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It would seem that Intel’s CEO is a bit mad about production delays, so much so that he wrote an open letter to all Intel employees telling them to improve performance. Thanks Joe.
Craig Barrett, the chief executive of Intel Corp, has called on employees to focus on "actions and attitudes" to halt a string of product delays and manufacturing problems that have frustrated the world's largest chip maker.
CoolTechZone has posted an explanation of memory timings for those of you who still don’t understand how system memory works.
The Memory controller is an essential component in any computer. Its function is to oversee the movement of data into and out of main memory. It also determines what type of data integrity checking, if any, is supported.
This article talks about the information you share online and how if it is leaked, lost or stolen…you are basically out of luck. This particular article focuses mainly on the airline industry and its outrageous behavior, but it applies to everything.
A federal court recently ruled that website privacy policies aren't binding, because nobody reads them. The implications are far reaching for contract law and the Internet.
You guys have got to check out this modular power supply. Tell me these things aren’t hella cool looking, you can even get them with UV reactive cables.
The all new power supply from Ultra features innovative "plug-in" device connections. The power cables can disconnect from the power supply, allowing you to keep your case interior clear for better airflow and looks.
VR-Zone has an interesting interview with ATi’s Andrew Dodd. They talk about Pixel Shader 3.0, SLI ATi cards and Catalyst stuff among other things. Here’s a question on Futuremark I found interesting:
Obviously the point of a benchmark is to measure performance. The problem with benchmarks is that everyone obviously wants to get the absolute highest score possible, and sometimes this can lead to unfortunate situations. The whole point of a benchmark is to try and measure the real-world performance of a graphics card. So if you're doing anything specific for a benchmark then you're defeating the whole purpose of the benchmark.
Speaking of Futuremark, the crew at Beyond3D sent a handful of interview questions over to the Futuremark team for a little Q&A session. The answers are a bit wordy, but here is a question on PCI Express I found interesting:
Patric: This is also still work in progress. PCI-Express is indeed one of the latest hypes in PC hardware, so it would be nice to utilize that somehow.
AMD today announced the availability of AMD Sempron™ processors, a new family of processors that redefine everyday computing for value-conscious buyers of desktop and notebook PCs. The AMD Sempron and Mobile AMD Sempron processors are designed to deliver best-in-class performance and a full-feature set to meet the evolving day-to-day computing needs of home and business PC users.
ATI Technologies Inc. today raised the performance bar to unprecedented heights with the introduction of MOBILITY™ RADEON™ 9800. Designed for the mobile gaming enthusiast, MOBILITY RADEON 9800 enables users to enjoy the latest DirectX®9 games the way they were meant to be played – at optimal settings for the highest levels of performance.
NVIDIA Corporation will host a conference call to discuss its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2005 on August 5, 2004 at 2:00 PM, Pacific Time. The Company's prepared remarks will be followed by a question and answer period, which will be limited to questions from analysts and institutional investors. To listen to the conference call, please dial 706-679-0543; no password is required.
When Makinde Adeagbo and 21 other undergraduate college students arrived here in June for a five-week computer-science training program on Microsoft's corporate campus, they were excited about the opportunity to get an inside look at life at Microsoft. Among the surprises: how much input everyone has in defining the products they work on; how much pride everyone takes in their job; and, of course, the free beverages Microsoft provides to employees.
It looks as though Intel has plans to merge the Xeon and Itanium platforms into one. Good idea? I think so, but that is just me.
Intel will move its separate Itanium and Xeon microprocessor architectures to a common system platform by 2007. The plan could spell bigger margins for resellers if it succeeds in repositioning the high-end, 64-bit Itanium as a mainstream replacement for the Xeon commodity server CPU.
We told you about this two weeks ago, but there is more news on Intel’s plans to cut some mobile CPUs from the line-up. The mobile Intel Pentium 4 and mobile Pentium 4-M processors will be phased out over the rest of the year.
