Doom 3 Done

The hot new rumor on the Internet is that DOOM 3 is finished, because of this marketing flyer by Activision which mentions "we said it will be out when it's done..it's done!". GameSpot contacted the publisher where a spokesperson said "id Software has made no announcement that Doom 3 has gone gold". As previously mentioned here, online retailers have the game pegged for an August 3 release and it was recently announced that there will be a DOOM 3 tournament at QuakeCon (August 12 - 15). Source: Shacknews

Posted July. 11, 2004 @ 09:43AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Mozilla updated to correct Win Protocol

Three new branches have been created for Firefox, Thunderbird, and the original Mozilla suite, in order to fix an external windows protocol handler bug. The new version numbers are Firefox 0.9.2, Thunderbird 0.9.2, and Mozilla 1.7.1. Alternatively, you can set the pref network.protocol-handler.external.shell in about:config to false to remove the exploit, or install the XPI listed below. (This will only set it on your current profile, if you have more than one profile, or could be creating more, you should use the XPI or the updated build.) It should be noted that this patch was released within hours of the flaw being discovered. Update: It should also be noted that this flaw effects all browsers for the Windows operating system which take advantage of the "shell" function, not just Mozilla. Click links below to download the updated builds: Download Firefox 0.9.2 XPI fix for older builds Mozilla 1.7.1 Thunderbird 0.7.2 Source:Neowin

Posted July. 09, 2004 @ 05:33PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

Intel Begins Shipments of 3.60GHz

Intel Corporation has initiated shipments of its recently announced Pentium 4 3.60GHz processor also known as Intel Pentium 4 560. Announced in mid-June, the chip did not immediately make appearance in retail and personal computers assembled by leading makers of PCs, such as Dell. Intel Pentium 4 processor 560 operates at 3.60GHz, features HT and SSE3 technologies and comes in LGA775 form-factor. The chip is compatible with Socket T mainboards supporting 800MHz processor system bus, based on i915- or i925X-series chipsets from Intel. The chip can dissipate up to 115W of power and requires mainboards to support Platform Compatibility Guide 04B. Source:X-bit labs

Posted July. 09, 2004 @ 05:21PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

ATI Catalyst 4.7

If you guys haven't already found out, ATI just released Catalyst drivers revision 4.7 ! This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. [Download] Resolved CATALYST™ Driver Issues This section provides information on CATALYST™ driver issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following: * Enabling both the CRT and DVI connectors and setting the CRT to primary no longer results in display corruption being seen on the display connected to the DVI when running 3D Labs applications and disabling the display on the DVI connector * The mouse pointer no longer flashes or becomes corrupted when setting the display mode to 1080i and launching Windows MCE * DVD playback hesitation at the beginning of a movie is no longer noticed when using the ATI DVD Player under Windows XP with an ATI 8500 ALL-IN-WONDER™ installed * The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond when a D3D application generates a floating-point exception error * The BIOS Version information is now stated correctly in the Details found in the ATI Options tab. Further, the correct DAC and ASIC information is now displayed in the Adapter tab found in the advanced setting of the display properties * The Overlay Theater Mode table has now been extended to support 1080i and 720p * Launching EVE Online under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500, 9100, or 9200 series no longer results in a VPU recover error before the terms and conditions is displayed Resolved Game Issues This section provides information on game issues that have been resolved in the latest release of CATALYST™. These include the following: * Setting the D3D option to Optimal Quality and configuring the game Freedom Fighters to 1280x1024 no longer results in display corruption being seen on the test resolution window. This issue occurred under Windows XP with an ALL-IN-WONDER™ 9200 installed * The water that surrounds Death Island in the game Halo: Combat evolved is now seen as blue in colour. This issues was known to occur under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500 installed * Image rendering issues in the Truform room found in Serious Sam are no longer noticed when increasing the Truform level to maximum under the Advanced Rendering Option * Flashing textures in the water are no longer noticed when running Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ X800 XT installed * Playing the game TOCA Race Driver under Windows XP no longer results in the shadows being missing under the car when the shadow quality is set to high 1. Navigate to the CATALYST™ Download folder on your desktop. Double-click on the folder to view its content. 2. Double click the CATALYST™ display driver. Accept all the default prompts. 3. Restart your system as required. Source: Guru3d

