Here's a list of Trinity reviews that are coming in.  Enjoy!

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If you think that shiny new Ivy Bridge laptop is the bees knees for playing Diablo III you would be wrong.  Legit Reviews shows that an AMD Trinity based laptop 

If you want to play Diablo III on a laptop and want the best graphics performance possible without a discrete graphics card, the AMD Trinity APU is your best bet. AMD has been leading when it comes integrated graphics performance for many years and nothing has changed with the latest launch of processors. Now stop reading and get back to playing Diablo III!

The Austin American Statesman details AMD's upcoming Trinity APU.  

Su said AMD is going through a cultural change.

"We don't want to be dictated to by what Intel is doing. We shouldn't want to be second-best. That is not that much fun," she said. "We are one of the leading companies in the industry. We have excellent technology. We have the capability to be a leader in where the market is going versus just trying to gain a couple of (market share) points on somebody else.

Anand talks to AMD's Manju Hegde who I talked to years ago at E3 when Ageia was just getting PhysX off of the ground.

That brings us to today. In advance of this year’s AFDS, Manju has agreed to directly answer your questions about heterogeneous compute, where the industry is headed and anything else AMD will be covering at AFDS. Manju has a BS in Electrical Engineering (IIT, Bombay) and a PhD in Computer Information and Control Engineering (UMich, Ann Arbor) so make the questions as tough as you can. He'll be answering them on May 21st so keep the submissions coming.

Get those questions in guys!

Semi Accurate has a story with video of AMD's demo of Leo and GDC.

The GPU compute portion of Leo is fairly simple to explain, as you can see in the video below. Lights are one of the most complex parts of a 3D scene to render properly, and various techniques have evolved to allow complex lighting to, well, basically work. Some work better than others, but most are computationally painful, or have other rather serious drawbacks like deferred rendering.

I missed this one, but SemiAccurate has word that AMD's Chuck Moore has passed away from pancreatic cancer.  Our condolences to his family. 

CPU World points out some graphics numbers for the upcoming AMD Trinity core R-Series.  At 35 watts they seem to outpace Intel's intergrated video but substantial amounts.

The graph shows that AMD R-464L has 106%, and R-272F has 45% better performance than Intel i7-2710QE embedded chip in 3DMark 06 and Vantage v1.1.0 applications. Core i7-2710QE incorporates HD 3000 graphics, which is noticeably slower than HD 4000 GPU on Ivy Bridge line of processors. Nevertheless, if the benchmark results in the PDF file are correct, then AMD R-464L may still be faster in graphics applications than Core i7-3612QE, which is an Ivy Bridge successor of the i7-2710QE.

eTeknix-HIS Radeon HD 7870 IceQ X Turbo X 2GB Graphics Card
The Radeon 7870 released quite recently, and it was only a matter of time before we started to see custom solutions being brought to us from AMD partners, such as Sapphire and HIS to name a couple as that is primarily what they are famous for in this industry.

Futurelooks-Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition OC Video Card Review
The question I always find myself asking is when it comes to my next graphics card purchase, what is more important? Is it processing core count or clock speed? The answer is often not clear with so many options on the market. Especially in the highly contested $150 – 200 price range. AMD has taken a side on the question for now as they are phasing out older cards with a new architecture that may have fewer stream processors, but much higher clock speeds. Today we are putting a card that follows this new trend and they call it the Sapphire HD 7770 GHz Edition OC. Let’s put it through its paces and see if this new approach to performance is the right one.

Overclockers Club-Gigabyte A75M-D2H and A75-UD4H Motherboard Review
The retail packaging for the UD4H and the D2H are nearly identical except for the model number. They have a look that is reminiscent of the late 90s motherboard packaging and don’t exactly jump out at you from the stacks on a retail shelf. That being said, the packaging does do a good job of explaining what the "Super 4" branding is about. The top of the box has an animated sports car with flames blowing back from the front tire. Below that, it tells us that we are dealing with a "Super 4" motherboard, followed by a prominently displayed badge touting a three-year warranty for those of us in the USA and Canada. Next up are some rows containing some of the features and attributes of the board, including an explanation of what this a "Super 4" motherboard: super-speed, super-safe, super-savings, and super-sound. In the lower right corner is an image of the corner of the box being peeled back to reveal the now well known "2 x PCB copper" that Gigabyte touts being used in its motherboards for better conductivity and heat dissipation. The bottom of the package goes into more detail about what the "Super 4" features are and tells us that this is a motherboard capable of AMD Vision's Dual Graphics feature. To the side we have three images illustrating the RDS MOSFET design, the 108 dB audio, and a very high level board layout. In a less prominent fashion, we learn that this board employs an 8+2 power phase design, is equipped with on/off charge, and has Dolby home theater sound.

This is not my usual news, but since we use RingCentral for our phones at Game Republik, the best gaming center and game console repair shop anywhere near Austin, I figured it should post this.  They went down about 10 minutes before noon Central time.  Their twitter took a while to figure this out.  Support finally indicates an issue.  Their phone lines are jammed.  The blog apparently is not used for these types of issues.

Update: Well we now have 1 out of 3 phones working as of 12:50CST, and seconds ago RingCentral tweeted this:

 

 

We expect all digital lines to be up in 30 minutes: 11:30 PST/2:30 EST.

 

 

Update 1:20CST:  2 of our 3 lines are now back up.  The login for the website is down however.  RingCentral now tweets:

UPDATE: Most digital lines back up. We have a remaining batch that will be up within another 30 minutes.

PureOC-VisonTek 7850 and 7870
We've seen a good range of performance and price in AMD's 7000 series lineup, from the flagship 7950 and 7970, to the budget-oriented 7750 and 7770. Sitting comfortably in between are the 7850 and 7870, the topic of today's focus.

Neoseeker-Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 Motherboard Review
Today, Neoseeker is taking a look at another offering from a different manufacturer, the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5. Despite it being a board for the high-end spectrum of the market, it's quite a bit cheaper than the Crosshair V Formula. It will be interesting to see how it fares on the overclocking front.

Tweaktown-MSI Radeon HD 7870 HAWK 2GB Overclocked Video Card Review
I always feel like I start with this lately, but the MSI HAWK series is one of my favorite video card series on the market. It's not that every series is one of my favorites, but the three main performance series from MSI (Lightning, Power Edition and HAWK) are all standout options and do tower above those from other companies.