| First pictures of ATI's 512MB Rade |
We've just received the first images of the 512MB variant of ATI's Radeon X850 board - Nothing too exciting if you've seen a lot of 256MB Radeon X850s, but here they are nonetheless.
Source: EliteBastards |
| Posted: February. 26, 2005 @ 08:34AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Battle Royale, Pentium 4 at 5.2GHz |
Ever wondered what clock speed Pentium 4 you would need to beat AMDs flagship Athlon 64 FX55 on the PCIe platform? We clock the Pentium 4 660 to various clock speeds and run a plethora of benchmarks, here are the results.
Hardware Analysis
Source: Warp2Search |
| Posted: February. 26, 2005 @ 08:32AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| GeForce Go 6800 Ultra review |
Today NVIDIA unleashes the king of the mobile sector with the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. NVIDIA partnered with Dell to give the PC maker's new XPS Gen2 the most powerful mobile GPU on the market. Join Tom's as we preview the latest from these two industry heavy hitters, and see if they can give desktop PCs a run for their money.
Anandtech
Toms Hardware |
| Posted: February. 26, 2005 @ 08:30AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Microsoft signs Japanese games wizard fo |
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft has hired Final Fantasy author, Hironobu Sakaguchi, to make two games exclusively for its next generation Xbox console.
The Wall St Journal said that the games would likely appear soon after the Xbox 2 is launched, but would be aimed at the worldwide rather than the local Japanese market.
The Xbox2 will likely be launched later on this year.
The reasons for signing Sakaguchi are pretty clear. Microsoft wants to woo the entire Japanese console/games development market and cut off its major competitor Sony at the gulch.
Source: TheInquirer |
| Posted: February. 26, 2005 @ 08:27AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| New version of Firefox out |
The Mozarella Foundation has released an update to its Firefox 1.0 browser.
The latest Fireferrit update, with the catchy title 1.0.1, is basically a security patch that guards against spoofing and arbitrary code execution.
Mozzarella's Firebadger it is more stable and safer. International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode which also fixes a spoofing problem.
Thesource browser is touted as being much more secure than its rival Internet Explorer.
You can find out more about the release here. |
| Posted: February. 26, 2005 @ 08:26AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| ATIs First Graphics Card with 512MB |
ATI Technologies showcased on Thursday its first graphics card with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, especially noticing that the design challenge about the actual board was not that serious. Still, it is yet unclear whether and when such products are projected to emerge in retail.
I wouldnt think this would be a substantial rework, certainly not like designing a new board design from scratch, ATIs spokeswoman Patricia Mikula said
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| Posted: February. 25, 2005 @ 10:56AM GMT +10 by flawmatt |
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| 65nm dual-core Pentiums scheduled for Q1 |
Chicago (IL) - Intel will be busy over the next 12 months: The company will not only introduce its first dual-core processor in the second quarter of this year, but plans substantial upgrades for any current desktop processor on its roadmap: The 500-series will receive 64-bit extensions, the 600-series will be first to offer Vanderpool technology, and 65nm versions of single- and dual-core Pentiums will hit the market in early 2006.
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| Posted: February. 25, 2005 @ 10:53AM GMT +10 by flawmatt |
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| Gainward Launch 512MB Graphics Card |
To combat ATI's recently announced 512mb card. NVIDIA card creator 'Gainward' today announced the Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Ultra/2800PCX Golden Sample SLI-ready. Which will have 512mb of video memory...
Yummy 
Each of the two Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Ultra/2800 PCX Golden Sample TM 3D processor boards features a hand selected GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU running at 450Plus MHz core clock, 512 MB of carefully qualified 1.2 GHz DDR3, video-out, dual DVI for best visual display quality, plus integrated Gainward CoolFXTM water cooling jointly developed and manufactured with innovatek.
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| Posted: February. 24, 2005 @ 02:48PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| ForceWare 75.90 Performance Comparison |
Origo3D have a comparison of the ForceWare 75.90 Drivers:
"We tested ForceWare 75.90 against ForceWare 71.50 ,71.25 ,71.80, 71.81 and 67.71 using a Geforce 6800 Ultra and using the following benchmarks Half Life 2 , Farcry, Doom 3, Aquamark 3, Futuremark 3D Mark 2005 120.
Check it out |
| Posted: February. 24, 2005 @ 02:42PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| Wednesday Video Card Reviews |
nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache - PCI-E on TweakTown
Prolink GeForce 6600 GT SLI on Guru3D
PowerColor Theater 550 Pro PVR on A True Review
Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT PCI-E 16x on OC-Zone
PowerColor 550 Theater Pro TV Tuner on The Tech Lounge
Sapphire X800 PCI-E on The Tech Zone |
| Posted: February. 23, 2005 @ 04:14PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| Forceware 75.90 Beta |
Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 75.90 for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported! Dated 10th of Ferbruary 2005
Thanks to Station-Drivers.com
Click here for download links.
