Saturday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 09:31 PM CEST - Apr,26 2003
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- THG reviews five games -
Included in this review are: Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles; Beretta
and House of the Living Dead III; Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield;
Outlaw Golf; and Resident Evil Zero.
- Russia to offer space mail - For as little as
$20,000, you could soon have a letter sent to a new "post office" aboard
the International Space Station (ISS) and back care of the Russian space
agency.
- Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? - While backing up data may be a
minor chore for many, backing up vast quantities of data is a major operation.
At the very top of the food chain, you generally have complex tape systems
operated with automated robots. However, Dr. Koch Computertechnik AG has
developed a cheaper, yet very flexible solution for the University of
Tübingen:
70 TB backup capacity on standard IDE hard drives.
- AMD Thorton Core Clocks Revealed -
Unofficial sources originally said that the Thorton chips will be sold
under Duron brand-name, however, with 333MHz PSB and 256KB of L2 cache the new
processors will more resemble Athlon XP "Thoroughbred" CPUs rather than
good-old Duron chips which stopped to develop more than a year ago.
Furthermore, the Athlon XP "Thoroughbred" processors are still afloat and
higher-end models, such as 2600+, 2700+ and 2800+ cost $151, $180 and $225
respectively, whereas prices on Duron chips hardly ever exceeded $100 mark per
unit. I seriously doubt that AMD is ready to offer its 2600+ processors for
below $100, sacrificing its ASPs and gross-margins in the near future, hence,
it looks like Thorton will be sold as middle-end and lower-end Athlon XP CPUs,
rather than as Duron chips.
- Intel Celeron 2.2GHz Review - Black-Ash.net has posted
a review of Intel Celeron 2.2GHz. They have benchmarked it to PIII-700MHz
to see whether it would be worth using this CPU as an upgrade. "From my
experience with a P4 1.6A processor, that is the first Northwood P4 with
400FSB and 512KB of L2 cache ,I would say that the Celeron 2.2GHz performs a
little slower, maybe 5%.So, you are getting a 1.5GHz + P4, at a price of 75-85
USD compared to the P4 1.5GHz costing from 99-127 USD."
- Samsung SyncMaster 172T 17" TFT Display Review - ExplosiveLabs has
posted
a
review of the Samsung SyncMaster 172T 17" TFT Display. Appearance wise the
SyncMaster 172T is identical to the 172w except non widescreen effect and
there is no longer the 2 speakers integrated into the stand. Other then that
the appearance and design of these displays are identical.
- SyncMaster 172W LCD Review - EnvyNews has posted
a review
of SyncMaster 172W LCD Display.
- Leadteks A300 Ultra TD MyVIVO Review - HotHardware has posted
a review of Leadtek's A300 Ultra TD MyVIVO video card.
- Samsung SM-352 52x24x52x16 CD-RW/DVD Review - PC Stats has posted
a review of Samsung SM-352 52x24x52x16 CD-RW/DVD.
- Windows 2003 Server Review - PC Mag has posted a
review on Windows 2003 Server.
- The Bat! 1.62r -
The Bat! (download)
is an e-mail application that features support for multiple POP accounts, true
multithreading, MIME and UUencode standards, message notification, PGP
support, APOP authorization, message sorting, message templates, minimization
to the system tray, and multimedia support.
- Coding Workshop Ringtone Convertor 4.2.2 -
The Ringtone Converter (download)
is a software program for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac systems that
allows you to add new ringtones to your mobile phone without the need for
cables or expensive premium rate SMS services.
- PowerStrip 3.40.386 -
PowerStrip v3.40
provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide
range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest
SiS Xabre and Radeon 9800. This new version adds GeForce FX support and VESA
CVT timing support, improves Linux modeline support, revises G450/550 pixel
clock search engine, updates predefined HDTV timings, enables gamma hotkeys
for 3dmark03 and raises ceiling on Radeon clocks.
- Gainward ExperTool v3.07 - Gainward has released a new version of
their tweaking tool -
ExperTool
v3.07.
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