“Recent downtime on Valve’s Steam Subscriber service has caused aggravation for Counter Strike players and increased calls for a change in the way Half Life 2 authenticates its single-player mode. Currently, players of Half-Life 2 Continue reading “Steam comes out of Half Life 2 players’ ears”.
Today’s Must Read Review: Looking for a new game? Bored with HL2, Far Cry, and Doom3? Bytesector.com has a trio of reviews covering Prince of Persia : Warrior Within, Lord of the Rings: The Third Continue reading “Sunday Night Reviews”.
“Leading graphics chip companies ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corp. adopted the PCI Express x16 interconnection type rapidly and were able to ship their products for Intel?s latest PCI Express platforms immediately after the giant chipmaker Continue reading “World’s First PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller Makes It to Retail”.
“While dual-core and eventually multi-core processors can do a lot in terms of making multitasking and virtualization more-efficient, dual-core chips are not required for Intel?s forthcoming desktop virtualization technology called Vanderpool.” X-Bit Labs
“Motherboard maker ASRock plans to venture into the production of graphics cards in June, aiming to ramp up output to 100,000 units a month in the second half of 2005, said company president Sterling Wu. Continue reading “ASRock to start marketing graphics cards in June”.
“Now users can use video.google.com to search for transcripts and screenshots of a particular show and find the information in a simplistic format. Users will have the ability to search using a keyword or a Continue reading “Google introduces video search service”.
“Think you’re downloading a new song or video? Watch out–that file may be stuffed with pop-ups and adware. PC World has learned that some Windows Media files on peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa contain code Continue reading “New Ad Attacks”.
Today’s Must Read Review: Danger Den, the standard bearer for high end water cooling, has introduced something that should interest anyone who wants W/C but is afraid of mixing water and electricity. Non-conductive cooling fluid? Continue reading “Yet more weekend reviews….”.
“A GREENOCK QUINE is touting the skin above her cleavage as a swell way for people to advertise their wares. She will host the advertising for 15 days and is willing to display company logos, Continue reading “Woman sells advertising on cleavage”.
AOpen, always willing to go where no other mobo maker has gone before such as they did in 2002 with their 845-chipset based AX4B-533Tube motherboard which featured vaccum tube on-board sound with audiophile grade wiring Continue reading “AOpen 915-chipset Pentium-M motherboard”.
“WE HAVE BEEN hearing rumours in the watery channel about NForce 3 for a while now, and they seem to whisper in our ear that the NForce 3 Ultra part is going to be unavailable Continue reading “NForce 3 Ultra cancelled”.
Leading mainboard maker Microstar International said Wednesday it commenced significant shipments of its mainboards based on ATI RADEON XPRESS 200-series chipsets two weeks back, a bit later than expected, and denied rumours about product recall. Continue reading “MSI Denies Rumors Floating Around the Web”.
“Though Intel has been promoting the spec for a while, the company only recently rolled out its first retail BTX boards. It expects to offer three variants (all 10.5 inches long): standard BTX, with seven Continue reading “First BTX Motherboards Hit Shelves”.
“ Advanced Micro Devices has always been very reluctant to change mainboards infrastructure for its processors, but the things may change when the company introduces its next-generation Socket M2 next year, two years after it Continue reading “AMD Readies Socket M2 for Forthcoming Processors”.
“ Intel Corp., world?s largest maker of microprocessors, recently applied for its new trademarks that various observers called mysterious ? Intel Inside VIIV and Intel VIIV. No one truly knows what the mystifying letters VIIV Continue reading “Intel’s Recently Registered Patents Cause Disputes”.