Tech News
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Doom III E3 Demo Clarification @ Shacknews
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisIt turns out that the MSNBC article didn't tell us everything about the Doom 3 E3 demo hardware. So for those lucky enough to see it at E3 the demo was running on "next-gen" hardware ATI card at medium quality!
Here is a quote of the email from John
"We actually screwed up at E3 -- we should have been running it at high quality settings (uncompressed textures, anisotropic filtering), but we were chasing some problems the first day, and it got set back to medium quality. The problems had gone away, so we left it that way, rather than risk changing it back." -
Intel and the Itanium 2
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisTest results from a prototype Itanium 2 processor show new promise for the 64-bit chip.
" Intel said that tests of prototype 1GHz Itanium 2 chips show that the improvements help the new chip deliver twice the performance of an 800MHz Itanium on tests such as Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s SPECint2000 and SPECfp2000, Intel said. The SPEC tests measure a computer's processor, memory and software performance. " -
Don't Diss on Doom III
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisMSNBC has posted an interview/article with John Carmack on id' software's new game called Doom 3. They even explain why they choose to demo the game using a Pentium 4 2.0Ghz and ATI Radeon video card.
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SOYO Unveils 10 New Motherboard Designs at Computex
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisI really need to start attending some of these trade shows.
It looks like the SOYO booth will be a "must stop" attraction this year being that they will Unveil 10 new motherboard designs with integrated Serial ATA-133. In case you didn't know this is the next gen HDD interface that is supposed to be supa fast. I also hear that Soltek has something up their sleeve so make sure to stop by there too.
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More Doom ]|[ stuff @ GameSpy
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisThis is part 3 of their sitdown with id software on the new Doom 3 game due out in 2003.
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Hynix Signs Foundry Deal with Cirrus
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisIts amazing that Hynix is even able to sign deals considering the botched job they did with Micron a few weeks back.
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Hackers on Apple, Scare Tactic?
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisSymantec is saying that Mac users are being too confident in thinking their Mac's are more secure than a PC.
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Samsung to Announce DDR-II
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisThe Inquirer is reporting that Samsung will soon announce that they are the first with a JEDEC DDR-II 512Meg compliant memory chip, with a little help from IBM.
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Intel Price Slashes Ease Inventory Pressure
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisDigitimes is reporting that the recent price slashes for a Pentium 4 will mean more motherboard sales, ... you think?..
Here is a quote.
"For chipset suppliers, the speed at which 845D product inventory is cleared would be proportional to the pace of market recovery."
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"Motherboard and chipset makers indicate that the market is currently bogged in a “wait and see” state as demand remains sluggish, awaiting Intel’s price cuts and the arrival of new product launches at the Computex exhibition in Taipei from June 3-7." -
Hercules FDX 8500LE Review @ Techseekers
Published: Monday, May 27, 2002 | By: DennisHercules has been out of the spotlight lately since dropping nVidia's processors to help out a fellow Canadian brethren, namely ATI. I am glad to see Hercules is still sporting the cool blue PCB and matching cooling gear.
