The German website notebookjournal.de just released a review of HD5650 and Core i7-720QM equipped notebook which shows the performance of the new ATI mobile graphics card codenamed Madison, which we expect to see in most Acer models coming in January and may be many other in the next few months. The review lacks much data about the graphics card and it’s prone to speculations, but it shows that HD5650 will run at 600 MHz core and 800 MHz memory (600 MHz DDR) and it is equipped with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory. …read on

Today’s news said that NVIDIA is going to hold on ION 2 release a bit and probably make it more powerful that expected. If you read the articles about ION 2 so far, you would know that it was expected to have 32 shader cores (uhm.. CUDA cores), which made double the original ION’s 16 cores, and also double the power in 3D, yet not enough to be useful for 3D gaming. It was supposed to be like GeForce GT 130M die shrink made on 40 nm process. BSN even published some specifications of ION 2: …read on

We started to look like Acer PR distibution company, but you’ll have to sit quite and leave no objections about it, because we are releasing hot information and there will be one more article about their notebooks. Right now we are talking about new 17-inch model – the Aspire 7740G, which would be based on the new Intel PM55 chipset and equpped with either Core i7 620M, Core i5 430M or Core i3 330M processors and ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 graphics card with 1 GB GDDR3 video memory.  More details below. …read on

Microsoft has finally officially launched its new Windows 7 operating system and with it comes the new DirectX 11 support that is supposed to make things easier for game developers and the games looking nicer for the people that play them. And so far only ATI has released a DirectX 11 hardware on the market, but have you taught about what can you get with the combination of Win 7 and DX11 video card at the moment or lets say by the end of this year? …read on