezing all the speed he or she could is likely to complain about Vista being bloated and slow. Windows 7 on the other hand has been hailed as being noticeably better performing, and supposedly as light as XP. And what about XP? How do they really stack up to one another? The examination of these questions follows.
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