Hwrms’ Tech Blog

A user “JCornell” from XFastest forum received two Intel Bloomfield processors run at 2.93GHz with newest B0-Stepping.

Old stepping Bloomfield 2.39GHz runs SuperPI 1M in 17.219 seconds

B0-stepping Bloomfield 2.39GHz runs SuperPI 1M in 13.969 seconds, improved 3.25 seconds!

SuperPI 32M finished in 13 min 35.813 sec.

Multi-thread supported wPrime 1.63 used 9.218 seconds to finish 32M PI calculation.

1024M PI, 4.8 min

CineBench R10 Multi-Thread test scored 14184.

Intel Bloomfield Family Spec:

(From German PCGames) CryTek CEO, Cevat Yerli, said that a $400 Euro Computer ($620 USD) will run Crysis:Warhead 30 to 35 FPS on ‘High Settings’.

Cevat also said that alot of work is needed to be done before they can actually acheive this level of hardware requirement.

Cevat confirmed that they will work on patches for Crysis to also improve the performance.

NVidia recently announced the new graphic card model GeForce 9800 GTX+.
It is based on 55 nanometer architecture and is the direct competitor with ATI HD 4850 product line. Com

Comparing to GeForce 9800 GTX, its core speed increases to 738MHz, and GDDR3 speed increase to 1100MHz. It still support two-way and three-way SLI.

The price will be around $229 USD.