ATI Cancels X800XT PE?
ATI X800XT PE product has been discontinued as of Tuesday, August 10, 2004. According to a letter sent out to customers who ordered the X800XT PE from CDW.
NV43 Info
The Chinese site GZeasy.com have snagged some snaps of Nvidia's NV43 aka 6600 GT GPU which scores 8083 in 3DMark03.
NVIDIA Unveils Details On New GeForce 6
NVIDIA will soon announce a new card in to their GeForce 6 family according to a conference call with Jen Hsun Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA. In the conference call he stated that "In a few days we're going to turn up the heat another notch. At Quakecon in Texas, a mecca for gamers and truly a phenomenon to witness, we will officially unveil our newest mainstream member of the GeForce 6 family". Read more..
TeamDFI Motherboard Giveaway
TeamDFI and DFI Inc. are happy to offer you the chance to win one of our new flagship motherboards, the Intel based 925X-T2. This board has a MSRV of $230.
DVD Burner Round-up @ TechSpot
With today?s computers becoming more of a media focal point, data replication is becoming more critical than ever. Computers five years ago were used for surfing the internet, micro-processing and some gaming as well. Today?s high-end computers take on yet another daunting task: creating and storing your unforgettable moments with digital camera images or perhaps a digital video. These devices create amazing quality images, but they also take up a tremendous amount of hard drive space.
GeForce 6850 GT
Nvworld.ru have snagged a Roadmap that shows nvidia's PCI Express chipset the GeForce 6850 GT! Click Here to check it out!
ATi Mobility Radeon X600 Preview
ATi has previously announced their Mobility Radeon X600 GPU codenamed M24 at Computex Taipei back in June this year and is the first mobile GPU offering that is native PCI Express based. VR-Zone got hold of a pre-production notebook from an OEM manufacturer for some quick testing to bench against the Mobility Radeon 9700.
Enabling 16 Pipelines On Your GeForce 6800
Alexey Nikolaychuk, the author of RivaTuner, has found the mechanism, which NVIDIA cards use to set 12 or 16 pipelines on GeForce 6800 and 6800GT/Ultra, respectively. Of course, if a card has 4 offline pipelines defective, it will produce artefacts and we can't guarantee that any GeForce 6800 can be remade into a 6800GT.
Intel's Pentium4 F 64bit Processor
Intel announces its 64bit Pentium4 processor. With "Extended Memory 64 Technology ", the processor will be able to support 64bit(32bit as well) applications. However, it's said that the core is basically just Prescott, hence I wonder how fast it can be...
Native Command Queuing [NCQ] Technology Explained
Hard drives are the most mechanically-driven data-devices in a computer system. Due to this, hard drives are quite inefficient and are the usually culprits for keeping your system from its true potential. Obviously, mechanical devices are significantly slower than their electronic counterparts, and thus, one can only wait for the first fully electronic hard drive. Click here to read the full in-depth article
Early Doom 3 Benchmarks @ GD
Gamers-Depot spent the last umpteen hours benchmarking Doom 3 and covered all sorts of video cards - from a GeForce 5700 to an ATI X800 XT ro a GeForce 6800 Ultra - it's all here to help you decide which graphics card to upgrade to and to see how your current run-of-the-mill card lags behind:
POWER5 Performance Brief
Ace's Hardware have thrown up their look at IBM's POWER5 processor!
A new processor has appeared at the top of the SPECmine Top 20 for SPECfp2000: IBM's new dual-core, dual-thread POWER5. IBM has published a variety of benchmark results for its new POWER5-based systems: the 2-way p5 520, 4-way p5 550, and 16-way p5-570. The results are quite impressive thanks to a number of improvements over POWER4 to the core and cache/memory subsystem. All levels of the cache/memory heirarchy have been improved.
A new processor has appeared at the top of the SPECmine Top 20 for SPECfp2000: IBM's new dual-core, dual-thread POWER5. IBM has published a variety of benchmark results for its new POWER5-based systems: the 2-way p5 520, 4-way p5 550, and 16-way p5-570. The results are quite impressive thanks to a number of improvements over POWER4 to the core and cache/memory subsystem. All levels of the cache/memory heirarchy have been improved.
UNIWILL N258KA0@amd64notebooks
This is a custom build notebook based on Uniwill N258KA0 barebones. The barebones are from http://store.ekm.com/barebones.html and the parts are from http://newegg.com. The barebones has everything except: CPU, HDD, RAM and Wireless module. The warranty is 1 year for the barebones and between 1-3 years for the parts. For those who are interested the total price is ~$1650.
20-21in TFT group test
Fancy a new TFT monitor? Then look no further than to TrustedReviews latest group test of 20-21" TFT monitors.
Power Consumption of Contemporary Graphics Accelerators
X-bitlabs have thrown up their latest article which looks at the power consumption of contemporary graphics cards! Part 1 covers ATI video cards.
Well, ATI?s claims that the RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition consumes no more than 70W are fully confirmed. Curiously enough, the biggest portion of the consumption falls on the additional power connector, while the AGP slot only supplies about 10W in the Burn mode. When overclocking, I increased the GPU frequency by 4.7%, and the memory frequency by 8.7%. The power consumption grew up slightly: by 4.6% in the Idle mode and by 4.2% in the Burn mode. Even overclocked, the card never reached a power consumption of 70W
Well, ATI?s claims that the RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition consumes no more than 70W are fully confirmed. Curiously enough, the biggest portion of the consumption falls on the additional power connector, while the AGP slot only supplies about 10W in the Burn mode. When overclocking, I increased the GPU frequency by 4.7%, and the memory frequency by 8.7%. The power consumption grew up slightly: by 4.6% in the Idle mode and by 4.2% in the Burn mode. Even overclocked, the card never reached a power consumption of 70W
Nintendo Announces Official Name and New Design for Nintendo DS
In preparation for the launch of Nintendo DS in North America and Japan later this year, Nintendo today announces major global developments for the innovative dual-screen, wireless, hand-held video game system.
Mega GPU Performance Comparison
Today TweakTown have something special for visual fans. They have collected six of the fastest, latest and greatest graphics cards currently on the market from nVidia and ATI including GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, 6800 Ultra AGP and PCI Express, Radeon 9800XT and the AGP versions of the X800PRO and X800XT PE. They cover each card briefly and then compare them all in their usual array of benchmarks. The BIG BOYS have come out to play!
ATI Introduces Mobility Radeon 9800
Just got word that Beyond3D have thrown up their perview of ATi's Mobility Radeon 9800 GPU!
Today ATI is announcing their latest notebook graphics chip, Mobility Radeon 9800. ATI state that they are targeting the emerging "desknote" market, which have bigger power budgets and better thermal environments and their desktop and mobile teams have collaborated on to mix the full performance of their desktop parts with the mobile integration and power management features, including clock gating, to cater for the "Mobile Gaming Enthusiast".
Today ATI is announcing their latest notebook graphics chip, Mobility Radeon 9800. ATI state that they are targeting the emerging "desknote" market, which have bigger power budgets and better thermal environments and their desktop and mobile teams have collaborated on to mix the full performance of their desktop parts with the mobile integration and power management features, including clock gating, to cater for the "Mobile Gaming Enthusiast".