Socket 939 Has a Good Lifespan Ahead

X-Bit Labs reports that the AMD 939 Socket should havea good life span ahead of itself... “Certainly AMD is always planning and designing for future products. But current sockets have good life ahead of them… We can’t give specific lifespans because customer demand is a huge factor in determining how long we support a socket,” the official concluded. Full article

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:57PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Star Wars: Republic Commando Demo

Check out this demo over at AusGamers!

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:55PM GMT +10 by erock | top

VIA Chipset Previews

VIA announced the PT Series of chipsets for P4 motherboards and serveral websites have put up previews of it: AnandTech BigBruin HardCoreWare HardOCP Hexus HotHardware LegionHardware PC Perspective Sudhian Tech Report TweakTown ViperLair VR-Zone

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:49PM GMT +10 by erock | top

nForce4 Pro Review

Hexus review the nForce4 Pro Opteron chipset with PCI-E: Socket 940 just got sexy again. Uniprocessor Opteron and Athlon FX systems get PCI Express and arguably the best disk and networking controllers on the market. SMP Opteron gets everything in counts of two or four, over and above the base CK8-04 configuration and feature set. Board partners seem to be ignoring uniprocessor for the time being, dual and quad Opteron getting masses of nForce4 love from the likes of Tyan.

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:40PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Wednesday Nite Video Card Reviews

ATi Radeon X800 Pro on OCModShop HIS X700Pro IceQ Turbo VIVO 256MB PCI-E on Overclockers Online NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCacheM on Beyond3D HIS X700Pro IceQ (PCI-E) on Overclocker Cafe XFX GeForce 6600GT on Bit Tech

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:36PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Ipod Shuffle.

Apple has released its new flash drive ipod as rumored, the first thing that stries you about it is the price, most apple products are rather expensive, but at just $150 for the 512 meb "Ipod Shuffle", it is extremely good value. On the flipside for whatever reason, apple havnt included a LCD screen, just the basic, volume, play-pause, and skip track buttons, this will turn most of instantly, although it is practically weightless at a mere 40g, also extremely tiny, has 12 hours battery length, and still uses itunes (, kinda pointless on a flash drive, specially since it lacks WMA support, again ) Does it diserve the ipod name? IMO probly not, but check it out anyway. CLICK

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:26PM GMT +10 by Ps2 | top

The Matrix Online Q&A

GameSpot has a new Matrix Online Q&A, asking producer William Westwater about the community aspects of the game. Six new screenshots are included.

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 10:44AM GMT +10 by erock | top

XBOX 2 to debut at E3 2005?

What’s that noise, you ask? What you’re hearing right now is the sound of 10,000 Xbox fanboys purchasing their tickets to LA for E3—Microsoft confirmed a report that the Xbox 2/Xenon will indeed not debut at the Game Developers Conference this year (GDC was where they debuted the original Xbox 5 years ago); nearest in the schedule is the Electronics Entertainment Expo in May, but MS isn’t making any promises. What? Don’t look surprised, we didn’t really think Gates was going to make it happen at CES. Source: Check out Engadget for a leaked photo of the new console...?

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:19AM GMT +10 by erock | top

A Faster, Better Behaved Windows XP

Check out this article on how you can achieve a faster, better behaved Windows XP system! Also talked about are tools, methods, commands etc for getting more out of Windows XP, doing things more efficiently, getting to places faster, saving time, saving keystrokes, and more. Another way you might look at this page is as one that can make a good Windows XP system better, one that helps keep a good XP machine from going bad, or one that can help make a bad WinXP installation good again.

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:15AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Intel 3.46GHz EE CPU Review

t-break reviews the Intel 3.46GHz EE CPU: The 3.46GHz CPU is based on the Gallatin core and is basically a Xeon with a 1066MHz (4 x 266MHz) FSB sold as a Pentium4. This was a bit surprising as the Gallatin is based on the older Northwood core and not the newer 0.90nm Prescott core that is used by all new Pentium4 CPUs. Besides the FSB speed bump, this CPU being an Extreme Edition, features 2MB of L3 cache which is over and above the L1 and L2 caches found is standard Pentium4 CPUs. Like most new CPUs by Intel, the 3.46GHz EE is packaged in an LGA775 format. Read review

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:12AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Graphic Card Catchup Headlines

Radeon 9800 Pro to last til Cebit NVIDIA leads in DirectX 9 market X850XT available in Canada ATI takes on Nvidia Gainward to ship NV45s Intel, Hitachi push Universal 3D standard Nvidia to launch 6600 Go Longhorn graphics engine exposed

Posted February. 02, 2005 @ 07:06AM GMT +10 by erock | top

MSi caught in a pipeline cheat?