Posted July. 09, 2004 @ 05:19PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

New Microsoft Mice Pictures

Eyeit have found out that there are some new microsoft mice on the way! Source: Eyeit

Posted July. 09, 2004 @ 05:11PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

MSI K8N Neo2 nForce3 Ultra

PC Perspective have thrown up the review of MSI K8N Neo2 nForce3 Ultra motherboard for AMD's 939-pin Athlon 64 processors! Click here The nForce3 series has seen slower acceptance than the K8T series of chipsets from VIA, both because of cost differences and feature gaps. NVIDIA is quickly changing these key items though and now that VIA’s overclocking ability with their PCI/AGP lock may be up in the air, NVIDIA is set to take back some of the AMD market share. Source:Warp2search

Posted July. 09, 2004 @ 04:27PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

BFG Tech GeForce 6800 GT OC

Bjorn3D have thrown up their latest review which looks a pre-overclocked version of a GeForce 6800 GT ( 370MHz instead of 350MHz ) form BFG Tech and compares the performance to Sapphire’s Radeon X800 PRO!: Click here Well, BFG really is a different kind of company, at least it seems to be from my perspective (from the outside trying to look in). The company is made up of gamers, so they really do care about releasing top-quality products. Quality isn't their only concern though. Performance is right up at the top as well, as is evidenced by their newest line of "OC" (or overclocked) GeForce 6800 cards. All of BFG's current 6 series cards come only in the "OC" flavors currently. That's right; there's a 6800 OC, 6800 GT OC and a 6800 Ultra OC. All of these cards are of course overclocked right out of the box (when compared to other 6800s clocked at default reference clock speeds). Source:Warp2search

Posted July. 09, 2004 @ 04:21PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

Evolution could speed net downloads

Well this is cool: Survival of the Fittest(..bandwidth)! It turns out that the popular evolutionist scientist may have left with us more than just records of animals on a lonely island and the idea behind natural selection. Internet download speeds could be improved dramatically by mimicking Darwin's evolution to "breed" the best networking strategies, say computer scientists. Transferring popular data across the internet repeatedly can be inefficient and costly, so networking companies have developed ways of temporarily storing, or "caching", data at different locations to reduce costs and increase download speeds. But figuring out where to store data and for how long is a complex problem. One solution might be to have caches "talk" to each other repeatedly, but this is inefficient as it takes up a lot of bandwidth. To tackle the challenge, Pablo Funes of US company Icosystem and Jürgen Branke and Frederik Theil of the University of Karlsruhe in Germany used "genetic algorithms", which mimic Darwinian evolution, to develop strategies for internet servers to use when caching data. Using a simulation they were able to improve download speeds over existing caching schemes. The researchers evolved algorithms for specific types of network, for example networks with a bottleneck. But they also developed algorithms that worked well on various types of network. Source: Neowin

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 10:51PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

Todays Video Card Reviews

ATi Radeon X800XT PCIe review by Beyond3D BFG GeForce 6800GT review by Bjorn3D Leadtek GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB review by Digit-Life Asus AX800 Pro Radeon X800 Pro 256MB review by HotHardware

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:51AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Far Cry Articles

Far Cry v1.2 patch analysis - DriverHeaven Far Cry Interview - FiringSquad Crytek weighs in on Shader Model 3.0 - TechReport Far Cry v1.2 patch Detailed analysis - TomsHardware

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:49AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Corsair DDR 2 667 Soon

