Tech News
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Security statistics show surprising finds
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: Dennis"For example, Windows security holes generally receive a lot of press because of the software's popularity, but the statistics show that Windows is not the subject of significantly more advisories than other operating systems."
It's true, the article goes over the "major" O/S's and discovers that they are all about the same when it comes to security holes. -
Microsoft confirms Windows XP64 will be OEM only
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: Dennis"Windows XP64 will be sold through system builders and distributors and people will be able to buy it pre-installed on a system builder PC "or just purchase the OS with some piece of hardware".
But, he said, that could be anything - even a cable."
"Hello, I would like to buy this 64-bit USB2.0 cable please, oh and while your at it throw in that copy of WindowsXP64 too. com'on, chop chop."
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Raidmax SAMURAI Titan Review @ TecCentral
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: DennisThis is prolly one of the coolest cases that I've seen in a very long time. The Raidmax Titan is basically a standard case covered in some stylized PVC and automotive paint. Looking at the case you can tell it was styled after an Alienware system but is different enough that people won't think you are stupid for buying one. (Alienware system that is).
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New PolarFLO TT Series CPU Coolers
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: Dennis"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 new blocks look great though happen to be designed for use on "heatspreader enabled" systems meaning that use on the AthlonXP is out of the question. -
Corsair Memory Announces 667 Megahertz XMS2 Modules
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: DennisNot quite ProSeries, yet.
"These come in several density options as well as in matched pairs. Developed speci?cally for Alderwood and Grantsdale DDR2 platforms, these products range from 256MB to 1GB. These products are based on the new DDR2 technology which increases the memory bandwidth available for memory intensive applications. JEDEC standard latencies at 667 MHz are 5-5-5-15, but Corsair’s 5300C4 modules are rated at 4-4-4-12 to deliver exceptional performance."
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CoolerMaster AquaGate Review @ OCAU
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: Dennis"Given that one of the aims of my current PC upgrade is to try to keep the systems as quiet as possible, I found myself limited in terms of cooling options. So, when CoolerMaster sent us one of their new AquaGate 'Liquid Cooling System' units to look at, I was very interested to see how it performs in terms of its cooling ability and also if it would allow for quiet computing."
I can agree, watercooling appears to be the solution of quiet vs performance, since you can get both (to a certain degree) you just can't go wrong. -
Asetek WaterChill Antarctica DYO @ Virtual-Fusion
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: Dennis" One of the great innovations in this block, is the existence of three connectors. But so that it will be necessary to use three connectors? Simple, one of them (of the center) is for entrance, while two more external they are for the “exit of water”. Of this form it is made sure that the water is extracted of waterblock badly enters in this, increasing, in theory, its general performance."
The new Antarctica block from asetek is a really good waterblock though isn't very flexible due to the push on hose connectors. You either love them or hate them; last I checked people were about 40-60. -
Mobo makers may not lower 865 motherboard prices
Published: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 | By: Dennis"Taiwanese motherboard makers may not lower prices for 865 motherboards in the third quarter as planned, as the defect found in Intel’s recently launched 915/925 chipsets may delay PC industry migration to the new Intel Pentium platform, according to sources at the makers.
Although Intel is expected to solve the problems related to the ICH6 south bridge chipset this week, the recall is likely to weaken the confidence in the new Pentium 4 chipsets at channel distributors. This should delay the implementation of the new platform, said the sources." -
3Dlabs Unleashes Wildcat Realizm 800 PCI Express Graphics Accelerator
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: DennisThis is some pretty big news esp. with what we know about nVidia.
"MILPITAS, Calif. – June 15, 2004 - 3Dlabs Inc., Ltd., a leading innovator in professional visual processing, today announced unprecedented power and performance capabilities for professional graphics with the PCI Express-based Wildcat Realizm 800. The fastest professional PCI Express-based graphics accelerator that will hit the market this year, the Wildcat Realizm 800 features a unique Wildcat Realizm Vertex/Scalability Unit (VSU) and dual Wildcat Realizm Visual Processing Units (VPU) to deliver over 700 GFLOPS of floating-point graphics processing."
Granted these aren't gaming cards but are using multi-core GPU technology on a single board. This isn't anything new for 3Dlabs since many of their high end cards have used multiple GPU processors in the past though pair that with the possibility of linking more than one card together and you have a plethora of video processing power.
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nVidia SLI Announced Today
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: DennisSLI was the shiz back in the day and with a 87-90% boost in performance it is also the shiz today. Now all we need is some mainstream enthusiast boards that support dual 16x PCIe. DFI anyone?
""That's the SLI connector," he joked. I responded with what I thought was the proper sarcasm. I mean, us old timers like to recall the days of the ancient 3dfx Voodoo 2 graphics cards, when 3D graphics on a home computer was still a new experience, and Voodoo 2 SLI ruled the graphics world."
- nVidia SLI @ HardOCP
- SLI Resurrected @ The Tech Report
- SLI is Back @ HotHardware
It should be noted that SLI doesn't stand for "Scan Line Interleaving" like it did back in 3dfx days bur rather "Scalable Link Interface". I don't think many enthusiast users will care much.
