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(link) Saturday, 29-July-2006 14:31:17 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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TrustedReviews have a memory card roundup. In order to help you make a choice we’ve gathered a selection of 2GB SD and 4GB CF cards from a number of popular manufacturers and subjected them to a series of tests.
TheTechZone suggest how to protect your eyes while gaming. Greenery soothes eyes, so glance as often as you can at green trees, bushes, or plants. I don't think the trees in Far Cry count.
PCMech explain how ATI HyperMemory and nVidia TurboCache work. Making use of the latest release of PCI-Express, nVidia's TurboCache, along with ATI's incarnation of the technology called HyperMemory, crafted an efficient method of borrowing system memory for graphical use.
The Multi-GPU World Tour continues at LegitReviews. We benchmark eight common games that do not have built-in benchmarking utilities and see how CrossFire and SLI do in games that don't get much attention with the media. The results are interesting and a must read for any gamer considering SLI or CrossFire!
From James: "The Chaser's War on Everything" now has a podcast!!! :) old episode segments are on the page for download. good for a giggle =)
GideonTech built a biped robot.. interesting. Then I used an L bracket to allow the ankles to rotate, which will be attached to the servo brackets which will make up the knees.
Beyond3D have some info on Direct3D 10, the graphics portion of DirectX 10 in Windows Vista. What follows is a summary piece based on our notes from the D3D10 sessions, chats with various game devs, ATI devrel staff and Intel guys, who were all there to either learn or evangelise about D3D10, XBox 360 and multi-threaded game development.
TweakTown checked out how RAM is made at TEAM Group's factory. We’ll also show you how memory is tested for stability before testing along with how heat spreaders are installed on TEAM’s range of Xtreem memory modules.
HWSecrets have a guide to performing a BIOS upgrade.. which is a perfect excuse to roll out this quote again. :)
TweakTown report that the much-anticipated RD600 chipset from ATI, for Conroe, will still go ahead despite the AMD+ATI merger. As for future ATI based Intel platform based chipsets, the future is uncertain.
ArsTechnica ponder place-shifting television shows. A few cables here, a few networking adjustments there, and you can use a product like the Slingbox or the software-based Orb to watch your TV (or TiVo, or DVD player) from just about anywhere you can get a network connection, be it your office, your hotel room, or the other side of the planet.
David sends word that Scorched3D has been updated. Scorched 3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth "The Mother Of All Games". Scorched 3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play. Scorched 3D is totally free and is available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems.
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