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| (hx) 02:55 AM CEST - Jul,25 2002 |
- Mobo makers give details on Intel price cuts - Taiwanese motherboard
makers shed additional light on Intel's reported decision to move up price cuts on some
Pentium 4 processors to September 1 from the originally scheduled October 27. On
July 23, the Wall Street Journal and CNET had reported Salomon Smith Barney analyst
Jonathan Joseph as saying that Intel would cut the price of its top-end 2.53GHz P4 processor by 63% and the price
of its 1.8GHz P4 by 13%.
- Ottawa man convicted for selling PlayStation 'mod chips' - An Ottawa
man who sold chips that allowed Sony PlayStation units to play pirated games was
fined $17,000 and sentenced to a year of probation last week. Robert Garby, 38,
pleaded guilty to two counts of copyright infringement and four counts of selling
unauthorized computer equipment. He was charged after an RCMP investigation found he was
selling a line of 413 pirated video games and charging $30 to install "mod
chips" in Sony PlayStation video game consoles.
- Motorola to use gaming LAN as 2.4-GHz entry - Motorola Inc.'s
Semiconductor Products Sector will use a proprietary frequency-hopping scheme developed for multiuser
gaming as its indirect entry into 2.4-GHz wireless markets, corporate vice president
Ray Burgess told the Smart Networks Developer Forum Tuesday.
- WebTV 911 exploit causes confusion - A flaw in Microsoft's
WebTV units might allow malicious hackers to force the unit's modem into dialling the
emergency services, at least according to US reports. An ABC news report suggests an email virus is spreading which can shut a
WebTV (or in its rebranded form, MSNTV) unit down, reboot it and call 911. Several people
have had police turn up at their door after clicking on an infected attachment, it
reports.
- Matrox Surround Gaming Titles - Surround Gaming lets users play games across three displays, with
either an ultra-wide field of view (FOV) mode or separate camera views on each display, to
fully engage their peripheral vision and provide game critical information. Shipping
titles supporting Surround Gaming on the Matrox Parhelia today include: Neverwinter
Nights, Grand Prix 4, Tribes 2, Aliens vs. Predator 2, Gore: Ultimate Soldier, Anarchy
Online, Heavy Metal: FAKK2, Star Warsr Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Microsoftr Flight
Simulator 2002, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake III Arena, Quake III Team Arena,
Ballistics, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, Star TrekT Voyager: Elite Force Expansion
Pack, X-Plane, Mobile Forces, Unreal Tournament, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project,
Clive Barker's Undying, The Wheel of Time.
- Infineon Announces New HDD IC For 1.6Gbyte Transfer Rates - Infineon
Technologies today announced that it is sampling the industry's first hard-disk drive
read-channel integrated circuit (IC) implemented in 0.13-micron process technology.
Designed to achieve data transfer rates
on a disk drive of 1.6 GB/s under worst case conditions, the new read channels will
help drive manufacturers keep pace with market demand for faster high-density drives used
in enterprise data storage systems. Infineon will release general engineering samples of
the 0.13-micron read channel to qualified customers in the fall of this year, and plans to
ramp production to support disk drive designs reaching market in the first half of 2003.
- 32x, 56x, 64x...CD-ROM Readers are Getting Faster - But where's the
limit? Manufacturers try to outspin each other all the time by selling CD-ROM drives with higher and higher spin ratios. Spin ratios of 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x,
56x and 64x come in a never ending stream. The CD is forced to rotate faster and faster.
At what speed will a CD blow up, and can you do something to prevent it from exploding?
- How To Customize Your PC Case & Achieve Professional Results - In this
article we talk with a professional who makes his living constructing case mods. He
offers us extensive insight into a rather complex subject and at the same time provides
you with an awesome tutorial on how to correctly install a window into the side panel of
your case.
- HW Round-up - Matrox Parhelia
/ MSI
GeForce4 Ti4200 / Triplex GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB vs 128MB / eVGA MX-440
1U/5v Cooler Mod Guide / Ti4200 Shootout / Radeon 7500/8500
Showdown / Trust 3000 Watt 5.1 Surround Soundwave / GeIL 256MB PC3500 (DDR 400) / DDR Ram
Guide / DesignComp Acrylic Case Kit
- Detonator Drivers Database - Tweakers Asylum have built a Public NVIDIA
Detonator Driver Performance Database
used to store information on the various NVIDIA Detonator Drivers
- Windows .NET Server Customer Preview Program - You can sign
up now to receive free trial software for Windows .NET Server Release Candidate 1
(RC1)-via CD or download. Read about the Customer Preview Program (CPP), available in
English only, then use the links on the right to make your choice.
- Win2K SP3 v3.154.3 (BETA) Out - Another build of W2K SP3 has leaked this
time its v3.154.3. There are some minor fixes (thanks NeoWin)
- CuteFTP v5.0 XP build 50.6.10.2 - CuteFTP is the
fastest, easiest way to transfer files across the Internet. Whether publishing a Web page,
downloading the latest digital music and software, or transferring high-volume files
between branch offices, CuteFTP provides the tools you need to get the most out of the
Internet.
- jv16 PowerTools v1.1.0.140 - jv16 PowerTools is the next generation of RegCleaner. A full set of
tools to keep your computer and your LAN up and running. jv16 PowerTools is basicly the
Tool to control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is in
charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control.
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