The Inquirer reports: We got an email from Asus that claimed that its board that we are currently testing have capability of running far beyond 533MHz, and even 600MHz or more. Corsair has a cure for users that want to overclock heavily as it will soon ship DDR 2 667MHz. Intel's plan is to have this memory ready for its 1066 MHz FPS CPUs and faster platforms that are due to come at the end of this year and next. Full Article

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:44AM GMT +10 by erock | top

AMD's "Celeron Killer"

Benchmark results of the AMD Sempron processor in its incarnation for Socket 754 hit the web. While the chip cannot outperform the more powerful AMD Athlon 64 rivals, it is likely to offer a nice price/performance ratio in the value segment. The new Sempron microprocessors from Advanced Micron Devices will be supplied in a number of flavours depending on the socket the new chips are designed for. The initial versions will be available for Socket A platforms and Socket 754 platforms, while the longer-range prospects include Socket 939 revisions of the chips. Full Article @ Xbit

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:40AM GMT +10 by erock | top

HL2 Beta GeForce 6800 vs Radeon X800

Digit-Life have thrown up their review of Leadtek's WinFast A400 TDH and WinFast A400 Ultra TDH Based on NVIDIA GeForce 6800/6800 Ultra Graphics Cards! What's so interesting about their review is they've thrown in some Half-Life2 (beta) benchies comparing Nvidia's Geforce 6800 Ultra againist ATi's Radeon X800 XT. Source: Warp2Search

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:32AM GMT +10 by erock | top

XP SP2 cracked already?

As seen on The Inquirer: EVEN THOUGH Microsoft has not yet released service pack 2 for Windows XP, word reaches the INQ that its anti-piracy features have already been cracked Microsoft has claimed that it's introduced features in SP2 which mean that illegal users of stolen or cracked activation codes won't be able to upgrade the OS, which is due for release in August of this year. Read More

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:29AM GMT +10 by erock | top

AMD 64 3200+,Upgrader's Perspective

ViperLair looks closely at the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ "As a short term fix, the Socket 754 still has some life left to it. You will not be able to bring it with you later on though, as many manufacturers are only making Socket 939 version motherboards based on the newer chipsets. Availability is still limited though, and Socket 754 systems are something that are readily available now." Source: TCMagazine

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:26AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Intel problem puts PCI Express on hold

Intel really caused a problem with the delay of its long awaited PCI Express chipsets due to the south bridge production problem. All 915 and 925 boards were temporarily withdrawn due to this nasty leaking issue that can kill your RTC and BIOS battery on your beloved motherboard, but as we reported all chips produced after 14th of June have this problem fixed. Nvidia's partners have shipped bridged PCX5900, 5750 and 5300 cards but in very small quantities, we learned. But they still aren't even dreaming to have NV45s, Geforce 6800 Ultra PCI Express units at least for a couple of weeks. Read more

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:23AM GMT +10 by erock | top

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Game Movies

GSC Game World has released a set of four new movie trailers for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, showing more from their futuristic first-person role-playing action game in development. These "Behind the Game" clips come in low and high resolutions, and they demonstrate the game's premise and many of its features in a combined 14 minutes of gameplay footage narrated by THQ global brand manager Darryl Williams. Check them out Source: Warp2Search

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:18AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Quake IV December 31, 2004?

Apparently Amazon.co.uk are showing a release date of December 31st, 2004 for Activision's Quake IV! This item will be released on December 31, 2004. You may order it now and we will dispatch it to you when we receive it from our supplier. Please note that release dates are subject to change.

