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Advent Rising PC Review @ IGN
August 9, 2005 – It’s been two years since Advent Rising was first announced. From the onset the game was extremely ambitious. It was to be the first installment in a three part sci-fi epic with story elements contributed by famed science fiction author Orson Scott Card. The gameplay would blend third-person…..
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Channel Digital Speakers Review
When the Z-680 5.1 channel digital speakers from Logitech, gamers ranted and raved about finally getting a solid surround speaker set for under $500.
While they didn’t have mind-blowing specs, and personally I thought they sounded quite dull, they were better than anything in their price range. They were a good alternative to Klipsch, who at the time only had a 2.1 channel set available. And besides; the woofer pounded, and that’s all that matters to a lot of people.
Check out the review over at HardcoreWare.
Sin Episodes: Interview @ SiNEpisodes.net
Chris_D: First of all, it’s a great pleasure to have the opportunity to ask you a few questions. The announcement of SiN Episodes was a pleasant surprise for everyone, especially for fans of the original game. How long has the game actually been in development and when was it decided you’d venture…..
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Alpha!
Turbine is pleased to announce that the public Alpha for Dungeons & Dragons Online®: Stormreach has officially started! This is the first phase of the public Alpha and we are very excited to share our work with our fans. Following our successful showing of the game at E3 and the incredible response…..
Samsung’s Big-screen YP-T8 1GB Player Review
In such a small package, Samsung manages to cram 1GB storage, 1.8″ LCD screen, wide range of audio support, MPEG-4 video player, FM radio/recorder, voice recorder, photo viewer, motion sensor (for games), and last but not least, USB host inside the vertically oriented player.
Check out the full review at EverythingUSB.
SCSI Hard Drive Basics
SCSI may not be an economical solution for a desktop computer, but it doesn’t pretend to be. The high price tag comes with equally high performance and reliability, and in critical server and workstation applications, the added expense may easily be justified and recovered in a short period of time.
Head over to Big Bruin for the full article.
C++ Celebrates 20 Years
C++ Connections comes to the fabulous city that never sleeps, Las Vegas. Come join us for the 20th anniversary of your favorite development language C++! Come hear the best and brightest C++ speakers in the world, including keynote speaker Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Stanley B. Lippman, Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers, Doug Schmidt, and more.
Check out all the details here!
VapoChill Micro Ultra Low Noise Review
The addition to the Asetek arsenal is more traditional than a phase change or water cooling system, but still cutting edge in its own right. The VapoChill Micro series is powered by Asetek’s patented vapor chamber technology and is what I will be examining today.
Check out the full review over at Overclockers Online!
NorthQ 500W Ultra Silent Power Supply Review
…the titanium coated chassis, the black sleeving and the crystal clear 14cm fan adds a touch of class to the power supply but it there’s still room for improvement. It also comes with quad SATA connectors which should support up to four SATA drives in your system. For the price you’re paying, you’ll also get a decent power supply with a dedicated PCI-E connector and backward compatible 24/20-pin ATX connector. The best thing is having the ability to maximize cable management with the extra long power cables, which measures up to 3 feet long.
Check out the full review over at PC Modding Malaysia.
Mushkin Redline Heatspreader Preview
Mushkin recently announced their newly designed heatspreader that will premiere with their high performance Redline modules beginning August 16. Today we have our hands on these new Mushkin Redline heatspreaders, and have plenty of additional pictures along with a few words regarding their improved design and appearance.
Check it out at Phoronix.
Stratics: Interactive Fiction
Let’s take a step back in time… Back to when the games had no graphics, no sound and only printed and accepted text. Does anybody remember? Tagged as The Original Adventure Game, The Colossal Cave, written by Willie Crowther and Don Woods, first appeared on such computers as the PDP11 and the…..
VIA C7-M Processor Preview
VIA recently announced plans for another in the ‘C’ line of processors, this time dedicated to mobile use. The VIA C7-M is the mobile version of the C7 processor which was released in May of 2005. The VIA C7-M is slated to become available in November 2005 in speeds of 1.5GHz or 1.8GHz. During a recent briefing by the company, PCSTATS was shown the CPU in its A2 stepping. Possibly aiming to fill the market gap left by the apparent demise of Transmeta as a processor manufacturer, VIA has designed the C7-M with low power requirements and software security as the biggest areas of emphasis. The company is targeting the VIA C7-M at almost every segment of the laptop market, though it won’t directly compete with the high-powered Intel Pentium M and AMD Turion processors in full-size laptops on the benchmark front at least, power efficiency is another story altogether.
Check out the full article over at PC Stats.
Creative Introduces Sound Blaster X-Fi
SINGAPORE – August 8, 2005 – Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF), the worldwide leader in audio with over 250 million Sound Blaster® sound cards sold to date, today announced the future of audio with the introduction of its highly anticipated Sound Blaster X-Fiâ„¢ line of sound cards. Powered by the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelityâ„¢ audio processor, the Sound Blaster X-Fi cards introduce Xtreme Fidelity, an entirely new audio standard for music, movies and games.
Check out the full press release here.
PC Version of Advent Rising Released
EDISON, N.J., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Majesco Entertainment Company (Nasdaq: COOL – News), an innovative provider of digital entertainment products and content, today announced that it has shipped the PC version of Advent Rising to retail stores nationwide. Developed by GlyphX Games, Advent Rising thrusts players into an intergalactic adventure punctuated with…..
