Hardware

AMD rebrands while Nvidia gears up for extravaganza

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 14, 2008

AMD’s legendary ATI Fire GL brand, which was made famous by Diamond Multimedia ten years ago, is no more. AMD…

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Product Design

Rob Jamieson reports from SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles

Posted by DEVELOP3D - September 23, 2008

SIGGRAPH is becoming increasingly focussed on CAD with plenty of new graphics-centric technologies on show. Finding time to see them,…

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Hardware

Choosing a new monitor

Posted by DEVELOP3D - February 11, 2009

LCD monitors have advanced greatly in recent years and capabilities vary from model to model. But choosing your new screen…

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Hardware

AMD Phenom II X4 processor

Posted by Greg Corke - February 13, 2009

In the January edition of DEVELOP3D we had a first look at Intel's new Core i7 CPU. This month it's…

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Hardware

AMD Phenom II X4 processor

Posted by Greg Corke - February 24, 2009

Back in 2005 the workstation sector was all about AMDand its Opteron CPU. At that time the Opteron wiped the…

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Hardware

Intel Core i7 Processor

Posted by Greg Corke - February 24, 2009

The big news at the tail end of last year was the launch of Intel’s brand new Core i7 chip.…

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Simulation

Blue Ridge looks to cluster technology to boost CFD performance

Posted by Greg Corke - February 26, 2009

Despite the emergence of multiple CPU cores in individual workstations (the standard is now 4 cores) most CAE applications still…

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Product Design

CATIA on steroids: pt 2

Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 10, 2009

To find out which graphics card vendor offers the best 3D performance in Catia,AMD and Nvidia agreed to battle it…

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Hardware

CAD on the go

Posted by DEVELOP3D - March 17, 2009

As a man constantly on the road, Rob Jamieson knows a thing or two about mobile working. Stopping short of…

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Workstations

Lenovo unveils new workstations

Posted by Greg Corke - March 25, 2009

Today Lenovo became the first of the dedicated workstation manufacturers to announce its new generation Intel Xeon (Nehalem) based workstation…

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