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 | top

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 | top

XBOX2 News

Team XBOX have a chat with CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft about the upcoming XBOX2: "When you see the new Xbox, you're going to think it's un… -- well, let me say it politely -- unbelievable. Just unbelievable. The graphics, what it can do, the way things look, huge innovation. Rumors are that we'll see that product sometime soon. I couldn't comment, of course, on those rumors. But it's an amazing, amazing innovation." Read More

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 01:33PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Internet Explorer 7 Soon

Microsoft is planning a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP SP2: The new version of IE, which will be released for preliminary testing this summer, will have new protections against viruses, spyware and "phishing" scams, which fool users into entering sensitive information on Web pages that appear to be legitimate.

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 01:26PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Wednesday Video Card Reviews

ATI RADEON X800 PRO Shootout by Hardware Zone Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PCIe review by Gamers-Depot Sapphire X800 256mb review by Drivers Heaven PowerColor Radeon X800 review by FiringSquad Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600 GT review by hardCOREware

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 01:24PM GMT +10 by erock | top

NVIDIA Press Announcement

The new NVIDIA nForce4 has broken the sales record! NVIDIA has shipped more than one million NVIDIA nForce4 media and communication processors (MCPs), the industry’s most feature-rich core-logic solutions for AMD64-based computing platforms, since its availability in December 2004. Demand for NVIDIA nForce4 SLI technology is exceeding the company’s high expectations, accounting for more than 25 percent of all NVIDIA nForce4 MCP shipments to date. This demand has resulted in the fastest sales ramp the platform group at NVIDIA has ever experienced, and helped NVIDIA grow its share of the AMD64 market to 48 percent, as reported by Mercury Research for the quarter ending December 31, 2004. Press Release

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 01:16PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Prolink GeForce 6600 GT AGP8x

Today's product review will be a product from the well respected manufacturer Prolink. A company that isn't really out there alarming users with aggressive marketing campaigns. No, this is a relatively quiet company with a very keen insight on hardware and the reputation to deliver quality products, yet they always try to be a little different compared to the competition. That in fact is their signature. The product tested is of course their GeForce 6600 GT in a nice AGP flavor. Review @ Guru3D

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 01:13PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Graphics Card Guide 7.5

Currently covering over 200 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison will allow you to easily compare 14 different specifications for each and every card! We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. Check it out @ Adrians Rojak Pot

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 01:12PM GMT +10 by erock | top

AMD cuts chip prices

The chipmaker, in a regularly scheduled price adjustment, followed the introduction of higher-performance Opteron server chips with cuts of up to 35 percent on existing Opterons. AMD also lowered the prices of its Athlon 64 chips for desktop and notebook PCs by as much as 34 percent and cut its Sempron value chips by between 6 percent and 19 percent. But in a twist, it also slightly raised the prices on a handful of processors, including a pair of Athlon MP server chips and a Sempron for desktop PCs. Read More

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 01:11PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 (Rev. 2)

nVnews have a new review posted today on the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 (Rev. 2). "The Arctic Cooling NV Silencer series has become a very popular choice for cooling a wide variety of video cards. Improved cooling and much quieter operation than stock solutions are promised. I will find out if these promises are met and what it takes to get there regarding installation." Check it out

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 11:51AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Forceware 74.11 Benchmarks

OnlyNewZ got their sneaky hands on the latest beta Forceware drivers 74.11: Benchmark results for Doom 3, Half-Life 2 and 3DMark05. Check it

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 11:43AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Corsair Press Announcement

Fremont, CA, February 15, 2005: Corsair Memory, Inc., a global leader in ultra-performance DDR memory modules for PC gamers and enthusiasts, today announced immediate availability of a new line of DDR2 PC2-4200 SO-DIMMs designed to support Intel’s newest mobile computing platform. Corsair’s three new SO-DIMM modules are rated at DDR2-533: VS1GSDS533D2 1GB, DDR2-533, 200-pin SO-DIMM VS512SDS533D2 512MB, DDR2-533, 200-pin SO-DIMM VS256SDS533D2 256MB, DDR2-533, 200-pin SO-DIMM All three parts are included in Corsair’s Value Select family of desktop and laptop memory, and are guaranteed compatible with 915 Express–based laptop computers. According to Corsair Marketing Director Joe James, “We’re excited about bringing the high memory bandwidth of DDR2 to laptop computers. As a leader in high performance memory solutions, it’s a natural step for Corsair.”