Gainward Ultra/3500PCX Golden Sample Review
Back on June 22nd, NVIDIA managed to achieve something that was categorically unthinkable after the year of the paper launch. 2004 was not a great year for either of the big two GPU manufacturers and both ATI & NVIDIA suffered from very poor availability of their high end video cards for several months after the launch.
This time around, things were so different. The minute that the GeForce 7800 GTX was announced, we saw widespread availability from its board partners and there was no sign of any let up on availability. Sure enough, today, you can visit your favourite online retailer and purchase one (or two) of several solutions from NVIDIA’s partners with varying clock speeds.
Check out the full review at Bit-Tech.
Man dies after online game marathon
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday.
Wow.. people need to get a life. Playing games for 50 hours is stupid.. check out the posting at CNN.com. Source: Hard|OCP.
nForce 4 SLI X16: Full Speed PCI Express
Ever since its launch in the fall of last year, nForce 4 has brought us SLI capability. Configurations for PCI Express slots in nForce 4 SLI motherboards must be selected by using a paddle that can be flipped to allow for either 2 x8 connections or full bandwidth for one with the other disabled. There is added flexibility on an nForce 4 SLI motherboard, but this flexibility comes with some limitations. Today, NVIDIA sheds the shackles of the paddle selector and limited bandwidth with the new nForce 4 SLI X16 chipset.
It will be interesting to see results once boards are released to reviewers. Check out the article at AnandTech.
Open SuSE 10.0 Alpha Available
Currently, SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta 1 (code name: Prague) is an unsupported, open source only, preliminary edition of SUSE Linux that contains bleeding-edge packages and represents the latest development snapshot. If you intend to test for bugs or contribute patches, this version is for you.
Note: Development snapshots are sometimes unstable. Before installing the latest development build, we recommend that you read the list of most annoying bugs.
You can grab the build here, but sadly they do not have a DVD version available yet. It’s a 4 CD download currently.
Flash 8 to begin shipping next month
The company says the software’s new Flash video encoder will deliver some of the industry’s highest-quality video at the smallest file sizes. A new plug-in will allow video editors to export creative work directly for the Web in Flash Video format, which is “playerless” and embedded directly in Web pages.
As previously reported, analysts have touted the new tool, released in beta form in July, for those Web video capabilities. They said the software could give Microsoft’s Windows Media technology, RealNetworks’ Real format and Apple Computer’s QuickTime format a run for their money.
I personally can’t wait to see how good the new Dreamweaver is, but if Flash is your thing, check out the posting ZD Net.
Asus A8N-SLI Premium Athlon64 Motherboard Review
The Asus A8N-SLI Premium includes IEEE 1394a Firewire, two Gigabit NICs, 7.1 channel audio and an additional Serial ATA/RAID controller (for a total of 8 SATA headers). In terms of expansion, the motherboard offers up one PCI Express x1 slot, one PCI Express x4 slot and three traditional 32 bit PCI slots to the two PCI Express x16 sockets. Finally, the board can be used with any Socket 939 AMD Athlon64/FX CPU currently on the market, and up to 4GB of PC3200 DDR-RAM can be installed.
Check out the full review at PC Stats.
Novell and MySQL AB Expand Partnership for Leading Open Source Database
SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)—09 Aug 2005—Novell and MySQL AB today announced an agreement to deliver enhanced, combined support for key components of the popular open source LAMP infrastructure stack. Under the reseller and joint-support agreement, the only accord of its kind between a Linux* vendor and MySQL AB, Novell will now offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network commercial database service directly to its customers. As a result, customers can now deploy a true enterprise-class open source foundation for their IT infrastructure with confidence.
“As the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster’s 19 million registered users rely on a system that handles over one billion database queries a day,†said Dave Kochbeck, director of technology at Friendster. “We have found MySQL running on SUSETM Linux to be the ideal combination for us. With the availability of MySQL Network direct from Novell, many more customers will now benefit from affordable, enterprise-grade database technology backed by Novell’s world-class support team.â€
Check out the full press release here.
Thermaltake Armor Case Review
The Thermaltake Armor has its faults but with a few tweaks here and there I really believe Thermaltake can deliver a Case capable of stellar performance and quality. At $160 I feel we have to be hard on this Case, Cooler Master, Lian Li and Silverstone would all fall into this price point. We need to see features like aluminum Power and Reset buttons, and replace other areas that are plastic with something that will last – overall this Case is a great stepping point for Thermaltake.
Check out the full review over at 3D Xtreme.
Nokia 8800 Review
While there’s no doubt that there is a demand for the 8800, with many retailers reporting it outstripping supply, it has to be said that there is no real technical reason why you should want to own an 8800. Its old technology in a new shell and even that loses its appeal very quickly.
Wow, this phone is amazing looking! Head over to Hexus for the review!
SteelPad Steel Sound 5H Professional Gaming Headphones Review
No matter what, we found these SteelPad Steel sound 5H gaming headphones to be very comfortable and give very good sound reproduction. We were more than happy with them as we are sure you will be as well.
Head over to A1 Electronics for the review.
Cooler Master Centurion 531 Review
Cooler Master’s Centurion 5 was a great case that provided good airflow with great looks. The Centurion 531 is one of Cooler
Master’s newest Centurion cases that continues the same trend.
Head over to InsaneTek for the full review!