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 Thursday Tech Reading Part #2 - tech
(hx) 05:50 PM CET - Dec,04 2003
  • Intel Prescott on Feb 2nd 2004 - Source close to Intel Corporation said the company plans to formally launch its 90nm desktop processors code-named Prescott on the 2nd of February, 2004. As expected, the firm will ship a family of Prescott chips at different frequencies under Pentium 4 with SSE3 brand-name. Monday, the 2nd of February will be a big day for Intel, as the company unveils 7 new desktop microprocessors on that date. The list includes 4 Prescott processors with 1MB of L2 cache, 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus, SSE3, HT technology, running at 3.40GHz, 3.20GHz, 3.00GHz and 2.80GHz.
  • Microsoft's DirectX Next Preview - Beyond3D has published an interesting preview of Microsoft's DirectX Next and what sort of fuctions and features you can expect from DirectX Next compatible hardware.
  • Gigabyte's GO-M1600A Multimedia In A Box For PCs - Gigabyte Claims its GO-M1600A serves as an all-in-one MP3, FM radio and DVD player in a single box. While it fits in the 5.25" PC slot inside the case, the device can surprisingly still operate independently without having to turn on the PC. THG tested the device to see how well it performed and measured the speed of its operations. keywords
  • Audio Sonica Theater - USB 7.1 Surround Audio  - The M-Audio is an interesting product that should certainly be of interest to anyone wishing to upgrade the audio in their home theater PC without occupying the PCI slot in their computer. It has several attractive features which will endear it to many people. These include its tiny size, lack of external power supply and high-quality 24-bit/96kHz recording and playback capabilities. Home theater enthusiasts will be delighted by the support the SRS audio processing and impressed by the thundering bass and dialog clarity it brings to even low end speaker systems.
  • Apple iPod 20GB Review - One of the greatest things about the iPod is that it isn't just an MP3 player. In reality, it's more of a portable hard drive with the ability to play MP3's. Now you can transfer files and applications straight from my computer onto the iPod. This is very handy if you have large files you wish to share with your friends.
  • The Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Extreme Edition review - The Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Extreme Edition appears to be the most powerful singular X86-based processor Intel has ever released, it's a pretty amazing little processor. The chip easily can best previous Pentium 4 processors in gaming, continues to run creative applications great, and should run any software which is cache or memory intensive very quickly.
  • Dual CPU Shootout: Opteron versus Xeon  - Most of Extreme Tech coverage revolved around single processor systems, including our examination of Opteron on the desktop and the Athlon64 line of PC processors. They've also looked at Athlon64 in the small form factor arena and the first shipping mobile Athlon64 notebook PC.
  • The Intel Pentium 4C vs. AMD Barton Comparison - Since the launch of AMD's Athlon 64 & Athlon 64 FX one and a half months ago, the hardware community has been hit by the Hammer fever. Despite being delayed for many months, these revolutionary K8 chips are finally here! Long touted by AMD as fully capable of executing current 32-bit and future 64-bit applications, can they meet our expectations?
  • AMD Athlon XP 3200+ review - The only difference to the XP3200 is the FSB speed has been increased to 400MHz, apart from that the core is still based on AMD's 0.13 micron manufacturing process and the processor has 128KB of level 1 cache and 512KB of level 2 cache. The XP3200 core is clocked at 2.2GHz which is only a 33MHz increase from the XP3000 which is clocked at 2.167GHz.
  • Motherboard round-up - ABIT IC7-MAX3 i875 (1) | ABIT IC7-Max3 i875 (2) | ABIT KV8-MAX3 S754 | AOpen AX4C Max II  | ATI RADEON 9100 IGP | DFI LANPARTY "B" Canterwood and Springdale | FIC K8-800T K8T800 | VIA PT880 and SiS 655FX Showdown 
  • Soltek 5600 FX review - The Soltek Geforce FX 5600 is certainly not the fastest card out there, but it wasn't as slow as I had imagined. You will be able to play most recent games fairly well with this card, as long as you have a decent CPU and don't feel like using the highest resolutions with a lot of anisotropy and anti-aliasing.
  • PNY GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 3D - The FX5700Ultra really is a card that is equal to the CBR600RR in as much as the impact that it will have. The middle range of cards are becoming so good that they are relegating the larger cards to mainly show and benchmarks.
  • Tyan Tachyon G9800Pro-M review - Chaps at HardOCP compared Tyan Tachyon G9800Pro-M against three other cards, the 9800XT, 9600XT and 9500Pro using realworld gameplay evaluation.
  • The AOpen Aeolus FX5600S - The most impressive feature of this card, however, is the 256MB of Dual DDR RAM on board. AOpen chose 3.6ns Hynix memory chips, which should leave us some room for overclocking this card.
  • Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra MyVIVO 256MB and ASUS V9950SE 128MB reviews - Leadtek WinFast A380 Ultra MyVIVO 256MB is a high-quality product with an excellent accessory pack. The developers do not pack cards into jackets anymore, and the cooler now looks very effective and not that bulky. However, the first PCI slot can hardly be used. It's for you decide whether to buy such an expensive card or not - if it's cheaper than the RADEON 9800 XT, the choice isn't going to be difficult. / ASUS V9950SE 128MB follows the Albatron GeForce FX 5900CP, i.e. it will drop in the niche between the FX 5700 Ultra and FX 5900. But the card can stand against the RADEON 9800 of approximately the same cost only if the vendors keep down their appetite.