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| Posted: February. 23, 2005 @ 08:51AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| MS Forces SP2 Update |
April 12th is the very last day. Thats when the clock runs, and the deadline looms. And here you thought it was April 15th. Nope, its the twelfth. Because were not talking about the day your taxes are due. Oh, no. Were talking about the day that your Windows XP or Windows XP SP1 computer will be automatically updated to XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) whether you want it to or not. Period.
Source: Warp2Search |
| Posted: February. 23, 2005 @ 08:48AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Radeon X700LE spotted in the wild |
RV410 remains a controversial core with many variations. It's interesting to note that we never saw some variations such as X700XT, but we got some like X700LE that we didnt expect. Now you can buy X700PRO cards and X700 vanilla but not X700XT. ATI decided to cancel X700XT earlier. The X700XT does not make much sense as X800 vanilla is priced the same and it's ripping the X700XT's performance guts out.
The X800 vanilla with twelve pipelines versus eight pipelines of X700XT makes a much faster solution and its available now.
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| Posted: February. 23, 2005 @ 08:21AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Next ATI card will have 512MB memory |
WE EXPECT that ATI will be making an announcement, maybe as early this weekend, about a 512MB version of its X850 card.
The evidence? Here's the rundown...
ATI is sponsoring a big overclocking tournament this weekend. It is publicly saying that there will be an 'unveiling' of some sort, but no-one knows what it is.
Some of the world's top overclockers, including chaps going by the name of Oppainter, Fugger and Macci are going out there to go and take on the world record 3DMark. Aside from the fact that current ATI hardware will barely scrape the world record, these guys have been told to expect new hardware to fiddle with.
Then, there are benchmarks and blurry photos showing up on tech site Driver Heaven, which appears to have a new bit of kit in its mitts.
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| Posted: February. 23, 2005 @ 08:18AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Matrix Online Preview |
| Check out a new preview of Matrix online here. Also check out the article on gamespy on how they created this online world... |
| Posted: February. 22, 2005 @ 02:09PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| Tuesday Arvo Video Card Reviews |
Sapphire Radeon X800 PCIe review by TheTechZone
ATI Radeon X850 XT-PE PCIe review by AmdZone
Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by Tbreak
Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by TrustedReviews
GeForce 6600 GT AGP review by XBitLabs
Sapphire Radeon X800 XL PCIe review by GamingNexus
ATi Radeon X800 XT-PE AGP review by TweakNews
PowerColor Radeon X700 Pro PCIe review by XBitLabs |
| Posted: February. 22, 2005 @ 02:05PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| NForce RAID Driver 5.06 WHQL |
ASUS have released a new nForce RAID driver version 5.06 for the nForce1/2/3 and the nForce4 for Windows 2000/XP!
Give your thoughts and feedback on this driver in our forum. |
| Posted: February. 21, 2005 @ 08:24AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| 104 Performance Tips for Windows XP |
PCStats is pleased to present this latest installment of our Windows XP Tips collection. This guide brings you 104 ways to make using Windows XP faster, safer and more enjoyable. Combined with our first two tips articles,101 Tech Tips and 99 Performance Tweaks, PCstats now has over 300 of the best tips for Microsoft Windows XP assembled in one place!
Read more - Warp2Search |
| Posted: February. 21, 2005 @ 08:22AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Demo |
| The single player demo for Splinter Cell Chaos Theory has been leaked? We won't be posting links to the demo here but if you look around there's quite a few torrent links about! |
| Posted: February. 21, 2005 @ 08:21AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Intel Pentium 4 600s available worldwide |
INTEL 600 SERIES CPUs are not a secret anymore. Intel introduced them this Sunday morning and we were not that surprised to learn that you can already buy these CPUs in Japan.
We are told that you can actually buy them in Europe as well. You can go to shops to etailers and retailers and get 'em. The Intel 600 series starts with a 3.2GHz core with 2MB of cache priced at 215 and goes up to a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 660 with 2MB cache priced at a hefty 562. All of the 600 series are 64 bit CPUs as well as having NX bit support and Speedstep, as we reported a time ago.
You can find European CPUs at this address and actually buy them from yesterday. They will sure be in the shops tomorrow when Europe wakes up.
You can see these CPUs in Japanese retail here.
So from this historic Sunday Intel finally becomes a 64 bit desktop player. |
| Posted: February. 21, 2005 @ 08:17AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| ATI X800 All in Wonder available |
IT'S STILL AN AGP card in these times of PCIe but a lot of people are still waiting for it. Yes, of course, we are talking about Radeon X800AIW cards. ATI introduced Radeon X800 All in Wonder back in September and we've been waiting for this card ever since.
Things have finally changed as we are informed that you can get some of these cards at the Newegg shop. Here is the here.
It's packed with a bunch of cables for all the ins and outs you need and it's equipped with a nice remote controller and cool software support. This card is an AGP version and the only possible All in Wonder PCIe you can buy are based on the not so fast four pipelined X600 core, AIW of course.