Posted July. 06, 2004 @ 09:15AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Team Radeon - Your ATI Premium Source

A brand new ATI-specific website has now launched, Team Radeon - Your ATI Preimum Source Website: http://www.teamradeon.com/ Included on the site is 24/7 updated news, The Rumour Mill, ATI Spotlights, and many other features. The site will soon launch its "ATI Tech Database", which will allow visitors to create a free account allowing them to update a profile of what ATI products they own and what kind of modifications they are doing. The feature will also let members chat with other members about the cool things they are doing with their hardware! Source:Warp2search.net

Posted July. 05, 2004 @ 12:00AM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

Need for Speed Underground 2 [PREVIEW]

Games Domain have posted a preview of Need for Speed Underground 2!: Need for Speed: Underground proved to be one of 2003's best-selling games. This was no surprise considering it featured the flashiest visuals yet seen in the genre, purveyed a phenomenal sense of speed, and offered gear-heads plenty of customization options for their vehicle. Link for Preview:Games Domain Source:Warp2search.net

Posted July. 04, 2004 @ 11:58PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

X800Pro - XT Softmods Guide

Warp2search.net has posted a X800Pro - XT Softmods Guide: Some of you guy's have been asking for the bios and flash tool to successfully softmod your X800 Pro Vivo based cards into XT's, enabling the extra 4 pipelines and which cards have been successfully modded! then head the way to 3DCenter's Forum! Link:X800Pro - XT Softmods Guide Try @ Your Own Risk Source:Warp2search.net

Posted July. 04, 2004 @ 11:54PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

ForceWare 61.80

Neowin.net has found some new nvidia forceware drivers: Our bro's over at Neowin send news that they've snagged a new set of Forceware Drivers in the shape of 61.80 for Windows 2000/XP! All Cards Supported Source:Neowin

Posted July. 04, 2004 @ 11:46PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

PolarFLO TT Series (Watercooling)

PolarFLO released their latest series of PC water blocks today beginning with the PolarFLO TT CPU water block. Description below: The PolarFLO TT CPU is the latest in pc water cooling technology. We bring you the best performance at much lower flow rates and at high flow rates. The new design is fully comprehensive and future proof. We decided to take a more feature-rich and performance approach with the TT Series. The features this series offers is unprecedented. The PolarFLO TT Series CPU block is a simple two part design. If you can change the batteries in a flashlight, you can service a PolarFLO TT CPU. The main body of the block rotates to relieve stress and deflection on hoses. All the components are available individually. You can take apart the new PolarFLO TT CPU to clean, modify or interchange parts. The PolarFLO TT CPU uses the PolarFLO TT Series Posi-Seal Barbs and Plugs. These Posi-Seal barbs and plugs are easy to interchange. You can get the PolarFLO TT CPU in a 2 port or 3 port configuration. The low profile design will fit into the smallest cases and with the low flow performance, you don't have to worry about your pump-life. The new PolarFLO TT Series CPU water block is the first in the series, which will be the most professional, high-quality, and top performance series available. Source:Polarflo

Posted July. 02, 2004 @ 10:05PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

Benchmarking Far Cry 1.2

As most of you know we should real soon see a patch (v1.2) for Far Cry which among other things enables the Shader 3.0 support for the new NVIDIA cards. The Tech Report has gotten their hands on the patch and done some benchmarking to see what NVIDIA-owners can look forward to. Read more

Posted July. 02, 2004 @ 08:02PM GMT +10 by Perc | top

AMD takes on Centrino with low power Sem

AMD FINALLY HAS an answer to Intel's Pentium M CPUs used in many Centrino notebook setups. Read more

Posted July. 02, 2004 @ 07:58PM GMT +10 by Perc | top

Nvidia goes for nForce 4

NFORCE 4 will be the name of the project that will finally bring PCI Express to the Athlon K8 market. This chipset will be socket 754/939 ready and 940 compatible and all CPUs Athlon 64s, FX, Sempr0ns and Opterons will work on it. Read more

Posted July. 02, 2004 @ 07:56PM GMT +10 by Perc | top

Panasonic to release Blu-ray recorder

Panasonic's parent company is set to release a DVD recorder based on the Blu-ray Disc format, as a standards battle over next-generation DVD technology heats up. Matsushita Electric Industrial said its DMR-E700BD model, announced Wednesday and scheduled to hit the market July 31, in Japan, supports single-side, dual-layer Blu-ray Discs with a maximum capacity of 50GB. The new machine is capable of recording up to 4.5 hours of digital high-definition programming or up to 63 hours of analog programming, Matsushita Electric said. The product is part of Panasonic's "DIGA" family. Read the entire story at CNET

