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[H]ardNews 7th Edition
Biostar iDEQ 200N SFF:
The gang at myWorld Hardware have reviewed the Biostar iDEQ 200N SFF. Kind of a spiffy looking little unit with slide cover that conceals the drives. Worth looking at for sure.
The Biostar iDEQ 200N is a small form factor PC that must be taken note off. It came with impressive set of features, functionality and best of all, it came in small form sized! Perfect for users who prefer small PC that requires less space, as well as hardcore LANners who can carry around this little baby without straining .
Video Card Utilities:
3DCenter.org let me know that they have new versions of their video card utilities posted today. RTool has hit version 0.9.9.7b and aTuner is up to version 1.5.36.4490. Grab them if you need them…get them if you don’t already have them.
- support up to driver version 44.90 (works also with 45.20)
rTool 0.9.9.7b
- support up to driver version 03.6
- can force a full trilinear filtering on all texture stages (ATi control panel filters under anisotropic filtering only texture stage 0 trilinear, all other texture stages bilinear)
Ubi Soft = Uber-Cash:
Congrats to Ubi Soft, maker of fine games such as Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, for posting a whopping $76 million in first quarter sales. That total is up like 107% from last year at this time. Then again, Splinter Cell selling 1.1 million copies didn’t hurt either.
Record first-quarter sales of $75.6 million – up 107% (142% at constant exchange rates). Very strong growth in North America, which represents 65% of sales versus 25% the preceding year, thanks in part to the successful launch of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell™ for PlayStationÒ2, which was the number 1 seller in April. Ubi Soft ranked sixth for the quarter among independent publishers for consoles in the United States.
[H] Sightings:
Every so often you guys send us some really good [H] sightings. This is a rather common occurrence, people look for stuff like crop circles or images of the virgin Mary on the side of a building, so why not randomly occurring stuff like this [H] logo found on a remote beach by one of our readers.
What’s that? You don’t like the beach or sand? What about money? …everyone loves money. This guy got $25,000 and immediately started making big [H] logos everywhere made out of cash. Heh, how many [H]s can you get for $25k?
