Video Card Reviews
November. 11, 2004 @ 10:08PM GMT +10 |
MSI NC6800 Ultra-T2D256 GF 6800 Ultra on HWZ.
Albatron GeForce PC6600 on PCStats.
ATI Radeon X800 Pro on OCProjects.
VisionTek Xtasy X800XT on 3DVelocity.
ATi Radeon X800 Pro review on CoolTechZone.
Prolink GeForce 6600 review on Guru3D.
Club 3D OmniChrome S4 review on TrustedReviews. |
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Microsoft Goes Xbox Live Ban Happy
November. 11, 2004 @ 10:03PM GMT +10 |
As seen on Voodoo Extreme:
Over a hundred people on the Xbox-Scene forums are reporting that they were banned from Xbox Live Monday, just one day before Halo 2 was due to launch. Reports from the various victims indicate that even slight modifications such as replacing a broken DVD-ROM from home results in lifetime bans.
If you have a modified Xbox, you are presently advised to steer clear of Xbox Live until those clever Xbox modifier chaps can work out some sort of fix, it at all possible.
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Official Halo 2 Skin
November. 11, 2004 @ 10:01PM GMT +10 |
If your into Halo 2 check out the offical windows media player skin here |
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Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE
November. 11, 2004 @ 10:13AM GMT +10 |
The Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE was designed for top gaming performance and overclocking. This is reflected in the very complete selection of tweaking controls and the extended adjustment ranges. The BIOS controls with wide adjustment ranges will allow overclockers to push the Fatal1ty to wherever the processor can go.
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XBox builds in workout
November. 10, 2004 @ 05:43PM GMT +10 |
A PERSONAL TRAINER programme targeting unfit geeks who have spent far too long in front of their XBoxes has hit the shops.
Peddled as a video game to fool the couch potatos, Yourself!Fitness lets you set up a personal profile and walk through a fitness evaluation.
Then a virtual personal trainer will create a customised health and fitness plan that will have you kicking sand in the faces of muscle bound he-men at the beach.
You can tell it is marketed at geeks rather that geekettes because the personal trainer is a nice looking girl who is unlikely to want to talk to people who spend too long in front of an XBox but, if she ever did, they would certainly listen.
Maya can change your workouts based on your progress and your commitment to the program. Although we suspect that if they had a virtual strip version of the game it would create some of the fittest geeks in the galaxy.
Source: theinquirer.net |
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Microsoft banks $100 Million for Halo 2
November. 10, 2004 @ 05:42PM GMT +10 |
VOLISH VIDEO game Halo 2 hit the shops yesterday and netted more than $100 million on its first day out.
In what punters are calling the largest launch in gaming history, Halo 2 has done better than most movie blockbusters on their first day.
Odd really, because the plot of the game is fairly familar. Boy meets heavy assault weapon, boy must save the earth from aliens, boy never gets a girl in his life.
The boy in this case is called 'Master Chief' which probably means he will have to serve up the aliens in a white wine sauce in sixty seconds to the approval of Lloyd Grossman.
A Volish spokesChief said that more than 1.5 million units were pre-sold and one retailer sold 8,500 units in the first 11 minutes, while another sold 200,000 units by yesterday morning.
Analysts expect Microsoft to flog more than 10 million units of Halo 2 mostly around November. The original Halo sold five million units and remains the best seller on the Xbox.
Source: theinquirer.net |
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Boy sues mother for not buying him a PC
November. 10, 2004 @ 05:40PM GMT +10 |
AN ELEVEN year old boy in central China has taken his mum to court for breaking a promise to buy him a PC if he did well at school.
According to the China Daily, the mother told her son that if he ate all his greens and scored average marks of more than 94 per cent for his school work, she would buy him a computer.
However, when the kid did so well that he managed to get this grade, she told him that she couldn't afford it.
Unfortunately, the boy, from Xingzheng, Henan province, had also been helping his parents run their business and knew a thing or two about hiring briefs when people welch on deals.
So he went to court asking a judge to make his mother honour the verbal agreement.
However, it all had a happy ending apparently the judge reconciled the mother and son, although we don't know if he ever got his computer or not. What a heart warming yarn it all is. If true.
Source: theinquirer.net |
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Abit unlocks its Pentium 4 boards
November. 10, 2004 @ 04:19PM GMT +10 |
ABIT DEFINITELY wants to pass on the message that it is very serious about overclocking. It's following a direction Asus took just a few weeks ago.
Abit will unlock its Pentium 4 boards for three products using new Intel chipsets. You will get this option on the AG8, AA8-DuraMAX, AA8XE, and the Fatal1ty AA8XE.
This ability will allow you to overclock your FSB from the default 800MHz to 1066MHz. Intel won't like this a lot, as it only wants to offer this FSB with its own 925XE motherboard.
You will be able to download new BIOSes from the Abit site soon enough.