It seems like MSi was caught selling 6800 non GT chip equipped cards as 6800 GT. For those who is a bit outdated on the 6800 non GT vs 6800 GT the main diffrence is that the non GT comes with 12 pipes and 5 vertex shaders. While the GT on the other hand comes with 16 pipelines and 6 vertex shaders. Attempts toup those pipelines has not proven to be a 100% success. With a lot of artifacts present the unlock is considered unsuccesful. So far these cards have only shown themselves in Singapore and Germany. However, these cards are fairly easy to spot. As programs like RivaTuner easily tells the truth. Until now, MSI have not comed with a statement on what has happened. More info here: TechPowerUp!

Posted February. 01, 2005 @ 11:06PM GMT +10 by Sweeper | top

ATi takes the lead over Nvidia

In the 4th quarter of 2004, ATi topped out. Maybe not so strange with the 9800's coming down at a very good price. But that is only for the graphics market. Intergrated graphics was won by Intel over both ATi and Nvidia. On the mobile market, ATi still holds the lead thanks to the latest power offered by the mobile Radeon 9700. Read more here: MORE HERE!

Posted February. 01, 2005 @ 10:56PM GMT +10 by Sweeper | top

NVIDIA Forceware 71.80

A new official Forceware driver set by NVIDIA has been released. This is version 71.80, Non WHQL and works for Windows 2000 and XP. Dated 20th of January 2005. Download

Posted February. 01, 2005 @ 08:30PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Tuesday Nite Video Card Reviews

nVidia GeForce 6200 128MB review by Beyond3D MSI GeForce 6800 review by FiringSquad Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT review by GamingNexus HIS Radeon X700 Pro PCIe 256MB review by OverclockersOnline Mad-Moxx Radeon X800 Pro PCIe review by Technic3D XFX GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by Hexus ATi All-In-Wonder X600 Pro 256MB review by 3dGameMan Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT review by AmdZone XGI Volari V3XT AGP review by BigBruin LeadTek GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by Gamers-Depot Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro PCIe review by HardOCP Gainward GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by MKVTech Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by Hexus XGI Volari V3XT AGP 128MB review by BigBruin HIS Radeon X700 Pro PCIe review by HotHardware Leadtek GeForce 6600 GT review by Neoseeker MSI GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by VR-One nVidia GeForce 6200 review by ExtremeTech Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PCIe review by GamePC MSI GeForce 6800 review by TCMagazine

Posted February. 01, 2005 @ 08:17PM GMT +10 by erock | top

AusFX Increases Bandwidth

First of all big apologies for the length of time it has taken for ausfx.com to come back online. We had a MASSIVE influx of traffic on the last week of the month of January which therefore made us go over the bandwidth / transfer limit. There was simply nothing really we could do until the next month rolled over! To stop this happening again we have neally DOUBLED the transfer bandwidth!!! We have a total of 25gig transfer / month which should be plenty for the site for some time to come! We were only on 15gig per month before so as you can see thats quite a MASSIVE increase! Thanks for your patience and commitment!! Going over bandwidth is not all that bad when you think of it in a growth way! Means the site is becoming more popular and more sought after! Its gonna be a great year Enjoy! - erock P.S BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE DONATED TO AUSFX THIS HAS ALLOWED US TO MAKE THE UPGRADE, WITHOUT THE MEMBERS SUPPORT THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE! THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Posted February. 01, 2005 @ 05:52PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Windows 64 to arrive in April

