Tech News
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Iwill Dual PIII DDR motherboard
Published: Sunday, January 21, 2001 | By: DennisWith all the hype behind DDR here is a positive review for the use of DDR memory. Compare this review to the FWD-P3C4XD review that we did. They used the same processors, and the same version of SiSoft Sandra. You can see quite a little gain over even the Intel chipset.
One thing is for sure, the Via 133A chipset isn't really that good. -
DDR: The Disappointment?
Published: Saturday, January 20, 2001 | By: DennisViahardware posted an article on DDR and how it isn't really the greatest memory platform when used on a motherboard. You can see by the Freeway FWD-P3C4XD review that when the FSB is over clocked to 160Mhz the memory performance was equal to that of a Dual 1Ghz Pentium on a i840 board without using DDR memory. Until processor mfg. Increase the default FSB I do not believe we will see any huge gains in memory performance between SDRAM and DDR.
Now DDR on video cards, that is a different story. Quake3 in high res. is the only way to frag. -
Website Problems
Published: Saturday, January 20, 2001 | By: DennisSorry if you tried to reach this site yesterday we had some server problems that effected the web server. Everything is back up and running now so enjoy!
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Allaire and Macromedia to Merge
Published: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 | By: DennisAllaire the people that brought us HomeSite and Cold Fusion has announced that it is merging with Macromedia. Macromedia develops some great web specific products like Flash, Dreamweaver, and Shockwave.
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Under the terms of the definitive merger agreement unanimously approved by each company's board of directors, Macromedia will acquire Allaire. Rob Burgess, chairman and CEO of Macromedia, will continue as chairman and CEO of the combined company, which will retain the Macromedia name. Jeremy Allaire, CTO of Allaire, will be the CTO of Macromedia, reporting to Kevin Lynch, president of Macromedia products.
When it comes to web development tools I've used them both, HomeSite for programming, and Dreamweaver for layout and editing. The merger should be a good one. Now if they could just improve the Dreamweaver GUI everything will be great. -
VP6 vs. Epox (again!)
Published: Monday, January 15, 2001 | By: DennisThe guys as 2cpu have finally gotten their hands on a VP6 to review. Plus, they pit it up against the Dual Epox board. We here have already done such a review, though I will admit that we didn't cover as many aspects as 2cpu. I suppose they do need to make up for lost time. Check out ours here and then see what 2cpu has to offer.
These are the last of a generation. -
Interview with Rene Froeleke of ATi
Published: Friday, January 12, 2001 | By: DennisI really like these interviews they give us the ability to see what's going on behind the scenes at some of the top hardware companys. This time the interview is with ATI.
Maybe I'll start doing some, now I just need someone to interview. -
Little Gamers
Published: Friday, January 12, 2001 | By: DennisIts amazing what you find in some of that spam we all subscribe to. This morning GameSpy sent me this link with the caption of "Cutie n' Shit".
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Banners at Ninjalane
Published: Thursday, January 11, 2001 | By: DennisWell I have finally found a good deal on a couple banners for this site. Ninjalane was never really designed with banner ads in mind so you might see some layout changes in the future.
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Nvidia GeForce 2 DXTC bug
Published: Thursday, January 11, 2001 | By: DennisThe Register has stumbled across a bug with the GeForce and DirectX texture compression. The bug was found while comparing the GeForce2 MX and the 32meg Radeon in image quality. The Register claims that this is a hardware problem though personally I believe it could be solved with a driver update. Never-the-less it does bring up some interesting questions.
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Xbox News and Nvidia
Published: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 | By: DennisMSXbox has prepared an interview with he PR Guy from Nvidia. I admit I am a supporter of Nvidia, whenever there is a question about their products the PR department always steps forward and sets the record straight. No BS (that we can tell) just forward and to the point. MSXbox has interviewed Derek Perez, Director of Public Relations for Nvidia and has some interesting things to say.
On a side note: With the release of the Xbox coming across the horizon in the near future and the upcoming release of the NV20 it will be interesting to see how the market and Nvidia do this year.
