Tech News
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Nvidia profit plummets
Published: Friday, August 6, 2004 | By: DennisnVidia is posting losses.
This is not voting well for the stock price.
"In the early part of the decade, Nvidia surpassed ATI to become the largest graphics provider in the world. In late 2002 and early 2003, however, Nvidia had to postpone a new line of chips at a time when ATI's designs were catching up in terms of performance."
So could this be due to the LACK of 6800 video cards in the retail market?? I’ll let you be the judge. -
PolarFLO TT Series VGA and Chipset Release
Published: Thursday, August 5, 2004 | By: Dennis"The PolarFLO TT VGA and Chipset 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."
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Intel dual-core processors ahead of schedule
Published: Thursday, August 5, 2004 | By: Dennis"The Smithfield processors will be resident in socket LGA-775, currently in use on Intel 915/925 motherboards. This will limit the impact on motherboard makers as they move to the new platform, the sources explained. Motherboard makers have welcomed this move by Intel, the sources added."
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Lots o Doom News
Published: Thursday, August 5, 2004 | By: DennisWith the release of Doom III much of the hardware buzz is either around the release of the game or around the hardware that you "should" have to run it. Here are a couple of articles from mainstream sources on the game release.
The Age of Doom
"In 1993 six geeks had a digital nightmare that changed the culture. It's about to get far creepier"
Doom 3 may doom users' current systems
"The latest versions of popular gaming titles such as "Doom" and "Half-Life" will have PC owners tracking down hardware upgrades to keep up with the demanding requirements of these power-hungry programs."
I just got my copy of Doom III the other day, thanks Breakdown, and if all goes well it should be a very Doomtastic weekend.
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A quick tweak guide for DOOM 3
Published: Tuesday, August 3, 2004 | By: DennisThe Tech Report has a little something posted to help your Doom III performance (for those with the game already). I can't confirm if what is posted actually works but does cover a few confusing aspects.
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NL: Review Block - Memory Stuffs
Published: Tuesday, August 3, 2004 | By: DennisWith most of the memory mfgs hitting a timing wall with DDR1 many of these reviews will be saying about the same thing. (i.e. good overclocking, low timings, good stuffs, buy now)
- Mushkin PC3200 Special Edition @ MadShrimps
- Corsair TwinX1024-3200XLPRO @ TechIMO
- SimpleTech PC3700 Nitro @ RojakPot
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Albatron PCX5750 Review @ R&B
Published: Tuesday, August 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"As always Albatron products come in very nice boxes and this is not different. On the back we can find specificaitons and on the front we have the name of the product with big letters and the Albatron logo."
This is one of them 5750 PCI-E cards so it won't really be a good choice for your high end gaming but for the average joe looking to be on the cutting edge with PCI-E and the Intel 775 Prescott this might be a good match.
Then again this is an Albatron product we are talking about here.
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Intel Achieves Major Milestones In EUV Lithography Program
Published: Tuesday, August 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"Lithography is the technology used to print circuits onto computer chips. In order to pack more and more transistors onto a chip, semiconductor manufacturers must print ever-smaller features. EUV lithography is being developed because current chip-printing technology is expected to reach its limits in the next few years. Intel is targeting this technology for high- volume manufacturing in 2009."
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MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR Review @ Tech-Arena
Published: Tuesday, August 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"As I said when I first received this board I was all ready to go, as I had used an MSI board in the past, so I knew that I would have a nice simple installation with no hassle at all, I was right."
I recently bought this very board for a server I was building and I will agree, the installation and setup went very smoothly with no problems. That is until a few bios modifications (aka overclocking) caused the bios to corrupt.
BIOS corruption on nForce2 motherboards is a fairly common occurrence and provided you have the equipment, is fairly easy to fix. In some instances you can remove the BIOS chip, reset the CMOS, re-install the BIOS chip, and away you go. Unfortunately for this MSI board it required that I "Hot Flash" a new image on the chip. If any of you need some pointers on how this was done, pose the question in the Ninjalane Message Forum and I will elaborate.
The only sad part of this whole news posting is that my comments for this news post are longer than the actual review.
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Toxic X800 Pro @ Rage3D
Published: Monday, August 2, 2004 | By: DennisThis is that funky card from Sapphire with the huge aftermarket cooler on it. Move over FX5900, here comes something meatier.
"Framerate is still everything (anyone who says differently is full of it), so the most obvious option for an AIB looking to grab some extra attention is to modify the videocard BIOS to increase the usually conservative core and/or memory speeds set by their IHV guidelines. The problem there is that the two big IHVs don't like their AIB partners messing around with the BIOS as any potential instability introduced there is usually looked at as the fault of the IHV and usually not the AIB. If the AIB ignores the IHV guidelines and goes ahead and factory overclocks the card anyway then they can expect to lose their IHV warranty and support. Obviously that's not something any AIB would want to risk."
Gotta love that “framerate is everything” quote. It would seem that most everyone thinks this way except for the [H]. I say if you got the framerate start turning up the details until you achive a good mix of speed and visual quality.
As for overclocking, I don't mind a good factory overclock and since many companies are doing this either in drivers or BIOS you can't really do much about it, unless the card melts down.