Posted February. 16, 2005 @ 11:41AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Unreal Engine 3.0

Digital-Deity.net got some screenshots of the upcoming Unreal Engine, version 3.0! Looks pretty interesting head over here, to check them out!

Posted February. 15, 2005 @ 01:39PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Register an account today

Never too late to register an account at AusFX! Register here and be able to participate in the forum and in upcoming giveaways

Posted February. 15, 2005 @ 01:37PM GMT +10 by erock | top

OCZ Modstream 520 Review

AMDGamer reviews the OCZ Modstream 520.

Posted February. 15, 2005 @ 01:35PM GMT +10 by erock | top

NVIDIA Press Releases

NVIDIA Launches Next-Generation GeForce Go 6600 GPU for Slim, Mainstream Notebooks Following on the introduction of the award-winning GeForce Go 6 series of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA has announced the GeForce Go 6600, a mobile GPU designed specifically to deliver cutting-edge multimedia functionality without sacrificing portability. The new GeForce Go 6600 and 6200 GPUs are immediately available in the newest generation of PCI Express-based notebooks. Notebooks combining the graphics muscle of the GeForce Go 6 GPU series and the latest in Intel Centrino Mobile technology (codenamed Sonoma) are available for purchase now from A Arima, Asus, Clevo, Compal, ECS, FIC, Gericom, Medion, Mitac, MSI, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, Twinhead, Uniwill, and Wistron. Press Release New NVIDIA WMP Enable New Multimedia Capabilities for Mobile Phones NVIDIA has announced the GoForce 3D 4800, the newest wireless media processor (WMP) which transforms multimedia performance on mobile devices for an unprecedented portable entertainment experience. This new WMP integrates highly realistic 3D graphics, multi-megapixel still imaging, high-quality video capture and playback that rivals home console gaming systems, digital cameras, and video camcorders. To capture high quality photos, the GoForce 3D 4800 processor includes a JPEG hardware encoder capable of capturing images with up to 3-megapixel (2048 x 1536) resolution. The unique NVIDIA FotoPack technology automatically optimises JPEG compression to allow users to store up to three times more photos in the limited memory space on a mobile phone, allowing consumers to capture, store and share more pictures. Phones based on the NVIDIA GoForce 3D 4800 WMP are expected to be released by the end of 2005. Press Release New Wave of PCI Express Notebooks Launch with NVIDIA GeForce Go 6 GPUs NVIDIA today announced the immediate availability of the GeForce Go 6600 and 6200 graphics processing units (GPUs) in the newest generation of PCI Express-based notebooks. Press Release NVIDIA nForce Professional Powers Breakthrough HP Visualization Workstation NVIDIA today announced that its latest professional core-logic and graphics solutions will be integrated into the new HP xw9300 Workstation as HP’s top-of-the line workstation for performance and expandability. Press Release

Posted February. 15, 2005 @ 01:31PM GMT +10 by erock | top

SAPPHIRE X700 GOES TOXIC!

Sapphire Technology Limited, the leading supplier of ATI-powered graphics solutions, has just introduced a new addition to its family of PCI-Express graphics solutions designed specifically for users looking for that extra kick in performance without breaking the bank! Building on the success of its Hybrid X700 series, the new Sapphire TOXIC X700 Pro adds a new dimension to the balance between performance and affordability. Incorporating the latest ATI technology with features such as 8 parallel Pixel Shader pipelines, and 6 programmable Vertex pipelines, the TOXIC X700 Pro adds Sapphire’s advanced Lethal Cooling solution and APE Advanced Performance Enhancer overclocking software for the enthusiast. Read More

Posted February. 15, 2005 @ 11:57AM GMT +10 by flawmatt | top

Intel Xeon 3.6 2MB vs AMD Opteron 252

t's been five months since either of the processor giants released a new server processor. Today, both Intel and AMD have new offerings. Intel has updated their 3.6 GHz Xeon to include an additional 1MB of L2 cache, and AMD has bumped their quickest Opteron up 200Mhz to 2.6GHz with the Opteron 252. Neither one of these upgrades is groundbreaking, but they do offer some performance increases, especially the 2MB Xeon. We'll see some more significant releases later this year from both manufacturers with their Dual Core offerings. Read the entire shootout here

