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Thunder 8 Gaming Pad @ A True Review
“Our mouse is our life blood when it comes to playing games and navigating the computer. Any way to enhance using a mouse makes us better. Optical mice have made us look for texture and reflectiveness over a pretty picture on a rubber pad. That is why gaming pads are all the rage now. X-Ray produces the Thunder line of gaming pads to aid our experiences with a mouse. This review will look at the Thunder 8 gaming pad and Zero Friction mousekates for the mouse.”
Very sharp looking mousepad! Check it out at A True Review.
Old Magazine Earns Man $10,000
“Hoarding old magazines pays, at least for a few lucky ones like David Clark. An engineer from Surrey, England, Clark discovered that in his collection of old magazines was an April 19, 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine.”
Intel offered to pay anybody who owned a good copy of Electronics Magazine, the April 19th 1965 edition, $10,000. Looks like I’m never throwing out my issues of CPU and Maximum PC! Read more about it here.
MSI 925XE Neo Platinum Edition @ Digit-Life
“The new product from MicroStar is almost a complete copy of its predecessor MSI 925X Neo. The only difference between these two motherboards is their chipsets. Intel has designed a new chipset — i925XE — to support recently released Pentium 4 XE (Extreme Edition) processors. In its turn, such a large company as MSI couldn’t ignore this event and designed MSI 925XE Neo Platinum based on the Intel chipset.”
Check out the full review at Digit-Life.
Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising Peek #1
“In the period around 300 BC, the Carthaginians are a major economic force across the entire Mediterranean region, with a series of trade outposts from Iberia to Sicilia and beyond. Based in northern Africa, they are sworn enemies of Rome due to a long-standing, irreconcilable feud. The Gauls occupy a large portion
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Sony VAIO VGN-T140P/L Notebook Review @ PC Stats
“As you might guess, here at PCstats we like computers… things with ‘gadget’ value, and tiny electronic devices in general. When something comes along that can fulfill all of these cravings, we tend to take notice. Such was the case when this lovely little Sony laptop arrived.”
Check out the full review at PC Stats.
Spire: KestrelKing VI CPU Cooler @ 3D Accelerated
“Processors have made some huge leaps in the last year. Way back in the 66MHz days chips barely spit out 15W of power. Today you find P4 pushing over 100W. If you can’t picture the amount of heat generated by such a tiny object, put your face near your desk lamp and that should give you a nice idea. While very rarely do systems shutdown because of heat issues, most of these issues being bad heatsink installations, it is always important that you have a solid heat sink/fan unit on your chip at all times.”
Head over to 3D Accelerated.
Asus V6800V @ Hot Hardware
“Lightweight notebooks have always been the weapon of choice for the professional with a need for speed and an eye for style. As new entries are brought into the market during the spring refresh, numerous companies have been scrambling to bring something that fuses aesthetics and power together in a conveniently portable package.”
Check out the review at Hot Hardware.
SCAN 3XS ISOTOPE System @ Hexus
“The ISOTOPE chassis is much like Marmite; you will either love it or loathe it. I must confess, having first seen it on display at the recent CTS show, I was set against it. Too many hard edges and too much internal activity. However, it’s the kind of chassis that grows on you … it becomes a talking point as much as anything else, and if you’re the kind of enthusiast that likes to have something look a little different, the chassis, with its pre-distressed look and colour choice, is a real alternative to regular SFF PCs.”
Check it out at Hexus.
Auto Assault: News for 4/22/05
Greetings from the Central Wastelands! The Changed have arrived! GameSpot has posted the third and final Auto Assault player race profile, The Mutants, and you can read all about them at Gamespot and download the accompanying video from our Downloads section here. We have two new class profiles up on the www.autoassault.com
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SilverStone Zeus ST65ZF 650W SLI Power Supply Review @ 3D Gameman
“This product stands true to its name, Zeus. It’s definitely the ruler of most other PSUs in heaven or on earth! With a continuous wattage of 650 & a peak wattage of 710 it’s at ease in a server environment or for the hardcore gamer. While the power rating is exceptional it also carries the official NVIDIA SLI certification. Unquestionably, the top of the line! Watch the Video to find out more…”
Check out the full video review at 3D Gameman.
Ultra 256MB MP3 Player @ Phoronix
“A few weeks back, we reviewed the Ultra Products X-Finity 600W, the Ultra UV cable sleeving kit, and the Ultra Mini Portable HDD enclosure. Thanks to Ultra Product’s generosity, we have yet another one of their products for review, the Ultra 256MB MP3 Player (ULT31576).”
Read the full review at Phoronix.
Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 5 Rev2 @ InsaneTek
“Arctic Cooling makes a few changes to their award winning VGA Silencers to allow compatibility with the new X850 and X800XL series of video cards.”
Check out the full review at InsaneTek.
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P/L Notebook Review @ PC Stats
“The navy blue and silver Sony VAIO VGN-T140P/L laptop is the size of a hardcover book and weighs only a little over three pounds. It packs a weighty list of features, beginning with a DVD/CDRW combo drive and a massive WXGA (1280×768) resolution on its tiny, shiny, 10.6″ widescreen LCD. The outer shells (lower and upper) of the notebook are made from aluminum, and typical of Sony, the build quality is very solid.”
Check it out at PC Stats.