The All in Wonder X800 is priced at $498 just as much as it was supposed to be and it's clocked to 500MHz core and 1000MHz memory.
Full story - TheInquirer |
| Posted: February. 21, 2005 @ 08:16AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Xbox 360 Revealed? |
Kotaku.com has some info on the next XBOX console:
Not everyone has to wait around to hear details of Microsofts sexy new Xbox 360and now, thanks to Kotaku, neither do you. An exclusive Kotaku source has revealed a bevy of facts about the next-generation console set to rock the Xbox world. |
| Posted: February. 18, 2005 @ 06:46PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| Age of Empires III Interview |
| Check out this Age Of Empires III Interview, shows off some screenshows as well... simply amazing details! |
| Posted: February. 18, 2005 @ 06:14PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| Friday Arvo Video Card Reviews |
Gigabyte Radeon X800 by Toms Hardware Guide
Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by Digit-Life
Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by Guru3D
XFX GeForce 6600 GT review by LegitReviews
Asus GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by Motherboards.org
Gigabyte Radeon X800 review by Neoseeker
Albatron GeForce 6600 PCIe review by PCStats
Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro PCIe review by VR-One
GeForce 6-series roundup by Digit-Life
PowerColor Radeon X800 PCIe review by FiringSquad
ATi Radeon X850 XT-PE PCIe review by GamePC
Toxic Radeon X700 Pro review by Rage3D |
| Posted: February. 18, 2005 @ 05:52PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| Sapphire builds all R430/R480 cards |
WE MANAGED to find out that in these early days of Radeon X800 vanilla, X800 XL and X850, Sapphire has managed to secure a very nice contract.
For those of you who don't know, Sapphire is building most ATI based cards. There is another firm called Celestica which has also built cards for ATI and its partners.
But it appears Sapphire has won this round and is producing all X850 and new PCIe X800 cards based on the R430 core. Asus and MSI could make their own cards but it might cost them too much to produce their own printed circuit boards (PCBs), and put them together.
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| Posted: February. 17, 2005 @ 08:51AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Xbox 2 to get natty wireless feature |
THE INQ has so many moles inside Xbox partners it's a wonder that none of them have collapsed from undermining. Perhaps lucky for us that they haven't, because we've got some tasty new information for you.
You will know, of course, of the Nintendo Wavebird. The Wavebird is a Gamecube controller that is wireless, and it was the dahling of games magazines last year when it was released. Finally, Mario Party 5 could become something other than Wire Tangle 5. A 4-pack of Wavebirds has become de rigeur for hardcore multiplayer gamers.
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| Posted: February. 17, 2005 @ 08:50AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| Windows XP64 Pro RC2 out |
MICROSOFT HAS put build 1433 of Windows XP Pro on its web site for download.
This is build 1433, and most people appear to think there may well be another version available before the software, intended to support Intel's EM64T CPUs and AMD's 64-32 microprocessor.
This is still likely to arrive at the end of the first quarter or shortly afterwards. AMD and Intel both say they expect it in the first half of this year.
Golly, it's been a long wait!
Source: TheInquirer |
| Posted: February. 17, 2005 @ 08:49AM GMT +10 by BenSW |
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| China Says It Shut Down Internet Cafes |
Quote:
Chinese authorities shut down more than 12,575 Internet cafes last year for operating illegally.
The purpose of the crackdown was to create a "safer environment for young people in China." It didn't give details of the violations, but said the businesses closed "were mainly located nearby primary schools and middle schools."
China promotes Internet use for business and education, but communist authorities complain that Internet cafes harm public morality by giving children access to violent games and sexually explicit material.
The government controls what the public can see online and blocks access to Web sites deemed pornographic or subversive. Internet cafes are banned near schools and the hours that children can use them are restricted.
source: Yahoo news |
| Posted: February. 16, 2005 @ 02:55PM GMT +10 by [DBE]killer |
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| Forceware 71.81 WHQL |
Here's a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 71.81 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported! Dated 28th of January 2005:
Download |
| Posted: February. 16, 2005 @ 01:35PM GMT +10 by erock |
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| nForce 6.31 WHQL Drivers |
These drivers are the mainboard chipset drivers for all nVIDIA nForce based mainboards for Windows 2000/XP:
# Audio driver version 4.57 (WHQL)
# Audio utility version 4.50
# Ethernet NRM driver version 4.59 (WHQL) with 4.62 nvtcp.sys
# Network management tools version 4.62
# SMBus driver version 4.45 (WHQL) with updated uninstaller files
# Installer version 4.58
# Win2K IDE 2.7 driver version 4.64 (WHQL) with 4.74 raidtool
# WinXP IDE 2.7 driver version 4.64 (WHQL) with 4.74 raidtool
Download |
| Posted: February. 16, 2005 @ 01:34PM GMT +10 by erock |
