Apple might be the flavor of the moment in the consumer PC world, but hundreds of thousands of customers every year continue to choose plain vanilla “white box” PCs. Those purchases go on as Hewlett-Packard Continue reading “Trouble on horizon for ‘white box’ PC makers”.
The notebook industry may see components shortages in the second quarter of 2008 if upstream suppliers fail to accelerate their expansion, according to industry sources. Sources indicated that serious shortages in the third quarter involved Continue reading “Notebook component shortage may hit notebook ODMs in 2Q 2008”.
GIGABYTE today announced the launch of their new graphics accelerator, the GV-NX88T512H-B, equipped with NVIDIAs latest GeForce 8800 GT graphics processor. GIGABYTE is also including the role-playing game, Neverwinter Nights 2 as part of the Continue reading “Gigabyte Releases GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Card – GV-NX88T512H-B”.
Although recent market observations noted that the graphics card market is facing problems due to the trend of notebooks replacing desktop PCs, and IGP (integrated graphics processor) performance continuously improving, sources at first-tier graphics card Continue reading “Graphics card demand to boost in 2Q08”.
Crysis hasn’t been out for more two days and a number of people have already found out that SLI technology doesn’t yet work on the new DirectX10 game title. Granted, Crysis is only in beta, Continue reading “Bad NVIDIA – SLI Doesn’t Work in Crysis!”.
ZipZoomFly has the XFX 8800GT listed on their site as in stock and ready to be sold for $279.99 with free shipping! It looks likes the e-tailers jumped the gun again and put them up Continue reading “XFX PVT88PYDF4 Geforce 8800 GT For Sale – $279.99”.
The first single player Crysis demo includes one single player level, and the Sandbox2 Editor. It weighs in at 1.81GB in size, but the the download servers at nzone.com are great. I averaged 600KB/Sec, which Continue reading “Crysis Single Player Download Now Available!”.
Late last night NVIDIA released a new set of drivers for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, just in time for you to upgrade before the Crysis demo launches tomorrow. These are the first of Continue reading “NVIDIA Releases Forceware 169.01 Beta Drivers for Crysis”.
KDE 4 is the next series of the K Desktop Environment software and one of our staff members has it up and running on Kubuntu 7.10 ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ thanks to collection of plugins made possible Continue reading “Compiz Fusion with KDE 4 Beta 3 on Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon”.
PC gamers will soon be able to play the most advanced video game ever created. The Crysis demoavailable tomorrow from nZone.comincludes the complete first level of the game, representing about 45 minutes of game play. Continue reading “DirectX 10 Demo of Crysis Coming Out Tomorrow on NZone.com”.
he Senate on Thursday night approved a seven-year extension of a moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access. The Senate voice vote came a little over a week after the House passed a Continue reading “Senate Passes Internet Tax Moratorium”.
Gizmondo must have been working hard as they have managed find out some information about the upcoming Dell XPS One and have pictures to prove it. It seems the FCC posted Dell’s system manual on Continue reading “The Dell XPS One A2010 Gets Leaked Early”.
Although AMD has launched the Black Edition Athlon 64 X2 5000+ CPU with an unlocked multiplier, some motherboard makers are taking a conservative view over whether the CPU will help win back market share. The Continue reading “AMD Black Edition CPU may not help AMD-based motherboard demand”.
OCZ today announced immediate plans to bring Hypersonic PC into the OCZ Technology Group. OCZ acquired Hypersonic PC to employ their rich expertise in high-end system building and take the organization and mobile gaming to Continue reading “OCZ Technology Group Acquires System Builder, Hypersonic PC”.
Production of a new generation of microprocessors for PCs, laptops, servers and other computing devices officially began today inside of Intel Corporation’s first high-volume 45 nanometer manufacturing factory in Chandler, Ariz. Fab 32 is Intel’s Continue reading “Intel Opens FAB 32 – First High-Volume 45nm Microprocessor Manufacturing Factory”.
