The day has come for ATI and NVIDIA to go head to head on the first DirectX 10 video game benchmark! Call of Juarez is going to be one of the first PC games to take advantage of DirectX 10, we took the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT video cards out for a test drive on it. Don’t expect high frame rates on this one though! Read on to get the low down.
May 9th through 12th Web Reviews “I have planned and built systems ranging from media centers all the way through to highly advanced application specific servers and in so doing have come into contact with Continue reading “May 9th through 12th News From Around the Web”.
Steve from the forums took notice that the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB Video Card is listed as in stock and ready for purchase over at ZipZoomFly. Prices start at $399 and the shipping Continue reading “ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB Video Card For Sale Starting At $399”.
Later this month Intel Bearlake desktop motherboards will be released for the very first time. While these motherboards will feature the latest and greatest Intel P35 chipsets they also happen to be the first desktop platform that utilizes DDR3 memory modules. For those that don’t know DDR3 is the next generation of Double Data Rate (DDR) Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM). Read on to find out more about DDR3 and what it might mean for you.
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) saw its revenues grow 36.1% on year to reach NT$84.53 billion (US$2.53 billion) in April amid a steady growth in orders for consumer electronics products, according to company spokesman Continue reading “Foxconn revenues jump 36% in April”.
Brisk demand for graphics chips boosted Nvidia’s sales and profit in the first quarter, sending the company’s shares up in extended trading. Nvidia said its bottom line popped 44% year-over-year to $132.3 million in net Continue reading “Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 44 percent year-over-year”.
THQ has put out a new patch for its post-apocalyptic first-person action game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, fixing a large number of bugs not covered by the previous 1.0001 update. The patch weighs in at Continue reading “1.0003 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. patch released – 31 Bug Fixes”.
Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of Continue reading “Original Dell PC added to Smithsonian collection”.
Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, kicked off its eighth annual CEO Summit today with the announcement of six investments totaling $31 million. The deals, all led by Intel Capital, include: China-based Continue reading “Intel Announces Six New Global Investments”.
Three labor unions holding Apple stock in pension funds have put proposals on the company’s ballot that would require options to be priced on the day they are granted; give shareholders a nonbinding vote on Continue reading “Activists Aim at Apple”.
Nvidia has announced a new family of Nvidia GeForce 8 series of graphics processors targeted at the newly evolved notebook PC market. These new GPUs (graphics processing units) help power notebook PCs with their multimedia Continue reading “Nvidia announces new GeForce 8 GPU for notebook PC”.
The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard is the top of the line of Intel P965 motherboards that Gigabyte carries. Gigabyte has numerous Intel P965 based boards and keeps upgrading and improving on the previous versions. The GA-965P-DQ6 offers Quad Cooling, Quad eSATA 2, Quad BIOS, and Quad Triple Power Phase, all solid Capacitors and excellent heat resistance for enhanced system durability.
Electronic Arts posted a wider quarterly loss on Tuesday and forecast fiscal-2008 adjusted profit below expectations, saying its widely anticipated video game, Spore, could be delayed. Redwood City, Calif.-based Electronic Arts said it taken out Continue reading “EA posts loss, says ‘Spore’ could be delayed”.
Royal Philips Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly announced that TSMC has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with an offering of TSMC shares held Continue reading “Philips to sell TSMC shares worth $2.5 billion”.
Based on the GeForce 8800 series GPUs, the GeForce 8600 series finally brings DirectX 10 to the masses at mainstream price points. The Geforce 8600 GTS is the successor to the 7600 GT, which was one of the best value DirectX 9 graphics cards of 2006. Read on as we look at the Albatron GeForce 8600 GTS Video Card and compare it to several others around the same price point!