SOURCES CLAIMED Microsoft is planning to introduce its 64 bit operating system for Intel and AMD processors (iAMD64) on the 29th of April. The sources are close to Microsoft. It appears there will be a release to manufacturing version of WinXP 64 in March. That's the stage before the CDs get stamped out and the boxes get printed. Quite coincidentally, Intel will finally be ready with its full line of 64 bit capable CPUs, including Celeron 64s, close to that date. This, of course, is entirely coincidental and is just the way things can spookily happen at the same time in our industry. Read more

Posted January. 25, 2005 @ 07:13AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Net users are search idiots

A SURVEY from Pew Internet and American Life Project, has said that users are dumb when it comes to using Interweb search engines. According to the survey, users don't know how search engines operate or how they present their results. The survey of nearly 2,200 adults shows that Internet users settle quickly on a single search engine and then stick with it, rather than switching as search technology evolves. They also don't notice or understand the different kinds of search results they get. Just over a third are aware of the distinction between paid or "sponsored" results and unpaid results and only about 15 percent could tell the difference in a police line-up. More than two thirds think that search engines are a fair and unbiased source of information. Apparently because of some other comments these people put on their survey papers these are probably the dumber types. The 19 per cent who were more sceptical were generally a bit more clued up on the Internet. You can read all the stats here.

Posted January. 25, 2005 @ 07:13AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Intel dual-core to be '8xx' se

TheRegister Reports: To that we can add the prices: $241, $316 and $530 for the 820, 830 and 840, respectively. The 8xx model number coding will distinguish the dual-core parts from the 7xx series P4 Extreme Edition line-up. Smithfield has been roadmapped for an early Q3 debut, but Intel may formally launch the chip family late Q2, it has emerged. The next version of the P4, however, is the 6xx series, which adds not only 64-bit addressing but ups the chip's L2 cache to 2MB from the current 1MB and brings Intel's power-conserving SpeedStep technology firmly into the desktop arena.

Posted January. 25, 2005 @ 07:09AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Google gears up for a free-phone challen

GOOGLE revolutionised the internet. Now it is hoping to do the same with our phones. The company behind the US-based internet search engine looks set to launch a free telephone service that links users via a broadband internet connection using a headset and home computer. The technology that will enable Google to move in on the market has been around for some time. Software by the London-based company, Skype, has been downloaded nearly 54 million times around the world but no large telecommunication firms have properly exploited it. Read more

Posted January. 25, 2005 @ 07:03AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

(91x) BIOS updates for Week 03 @ PCTunin

PCTuning.cz has lots of new motherboard BIOS updates from last week. Including changelog's * Abit (4×), Albatron (18×), A(5×), Asus (12×) * Biostar (1×), Chaintech (2×), DFI (7×), ECS (5×) * Epox (3x), Jetway (6×), Magic-Pro (1×), MSI (7×), Shuttle (6×) * Soltek (4×), Supermicro (6×) a Tyan (4×) Click here for the goods.

Posted January. 25, 2005 @ 07:02AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Harden-it 1.2

Harden-It is a new lightweight software release from YASC .ltd and Zoller Thierry. Harden-it was designed to harden your Windows installation against numerous attacks. By hardening the IP stack your Network can sustain or completely twarth various sophisticated network attacks. By hardening your Local System lots of current malware, spyware, worm infection are completely blocked, proactively harden your system even against future uknown attacks. Download: Harden-It 1.2

Posted January. 24, 2005 @ 09:15AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

RadLinker 2.028

RadLinker is new tweaker/linker for ATI Radeon based graphics cards. What's New? # Fixed bug whenng the display control panel. # Fixed gamma issues. Download RadLinker 2.028 Mirror @ MajorGeeks.com

Posted January. 24, 2005 @ 09:13AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Battlefield 2 Release Dates

From TotalBF2.com: Quote: Sources have told us that the release info is as follows: The game will ship on March 24, 2005 The game will be released to the public on March 30, 2005 Note: This has not been confirmed at this time. Stay tuned... Click here for more BF2 info and screenshots.