Posted July. 02, 2004 @ 11:13AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Sony challenges Apple with 20GB player

Sony Electronics will begin selling two hard-drive music players this fall which, combined with its new music download service, will create an iPod-like parallel universe. The consumer electronics giant announced two products late Wednesday: the $400 20GB Network Walkman NW-HD1 and the $500 40GB Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1L. Both players will be available in fall for use with the Sony Connect music download service, which was launched in May. The devices and the service will make Sony the latest to compete with Apple Computer's iPod and iTunes products. Sony's belated arrival compares poorly with its historical leadership position in the portable music player business, said Susan Kevorkian, an analyst with research firm IDC. Read more at CNET

Posted July. 02, 2004 @ 11:11AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Todays Video Card Reviews

Mainstream Video Card roundup by Ati-News.de MSI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB review by Overclockers.co.nz HIS GeForceFX 9550 review by OverclockersOnline eVGA GeForceFX 5700 review by Sudhian XFX GeForceFX 5700 Ultra review by TrustedReviews PNY QuadroFX 3400 PCIe review by AmazonInt AGeForceFX 5900XT 128MB review by PCStats

Posted July. 02, 2004 @ 11:09AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Today's Video Card Reviews

HIS Radeon All-In-Wonder 9600XT review by Bjorn3D nVidia QuadroFX roundup by CGNetworks Gainward GeForceFX 5900XT review by ExplosiveLabs HIS GeForceFX 9550 review by HardAvenue PowerColor Radeon 9600XT review by LegionHardware Gainward GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB review by Skynet-Online

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 09:52PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Samsung SyncMaster 172x Review

Ten years ago, purchasing a flat panel display for use with a PC could be considered crazy or ludicrous. Incredibly high prices for panels that performed poorly made them a novelty for the rich only and a candidate only for laptops. Fast forward to 2004: flat panel sales are accelerating and have surpassed that of their bulky CRT counterparts. Prices have plummeted to that of CRTs years ago. Performance, while not quite approaching that of CRTs, has become much less of an issue because they now can keep up (and often exceed) that of human eyes. Samsung, a forerunner in the LCD field, has taken the initiative and sent us one of their premier displays: the SyncMaster 172x. read more

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 11:45AM GMT +10 by Perc | top

RADEON™ Graphics Chosen for Mac® G5

ATI RADEON 9600XT™ and the optional RADEON 9800XT™. are to power Apple's high-en Power Mac G5 models. Full press release here The RADEON 9600XT will ship standard in Apple’s high-end Power Mac G5 model; the RADEON 9800XT, featuring 256MB of super fast DDR memory is available as a build-to-order option across the line. The RADEON 9800XT has a high precision, programmable 3D pipeline architecture and 256 bit memory interface and delivers a quantum leap in performance and visual realism for digital content creation applications and immersive games.

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 09:11AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Intel, ASUS Ceased Partnership

ASUSTeK Computer, the world’s largest maker of mainboards, and Intel, the world’s largest manufacturer of microprocessors and supporting products, have possibly broken their partnership in the field of making mainboards. To support its mainboard manufacturing, Intel Corp. inked a deal with Wistron, according to reports from DigiTimes and Economic Daily News. While Intel has tremendous plans in the mainboards market, the company does not have its own facilities to make this type of products. As a result, the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker outsourced production to Asian-based mainboard makers. ASUS has been producing mainboards for Intel for quite some time now, but the partnership might come to its end after Intel signed a deal with Wistron. Full article at Xbit-Labs

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 09:08AM GMT +10 by erock | top

RV480 PCI Express in Q4?

