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The photographer who did 750 megapixel high resolution image of Sydney has done another, this time it is over a gigapixel weighing in at 1500 megapixels. And this time the subject is Machu Piccu. Coral Cache link of the Sydney image in case we kill it.
Apparently some research has shown that shopping websites that take too long to load are at a very high risk of losing customers. "The research by Akamai revealed users' dwindling patience with websites that take time to show up. It found 75% of the 1,058 people asked would not return to websites that took longer than four seconds to load."
Bit-Tech has an interesting article about the future of gaming textures using mathematically generated textures rather than bitmapped ones. "I have some actual examples from a recent game, Roboblitz. In this game, we replaced about 95% of the textures. The game has 6 levels and for each level the developers would use 80MB of compressed textures. So, let's do the numbers, a total of 6x80=480MB. Using our tools we replaced the 480MB with about 3MB of procedural data, a pretty spectacular decrease in game size.”
Techarp has a desktop graphics card comparison guide which includes the latest 8800 GTX and GTS cards and covers 294 graphics cards.
Over at Digital Trends they have an article about the Nvidia launch of the 8800 series graphics cards and their new chipset the 600 MCP. "Earlier today I had the honor of attending the Nvidia launch of their flaming hot GeForce 8800 GPU and nForce 600 MCP. While the performance of these new products is stunning (you can get benchmarks from other articles) what I want to share is the experience of the launch event itself."
At Sharky Extreme they take a look at what type of gaming machine $4000 buys you. Legit Reviews has a similar article here. "It's hard to believe a year has passed since our last Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide, and while many things have changed, others have remained the same. Intel's sensational Core 2 architecture marks the biggest update from last year's lineup, as AMD's Athlon 64 X2/FX can no longer be considered the top-performing desktop processor. Pricing, however, comes into AMD's favor, so that including an X2 configuration could allow leftover money to spend on such necessities as games."
Have you ever heard of a screen made out of concrete? "It is made from see-through concrete - and it is heavy. Innovation Lab presents of the heaviest screens in the world. It is heavy due to its physique, but in particular due to the endless number of perspectives and possibilities it features."
Hardware Secrets has an article about using Battlefield 2142 to benchmark your PC and create your own timedemos. "As you may already know, one of the best ways to benchmark PCs nowadays is by running 3D games. If you are comparing video cards, the use of real 3D games is imperative. Battlefield 2142, which was released last month, is the latest game under Battlefield franchise, making a very interesting choice to test the 3D performance of your system. In this tutorial we will teach you how to use this game to benchmark your PC."
Techspot has an article on building a budget AM2 system. "Currently there is a massive amount of competition in almost every corner of the computer industry. This has resulted in a wide range of products, as manufacturers attempt to capture as much market segment as they possibly can. Take the war between ATI and Nvidia, for example. Each company has been scrambling to gain an upper hand in every price bracket. Currently there are loads of options in the sub $100 range, $150, $200, $250, $300, and all the way through to $600+. The same can be said about CPUs, which have not only reached phenomenal levels of performance, but are also more affordable than ever."
The Zune is supposedly coming next week and some say its good but not as good as the ipod.
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