  • Leadtek's WinFast A360 Ultra TDH & WinFast A380 Ultra TDH MyVIVO review - Now Leadtek is back again, with their GeForce FX 5950 Ultra based A380 Ultra TDH MyViVo and GeForce FX 5700 Ultra-based WinFast A360 Ultra TDH. Let’s take a look at what Leadtek has done to make them stand out from the competition.
  • GeXcube GC-R9800XT 256MB ATI R9800XT VGA - Thanks to the higher core/memory frequency, R9800XT is around 5~11% faster than an R9800Pro in benchmarks. The R9800XT truly shines when comparing with Nvidia's flagship, FX5950Ultra. The FX5950Ultra's performance is on par with R9800XT at standard setting; however, ATi's R9800XT takes a commanding lead (up to 40%) when FSAA is enabled
  • Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB (SATA) - The Deskstar 7K250 is built with three 80GB/platter disks, each with two read/write heads. Total that up and you get about 240GB. How did the extra 10GB come about? Well, if you look at the specification sheet, you'll notice that the track density of the 250GB model is much higher than those at with 120GB or 160GB capacities. The track density of the 250GB is rated at 93.5 KTPI (thousands of tracks per inch) as compared to the 160GB model which is only 90 KTPI. If you calculate the difference between these two, you'll find that it's about 3.8% more, and that equates to roughly 10GB more.
  • Zalman 5.1 ZM-RS6F Headphones - Yes, 5.1 headphones, and very odd things they are. These could prove to be a god-send for the LAN gamers amongst us who hate having to downgrade from a 5.1 setup to a 2 channel headphone setup when gaming! Zalman have attempted to create the true 5.1 (6 speaker) surround effect within a pair of headphones.
  • Hercules Digifire 7.1 soundcard review - The Digifire 7.1 features a Line/Mic Input, 4 Stereo Line Outputs, an Optical S/PDIF Output (no S/PDIF input) and a MIDI/Gameport add-on bracket. Additionally 2 FireWire ports are provided on the bracket (as opposed to one on the Audigy/Audigy 2) and a third extra port is available internally.
  • Qpad XXXL gamer mousepad  - First and foremost, invest in quality Q-PAD mousepads are manufactured from 100 % natural rubber, with a textile surface. They stay still on the desk, giving optimum friction to the mouse. They are anti-static, do not fray at the edges, and are washable.
  • Professional Mouse Pad -  The SteelPad 4D isn’t steel, but a huge double sided, flexible plastic mousing surface measuring in at 290 x 257mm. The pad is only 2mm thick and rests on a separate non slip rubber surface. The rubber surface does not attach to the mouse pad, so the pad can be quickly swapped from side to side, depending on your preference and/or type of mouse.
  • XGI Volari Duo Score 5370 On 3DMark2003 - XGI said that its dual graphics processor Volari architecture will be available on December 8th. The firm, which previewed its architecture at last September's Computex, claims that its Volari Duo systems will nearly double the performance of what it describes as "traditional" GPU technology. In related news, Club3D is the first firm to announce their XGI V8 Volari Duo card. The card has two V8 Volari cores which are running at 350MHz with 256MB DDR II RAM running at 400MHz.
  • One Internet Connection - Two Private LANs - Sometimes having everything on one LAN doesn't cut it for security and other reasons. Fortunately, inexpensive routers have made this an easy problem to solve. THG's new Problem Solver will show you how.
  • ACDSee 6.0.2.0014 - ACDSee digital photo software (update 6.0.2 for standard edition / powerpack edition) makes it easy to import, view, organize, print, enhance, share and archive your digital photos. ACDSee is easy to use for everyone from beginner to professional level, and also powerful and flexible enough to meet your needs as your image collection grows. "Indispensable," says American Photo Magazine of this picture viewer.
  • Outlook 2003 Video e-mail - This is a new version, updated December 3rd, 2003, that fixes an issue with a link in the body of the video e-mail.
  • SlimBrowser 3.86 Build 003  - SlimBrowser is a multiple-site browser based on tab-page interface. It incorporates a large collection of wonderful features like recoverable popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering.
  • foobar2000 v0.7.5 beta 1 - Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. No changelog is available.
  • OpenGL Extension Viewer 2.06 - This program displays the vendor name, the version implemented, the renderer name and the extensions of the current OpenGL 3D accelerator.

Comments from xxxxxposted - 06:31 PM CET - Dec,04 2003
LCD going up in price. Ridiculous. I thought I learned in economics that only after demands go up, prices come down. So much for economics. Easy to realize the only reason is so they can cash in like the rest of the pitiful PC industry. Oh well, I'll stick with my 19" trinitron monitor. Thank you LCD makers! You are saving me money!

Comments from ritzposted - 08:18 PM CET - Dec,04 2003
It's so hard to shop for monitor these days... LCD's are expensive and no good for 3D gamings, and manufactures stopped making decent 17" CRT's, it left us with those heavy 19" which is a pain to bring around or even fit on a average size desk...

Comments from 1posted - 11:02 PM CET - Dec,04 2003
That DirectX Next article is interesting. But "Virtual Video Memory"...rofl...rofl...rofl... what next?

Comments from Big Daddyposted - 11:05 PM CET - Dec,04 2003
Get a 21" CRT... impress your friends and girls. LCD's are overrated: large screens are too slow, and dead pixels can ruin even the best LCD. Manufacturers need to improve them more before they can think about upp-ing prices. so lame

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