Posted January. 24, 2005 @ 09:11AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Sunday Video Card Reviews

HIS Radeon X600 XT VIVO on LegitReviews. Sapphire Tech Hybrid X700 Pro 256MB PCIe on PimpRig. Sparkle GeForce 6600GT AGP 128MB on OCNZ. ATI Radeon X600 XT on ViperLair. Gigabyte GeForce 6200 on PCModdingMy. MSI GeForce 6600GT 128MB on Hexus. ATI X600 Pro AIW on HotHardware. Gigabyte GV-3D1 Video Card & GA-K8NXP-SLI mobo on HWZoom. ATI Mobility Radeon X700 on Bit-Tech. ATI Radeon X800 XL on Guru3D. Albatron GeForce 6600GT PCIe on VR-Zone. Gainward 6600GT GS on mvktech.net NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT PCI-E/SLI on nVnews

Posted January. 23, 2005 @ 01:51PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Forceware 71.21

A new beta Forceware driver with build 71.21 appeared on the web today, dated 6th Decemeber. Download

Posted January. 23, 2005 @ 01:41PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Shooter Roundup for 2005

The folks over at PC.IGN have posted an article taking a look at some of the hot new shooters making their way to stores in 2005. You will find Brothers in Arms, Battlefield 2 and a whole lot more! Click here for the goods.

Posted January. 23, 2005 @ 07:54AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Playstation 3 Details

Designed for the PlayStation 3, Sony, Toshiba and IBM's new "Cell processor" promises seemingly obscene computing capabilities for what will rapidly become a very low price. In these articles I look at what the Cell architecture is, then I go on to look at the profound implications this new chip has, not for the games market, but for the entire computer industry. Has the PC finally met it's match?

Posted January. 23, 2005 @ 07:52AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

eXeem Released

eXeem™ is a new Peer-To-Peer program, which uses a similar download and upload component as BitTorrent (libtorrent). eXeem™ removes the need for a tracker and it features its own Peer-To-Peer network. eXeem™ also does not share your whole folder, but only the files that you published to the network. Read more

Posted January. 22, 2005 @ 08:23AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Playstation 3 details unpicked

TheInquirer Reports: SOMETIMES THINGS in life just aren't worth bothering with. After spending an hour yesterday researching the architecture of the PlayStation 3 to explain to a curious reader, it is typical that, this morning, I come across a paper explaining it far better than I ever could. Following on from the INQ's venerable article about the architecture here, a clever boffin called Nicholas Blachford has broken down the hype to work through all the details currently available from Sony, Toshiba and IBM. And Rambus. Full Story here

Posted January. 22, 2005 @ 08:22AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Why is Nforce 5 a two chip design?

WHILE NVIDIA is still working hard on the Nforce 5 chipset, we have some things that might explain why Nvidia actually had to go for a two chip design with Nforce 5. The first argument is that the Pentium chipset requires a memory controller as the P4 doesn't have memory controlled built in the die. That's unlike Athlon 64/FX CPUs. With chipsets, and for the core logic chip it's always about the die area. Still this time space was not the primary thing. Nvidia had to go for a two chip design simply as one chip design would require lots of IO pins. A memory controller needs many input/output pin and the more pins you use, the more expensive the chipset package. Read more

Posted January. 22, 2005 @ 08:21AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

PS3 GeForce will have DX9, Shader Model

GI.biz reports. This is the next generation GPU," Roman told the site. "After the GeForce 6 series this is going to be the next generation... It will support DirectX 9, Shader Models 3, it will be the most feature-rich, the most powerful GPU that we've ever created." Roman said that Sony has been working with NVIDIA to create a custom version of the chip for PlayStation 3 - which, interestingly, he also revealed is not being called "PlayStation 3" by the company at present. Next-generation? Isn't current generation capable of all that?

