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Ever since we saw the glowing review AMD’s ATI Radeon RV740 prototype received, we’ve been looking forward to the day that the company would make one of these 40nm wonders available. It looks like that day might be close at hand — according to these purloined slides, a little something called the ATI Radeon HD 4770 is due to make the scene next month in the $99 price point. This handsome lad sports GDDR5 memory, DirectX 10.1 support, a 750 MHz clock speed, a memory clock of 800 MHz using a 128-bit memory bus, a frame buffer size of 512 MB, and much, much more. Curious? Of course you are. Check the slides out below for all of the glorious details.

[Via Tom's Hardware]

Gallery: ATI Radeon HD 4770

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Microsoft’s Surface has been shipping out to corporate customers for a year now, but we haven’t heard much about the backend setup of the $17,000 table — sure, we know it’s fun when it’s up and running all those custom apps, but what’s it like after the unboxing? Incredibly frustrating, says FD kinesis’s Gordon Miller. Hired to implement a Surface solution for a client, Miller and his team first spent 30 minutes on the phone with MS phone support trying to locate the power socket, and another lengthy period of time poking at an unresponsive touchscreen before realizing that the Surface doesn’t respond to touch out of the box. Yep, you read that right — Microsoft’s $17,000 big-ass touchscreen table requires a keyboard and mouse to set up, something which isn’t noted in any of the marketing or manuals. Ouch. Hopefully that’ll get fixed before this thing ships to consumers in 2011, but in the meantime, hit the read link for the entire harrowing tale — it’s a pretty fun read for a Friday afternoon.

P.S.- We actually talked to Gordon on the phone for a quick minute and he said that Microsoft’s been in touch about the experience — he’s working on an new post about that which we’ll link when it goes up.

[Via Daring Fireball]
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Been itching to add an $1,800 graphics card to your shiny new Mac Pro? Then you’re in luck, as NVIDIA has now finally made its high-end Quadro FX 4800 graphics card available to Mac users, just a few short months after PC folk first got their hands on it. Of course the core specs of the card remain unchanged, and include a 1.5GB frame buffer with memory bandwidth up to 76.8 GB/sec, a pair of dual-link DVI connectors with some added support for 3D stereo glasses, 192 stream processors, a maximum power consumption of 150W, and some Boot Camp support right out of the gate. You’ll still have to wait a tiny bit longer to check out all that for yourself, however, as the first cards apparently won’t be available until some time next month.

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Ray tracing is the current holy grail of gaming graphics, the rendering technique that might finally make the licensed game based on Pixar’s latest look as good as the film itself. But, the typically random nature of rays has made rendering them on traditional hardware inefficient, a problem Caustic Graphics claimed to have solved, and is now backing that up by giving PC Perspective some further details and demos. The company’s tech will rely on a new graphics co-processor called the Ray Tracing Processing Unit (RTPU), working in concert with existing 3-D accelerators to deliver rays at frame rates high enough for interactive applications. How high? Early hardware dubbed CausticOne (that giant slab of silicon above) manages 3 – 5 frames-per-second in the demonstration video after the break. That’s not nearly enough for twitchy first-person shooters, but second-gen hardware due next year is looking to deliver 14 times that — plenty to get your high-reflectivity frag on.
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The Pirate Bay itself may now be entangled in a high-profile court battle, but it looks like Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology figured that was the perfect time to grab a piece of the site’s controversial history and put it on display. While it may not look like much, that server above is in fact one of the original servers that was used by the Pirate Bay and confiscated by the police in January, 2008. Despite that storied past, however, the museum was apparently able to acquire the server for just 2,000 kronor (or about $240), and it’s now found a home alongside a 1970s-era cassette tape recorder in an exhibit that’s intended to “stimulate interest in finding out more about the area of intellectual property rights” — which, unfortunately, is not called “Steal this Exhibit.”

[Via The Register]

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You gotta love it when three small numbers give away virtually all of a product’s specs, but such is the age of Atom — one look at Foxconn’s QBox-N270 in the FCC database and we knew that it was packing a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, and at most a 160GB drive. Actually, the most interesting thing about this Linux-powered rig other than the lime green case is that it has a modem port — is this the nettop rural America has been screaming for? Only time will tell.