Nightly Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 03:52 AM CEST - Jul,16 2003
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- Tomb Raider developer chief quits Eidos board - Games publisher
Eidos today announced
the immediate departure of Jeremy Heath-Smith from the company's board.
Heath-Smith has also stepped down from Core Design's board.
- 'Reloaded' Video Arrives with 3rd 'Matrix' - In an industry
first, Warner Home Video is releasing "The Matrix Reloaded" on home video
three weeks before the theatrical release of the third film in the "Matrix"
trilogy, "The Matrix Revolutions." "Reloaded," starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence
Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss,
is slated for release Oct. 14 on DVD and VHS at a retail price of about
$22, Warners executives said.
- Superfast, supercheap DSL for the masses - Softbank has
spent close to $2 billion building out a gigabit Ethernet network and
leasing copper wire from Japanese telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone. The result is a service, offered under the Yahoo! BB brand, that
provides Internet access to Japanese homes at 12 megabits per second - eight
times faster than what Americans are used to - for about $21 a month. Every
day, as many as 7,000 new subscribers fire up their plug-and-play DSL modems,
making Yahoo! BB the world's fastest-growing broadband service.
- New Soyo SY-KT600 specifications and photo -
New Soyo
SY-KT600's specifications and photo are now posted at AMDboard. This KT600
baby is intended to compete with the latest nVidia champ nForce2 Ultra 400.
With the VT8237, the motherboard deals with a front side bus (FSB) ranging
from 200 to 400MHz and accept all AMD socket A processors a.k.a. Athlon,
Athlon XP and Duron.
- Leadtek A350TDH MyViVO Edition 128MB GeForce FX5900 VGA Review -
There is nothing special about
Leadtek A350TDH, standard PCB and heatsink are used; it is just a standard
Nvidia FX5900 graphics card. At its current price (~$800NZ), Leadtek A350TDH
is one of the cheapest FX5900 around and should compete quite well with ATi's
R9800Pro 128MB.
- Xabre 200 graphics card Review - Is the
Xabre AG200 (AT64 X-200) worth parting with your hard-earned cash for, or
best avoided? Read the review to find out.
- Albatron Gigi Geforce FX5600EQ review - As you can see from the
benchmark results,
the Albatron Gigi FX5600EQ didn't really have the steam to deliver the kind of
marks we had half expected to see.
- Plextor Premium 52X CD-RW Review - HotHardware has posted
a review of the Plextor Premium 52X CD-RW.
- Koss KSC-35 headphone review - DesignTechnica has posted
a
Koss KSC-35 headphone review " For use in games, Quake 3, Tribes 2,
and Jedi Knight 2 were used. The overpowering bass was great for games. We
could feel every rocket in out molars it was so deep. Localization of sound
was acceptable. Cloaked player in Tribes 2 were easily identified, players in
adjoining rooms could be anticipated with decent accuracy, and deflected
blaster shots in JKII came across clean. Using Force Push and Pull in JKII was
even more fun, since the sound could be felt. Unfortunately, after 45 minutes
the discomfort took over, and testing halted."
- Jazz J9938 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System (video-review) -
The Jazz J9938 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System is an ideal setup for most
people's audio needs offering 5.1 Channel Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby Surround
Pro Logic II & AAC. It also has 45 watts of total power and is magnetically
shielded. The overall sound quality is good and it's well priced. Watch the
Video to find out more...
- Minolta-QMS ships Magicolor 7300 EN color laser printer -
Minolta-QMS has introduced the
Magicolor 7300 EN, a large-format color laser printer that supports up to
11-by-17-inch paper. The new Magicolor 7300 EN carries a suggested street
price of $3199. It's compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux systems, and is
PostScript 3-compatible. The printer can produce up to 20 pages of letter-size
output per minute in either black-and-white or color, according to
Minolta-QMS. It incorporates 10/100BaseTX Ethernet and USB and parallel
interfaces, and it features multibit 600-by-600-dpi resolution
- VGA Card Buyer's Guide 07/2003 - Choosing a new graphics card
is not an easy decision. THG have put together the
THG VGA Buyer's Guide to help you with that decision.
- Mini VGA Guide - The purpose of
this article is not to be a comprehensive guide to video cards; it is a
succinct summary of performance and value for a few of the best selling video
cards available today.
- OpenOffice 1.1 RC Available -
OpenOffice 1.1 RC (Win32
/
Linux) replaces the legacy build 1.0.3.1, which lacks the new features
making OpenOffice 1.1 the best office suite for free. OpenOffice 1.1 RC not
only includes those features introduced in 1.1 beta, such as export to PDF,
SWF, DocBook, PDA Office file formats, improved on-line Help, and more.
- phpMyAdmin 2.5.2 RC2 -
phpMyAdmin (changelog)
can manage a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single
database.
- Another Internet Explorer 6 SP1 Update - An error message may be
displayed that IE cannot download a file when the content disposition header
for the file stream is greater than approximately 150 bytes and the Latin
character set is equal to 150 characters. This behavior may occur if the
content disposition header is formatted with a non-Latin character set, such
as Japanese or Russian.
The hotfix updates the file wininet.dll to build 6.0.2800.1193.
- Intel Chipset Identification Utility 2.84 -
The Intel Chipset Identification Utility (download)
provides an easy way to identify the specific Intel chipset that is located on
your motherboard.
- WINner Tweak - The simplest reason
to use it is to optimize performance and keep your utilities in order.
(Disk Cleaner and Startup Manager are two features.)
- XMark 7.0 Beta 2 -
XMark
7.0 provides a huge variety of system performance tests and optimizations,
using the latest technologies such as DirectX 9. It is designed from the
ground up to be a program that accurately measures how fast real-life tasks
are performed on personal computer systems, and business workstations and
servers.
- KaZaA P2P 2.5.1 -
The KaZaa Media Desktop (download)
is a second-generation peer-to-peer file-sharing service with which you can
search and download media files from other KaZaa users.
- ASUS SmartDoctor 2 2.75 -
ASUS
SmartDoctor2 is designed to satisfy two major goals. One is to monitor
graphic chip Status, altering users about abnormal events, such as fan
malfunction or chip overheat. The other, as the name SmartDoctor implies, is
to cool down the graphic chip smartly when it is not necessary for it to be
kept running at full speed. SmartDoctor2 includes AGP Power Level Monitoring,
Fan RPM Monitoring, Overheated protection, Smartcooling technology, and Manual
Overclocking.
- VIA Onboard Sound Drivers 3.70b -
This driver (relnotes)
supports all VIA southbridges with integrated sound, including VT8231 /
VT82C686A / VT82C686B, VT8233 / VT8233A / VT8233C / VT8235 and VT8237.
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