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| (hx) 11:30 PM CET - Feb,03 2004 |
- Student hacker sparks US terror alert - Joseph McElroy, now 18 and
an engineering student at the University of Exeter, hacked into the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois to download and store films and
music from the internet. So many fellow hackers copied him that the system
began to slow down and had to be shut for three days. McElroy
was given a 200-hour community punishment order at Southwark Crown Court
after admitting unauthorised modification of the contents of a computer in
June 2002.
- Microsoft confirms "crystal" Xbox - Plans to launch
a
new "crystal" limited edition version of the Xbox console in Europe in the
next few months have been confirmed by Microsoft, which has also announced
that a new Xbox Live bundle will be available later this month. As
reported last week, the new limited edition pack - which is the second of its
type to be launched here, following the semi-transparent green version last
year - features a transparent casing and two matching controllers. The Crystal
Limited Edition Xbox will be priced at E199 in Europe, and at L139 in the UK,
with the extra tenner mark-up over the normal cost of an Xbox presumably
justified by the inclusion of the second controller.
- Sony to invest in Toshiba, IBM chip plants - Sony Corp announced on
Monday that
it
plans to build new lines at Toshiba Corp and IBM Corp factories to produce
advanced microprocessors for use in such products as digital appliances and
game machines including Microsoft's Xbox gaming console and Sony's PlayStation
3.
- Intel to again delay Dothan - notebook makers now aiming for May -
Taiwan’s notebook makers have been upset as the launch of Intel’s mobile
Dothan processors has been
delayed to April or May from a revised schedule most recently slated for early
February, sources at local notebook makers quoted Intel’s latest roadmap
as saying.
- NEC Readies Card-Sized Camera Phone -
At first glance the N900 looks less like a handset and more like a small,
thin digital still camera such as Casio Computer's Exilim. Its plain face is
cluttered only by the lens, a light, and the company's logo, But a glance at
the back of the device reveals a telephone keypad sitting to the right of a
1.8-inch color TFT LCD. The display has a resolution of 120 pixels by 160
pixels and occupies about half of the rear of the device.
- ATI slashes Radeon 9600SE price by almost 30% - Facing fierce price
competition from Nvidia in the mid-range graphics chip market, ATI
Technologies recently slashed the price of its desktop-use Radeon 9600SE chip
by about US$10, from over US$40 earlier, according to sources.
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 Preview - Compared to the previous
top-of-the-line model, the Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO, the new chip offers
nothing new aside from higher maximum clockspeed of 450MHz. Granted, the new
and improved production process may help reduce the chip's power consumption,
but the higher clockspeed easily counterbalances that advantage. Features like
VPU recover are nice,
but don't justify going out and buying a new notebook...Another previews
can be found at
HardOCP,
TrustedReviews
- Intel P4E(Prescott) review - Well, drawing conclusions from tests
above we can say the following:
Prescott is in general slower than Northwood. Sometimes it's compensated
by larger cache pulling the performance even to the older core. And if the
application is sensitive to L2 cache, Prescott can even win. Besides, it shows
better Hyper-Threading efficiency (but it seems the reason is doubled L2
again). Respectively, if an application can use both advantages - large cache
and virtual multiprocessing, the benefit is considerable. But in general
Prescott performs about the same as Northwood (and even worse - with the older
software). This is no revolution.
- Seagate's Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA hard drive -
At only $95 online for a 120GB drive, the Barracuda 7200.7 is one of the
cheapest Serial ATA drives around. "Parallel" ATA versions of the drive are
available online for as little as $85, but I'd pay the price premium to get my
hands on thin and flexible Serial ATA cables any day. The Serial ATA Barracuda
7200.7's price also looks good when compared with the DiamondMax Plus 9, which
sells for as low as $102 online. Considering that the 'cuda outperforms the
DiamondMax in the vast majority of our tests, Seagate's drive looks like a
pretty good deal.
- XPlite review -
XPlite is a tweakers dream come true. A professional looking application,
it delivers on the promise "Windows your way". Not only useful in the home
environment, it should strongly be considered as a solution by IT folks as
well.
- VMWare 4.0 vs. Virtual PC 2004 -
Here's a
benchmarking fight between Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and VmWare
Workstation 4.0.5.
- RightMark Memory Analyzer v2.4 -
RightMark
Memory Analyzer v2.4, the universal CPU/Chipset/RAM experimental test
suite has been released! RightMark Memory Analyzer provides stable and
accurate measurements of the most important low-level characteristics of the
CPU/Chipset/RAM subsystem of your.