The one million download challenge of Opera 8
“An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother’s house in his home country, Iceland. Opera’s communications department could obviously not resist to make such a bold and inarguably over-confident statement public.”
Wow, that’s commitment! I am going to have to download the browser just to see what the excitements about. Read about it here.
Guild Wars: Gold Master Reached!
“April 21, 2005 – ArenaNet announced today that Guild Wars is complete and has entered manufacturing — effectively, the game has “gone gold,” — and will ship out on April 28. Guild Wars was designed by several team members behind Blizzard’s StarCraft, Warcraft, Diablo and the Battle.net gaming network. Unique to Guild
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Torvalds Creates New Linux Development System
Linux founder Linus Torvalds has reluctantly created his own software configuration management system, Git, to oversee Linux kernel development.
Previously, Torvalds had been using BitMover Inc.’s BitKeeper SCM (software configuration management) to manage Linux. “I’m pretty well known for not being a huge fan of source control that gets in the way and makes it harder to merge with all the people I work with all the time,” Torvalds said in a statement last year.”
Great article.. it’s definitely an interesting move. Check it out at eWeek.
Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 SP1 To Support Linux
“Microsoft have announced plans to add Linux support to its Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1. The new service pack will be the first Microsoft product to carry Linux support.
The announcement came during a keynote given by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas on Wednesday.”
Woot, Linux for the win. Check it out here.
3DMark03 Optimizations @ NGOHQ
“”Today I decided it was time to check both ATI and nVidia drivers for any Futuremark 3DMark03 optimizations. Both sets of drivers use filename detection to achieve their application specific optimizations. To try and get beyond their detection methods I renamed the 3DMark03 executable to another filename. I then ran a series of test so I could try and find any quality or performance differences. As we all know this issue has been debated many times with both sides saying the other side is cheating in their results.”
Check out the article at NGOHQ.
Buka Entertainment: Unleashes Apocalyptic Wars
Buka Entertainment is pleased to announce a new title Hard Truck: Apocalyptic Wars. This third person action/RPG is set in the post-apocalyptic environment full of menacing mysteries and unfriendly inhabitants. Explore the new world using your heavy truck. The truck is your ultimate shelter, armor and a mean to earn your living.
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Titan Vanessa S-Type @ Viperlair
“Overall the Titan Vanessa S-Type is a great heat sink. Performance is on par with other similar heat sinks, and the noise wise it is very quiet. If you don’t have a Socket 462, mounting will be a breeze, and the included fan controller gives you that much more control of the performance.”
Check out the full review at Viper Lair.
ChiMei CT-729A 17in LCD Review @ MikhailTech
“The menu controls are self-explanatory. However a couple features really stand out. For one thing, there’s a very useful Auto button. Rather than having to go through several OSD menus to get automatic calibration, you can now do it with the press of one button. Even better is the “Turbo” key. This has 3 brightness presets, labeled “picture”, “text”, and “economy”. Each one is dimmer than the last. You can cycle through them by continuously pressing the Turbo key. It’s an incredible feature as most times you can quickly and effectively switch between settings depending on the application without having to manually adjust the brightness. For instance, you can now read text (“text” or “economy” setting) and then play some Doom 3 (incredibly dark game, set to “picture” mode) without having to always re-adjust the brightness. As far as the buttons themselves go, they’re nicely sized and simply a joy to press.”
Check out the full review at MikhailTech.
Thailand Display Flexible Keyboard Review @ LAN Addict
“There’s no denying that the Thailand Display Flexible Keyboard is a useful product. That much should be easy for everyone to see. It can be literally rolled up and put into a pocket to take with you. It can have spills soaked up from its surface with a damp sponge or paper towel, which means the next time you spill a soda on your keyboard it won’t be the end of gaming for the night. However, it is not a perfect keyboard, either, especially for the gamer. This is due to, ironically enough, the flexible design.”
Can’t say that’s not an interesting keyboard, hehe. Check it out at Lan Addict.
AMD’s Dual-Core x75 Opterons Review @ Hexus
“The release today of AMD’s dual-core workstation and server parts is a significant landmark in the world of x86 computing for the enterprise and professional users. The ability to pack twice the processing power into the same space opens up new doors for clustering, research, data processing, data mining, webserving, content creation, digital media production, video editing, games development and much more. While the cost is high for the time being, economies of scale and a pervasive range of processors to choose from will only bring the price down, and significantly so.”
Check it out with a lot of benchmarks at Hexus.
Call of Duty 2: Preview at 1UP
“We loved the cinematic intensity and nonstop action of the original Call of Duty—so much so that we’re finding the wait for the sequel excruciating, especially after getting a firsthand look at the dramatic changes the brand-new game engine and more open game design are bringing to the title.” It’s a very
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CTS 2005: BTX – Fear the factor @ Hexus
“As an owner of one of Shuttle’s devices, I was hoping that the newcomer could take a high-end graphics card. Sadly, though, the answer was no. The SB86i is aimed at the business market and fitting such a card wasn’t thought to be a good idea at all.
And that, I fear, will be same with most SFF BTX models. Your average graphics card is no problem but these tiny boxes can’t take the sorts of card that gamers want to use. Their low-noise fans simply can’t deal with the heat, and there’s no obvious way of getting sufficient air throughput to prevent things starting cooking.”
Check out the full look at Hexus.