Posted January. 22, 2005 @ 08:20AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Halo 2 Sells 6.4 Million

In a recent press release touting its success with Xbox Live, Microsoft revealed that it has sold 6.4 million copies of Halo 2 since its release in November. Combine that with the sales of the original Halo, the series has sold 12.8 million units. As for Xbox Live, it currently has 1.4 million members around the world and Xbox Live Arcade will be releasing in Europe this spring. Source: Shacknews

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:34PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Airbus to unveil giant A380 plane

A little offtopic but anyways... Tuesday's official unveiling of the enormous Airbus A380 will be a milestone in aviation history. The ceremony will mark more than a decade of development of what is widely seen as a triumph of design and engineering. Due to enter service in 2006, the A380 will replace the Boeing 747 jumbo as the world's biggest passenger aircraft. Full article

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:31PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Friday Arvo Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Roundup by Legion Hardware (13 cards reviewed) MSI's NX6600GT-TD128E by Hexus ATI All-In-Wonder PCI Express X600 Pro by HotHardware NVIDIA SLI Technology review by AmdReview Comparing SLI Setups by t-break

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:25PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Firefox vs. IE

Its a common debate at the moment as to which web browser is better, check out BBspots comparision to see what they think.

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:20PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Intel Presler CPU in 2006?

Not confirmed yet, but quite possibly true! See quote... Quote: The first dual core Smithfields will be dubbed the 840, the 830 and the 820, look they're going to be released at the end of Q2, and will be displaced by the Presler processor in Q1 next year. These Presler chips are 65 nanometre processors. Preslers are likely to clock at 3.6GHz and above. Read entire article

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:17PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Outlook Live Released

Outlook Live combines both MSN Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, one of the world's leading e-mail and personal information management programs. More info

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:15PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Sony sells 800,000 PSP

TOKYO (AFP) - Sony said it has shipped 800,000 PlayStation Portable (PSP) hand-held video-game machines since they were launched in Japan last month, in direct rivalry to Nintendo (news - web sites)'s new double-screen (DS) consoles. "I must admit (sales) are not big enough yet," Sony Computer Entertainment president and chief executive Ken Kutaragi told a news conference. "But demand is so strong that we already do not have enough supply," he said. Read the full article @ Yahoo News

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:13PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Doom 3 Expansion Exposed

CVG have an interview with Tim Willits, lead designer at id Software regarding the upcoming Doom 3 expansion. What's next for the Doom universe? Tim Willits: Well, there's the Xbox version which should be out soon. Then of course there's Quake 4. When we have more information on that very soon, but it's going to be a very different experience to Doom 3 - there's tanks and Walkers and all kinds of guys running around in this huge war. But as far as the Doom franchise goes you'll have to wait for the movie to come out, and then we'll see where we go from there. Check out the interview

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 06:12PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Optimized Firefox & Thunderbird Builds

I build optimized builds of both the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird email client. My builds are designed for maximum stability and speed. So far I have found a sizable increase in browsing speed, when compared to the official Firefox builds, as evidenced by this analysis. I use RELEASE, BRANCH, and TRUNK source trees for my builds. For the uninitiated, RELEASE builds are the most stable builds available and are intended for release to the general public. BRANCH builds are potentially less stable than RELEASE builds but more stable than TRUNK builds, which are made from the absolute bleeding edge of the source code and thus the most likely to be unstable. Read more

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 08:44AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Sapphire releases Radeon X700PRO Toxic

SAPPHIRE LAUNCHED its new Toxic X700PRO card today. We suggested this was on the cards recently, here. Sapphire said that you will get extra performance kick and won't have to break the bank to buy this card. Usually any PCIe performance cards costs you quite a lot of money but this one might be reasonably priced. It will sure be cheaper than any of the X800 PCIe cards. It is an eight pipelines part with six vertex Shaders with X700XT chip inside but just called X700PRO. Sapphire uses special cooler and its own APE Advanced Performance Enhancer utility that allows you to overclock the card. Sapphire will offer you its "Redline" utility that will allow you to overclock things that little bit more. Read more

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 08:42AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Intel prices up 8XX dual core Smithfield

CUSTOMERS OF INTEL have been tipped the wink on proposed pricing of Smithfield dual core 840 (3.2GHz), 830 (3GHz), and 820 (2.8GHz) processors, and at the same time the chip giant has settled on a date for the launch of its 6XX range. These chips are curently scheduled for release in the second quarter, have 2 sets of 1MB cache, a front side bus of 800MHz, and use the LGA775 socket. At launch they will be $528, $314, and $240 respectively. Intel has also now committed to a late February launch of the 660 (3.6GHz), 650 (3.4GHz), 640 (3.2GHz) and 630 (3GHz) Pentium 4s. These processors come with 2MB of level two cache, have an 800MHz bus, support hyperthreading, and also use the 775 socket. The 670 will be introduced later, will clock at 3.8GHz, and priced at around $845 at introduction. Read more

