slashgear.com - 10/30/2009
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NVIDIA’s Ion LE promises to deliver the same 1080p HD playback as its regular Ion sibling , but at a cheaper price; to do that, it drops DirectX 10 support in favor of solely accommodating DX9. It turns out that the limitation is, in fact, an arbitrary one and that the Ion LE seems to ...
alienbabeltech.com - 11/1/2009
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alienbabeltech.com —
AMD/ATI has been busy recently launching one card
after the another. First they launched the high end...
HD 5870 and HD 5850 accelerators. Few weeks later they launched the more mainstream oriented parts in the form of HD 5770 and HD 5750. Recent reports ...
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HD 5870X2 (HD 5970) Benchmarks and Images
myhpmini.com - 10/29/2009
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myhpmini.com —
Oh well, no harm done in telling, I
guess. I just hope nVidia doesn't take this further...
and block the support from within the drivers in upcoming driver releases. So what I did was take the driver from the HP site, peek a bit into the INF, and I ...
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Attention: Real difference between ION and ION LE
eetimes.com - 30 days ago
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eetimes.com —
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The rumors have once
again surfaced that Nvidia Corp. may enter the x86-based...
microprocessor market. For some time, there have been reports that Nvidia would enter the x86-based fray to protect its bread-and-butter graphics chip ...
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Is Nvidia devising x86 processor?
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Nvidia's DirectX 10 Hack Suggests That Features Really do Exist in Ion LE Chip
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... It's pretty common for hardware vendors to artificially gimp their budget or lower cost parts. Take AMD's tri-core chip, for example, which comes with a core disabled that isn't necessarily bad. And who still remembers Nvidia's vanilla 6800 graphics card that came with 4 software-unlockable pipelines to transform it into a 6800GT? As it turns out, Nvidia may have taken the same software-based approach to its Ion LE platform. ...
NVIDIA ION LE hack adds DirectX 10 support, raises interesting questions
Engadget —
... be able to take your ION LE machine, install Windows 7 and the driver hack, and get on with your life (and save a few bucks in the process). Why bother with the charade, you ask? Theories abound, but we think it's a pretty good guess that NVIDIA is merely adhering to Microsoft licensing requirements here, and that in the long run crippling an existing chipset is cheaper than developing an entirely new one for an OS that's likely to be phased out sooner than later.
[Via SlashGear] ...
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