Posted February. 15, 2005 @ 11:55AM GMT +10 by flawmatt | top

Monday Evening Video Card Reviews

Gainward GeForce 6800 review by CoolTechZone HIS Radeon X700 Pro PCIe review by Bjorn3D BFG GeForce 6600 GT PCIe review by HardOCP

Posted February. 14, 2005 @ 06:49PM GMT +10 by erock | top

DFI 925XE-T2V @ 7.2Ghz

A dream you say? Impossible? Charles Wirth, or "Fugger" as he's known by OCer's around the world, pushes DFI and Intel to the absolute edge of Xtreme, o­nce again bringing the world record back to the US by hitting 7.2GHz. Will it remain stable? Will it boot to Windows? How did he do it? Those answers and more! XtremeSystems

Posted February. 14, 2005 @ 07:20AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Browser Speed Comparisons @ HowToCreate

There is a speed war on the web. Browsers compete on many fronts; security, standards support, features and speed. Most people are aware of which major browser fails on three of these, but one of them is stillfor grabs. Speed. Read more - Warp2Search

Posted February. 14, 2005 @ 07:17AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

AMD FX57 coming soon?

OVER here you will find a guide to the Athlon 64 guide, probably one of the most complete. Mentionned over therer is the forthcoming but still unannounced FX 57. A very complete handbook which can be translated using Google. Israeli website, hwzone, reviews the Leadtek Winfast PVR2000 which is an upmarket PVR card with powerful functions and a FM tuner. Note that the Winfast brand is also used by Foxconn. Another Foxconn motherboard review comes in the form of the Foxconn 915A01-P-8EKRS which is based on the i915p and is one more motherboard reviewed by hardwarezone based on this chipset. This particular motherboard is one of the five i915p motherboard proposed by foxconn. Read more - TheInquirer

Posted February. 14, 2005 @ 07:16AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

AMD Opteron 252 pictures emerge

OPTERON 252. Numbers scrubbed to make things look cooler than they are. What more do you need to know? Source: TheInquirer

Posted February. 14, 2005 @ 07:14AM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

The Effects of Dust and Computer Temps

Sudhian Media has an interesting article regarding the effects of dust and computer temps. The drop in temperature simply from blasting the dust out of my CPU cooler and case is huge—far larger then I would’ve predicted. My case closed, full load temperature is 9’C cooler than my casetemperature, even though the ambient air is the same 72’F.

Posted February. 12, 2005 @ 02:53PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Blue-ray technology - why, when?

Check out techzone for their article on blue ray technolgy: Isn't all the noise surrounding the beauty and consumer demand for high definition blue-ray storage fantastic? Consumers can't wait to get their hands on the camcorders and the burners and the media! Or can they? Let's find out!

Posted February. 12, 2005 @ 02:48PM GMT +10 by erock | top

HVD instead of DVD?

Six companies including CMC Magnetics, Fuji Photo Film, Nippon Paint, Optware, Pulstec and Toagosei have announced the formation of the "HVD Alliance" to promote the development of HVD technology. Holographic recording technology records data on discs in the form of laser interference fringes, enabling discs the same size as today's DVDs to store more than one terabyte of data (200 times the capacity of a single layer DVD), with a transfer rate of over one gigabit per second (40 times the speed of DVD). This approach is rapidly gaining attention as a high-capacity, high-speed data storage technology for the age of broadband. Read More

Posted February. 12, 2005 @ 02:47PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Saturday Arvo Video Card Reviews

ATI RADEON X800 PRO Shootout by Hardware Zone BFGTech 6600 GT OC AGP & PCI-E SLI by HardOCP Maxxing The Mobility Radeon 9700 Guide by Adrian's Rojak Pot eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra review by 3DXtreme Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro review by AmdZone Sapphire Radeon X800 XL review by AmdZone Albatron GeForce 6800 review by CoolTechZone Sapphire Radeon X800 XL review by Neoseeker Asus GeForce 6600 GT review by OCModShop Chaintech GeForce 6600GT review by OverclockerCafe HIS Radeon X700 Pro 256MB PCIe review by TweakNews nVidia GeForce Go 6600 review by Bit-Tech ATi All-in-Wonder Radeon X600 Pro review by ExtremeTech Chaintech GeForce 6200 TC PCIe review by Techniz.co.uk

Posted February. 12, 2005 @ 02:43PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Doom 3 Performance Results - Version 0.2

As already reported before on Slashdot, OnlyNewZ tested in total 32 different cards in Doom 3. The article is now updated to version 0.2 and it includes more pages and a final conclusion as requested. 19 cards are AGP based and 13 cards are PCI-Express. Have a nice weekend!

