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Latest News - April 2006
- Quadtet: Nvidia GeForce 7900 Quad SLI Performance Unveiled
- Quake 4 v1.2.1 - SMP A Reality?
- Intel's Pentium XE 965 and 955 Processors
- Linux's Coexistence with Windows
- Wireless USB To The Rescue?
- Google Goes 3D with SketchUp
- PS3 Release Date, Pricing Revealed?
- Intel and AMD Frustrating Mobo Vendors
- Seagate 750GB Drives In Stock!
- Nintendo Ditches Revolution For Wii
- Terabyte Storage and TiVO compatibility for Notebook PCs
- Mobile ATA hard drives compared
- Radeon X1900 GT Specs Revealed?
- Budget Overclocking Beyond 4GHz
- PixelMagic Plasma Enhancer 1000
- GeForce 7950 (Quad SLI) to support SLI Anti-Aliasing x32
- Voodoo PC OMEN a121x CrossFire Extreme Gamer PC
- Internet 2's Network To Get a Facelift
- Gamers May Soon Control Action With Thoughts
- NVIDIA To Fab Chips at UMC
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All News for April 2006
We've all been reading about NVIDIA's Quad-SLI technology for months, but performance data has been a little hard to come by. The folks at Xbit Labs aim to change that though with this article that explores Quad-SLI performance with 10 games. Unfortunately, the site seems to be going up and down at the moment. "When announcing...
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The crew at Phoronix is investigating the benefits of using SMP with the latest v1.2.1 patch for Quake 4 under Linux. They didn't have much luck though. Our experience in a Windows environment was much more positive, however. In CPU-bound situations, enabling SMP with Q4 under Windows resulted in some significant performance...
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The HardwareZone has taken a look at Intel's current flagship Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and 965 processors. We evaluated both of these CPUs a while back as well. You can see our take on the 955 here, and the 965 here. "Succeeding their lackluster predecessors, the new Pentium...
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XYZ Computing's EIC, Sal Cangeloso (yet another tech editor whose name ends in a vowel), has posted an editorial regarding the future of Linux's coexistence with Windows. I don't use Linux regularly, but I have experimented with a handful of popular distros just to keep on top of the technology. If more people did the same,...
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It's not here just yet, but Wireless USB devices are on the way and they'll likely do wonders for cleaning that jumble of cables writhing around behind (or even on top of) your desk. For a primer on what the technology entails, check out this concise article at Auphan Online....
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Google has launched a free version of the 3D modeling software it acquired when it bought @Last Software last month. Google SketchUp, which is free for personal use, includes simple tools for creating 3D models of a variety of items, including houses, sheds, decks, home additions, and woodworking projects....
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IGN reports Playstation Magazine's latest issue has the 411 on the official launch date on the PS3. According to the magazine, the long-awaited gaming console and its online service will arrive in early November for a cool $399. Sounded fishy to us, so we put in a call to Sony. What...
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DigiTimes reports that both AMD and Intel are making moves which are frustrating motherboard vendors. With regards to Intel, vendors are less than thrilled to see the company aggressively pulling in the launch dates for Woodcrest, Conroe, and Merom. With products launching months ahead of schedule, motherboard vendors now need to creatively...
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After searching through PriceGrabber, we found that Seagate's recently announced 750GB hard drive is in stock at no less than six online vendors. Being able to boast of having the highest capacity is a right which doesn't come cheap as prices vary from $499 to $540. Regardless, when a 500GB hard drive just isn't enough,...
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The Revolution is over. Today Nintendo has announced that the console formerly known as "Revolution", shall officially be called "Wii"(pronounced "we"). "While the code-name "Revolution" expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. Wii will break down that wall that separates video game players from everybody...
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Addonics Announces CardBus eSATA RAID5/JBOD Controller Terabyte Storage Capability, High-Speed Transfers, and TiVO compatibility for Notebook PCs SAN JOSE, CA (April 27, 2006) - Notebook PC users can now have high performance SATA technology, RAID 5 and a TeraByte of external storage capability via one CardBus slot with Addonics Technologies...
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If you're looking for information on the ultimate mobile ATA hard drive, our friends at the Tech Report have the scoop. Geoff just posted up a mobile hard drive round-up that'll arm you with the information you need to make an educated purchase. "To gain a better understanding...
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Our buddy Fudo over at The Inquirer has just posted some new information regarding ATI's upcoming Radeon X1900 GT GPU. Apparently, yields for R580 are stellar as the assumed 500MHz core frequency for this GPU is supposedly going to be a stunning 575MHz. In similar fashion, the estimated 1GHz memory frequency is now said to be 1200MHz....
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MadShrimps has posted a brief article which outlines a budget-oriented mission to overclock two different Intel CPU's well beyond 4GHz. Both the moderately priced Pentium D 805 and the Celeron D 356 were placed in an ASUS P5LD2 motherboard and cooled by a Thermaltake Sonic Tower heatsink. Seeing 4GHz in the rear-view mirror...
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Looking to improve image quality on your TV? Hardware Zone has a neat device that can do just that. While you probably won't see much improvement with content like DVD's, it did manage to up the quality on VCDs and improve TV signal quality. "Our tests have concluded that...
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First Nvidia decides that two video cards just wasn't enough, so they came out with Quad SLI. Now we have Nvidia rolling out some new image quality options, as they'll soon be introducing 32x Anti-Aliaisng. Well, I guess they had to do something with all that extra horse power. Although this really isn't breaking...
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Good Evening All! Tonight we seriously have a HOT one for ya. Voodoo PC's new OMEN CrossFire is on the test bench and we're poppin' the hood down on Sunset Strip for all to see. 2.95GHz of Athlon 64 power, coupled with a pair of Radeon X1900 XTs, expertly liquid-cooled throughout. It's drool time people. ...
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You think your broadband connection is fast? Think again. Internet 2's network is getting revamped with a huge backbone that'll be able to pump some serious data, for use in high-bandwidth experiments. Computerworld has some of the specifics posted in this article. "Internet2's...
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Have you ever gotten fragged in your favorite game because your response time wasn't good enough to avoid enemy fire? You swear you saw the shot coming, but just couldn't move your hand fast enough to get out of the way. Perhaps some new technology in the works will help in these situations by linking the game action directly...
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Traditionally a key Fab strictly for ATI's GPU production, Digitimes reports that UMC supposedly has landed an order from NVIDIA to produce 90u GPU's. Although few details regarding the deal are known, this is surely a move on NVIDIA's part to assist in keeping costs down and ensure that there is always enough...
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Seagate Expands Desktop Hard Drive Lead With 750GB Monster Built on Perpendicular Recording Technology SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., April 26 -- Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX), the world's number one hard drive maker, today surged to new levels of areal density and storage capacity leadership with the introduction of the world's first desktop...
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In a follow-up to the distinctive 5.0MP dual-lens EasyShare V570, Kodak has announced the new 6.1MP EasyShare V610. The dual Schneider-Kreuznach C-Variogon zoom lenses are still carried over with the V610, but this time one has a focal length of 38-114mm while the second lens goes from 130-380mm....
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