The Inquirer have an interesting article on ATI's plan to release their 'RV480 PCI Express' card later this year... ATI said before that 2005 is the time for shader model 3.0 and that would mean that the new R500 chip will have this amongst other nice features. One good question is how much ATI can increase the speed of the chip as the Radeon X800XT Platinum works at 525MHz. We would like to remind you that R423 is 0.13µ (microns) and that this architecture stops at 60 MHz and even if the R480 is 0.11µ, which is not beyond the realms of possibility, it would still have speed limitations. Full Article

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 09:06AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Far Cry patch 1.2 Soon...

Patch 1.2 is in its final stage of production: a nasty scoreboard bug and a CDkey security issue remain to be fixed, but otherwise a huge list of improvement/fixes have been implemented and tested successfully. We’re now localizing all the readme files, and the final candidate will be tested extensively later this week to make sure it is really solid - we don’t want to rush in the last few days after such a long development time. Source: Warp2Search

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 09:02AM GMT +10 by erock | top

CPU Scaling ATI’s and NVIDIA’s Best

[H]ardOCP has a new article that looks at how well ATi and Nvidia latest video cards perform on different platforms and at different CPU speeds. In those reviews we concentrated on finding the best gaming experience that each card provides on one test platform. We used an ABIT IC7-G with a Pentium 4 3.4GHz “C” processor. One thing we have been asked about a lot recently is how these video cards perform across different platforms and levels of CPU speeds.

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 09:01AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Fraps 2.2.2 Released

A new version of Fraps is now available to download: Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX orL technology. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the average framerate between two points. Updates: - Fixed screnshot/movie View buttons not alwaysng folder - Fixed some 256 color capture issues (Age Of Empires 2, Diablo 2) - Now permits video/screen capture where no FPS overlay is displayed (Starcraft & Diablo) - Fixed audio sync when video capture hotkey was pressed before rendering had begun

Posted June. 30, 2004 @ 08:56AM GMT +10 by erock | top

Enemy Territory: Enhancement Pack

Gamer's Hell reports that a enhancement pack for Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is now available for download, adding new skins for axis, helmets, boots, new weaponskins, medicpacks, documents, new flags, minemakers, teamdoors and new sounds. More...

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 11:18PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Todays Video Card Reviews

Galaxy GeForceFX 5700LE review by Beyond3D BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra review by EnvyNews eVGA GeForceFX 5700 review by nVNews Gainward GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB review by Players-Portal Leadtek WinFast A400TDH GeForce 6800 128MB review by TweakPC.de

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 11:14PM GMT +10 by erock | top

Hybrid DVD/CDs in UK

Sony Music International is deciding whether to test-launch DualDisc DVD/CD hybrids in the UK following a successful trial in the US and the formal approval of the format by the DVD Forum. DualDisc essentially involves sticking a CD onto the back of the DVD Video or DVD Audio disc. The CD Audio layer is thinner than a Compact Disc, to ensure the DualDisc falls within the DVD specification thickness of 1.5mm. DualDisc was devised as a way of adding backward compatibility to new audio disc format. For the labels, that allows them to ship a single product rather than separate DVD Audio and CD releases, and ensures consumers can build second-generation audio collections before they switch to new hardware. Entire report @ The Register

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 11:10PM GMT +10 by erock | top

RivaTuner 2.0 RC15 ! RELEASED!

For those of you who haven't heard of Rivatuner, it is one of the (if not the) best Tweak Utilities available for NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon based videocards. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of Detonator and Catalyst drivers. This new build of course supports the new GeForce 6800 and RADEON X800 in every tweakable way possible. Go here to download! Source: Guru3d

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 10:51PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

Welcoming Stx & Northy

We welcome Stx & Northy to the news posting team! Look forward to more news storys from other members soon as well! We look forward to providing you with great daily news coverage.

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 10:28PM GMT +10 by erock | top

New theme for Windows XP?

