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3DMark Vantage RC0 screenshots released "These “screenshots” are captured by digital camera. It seems the RC0 version of 3Dmark is not stable, because it can’t even finish the benchmark and reporting errors. source said his testbed can not finish Graphic Test 2, and all the graphic test/CPU test/feature test can not be ran one right after another or it will crash. The application still have lots to improve. Just for your information, 3Dmark Vantage is a Vista/DirectX10-only benchmark program and scheduled to be released at GDC on Wednesday the 20th of February 2008. Source said there both release note and spec did not mention DirectX10.1."

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B.Ob.

February 18, 200818 yr

Wal-Mart dumps HD DVDs to back Blu-ray "Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) has decided to exclusively sell high-definition DVDs in the Blu-Ray format, dealing what could be a crippling blow to the rival HD DVD technology backed by Toshiba Corp (6502.T). The move by the world's largest retailer, announced on Friday, caps a disappointing week for HD DVD supporters, who also saw consumer electronics chain Best Buy Co Inc (BBY.N) and online video rental company Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) defect to the Blu-ray camp."

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B.Ob.

February 17, 200818 yr

Lego Machine Gun We build the base and the rest for the slide first. I will only list the parts, assembly is straight forward and goes according to the images.

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B.Ob.

February 17, 200818 yr

Radeon 4000 HD info "New High ending model becomes the ATI Radeon hp 4870 X2 (R700XT). Like the Radeon hp 3870 X2 are used here two (RV770) diagram chips on a plate. Also over 2 TeraFLOPS (FLOPS = floating decimal point operations per second) this diagram map should be theoretically four times faster than a Radeon hp 3870. Radeon hp 4870 X2 diagram maps can to be equipped with 1 or 2 GByte GDDR5 memory and be supposed approximately 250 Watts to use. A chip clock of 1050 MHz and a storing act of 1800 MHz are planned." <<< actual Babel Fish Translation of the same page

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February 16, 200818 yr

You could take on 26 five year old kids in a fight.

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February 15, 200818 yr

Team Fortress 2 Valentine's Day Update "Tomorrow (2/14) at 11 am PST all PC versions of Team Fortress 2, the class-based multiplayer action game named PC Game of the Year by Gamespy.com, will receive its largest update since the product was first made available on October 10, 2007, as part of Valve's best-selling Orange Box compilation. The free update includes global optimizations for networking, graphics, and player statistics, plus improvements to Source TV for tournament viewing. In addition, three of the currently available maps (Dustbowl, Granary, CTF_Well) have been iterated for enhanced performance and gameplay. The release is headlined by the intr…

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February 15, 200818 yr

NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies ""NVIDIA is the perfect fit for us. They have the world's best parallel computing technology and are the thought leaders in GPUs and gaming. We are united by a common culture based on a passion for innovating and driving the consumer experience," said Manju Hegde, co-founder and CEO of AGEIA." Be interesting to see AMD/ATI's response to this.....

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B.Ob.

February 14, 200818 yr

Flash drives ready to jump in capacity "SanDisk and Toshiba will start making flash memory on a new 43-nanometer manufacturing process that will result in SSDs later this year with capacities that should approach those of today's mainstream 2.5-inch hard drives, ranging between 120GB and 160GB."

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B.Ob.

February 14, 200818 yr

Paris plays host to Starcraft II "Expect South Koreans to turn up en masse. The country is home to the largest legion of Starcraft worshippers, TV shows, professional gaming leagues, hysterical groupies and where even the Korean Air Force sponsors a pro team."

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B.Ob.

February 14, 200818 yr

Xp Vista - link stopped working after I posted Performance Improvements Performance improvements with this release of Catalyst™ includes Company of Heroes DX10 frame rates increasing as much as 20% across all of the ATI Radeon™ HD 2x00 series of products and on all ATI Radeon™ HD 3x00 series of products. These performance improvements are even larger (up to 30%) for CrossFire™ configurations. Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System * Doom3: Running an OpenGL application with CrossFire™ enabled and AA set to 16x no longer results in corruption being noticed when the display resolution is set to 2048x1536 or higher. Further details can be foun…

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B.Ob.

February 13, 200818 yr

Intel to cut its prices on April 20th "Intel plans it usual price cut that will affect mostly the old 65nm parts. On April 20th Intel will cut Core 2 Quad Q6700 from the current $527 suggested retail price to $270. The super popular Q6600 at 2.4GHz will drop from $270 to $229. At the same time, Intel plans to introduce its Core 2 Duo E8300 45nm based CPU with 6MB cache and 2.83GHz clock and it will start selling it for $169."

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February 13, 200818 yr

Maxis Talks Spore IGN: That sounds great to me, but then again I play games all the time. How do you think a more casual gamer will respond to that sort of game design complexity? Lucy Bradshaw: Well, for one, you're guided. You have little contextual tutorials, you've got missions. For the more creator-types [of players], once you get to space you open up the last of our editors, and that's really the planet editor. You can sculpt and terraform your planets, you can create a sanctuary planet or a zoo planet, collecting some of your favorite things can housing them on a particular star system. You can explore the galaxy for different astronomical points of interes…

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B.Ob.

February 13, 200818 yr

Video Game Tax Coming to a State Near You? http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6229759.html The New Mexico legislature has introduced a new tax measure, HB583, that would force consumers to pay a 1 percent excise tax on purchases of video games, gaming consoles, and TVs. The revenue generated from the game and TV tax would be used to fund a new state educational effort aimed at getting kids out of the house more. True to the aim of the measure, they have even given the bill the creative title, "The Leave No Child Inside Act."

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February 12, 200818 yr

Interview with PC Power & Cooling Founder "That sounds reasonable. This is also for example how the single 12V rail got into place. Why exactly is one 12V rail better than separate rails, and why is this not a safety issue for the user? DD: One 12V rail is better because all of the power supply's capacity is available to the system. With a multi-rail 12V design, as much as 30% of the PSU's capacity can be trapped on under-utilized rails. For example, if one 12V rail rated at 18A is for the CPU, and the CPU only draws 8A, the remaining 10A cannot be utilized by other components in the system. That's true. I had an AnandTech reader writing me about a problem wi…

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B.Ob.

February 12, 200818 yr