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- Driver Comparison - Tweaker's Asylum has posted a new Detonators driver comparsion beween versions 30.30 (latest), 29.60 and
29.80.
- Athlon XP 2500+ Already in Shops!? - New AMD Athlon XP processor, made with 0.13 micron 2500+ Thoroughbred
core (real clock rate – 2GHz) was noticed in one of Swiss online-shop, trading with computer parts. Also, the price-list of this
shop includes non-announced Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8GHz ($327), 2300+ 1.867GHz ($360) and 2400+
1.933GHz ($383) and XP 2500+ 2GHz ($412) processors. It should be noted that the
page with the description of the product says "ask us", which means that they
are only accepting orders for these processors. Nonetheless, we have contacted the shop
and they said the processors would appear only after June 16. (thanks Sancheuz for info). Note: I checked this shop right now, seems they temporary(?)
removed these CPUs...:(
- Mac case clone for PC's (Shots only) - Wow! A
Mac case clone for the PC? Until now you thought it only happened to sheep and Star
Wars movies!
- RV 250 performance on Athlons, Pentium 4s - An old lady tested
this card on Athlon and P4 platform and you will clearly see how the Athlon's performance
lagged big time compared to the Pentium 4. Intel is, of course, a very good friend of
ATI on the face of it.
- Nforce 2 to beat Via's DDR 400 by 20% -The NFORCE2 chipset to
be announced in the middle of next week has a claimed advantage over
Via's DDR 400 chipsets of around 20 per cent, according to information from a
Taiwanese mobo manufacturer who wishes to remain nameless.
- TV chip comparsion - Thinking about buying a new graphics card?
Then you might also think about which TV chip should be used on it. In the FAQ you can
read that the CX25871 is recommended. But is it really the 1st choice? Which pros
and cons do the different TV chips have? Are there special bugs with certain TV encoders?
This article tries to throw a bit light on these questions.
- 2U4U DMR-300 WMA Player Review - MP3 is beginning to show its
age. We look at a new portable player that uses both Microsoft's WMA, as well as MP3,
opening up the possibility of using the higher quality Microsoft codec. But, there's also
Dolby's AAC to consider; which may be the best of the bunch. The age of portable audio
isn't going to go away no matter how much the RIAA tries to kill it.
- Windows XP Pre-SP1 Hotfixes - This document is a cumulative list of the articles that have been written to discuss
hotfixes that have been released since the release of Windows XP.
- WinAce v2.2 - WinAce
has its own powerful compression format (ACE) and built-in support for other popular
compression types like ZIP, RAR, CAB, and more.
- Movie DB v1.16 (build 39) - Movie DB is a freeware DB program for divx, dvd and vhs. Some
features: IMdB support: get all the movie info / actor filmography with one click,
MicroDVD INI file generator, Covers gallery (using cdcovers.cc file name standard), Movies
gallery, Actors gallery.
- ATV2000 RC2 - Freeware ATV2000 is new
generation of TV viewing and capture application based on old ATV, but with reworked core.
All is build around new control panel, witch provides tuning video and audio controls.
- Intel Application Accelerator 2.3.2143 Beta - Intel
Application Accelerator is a performance software package for Intel 800 series desktop
PCs. It reduces the storage sub-system bottleneck, enabling the processor and other system
level hardware to be more productive and efficient. Intel Application Accelerator delivers
faster overall system boot times by significantly accelerating the load time of the OS -
enabling you to build Intel Pentium 4 processor-based systems with a better overall
end-user experience.
- InCD 3.31 - Nero Software has updated InCD to version 3.31.
- MSI K7N420 screwed up with Bios 2.5 - The BIOS is the latest
2.5. They have changed the RAM timings! Some can not load hp defaults, but
it has also killed some so they don't boot at all.
- Matrox Gxx BIOS v2.56.002 - Matrox have released a new BIOS
for G550, G450, G400 and G200 series of cards and it's version 2.56.002.
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