The company issued a Product Change Notification on Friday telling its customers of the changes. The Mobile Intel Pentium 4 and Mobile Intel Pentium 4-M processors will be gradually taken out of Intel's product lineup over the remainder of 2004.
That is technically an oxymoron when you say world’s smartest crash dummy, after all, he still isn’t smart enough to not drive straight into a wall at 80mph.
Improved vehicle design and increased passenger safety are among the benefits expected from the world's first internationally accepted side-impact crash test dummy that made its official debut on 22 June 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Researchers have developed a program to simplify the debugging process. Insert your own Half-Life 2 delay joke here (rimshot please).
"You are trying to make guesses about where the problem is and prove your hypothesis. A lot of time programmers guess wrong ... and add new bugs because they were trying to fix something that wasn't broken."
The video card that is stealing everyone’s thunder is the GeForce 6800 GT line of cards. Unfortunately the 6800GT is also stealing thunder from the high end NVIDIA cards as well as the competition, but that is another topic. PCPerspective has the eVGA branded version of the 6800GT on the review bench for a little benchmark action.
The eVGA e-GeForce 6800 GT video card is proving that NVIDIA's technology in there 6000 series of graphics cards is ready to compete with ATI's X800 line.
Swiftech’s latest waterblock, the Swiftech MCW6000-P is being put to the test in Portugal. Grab a translator and check this review out.
The MCW6000 proved to be an high performance waterblock, being capable of beating his brother, the MCW5000 showing how far can this new Swiftech concept go.
I know many of you have had hard drive problems and sometimes you just KNOW your hard drive is just hanging by a thread. Mike Johnson sent me these pictures of a computer that came into his IT department for repair. Now that is funny.
All you NVIDIA video card owners will want to know that new 61.77 are out today. The driver package weighs in at only 12MB for the English version. Here is a small list of improvements / features:
Add support for GeForce 6800 series. Complete support for NVIDIA PCI-E GPUs. Consumer electronic display support for DVI-based digital displays, such as widescreen plasma screens. QuickZoom – ease eye strain and enable ergonomic computing with easy Windows magnification. Updated application profiles allow users to assign multiple profiles for each application. Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 1.5 support.
Most of you probably noticed that Google was offline a few times yesterday. The reason was a new worm which is a variant of MyDoom. Most popular anti-virus software will have an update by now so update your protection. Just so you know...we think virus / worms suck and so do the people behind them.
A fast-spreading computer worm that uses Web search sites to find victims made a broad assault on computers worldwide on Monday, causing problems for Google on the day it offered new details about its initial public offering, security experts said. The spread of the worm, a variant of an Internet attack called MyDoom, was blamed for sporadic outages and slowdowns on Google.
Somehow, there just is just something about a video card that has a name that sounds like it will kill you that I really like. The Sapphire Radeon X800Pro Toxic Edition reviewed by VR-Zone is no exception, I think the little added “toxic” touch is what piqued my interest. I must be a marketers wet dream.
From our testing, it is easy to say that Sapphire has a true winner on their hands with their latest graphics card, the Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro Toxic Edition.
The other end of the spectrum is video cards with names like the HiS Excalibur Radeon X800Pro Ice II ViVo Limited Edition . Whew, that is a mouthful. Besides the fancy name, this card has a pretty damn nice heatsink / cooling solution.
The IceQ II is extremely fast, exceptionally quiet and lets not forget the overclocking ability thanks to the HUGE iTurbo VPU heatsink.
Creative Technology Ltd. a worldwide leader in digital entertainment solutions for PC users, today announced its agreement with id Software(TM) relating to Creative's patented shadowing technique and id's cutting-edge 3D graphics DOOM 3 engine, allowing Creative to develop EAX® ADVANCED HD(TM) 3D audio options for future licensees.
Today we have a review of the latest and greatest from BFGTech, and this time it is wet and wild. They are now getting into watercooled warranted parts running 70MHz over stock settings. Wow.
We did notice instances in the game where the BFGTech GeForce 6800Ultra OC with Water Block didn’t drop to low levels like the 6800Ultra at regular settings did, creating a more immersive experience.