Source: The Inquirer |
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ATI almost ready to roll on hypermemory
November. 10, 2004 @ 02:46PM GMT +10 |
WE'VE BEEN hearing that ATI has been having problems spinning its new Hypermemory marchitecture out the door, and that it has had to go back to the drawing board to have another fiddle with it. In the next two weeks, however, ATI will be taking to the road with working samples, to show the technology to a clamouring press. This, we are informed, means that we might just see boards with the technology shipping in time for the Christmas rush.
ATI wouldn't tell us anything about the Hypermemory technology, other than to confirm that it would be "showcasing" it in a couple of weeks time. System builders are screaming at ATI to get it out the door, since they want to start building Longhorn-compliant DX9 PCs for corporate customers.
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H&D2: Sabre Squadron Demo Released
November. 10, 2004 @ 02:41PM GMT +10 |
Illusion Softworks has released a 178mb demo from their Hidden & Dangerous 2 expansion pack, Sabre Squadron. Including the Ponte Grande map, you will be able to play through the mission in singleplayer or hook up with some friends for some multiplayer lovin'. Hit the following mirrors to get downloading:
Fileshack
3dGamers
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XBOX 2 Hardware News
November. 10, 2004 @ 08:40AM GMT +10 |
MICROSOFT'S XBOX 2 hardware is starting to come together, according to reports, as final graphics details are thrashed out. Sources have told us that ATI is now starting to roll out the R500 part which will be the basis of Xbox 2, ahead of the machine's launch on January 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show.
R500 is a Shader Model 3.0 part, and will be similar to the R520 part that will be its next generation PC graphics chip. The tape out will be a relief to developers, who have been working on the 9800 class hardware that shipped in the Xbox 2 development kits.
A spokesman for Nvidia told the INQ that he had had numerous requests from Xbox developers for GeForce 6800 cards, since coders were eager to start work on SM3.0 routines, regardless of the final render target.
The tape out of R500 - which has been delayed, we are told, fairly substantially - means that Microsoft's coders now face a frantic 2 months of coding to create demo routines to make the most of the graphics hardware, so that they can wow the Las Vegas crowds.
We are hearing conflicting reports about backwards compatibility of the Xbox 2 hardware with Xbox 1, which appears to be one of the reasons for the delay. One camp is telling us that ATI is having a hard time making Xbox software work because of all the Nvidia-specific routines that were programmed in games.
Another source is telling us that Nvidia is being more than a little awkward about releasing details of how its chips work to its rivals, and that Microsoft is sitting awkwardly in the middle. The lacerations of pens on paper were rumoured to be coming from the offices of m'learned fiends.
Read entire article @ The Inquirer |
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New Forceware 66.93 WHQL
November. 10, 2004 @ 08:36AM GMT +10 |
NVIDIA have made available today new Forceware drivers version 66.93.
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15 Latest Virus/Worm Removal Tools
November. 10, 2004 @ 12:29AM GMT +10 |
Like we all know the internet is a warzone and we all need to protect our systems against virus, worms, spam and spyware, we hate them all but we cant without them? Nevermind that! TC Mag have 15 latest removal tools posted and make sure you disinfect your system for once and for all! Inlcuded removal tools for: Evaman, Erkex, Korgo, Donk, Sasser, Opasa, Erkez, Blackmail, Gaobot, Beagle, Netsky, HLLW, Mydoom and Beagle.
Link: http://security.tcmagazine.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=11 |
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Overclocking AMD Athlon64 101 @ InsaneTe
November. 10, 2004 @ 12:28AM GMT +10 |
Some frequently asked questions on Athlon64 are answered, we hope:
For me, the most interesting technology of the AMD Athlon64 processor is not the 64-bit processing power. 64-bit desktop processors are bound to be made sooner or later. What I found interesting was the fact that AMD decided to have the memory controller on the CPU itself. This certainly raises a lot of eyebrows. Normally the motherboard Northbridge chipset is the memory controller, providing the transition between CPU processing and memory fetching. This is no longer the case. Compatibility will no longer be between motherboard and memory, but rather CPU and memory. The on-die memory controller has a lot of little secrets that not many people are aware of.
Read More: http://www.insanetek.com/index.php?page=overclocka64 |
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FireFox 1.0 Final
November. 10, 2004 @ 12:24AM GMT +10 |
The wait is over. Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 8 million others and make the switch today — Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.
What's new in 1.0:
# New options for controlling where links from other applications
# New experimental options for controlling where links in web pages To make these experimental options appear, set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true in about:config
# Firefox is now available in 14 languages.
# Sort by name" in Bookmarks should sort siblings, not children.
# Information bar (blocked popup, missing plugin, etc) should be closeable.
# View Source should use Find Toolbar.
# Find toolbar loses content when new tab clicked.
# Disable sites reloading onresize. (Many sites reload onresize to work around bugs in Netscape 4. This caused problems in Firefox due to tabs, the Find bar, and information bars.)
Download here:
http://www.mozilla.org/ |
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