Neowin.net has found out that there is a new theme, potentially destined for Windows XP, has leaked out of Microsoft and onto the web. The theme appears to have come out of a beta version of Media Center 2005, currently in testing. The theme is not a substantially different incarnation of the existing of Luna, the current default theme for Windows XP. You can see the main changes in the screenshots below; one could describe it as being a 'glass mod' of Luna. Click for screenie 1!!! Click for screenie 2! Source:Neowin.net

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 09:54PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

AnyDVD 3.8.2.2

AnyDVD is a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With AnyDVD's help copy tools like CloneDVD, Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS protected Movies. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like! What's New: - New: Added Audio CD speed control - Some minor fixes and improvements - Updated languages Source:warp2search.net

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 09:44PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

Corsair XMS-XL PC3200 @ XtremeNews.net

New Corsair XMS-XL PC3200: Today comes the review of the last DDR memory by Corsair Memory; the XMS-XL serie, that was showed the last 26 May, is the faster of the PC3200 memories that Corsair has in their inventory. One of the features is the latency time: only 2-2-2-5T. In the review, we´ll check a kit composed by two modules of 512 Mb. Click to read review! BTW I am S.T.x and im new as a newsposter i have been on the forums for a while though and I have to thank perc for introducing me to erock so i can do this thanks! both of you guys!

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 09:29PM GMT +10 by S.T.x | top

NVIDIA SLI Articles

Various articles have been published today on SLI: HardOCP Sudhian Tom's Hardware Firingsquad

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 07:50PM GMT +10 by erock | top

NVIDIA SLI Press Release

As mentioned in earlier posts, NVIDIA today unveiled a revolutionary new technology that enables multiple NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series or NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards to operate in a single PC or workstation for a stunning increase in graphics horsepower. Appearing later this year in PCI Express-based PCs and workstations from the world’s top manufacturers, the new NVIDIA SLI technology takes full advantage of the additional bandwidth and features of this new high-bandwidth bus architecture. NVIDIA SLI features an intelligent communication protocol embedded in the GPU and a high-speed digital interface on the graphics board to facilitate data flow. A complete suite of software provides dynamic load balancing, and advanced rendering and compositing to ensure smooth frame rates and outstanding image quality. Press Release

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 07:42PM GMT +10 by erock | top

NVIDIA Releases SLI

"PC enthusiasts and professionals are constantly searching for ways to increase the performance of their PCs. Scalability—using multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) in a single system with output to a single monitor" NOW if thats not insane then the pope is not catholic for more info

Posted June. 29, 2004 @ 07:15PM GMT +10 by Northy | top

Sierra Gets Shutdown

The lights go out at old-school game company, Sierra, as Vivendi restructures its business. More depressing news for the industry, Vivendi Universal Games has cut 350 staff and shut down Seattle-based Sierra. The venerable games company created some of the most popular action and adventure games in the 80's. The Sierra brand will live on in name only and projects tied to the Sierra pipeline, Half-Life 2, Ground Control II and Tribes: Vengeance are already being developed by other teams within Vivendi. Also affected by the restructuring, the Hoyle brand of card and board games have been canceled. "Restructuring the organization and reducing our cost base are necessary to improve our operating effectiveness and profitability," said VU Games CEO Bruce Hack, in as terse a manner as possible. "This constitutes another important step in our turnaround plan aimed to better position the company for growth." Along with VU Games restructuring, the game company is prepping up for profitability with a powerful lineup for the second half of 2004. VU Games is looking for some higher revenues with titles like World of Warcraft, Spyro: A Hero's Tail and the well-received The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Source: Gigex

Posted June. 28, 2004 @ 10:49PM GMT +10 by erock | top

nForce 4

NFORCE 4 will be the name of the project that will finally bring PCI Express to the Athlon K8 market. This chipset will be socket 754/939 ready and 940 compatible and all CPUs Athlon 64s, FX, Sempr0ns and Opterons will work on it. Full Article

Posted June. 28, 2004 @ 10:46PM GMT +10 by erock | top

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