Posted February. 12, 2005 @ 12:57PM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Epox to launch Nforce 4 Ultra soonish

WE ARE IN an interesting period of time as Greater China celebrates the lunar new year of the rooster or chicken all this week. Some people are lucky enough to get two weeks holiday during this period. However, Epox has told us that it is ready to ship its Nforce 4 motherboards as soon as everyone gets back from celebrating the Chicken Licken. Its Nforce 4 Ultra motherboard with a single graphic slot and Nforce 4 SLI comes a little bit later - we believe after CeBIT. We are sure that Epox will demonstrate its Nforce 4 SLI at Cebit. Source - TheInquirer

Posted February. 12, 2005 @ 12:51PM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Lokitorrent website downed

DESPITE attempts to raise money to defend itself, it seems that web site Lokicurrent has lost. The website, here, has a notice on it from the Motion Picture Association of America, warning about breach of copyright. The notice says that the site has been permanently shut down by court order because it contributes to the illegal downloading of films. It continues: "The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard working people of their livelihood and stifles creativity". Source - TheInquirer

Posted February. 12, 2005 @ 12:49PM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Thrusday Arvo Video Card Reviews

Just two reviews for you to check out this afternoon, enjoy BFG GeForce 6600 GT review by Beyond3D XGI Volari V8 256MB AGP review by BigBruin

Posted February. 10, 2005 @ 04:23PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Catalyst 5.2 Driver Comparison @ Rage3D

ATi releases almost every month a new version of their Catalyst drivers. Often they fix bugs and improve the compability and sometimes they also increase the performance in different applications. In this comparison we don't want to test the improvements in games or bug fixes, but the increases in speed with the newer versions. Check it out

Posted February. 10, 2005 @ 04:16PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Catalyst 5.2 Out

Today ATI released Catalyst 5.2 for your download pleasure. Performance Improvements As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed: # Efficiency improvements in vertex processing have produced performance enhancements in key applications such as Far Cry and 3DMark05 on RADEON™ X850, X800 and X700 series products # Far Cry "Regulator" and "Volcano" scores are up as much as 20% on RADEON™ X800 PRO at 1600x1200 resolution # 3DMark05 gains range from 1-3% on RADEON™ X800 series products to as much as 9% on some RADEON™ X700 configurations More info here Download the drivers here

Posted February. 10, 2005 @ 01:21PM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

MP3tunes Online Music Service

MP3tunes, a new digital music store started by Michael Robertson, founder and former CEO of MP3.com,d for business on the Internet today at www.mp3tunes.com. Songs are available for download from the MP3tunes site for $0.88 per song or $8.88 per album. All music sold at MP3tunes will work on any computer and with any portable player including popular models like the Apple iPod, Dell DJ and Creative Nomad.

Posted February. 10, 2005 @ 01:16PM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

Nforce 5, C19 to arrive in April

AT LEAST some Nforce 5 motherboards should be available in April. We looked at some secret plans and mysteriously saw C19 based motherboard scheduled for April. This board, as we wrote earlier, is going to support Nvidia's somewhat exciting SLI marchitecture. Yes, those boards will have two PCI Express graphic slots and will finally bring SLI to Dell and all the others who only want to use Pentium 4s. We don’t need to say that this marchitecture works with 775 P4 CPUs. As we said in our earlier story, Nforce 5 will have a south bridge as well. We explained before that Pentium 4 chipsets have memory controller and it's very likely that this south bridge will feature Azalia like audio. We believe that Nvidia plans to replace C19 codename with Nforce 5 as a commercial name. That could change. There will be q few versions of C19 and we can expect Nforce 5 SLI, Ultra and vanilla lines, just like Nforce 4 chipsets. Still, you will see many SLI boards, Ultras are coming to be while the vanilla flave is still not that widely available. I believe that Nforce 4 vanilla flavours might draw some customers among OEMs. The same business model will be applicable for the C19, Nforce 5 chipset. Read more

