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TechNews RoundUp - Conroe Gaming Benchmarks - tech

(hx) 03:08 PM CEST - Jun,07 2006

Conroe benchmarked outside Intel's labs - Outside the confines of Intel's labs, the Core 2 Extreme was compared to a similar machine powered by one of AMD's latest 2.8 GHz Athlon 64 FX-62 processors for Socket AM2.
ECS shows off GeForce graphics cards - The most interesting card is easily the company's GeForce 7900 GT, which packs an apparently quiet Zalman-esque cooler alongside 512 MB of memory-twice what's available on a standard.
ASUS Dual ATi Video Card? - The Dual-GPU solution has dual DVI & Dual VGA, VIVO Support. The high speed fan ensures proper cooling of the cores during high performance gaming" Pretty impressive looking!
Sony 16x DVD+R media review - The Plextor PX-760A Premium under firmware 1.02 produced one of the most overall pleasing results and is to be considered a recommended drive with the Sony 16x DVD+R media.
Blu-ray Disc players delayed again, perhaps until August - Reuters is reporting that a spokesperson for Pioneer Electronics confirmed the company is delaying the release of its BDP-HD1 Blu-ray Disc player.
Nintendo planning Instant Messenger for Wii? - According to the latest United States patent (7056217) filed by Nintendo (planned six years ago) and is now published on June 6th, 2006 it states the following: Messaging service for video game systems with buddy list that displays game being played.
Microsoft releases Antigen e-mail security - Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products - including Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, Antigen Spam Manager and Antigen Enterprise Manager - available to customers July 1, 2006.
Windows? Linux? Huh? - Nice article making a comparison of Windows and Ubuntu Linux in terms of ease of use for the average non-techie computer user.
Microsoft: Google Spreadsheets is so 10 Years Ago - Microsoft spokesperson Heather Gillissen told internetnews.com that "the innovations we're delivering in Excel in terms of new usability, new visual user interface advancements, support for collaboration and business intelligence with things like Excel Services are so far beyond [Google Spreadsheets] that it's like watching a time machine from 10 years ago".
MPAA takes aim at another BitTorrent search site - The latest victim is Canadian-owned search engine website isohunt.com, which has been sued and labelled a pirate by the association.
Warnings over 'illegal' MP3 site - BPI to sue AllofMP3 - They said: "We are going to sue allofmp3.com in the UK courts - we are going to seek a judgement not against the users of the site, but against the site itself."
Pirate Bay becoming overloaded - According to some users, lots of the torrents are unavailable and the web page formatting is spotty. Some pages are loading only after long delays and others were not loading at all. Admin says: "The database problem is actually...so many new users and the current hardware setup isn't tuned perfectly," "It takes a while to get everything right in a complex system like The Pirate Bay.... We've had some 404 problems with torrent-downloading, but that is due to overload and some bugs in our software. They will be fixed in a couple of days."
Google.com blocked in China - Aside from the Google.com search engine, Reporters Without Borders said the blocking was being gradually extended to the Google News and Google Mail service.
Implanting a magnet in your fingertip adds a sixth sense - This morning's Wired News has a fascinating article on the practice of implanting small, strong rare-earth magnets in one's ring-finger. The result is a kind of "magnet sense" -- people who've had the implant report that they can tell when a wire is live and when they're going through a magnet security-scanner at a store, even when their laptops' hard drives are spinning up.
Comparison Between Real-Life and the CRYSIS Engine - It is amazing how far gaming has come the past ten years! (mirror)
Ultima GTR sets new 0-100-0mph record - Driven by Ultima Director, Richard Marlow, the British built and designed Ultima GTR road car set a new world record time of a staggering 9.4 secs for the 0-100mph-0 sprint.
2007/2008 BMW M3 Prototype Spotted - Several great photos of a 2007/2008 BMW M3 coupe prototype in testing in Santa Barbara.

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