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Yeah… If you are StarCraft II gamer and having ATI graphics card, here is a beta driver for you. It supports Anti-Aliasing through the ATI Catalyst Control Center for StarCraft II. This beta driver supports ATI Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx, 4xxx and 5xxx series graphics card and ATI Radeon Mobility. It also improves performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX for Eyefinity supported configurations.

I updated the display driver to 10.7a beta. But my poor ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB cannot perform well even with 2x AA enabled. Getting less than 30 fps when turn AA on. I think that I need to upgrade to ATI Radeon HD 5870 in order to enable AA and play it smoothly. Anyway, StarCraft II is great to play even without AA turn on. :)

Download ATI Catalyst 10.7a Beta Driver for StarCraft II here.

I still remember that my first mobile phone was a monochrome and with very less pixels. However, the LCD technology really improves a lot. We have lot of variety of mobile phone display resolution right now. There are 128 x 128 pixels, 128 x 160 pixels, 176 x 208 pixels, 176 x 220 pixels, 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA), 240 x 400 pixels (WQVGA), 352 x 416 pixels, 320 x 480 pixels (HVGA), 480 x 640 pixels (VGA) and 480 x 800 pixels (WVGA). And most of them have the capability to surf Internet. The largest resolution the better when browsing Internet. You don’t need to zoom in and out every time.

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Have you download the latest AMD display driver ~ ATI Catalyst Software Suite Version 9.3? No for me. AMD comes out a new ATI Catalyst Software Suite every month. And the naming conversion is based on year and month. For example, the current version 9.3, 9 == year and 3 == month. Normally, new features or performance improvement will be added on each display driver release. For ATI Catalyst Software Suite Version 9.3, the major feature is Windows 7 support and is a unified driver with Windows Vista. Besides, it also improves on Folding@Home (which I did not try at all for the moment). Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support
integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages and new AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK. Finally, Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products.

Based on these features, I will skip this release. Looking forward for the next release that has 64 bit hardware support on ATI AVIVO Video Converter. Right now, it is still using CPU processing instead of GPU power. Luckily, I have a very powerful CPU ~ Intel Core2 Extreme quad-core processor QX9650. :P

Introduction
After AMD took over ATI… ATI Radeon HD 4800 series broke lot of benchmark scores and they are selling at a very attractive price range too. There are lot of model in HD 4800 series like 4830, 4850 and 4870. And we have 512MB, 1GB and 2GB version of video memory to choose from. Not to mention X2 series like 4850 X2 and 4870 X2. There one that I have is Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 Silent Efficiency 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E. How does it perform? Read on to find out…

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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 Silent Efficiency 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E

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Crysis Warhead is one of the best first person shooter (FPS) games that I love to play. However, Crysis Warhead requires a good PC system like powerful CPU and 3D display card in order to have the full features turn on. Crysis Warhead is slow on my new dream system with all the setting to the MAX. Therefore, I need to find out the best 3D display setting should I set with FRAMEBUFFER Crysis Warhead Benchmarking Tool.

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FRAMEBUFFER Crysis Warhead Benchmarking Tool

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