Posted February. 10, 2005 @ 01:14PM GMT +10 by BenSW | top

SLI Benchmark

Some of the first SLI benchmarks have been released. The eagerly awaited technology from NVidia is only available with selected Nforce motherboards. No other company is expected to release their own SLI compatible mobos for a while yet. But now to the benchmarks. Far Cry Bunker Demo @ 1600x1200 SLI 6600GT = 91.06 FPS Single 6800GT = 80.9 FPS Single 6600GT = 57.85 3DMark '05 SLI 6600GT = 6504 Single 6800GT = 4793 Single 6600GT = 3741 Doom 3 1600x1200 (High Quality) SLI 6600GT = 80.7 FPS Single 6800GT = 63.2 FPS Single 6600GT = 52.5 FPS 3DMark '03 SLI 6600GT = 15003 Single 6800GT = 11691 Single 6600GT = 9218 3DMark '05 Fill Rate (Multi Texturing) SLI 6600GT = 8906.9 MTEXELS per Second Single 6800GT = 5809.6 MTEXELS per Second Single 6600GT = 4535.4 MTEXELS per Second Vertex Shader Tests (Complex) SLI 6600GT = 57.1 MVERTICES per Second Single 6800GT = 34.8 MTEXELS per Second Single 6600GT = 29.2 MTEXELS per Second SLI 6600GT 6800GT VGA Mem Clock 1170mhz 585mhz 232mhz VGA Core Clock 585mhz 293mhz 50mhz Physical Mem 512mb 512mb 512mb This information was collected from a number of different sources. But mostly from At0mic MPC magazine.

Posted February. 09, 2005 @ 09:32PM GMT +10 by Shorty | top

Wednesday Nite Video Card Reviews

Leadtek GeForce 6800 GT review by AmdZone nVidia GeForce Go 6600 and GeForce Go 6200 review by Hexus Gigabyte GeForce 6600 GT review by LegionHardware HIS Radeon X700 Pro review by Rage3D

Posted February. 09, 2005 @ 07:24PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Introducing the Cell

And now some more cell goodness for you today, arstechnica.com has an overview that looks at cell technology: In this brief overview, I'm first going to talk in some general terms about the Cell approach — what it is, what it's like, what's behind it, etc. — before doing an information dump at the end of the article for more technical readers to chew on and debate. Once the conference is over and I get back to Chicago and get settled in, I'll do some more comprehensive coverage of the Cell. Check it out

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 10:26PM GMT +10 by erock | top

PS3 Power: Details on Cell

Some specs for you on PS3's Cell Technology Power: # Each Cell processor contains 8 Synergistic Processing Units and a single 64-bit Power Architecture Unit (All are RISC designs with SIMD) # Operates at >4GHz and capable of >256GFLOPS # 256KB Local Storage per SPU and 512KB L2 Cache (2.5MB total) # 128+ concurrent transactions to memory per processor # High-speed internal element interconnect performing at 96B/cycle # 234 million transistors # Prototype die size of 221mm^2 # Fabricated with 90nm SOI process technology Full Article

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 10:16PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Double Doom 3 delay

Doom 3 fans got a double dose of déjà vu today. During a post-earnings report conference call, Activision revealed that both the Xbox version of Doom 3 and the first expansion pack for the PC edition, Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, have slipped from their previously announced March 2005 ship dates. The latter is being developed by id Software, while Vicarious Visions is working on the former under id's supervision. Full Article

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 10:12PM GMT +10 by erock | top

High-Performance Cell Chip Debuts

As the animation and gaming industries converge, the demand for more processing power is growing, says Dick Anderson, manager of IBM's global digital-media industry. IBM, SOny and Toshiba project that a Cell processor-based workstation will reach a performance of 16 teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second. Check out NewsFactors take on Cell Technology

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

Supercomputer on a Chip?

Martin Reynolds of Gartner told TechNewsWorld that while the Cell chip may mean a dramatic bump in performance through a scalable, parallel processing system, it is not the supercomputer on a chip that the companies claim it to be. "Maybe a supercomputer from the 1970s on a chip," Reynolds said... Check out the entire article here

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 10:09PM GMT +10 by erock | top

More performance anyone?

