Tech News
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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.
Whoa, let me untie my tongue.
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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. -
BFG 6800 Ultra OC @ Envy News
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: DennisBFG is one of the big video card names here in the US and has started to go down the road of factory overclocking to help sell products. The card looks to be a reference board so you can be assured that whatever overclock you can get from BFG you can also get from just about any other 6800Ultra on (or off) the market.
"Now that you know the speed of the 6800 Ultra chipset is sufficient for any game currently out, is it really enough for the sp33d ph34k in you? Using the “Auto Detect” feature in the nVIDIA drivers we were granted the clock speeds of 444MHz on the core, and 1.13GHz (effective) on the RAM. This allowed a 3% boost over the stock speed of the BFG 6800U OC, and a 7% speed boost over the regular 6800 Ultra."
phj34r th3r p00r l33+ sk1llz.
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DFI New Flagship LANParty 925X-T2 Motherboard
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: Dennis"Meeting the increasing power requirement of the new LGA 775 processors, the new LANParty 925X-T2 features 4-phase PWM to increase efficiency in heat dissipation and improve stability by lowering power consumption each phase bears. For each phase of PWM, DFI uses 4 MOSFETs to provide parallel load sharing. In this scenario, the total power consumption is diminished and enables the motherboard to stay cooler"
You'll need an Intel 775, DDR2, and PCI Express video card to run this board. The processor and memory will be easy to get, the video card on the other hand may not. -
Danger Den TDX Waterblock @ Club Overclocker
Published: Friday, June 25, 2004 | By: DennisThe last time I checked these guys are located not more than 45min away from the Ninjalane Head offices. Sad they never send us news directly.
"So the question is, can the Danger Den TDX hang with alternative forms of cooling? Can it remove enough heat from our 3.0E Prescott and give us enough cooling power to overclock? Well in this review we're going to give you a good idea at what is possible with water cooling, but most of all keep it in the case to give us good portability and user friendliness."
For those of you that don't remember this is the 2-barb version of the popular RBX that we reviewed here. -
XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra @ Hexus
Published: Friday, June 25, 2004 | By: DennisThe way I see it there will be a 3 way battle for the top 6800 Ultra card between XFX, Gainward, and BFG. Though if they all use the reference design the battle will be over price and market share since performance will be the same.
"XFX, while deviating on the presentation front, don't deviate from the reference cooler with their current generation 6800 Ultra. Whispers reach me of a new cooler for future high-end XFX 6800 products, but for now they just use the reference design." -
Researchers warn of infectious Web sites
Published: Friday, June 25, 2004 | By: Dennis"NetSec's Houlahan advocated drastic action.
"I told my wife, unless it is absolutely necessary and unless you are going to a site like our banking site, stay off the Internet right now," he said."
Why not tell the kids too.
Seriously though this is a huge deal for people browsing the net using IE and visiting sites using IIS. The infection is triggered by some JavaScript that is appended to the bottom of every webpage served up by the infected webserver.
It would almost seem to me that by disabling Javascript you could elude the infection, or switch to something cool like Mozilla or FireFox
On a side note it would seem that one of my previous webhosts and the worse hosting company in the world, Interland, got hacked not to long ago. -
COMDEX 2004 Postponed aka Cancelled
Published: Thursday, June 24, 2004 | By: Dennis"Once one of the world's largest, and most-looked-forward-to, computer-industry trade shows, it's being "postponed" so it can be reshaped. A COMDEX Advisory Board has been set up to determine how COMDEX can, "best meet the future needs of the industry," says the show's website here."
The show has been on a downward spiral for quite some time now, but on the flop side CES is been picking up the slack. With any luck Ninjalane will be in Las Vegas covering the event. Maybe even in real-time. -
Intel Nocona foretells 64-bit desktop CPUs?
Published: Thursday, June 24, 2004 | By: DennisThis sounds familar? didn't AMD go down this path with Opteron?, I think they did.
"Intel’s planned launch of its next-generation Xeon processor, codenamed Nocona, next week has stirred a wave of market reports that the chipset giant may soon come out with a 64-bit desktop chip, according to sources at Taiwanese PC makers.
The Nocona chips will be available at clock speeds of 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.6 GHz. The Nocona will be Intel’s first chip that incorporates the EM64T (extended memory 64 technology) that will allow servers and workstations to run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, said the sources." -
nVidia GeForce 6800 ref @ t-break
Published: Thursday, June 24, 2004 | By: DennisFor the money the 6800 is a pretty good buy (provided that you can get one) though based on the benchmark numbers it might be worth the extra $$ to get the GT or Ultra version, even if you are going to overclock.