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| Comments from Bad Boy Elroy | posted - 12:51 AM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | Joseph McElroy - if you are reading this, you are a legend! ;-) |
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| Comments from xxx | posted - 02:11 AM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | beh! ati slashes prices cuz word gets around that they aren't the best! ru reading this Tom.. Live and learn! Hahahahaha!!!if ur the best u don't slash prices to meet a competitor ur beating! ati had their little run, soon it will be over! my asus 9950 owNz u ALL! Muahahhaaa!! long live nvidia! u still reading this Tom? hahahaha!!! |
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| Comments from BigDaddy | posted - 12:12 PM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | nVidia ROCKZ!!! Anybody who ownz a FX-5900 who has flashed their video-bios to the FX5950 Ultra for FREE will agree! |
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| Comments from warlord | posted - 01:24 PM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | nvidiot fanboys everywhere :D |
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| Comments from dude | posted - 02:32 PM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | Yeah, they're more common than fanATIcs ;) |
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| Comments from Tom | posted - 03:06 PM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | only idiots I know, are the ones with ATI, canadian junk. ya i'm reading still XXX.. sigh. i'll probably sell this card now while it's still on a false high and get a 5900 based card. At least with nvdia i got drivers gallore and games work great in GL and D3d. I've never hated a card more than this hunk of shit 9700. the community really added to my distaste for ati.. XXX we all make mistake, just i wont make a ati one again. i should do what i did for creative labs, video tape my car repeatedly running over this piece of crap 9700 and send it to them..why? because it's worth it! |
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| Comments from Tom | posted - 03:21 PM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | xxx, i know about the slashing.. i agree, the best don't have to slash their prices. it's because more people are beginning to get the word about ati, lots are leaving ati and going back to nvidia. that's the real reason for the slash, when people aren't buying your product you slash the price..i'm going around now telling people how ati sucks. just last night i told 3 guys, "i have ati, trust me it's shit' go get a nvidia i told them and we looked and went over what to get! and i felt DAMN good that i stopped some people from making mistake i made!! i'm also gonna start posting across many gaming sites with different id's and share my experience and let people know what to expect by going with ati.. |
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| Comments from warlord | posted - 09:05 PM CET - Feb,04 2004 | | 5900 sucks compared to 9800 |
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| Comments from Tom | posted - 01:30 AM CET - Feb,05 2004 | | Don't say crap like that man. Don't take the opinions of tainted reviews.. Try reading around more. Like 'peoples' opinions. I want a card that works with everything, not some hunk of crap 9800 that's not much better than 9700 but costs a shitload more and has same problems. I want GL and D3D games to work flawlessly, that can't be achieved with ATI. And that's fact. Try reading around and go to Rage3d and read all the problems(put ATI down, you're banned). My biggest mistake that cost me money was actually reading the crap on Rage3d. Oh and to all of you think I'm nuts(not that I care), I bought my computer same time as my friend and we play most of the same games. Slight difference is he has nvidia. Same ram same mobo, same hd's same f'ing sound card. His games play WAY smoother and it would take a moron to say otherwise. Let's just say it was an eye opener. ATI sucks and I say that with visual knowledge. If you haven't compared side to side 'yourself' then u don't know your ass from your forehead, it's that easy. End of story. I post here cuz I can. On Rage3d this post would have been removed 4mins after posting it. |
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| Comments from warlord | posted - 05:00 AM CET - Feb,05 2004 | | never had a single prob with my 9800 |
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| Comments from xxxx | posted - 06:00 AM CET - Feb,05 2004 | | probably don't even know till u see a nvidia in action..just will never match the compatibility and favour of nvidia.. to Tom..couldn't of said it any better myself. most ati people i know are a dissilusioned lot. |
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| Comments from Vin Diesel | posted - 03:03 PM CET - Feb,05 2004 | | Tom - you said it dude! I have no idea why anyone would consider ATI when you need driver v3.6 for one game, and v3.9 for another..... JUST FIX THE BUGS AND BE DONE ATI! |
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| Comments from Tom | posted - 03:36 PM CET - Feb,05 2004 | | Ya, well I'm stuck here with the problem. I really believe ATI just have really bad inexperienced(but talk alot) beta testers. I'd be surprised if their beta testers are over the age of 14. Just the mentality makes me think that. The guys here flaming me were guaranteed to be from Rage3D.. that's the crap people have to deal with on their site. If you aren't Pro-ATI you aren't welcome. I'm not really Pro or ANTI, I'm just a customer with their product that doesn't work well. And it's not my system. Thank you. |
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| Comments from warlord | posted - 07:53 PM CET - Feb,05 2004 | | just lemme tell you i had a gforce before and now i got the ati never had prob with both of them so f*ck this discussion gdbye |
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| Comments from fx5950U | posted - 11:59 PM CET - Feb,05 2004 | | Looks you like won the debate Tom. Congratulations. |
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| Comments from warlord | posted - 02:13 AM CET - Feb,06 2004 | | lol what debate? didn't read half of the nvidia fan stuff |
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