Monday Tech Reading - New ATI TV Wonder tuner - tech
(hx) 01:43 AM CEST - Aug,22 2006
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- OEMs Prepare Shift Of ATi Chipsets To AMD -
It looks like motherboard
manufacturers are supposedly considering suspend development of
Intel-based motherboards that use ATI chipsets.
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Overclocking -
3D
Game Man overclocked the Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU.
- ASRock 939Dual-VSTA ULi 1695/1567 Native AGP/PCIe mobo -
ASrock 939Dual-VSTA is VistaT Premium Logo Hardware Ready full fledge ATX
board based on the ULi M1695/M1567. It supports the Socket 939 AMD Athlon
64x2, 64, FX, Sempron processors with a FSB of 1GHz of HTT. It supports cool n
quiet, 4 GB of Dual channel DDR 400. It has 1 AGP 8x, 1 PCIe x16 slot,1 PCIex1
slot and Future CPU Upgrade Slot.
- ATI releases TV Wonder 650 -ATI's just announced their latest TV
tuner product,
the TV Wonder 650. Based around ATI's Theater 650 ASIC, TV Wonder 650
supports both analog and over-the-air high definition TV broadcasts, and sells
for an MSRP of $129
- ASUS W7J Notebook -
Besides being light (weighs 4 pounds only), the W7J has a GeForce Go 7400
integrated video processor which makes it ideal for multimedia and some
occasional gaming.
- ASUS' PG191 Gaming LCD Monitor -
BIOS
Magazine posted a review on ASUS' PG191 Gaming LCD Monitor. Technical
specifications of the monitor are relatively impressive and include a native
resolution of 1280x1024 pixels (not ideal for image editors), 800:1 contrast
ratio and 320cd/m2 brightness. It also has a response time of 2ms
(grey-to-grey), integrates three USB 2.0 ports, supports both DVI-D and D-SUB
inputs (all cables supplied), and has viewing angles of 160/160-degress (H/V).
The PG191 also has tilt and swivel controls (no height adjustment), and is
VESA wall mount compatible.
- NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2 20 Inch Monitor -
I4U
News reviews the NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2 20 Inch Monitor featuring TV Tuner
and PIP.
- 3Dlabs staff was hired by Intel - The Inq reckons
those ex-3Dlabs folks might be
working on Intel's rumored discrete graphics processor, reports about
which have been circulating for some time.
- XS Unite to get official SLI drivers for Intel -
A group on Xtreme Systems is trying to lobby nVidia to support SLI on Intel
chipsets. This is the same forum home to Big_Sam - the guy who released
hacked 85.81 forceware drivers allowing SLI on the 975 (they upset nVidia who
then introduced a chipset check in all subsequent drivers) /thanks NeoNSX)
- Audigy 2 to Audigy 4 Softmod: Is it worthwhile? -
Softmodding your Audigy 2 into an Audigy 4 provides absolutely no benefit
whatsoever, in performance or audio quality. In fact, some games will not
detect your card at all (such as PREY).
- ATI CATALYST 6.8 performance -If
your system is equipped with an ATI board with 256MB of RAM (A Radeon
X1900 GT, Radeon X1800 XL or Radeon X1800 XT 256MB particularly) then you'll
quite possibly get a lot more mileage out of this driver.
- Microsoft to Firefox Team: We Can Help You Port to Vista - The
director of Microsoft's open source lab has
invited the Mozilla development team to come to Redmond and participate in
a Vista porting lab.
- Opera 8.0 vs. Pocket IE: The Battle of Mobile Browsers -
OSWeekly.com posted a comparison review between Opera 8.0 and Pocket IE.
- If FluxDVD is too error prone, try AnyDVD - The infection
known as FluxDVD, you
know the one that puts so many bad sectors in downloaded and burnt DVDs that
most players have a hard time playing it, has been comprehensively fixed by
Slysoft.
- Parallel’s planning on bringing FULL speed Windows gaming to OS X -
Parallel's plans on adding full speed DirectX and OpenGL support in an
upcoming beta. This will allow OSX users to fire up the latest Windows games
and play them right from their OSX desktop without rebooting into Boot Camp.
- Bill Gates gets an invoice from a unhappy customer -
Billed for administrative and consulting work, caused by the need to
repair Microsoft sabotage.
- Avdeco Plasma TV stand EXPLODED (Pictures) -
For all of you that have an Avdeco TV stand, pictures of this guy's stand
after it exploded ought to make you think twice about the safety of your high
dollar TV.
- SanDisk touts highest capacity flash MP3 player - When it ships
early next month,
the Sansa e280 will gobble up to 8GB of music with room for an extra 2GB
via an included microSD card slot. Among the e280's other features will be a
1.8" TFT display, built-in FM tuner, voice recorder, and a claimed maximum 20
hours of battery life. Surprisingly, the player will launch with a price tag
of $249.99, the same as Apple's 4GB iPod nano.
- Nokia E61 smart phone -
The phone's face is dominated by a
gorgeous 320 x 240, 16m-colour screen and the QWERTY keyboard.
- EA Says Wii Could Sell For $170 -
Gamesindustry.biz has a quote from Electronic Arts' VP David Gardner who
is quoted as saying about their expected price of Nintendo's Wii console,
"I've heard in Japan that the price is about $170, but I don't know if the
price has been set in Europe yet."
- PlayStation 3 Interface on Display - The folks over at JoyStiq have
run across an
IGN video of Sony's PlayStation 3 user interface in action. The interface
looks like an upsized version of the PlayStation Portable user interface and
has a very minimalistic look to it. The video is just over 3 minutes long and
goes through just about all of the feature/options available to the user.
- Lucas, Spielberg & Ford on Indiana Jones 4 -
Empire Online talked to George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford
about the anticipated Indiana Jones 4, which is targeted for a 2008 release.
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