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Futuremark Adding 3DMark11 to its Arsenal

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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Reinventing The ATI 5870

The 5800 series GPUs have been out for a while. Manufacturers are now coming out with variations on the originals, but I thought it might be fun to take a step back and do a quick run-through of this generation of AMD/ATI’s top graphics cards.

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Old Computers: Vintage or Garbage?

It struck me, as I walked through the hall that contained 40 of these wonderfully restored and cared for bikes from 1927 to 1990, that we really don’t take the same care over computers. My father and I both have hobbies: mine is computers and his is motorbikes (of which he has three). Despite the almost fanatical way both hobbies are followed by thousands of people, old computers are rarely sexy…

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MIAHALLEN Reaches Top 10 on HWBOT

Last night, one of the world’s best overclockers, our very own MIAHALLEN, hosted a live benching session. Despite some insulation and condensation issues with his Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 motherboard, he still managed to crack the top 10 on hwbot.org!