“USUALLY I burble on for a few paragraphs more en route to a complete wibble. But this stress test on Tom’s Hardware leaves me lost for my guid Scottish words. The good news is that Continue reading “Intel stressed out in Tom’s Hardware test”.
Click here to download the Demo….but realize this monster is over 700MB!!! http://www2.ati.com/hl2/demo/steaminstall_hl2demo.exe “By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original Half-Life, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens Continue reading “Half-Life 2 Demo now available”.
“ IT’S NOT ONLY NVIDIA that has problems delivering enough PCIe chipsets. Via is sharing the same destiny, according to reports. The only difference is that has Nvidia pushed a few thousand Nforce 4 boards Continue reading “Via K8T890 delayed”.
“ OUR DUTCH friend, winner of the INQ 2004 fashion award, has noticed something about 6200TC that many other people haven’t. When he tested NV44, Geforce 6200TC he didn’t want to follow Nvidia’s master plan. Continue reading “Geforce 6200TC works slowly with 512MB memory”.
“ A READER said he was staggering into the second to shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere yesterday, when a radio ad made him think he was hallucinating. HP was advertising an Continue reading “HP pushes Athlon 64 Media Centre”.
“ KNOWLEDGEABLE SOURCES from Taiwan claim that there are too many PCBs that are waiting for NV40 chips. Nvidia is definitely failing to provide these chips to many of its customers. Geforce 6800 Ultra and Continue reading “Geforce 6800 GT/Ultra PCIe internally overclocked”.
“MOBO FIRM Epox will introduce a Nforce 4 754 motherboard, based on the Nforce 4 Ultra chipset. It will be a high end board and will support all but SLI. It won’t arrive before at Continue reading “Epox to make 754 pin Nforce 4 boards”.
Firefox and the Netscape browsers from the Mozilla Foundation have grabbed a lot of attention lately, but no “ditch Microsoft” effort is complete as long as your e-mail is humming through Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Continue reading “Fresh Outlook”.
Are you sick and tired of Internet Explorer? Have you grown weary of the constant vulnerabilities and patches? Do you scratch your head at sudden program lockups and crashes? Are you dismayed that Microsoft hasn’t Continue reading “Browser Wars”.
“SOME CRAZY Japanese fellows have got some juicy data on the road ahead for AMD in 2005. Once we pick our way through the funky symbols that our computers don’t display properly, there’s some good Continue reading “AMD 2005 CPU Roadmap Details”.
“2004 is coming to a close, and it has been a pretty exciting year for AMD. While it launched in 2003, 2004 was the year that the Athlon 64 really came into its own. Prices Continue reading “AMD CPU Roadmap Update”.
SAN FRANCISCO–A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google. The glitch, which Continue reading “Flaw found in Google’s new desktop search”.
“According to Microsoft, e-mails and attachments sent or received by any of Hotmail’s 187 million Web mail customers will be scanned in real time by Trend Micro’s antivirus software beginning Monday. Hotmail’s antivirus service was Continue reading “Hotmail dumps McAfee’s antivirus for Trend Micro”.
“ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) announced that in 2004 ATI’s Digital Television division shipped more than 5 million chips for HD (high-definition) TVs and HD cable and terrestrial set-top boxes. In addition, ATI Continue reading “ATI Ships More than 5 Million Chips for High Definition TVs”.
Intel will recall 2004 as a time of troubles, while AMD will relive the year much more fondly. Intel saw several product glitches. It pushed back the introduction of its second-generation Pentium M notebook processor Continue reading “Processors: AMD’s gains, Intel’s pains”.