Posted January. 21, 2005 @ 08:41AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Mobility Radeon X700 Launch

ATI have released there mobile Radeon X700, you can check out the press release here

Posted January. 20, 2005 @ 09:57PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Intel Sonoma Mobile Platform Review

Adrians Rojak Pot has a Intel Sonoma Mobile Platform Review for you to check out! And today, almost two years after Intel launched the Centrino Mobile Technology, it's time for Centrino to be recharged for the future. Today, we shall be looking at Intel's next generation Centrino Mobile Technology, which was codenamed Sonoma. Read review

Posted January. 20, 2005 @ 09:45PM GMT +10 by erock | top

ThrottleWatch 2.0

ThrottleWatch 2.0 is out ! This already popular freeware detects CPU "throttling" due to overheating. New version 2.0 also tracks changes to your CPU core speed and voltage made by Intel SpeedStep and AMD Cool'n'Quiet technologies. The amount of heat a CPU produces varies according to the processing load. In situations of high sustained load (such as performance benchmarks, etc...), a CPU may produce more heat than the cooling mechanism is capable of removing, and reach a high enough internal temperature to trigger throttling. ThrottleWatch™ monitors and graphically displays both the CPU load and any throttling that occurs. Download

Posted January. 20, 2005 @ 09:43PM GMT +10 by erock | top

NVIDIA Press Release

NVIDIA Mobile GPUs Support New Intel Centrino Mobile Technology Platform NVIDIA has announced that the award-winning GeForce Go 6 mobile GPU series supports the new Intel Centrino mobile platform (codenamed Sonoma), taking full advantage of the new, improved PCI Express architecture. Earlier this mont, NVIDIA announced that the first notebooks to implement the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6 mobile GPU series and the newest in Intel Centrino mobile technology, with support for PCI Express, are the Sony Vaio FS and the Vaio S series. The Sony FS Series has already received several industry accolades including the “Best of CES 2005” award from Laptop magazine. These notebooks are currently shipping, with product announcements from other major OEMs expected to follow. Read the full press release

Posted January. 20, 2005 @ 09:32PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Gainwards dual SLI water cooled 6800

As seen on the inquirer If you think that you saw it all, wait until you sees the dual SLI water cooler for two Gainward 6800 Ultra PCIe graphic cards. Gainward has worked on this for some time and it got the first samples back. It had an idea to water-cool the cards but to make a water cooler that will attach to both cards. The cooler actually fits on both cards at the same time and it's specially designed for that purpose. The company went one step further, as it offered CPU blocks teamed with red tubes all connected to two times twelve CM radiators topped with CM fans. Overclockers have to love this as it's all ready for you but it won't be cheap. Those coolers have already sampled and Gainward is expected to release them soon. You can bet that Gainward plans to overclock its cards and that it wants to strike hard on 3Dmark05 10000 results and possibly break it. Gainward 6800 Ultra PCIe should be available by the end of the month.

Posted January. 20, 2005 @ 09:30PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Thursday Nite Video Card Reviews

ATi Mobility Radeon X700 by FiringSquad ATi Mobility Radeon X700 review by Hexus ATi Mobility Radeon X700 review by Bit-Tech ATi Radeon X800 XL review by Guru3D Abit RX600Pro Radeon X600 Pro PCIe review by HardOCP Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by HardwareZone GeForce 6600 GT Video Card roundup by LegionHardware Albatron GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by VR-One

Posted January. 20, 2005 @ 09:24PM GMT +10 by erock | top

NVIDIA's SLI Performance

HardOCP has an interesting article about NVIDIA's SLI Performance: According to NVIDIA’s marketing, NVIDIA’s Scalable Link Interface (SLI) "can deliver as much as 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences." What NVIDIA fails to make clear, however, is that SLI currently requires NVIDIA to write driver profiles for each game to support SLI. Are all the games you want to play supported? Read more

Posted January. 20, 2005 @ 09:17PM GMT +10 by erock | top

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