The new Cell CPU that IBM, Toshiba and Sony have been working on is a 90nm CPU with 8 cores and promised clock frequency of 4 to 5 GHz. Yes thats GigaHertz. There is a comparison pic for you. The CPU consists of 234 Million transistors. And is planned to be used in the new PlayStation 3/HDTV from Sony, HDTV from Toshiba and computers from IBM. And for those that remembers RAMBUS, it uses memory from them RAMBUS homepage It will use 2 types of memory, the FlexIO (6,4 GHz) and XDR (3,2 GHz). Potential bandwidth will be around 100Gb per second. Yes Gigabytes. However this is just a paper launch so it will be some time until it will be availible probably in sometime this year. Supposed to perform 10 times more than todays computers, but that requires software to be rewritten to use the full potential of the architecture. It has allready proven clocks up to 4GHz in tests so far. It remains to be seen this chips TRUE potential. Source: Hardware.no

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 09:45PM GMT +10 by Sweeper | top

Multi-Core Silicon Production Begins

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2005 – Intel Corporation today announced it has completed initial production runs of dual-core processors and provided further details about its multi-core plans to its customers, signaling the beginning of an era when PCs will have two or more “brains” inside. Source: Intel

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 01:42PM GMT +10 by flawmatt | top

eVGA e-Geforce 6800 GT Review

AMDGamer recently got their hands on a couple of eVGA 6800GT PCI-Express cards. Powered by NVIDIA's 2nd best GPU and SLI ready, these cards should be able to deliver outstanding performance individually and as a team. eVGA has been receiving a lot of attention lately with their e-Geforce line and were one of the first NVIDIA launch partners to deliver the enthusiast level Geforce 6 series of cards. Check it out

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 09:16AM GMT +10 by erock | top

PlayStation 3 chip has split personality

The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation video game machine will have nine processor cores and run faster than 4GHz, the chip's designers revealed Monday. Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba revealed those and other specifications for the Cell processor during a press conference at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, where technical papers on the Cell design will be presented this week. The three companies have been working on the Cell for several years, promising to deliver a high-performance chip optimized for multimedia applications. Test production of Cell chips is set to begin later this year, and the processors will appear later in workstation PCs optimized for animation and other graphics chores. The chip will also power the next version of Sony's PlayStation game console, which is widely expected to be released late this year or early next year. Entire Story @ GameSpot

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 09:13AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Tuesday Morning Video Card Reviews

MSI GeForce 6600 review by Hexus XpertVision GeForce 6200 TC PCIe review by Phoronix Abit Radeon X600 Pro review by Viperlair XFX GeForce 6600 GT PCIe SLI review by VR-Zone PowerColor Radeon X800 XL PCIe review by VR-Zone

Posted February. 08, 2005 @ 09:04AM GMT +10 by erock | top

RIAA sues the dead

Death is no obstacle to feeling the long arm of the Recording Industry Ass. of America. Lawyers representing several record companies have filed suit against an 83-year old woman who died in December, claiming that she made more than 700 songs available on the internet. "I believe that if music companies are going to set examples they need to do it to appropriate people and not dead people," Robin Chianumba told AP. "I am pretty sure she is not going to leave Greenwood Memorial Park to attend the hearing." Gertrude Walton, who lived in Beckley, West Virginia hated computers, too, her daughter adds. An RIAA spokesperson said that it would try and dismiss the case. Source: TechConnect

Posted February. 07, 2005 @ 11:19PM GMT +10 by Cyclone | top

Video games ban wanted

NOT SATISFIED with cleaning television of Janet Jackson's breasts, the censorship happy US seems to be clamping down on video games. According to Detroit News, politicians are starting to listen to groups who are terrified about the effect of selling games such as Grand Theft Auto series, Halo 2 and Mortal Kombat have on children. They think that there is a direct line between video games as Grand Theft Auto and crime. Read More at The Inquirer

Posted February. 07, 2005 @ 11:07PM GMT +10 by Cyclone | top

Nvidia tight lipped about next gen core

WE STILL DON'T know the codename of next generation Nvidia card but we know its definitely not NV48 or NV50. Someone denied it was called the NV47, but then again someone at Nvidia it as an option perhaps just to confuse us. A core similar to NV50 will come later, possibly in 2006, or at least Nvidia will use some marchitecture that it meant to use on the NV50 closer to the Longhorn launch. Longhorn comes in 2006 but probably later, rather than early we think. Read More at The Inquirer

Posted February. 07, 2005 @ 11:05PM GMT +10 by Cyclone | top

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