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PCPer have looked at DX10 performance with Catalyst 7.10 drivers, while PenstarSys have checked out some upcoming Nvidia graphics releases. Today I posted a rather lengthy front page article detailing quite a bit of new information on the upcoming graphics releases from both AMD and NVIDIA. Some you have seen before, but there are a few new tidbits not reported anywhere else.
PCMech have written about changing the wireless channel resulting in better signal. If you notice that your wireless signal drops for apparently no reason and/or the connection is spotty at best even though you’re in close range, the channel your wireless router is using may be the problem.
DriverHeaven have interviewed Scott Richards from Antec. We recently had time to chat with Scott Richards in Antec about their forthcoming hardware including the high efficiency "Signature" power supply products, unfortunately right now Scott isn't at liberty to divulge detailed information on certain products, but we felt we should at least try!
Marc spotted this cool ring which displays the number of Google search results of the name of the wearer. While in earlier times richness and importance were equal to the amount of money or jewels someone possessed, in a post information society it's the attention you get from the worlds people, that counts. Being in people's mind means being important, whether they think about you in a positive way our not doesn't matter.
HardwareSecrets have looked at the effects of heat on your CPU. Just like all electronic components, CPU produces heat while it is running. Heat in excess, however, isn't good and can even lead your CPU to burn or to work in an unstable way. In this tutorial you will learn what are the effects of high temperature over the CPU, will learn how to measure your CPU current temperature and will have access to tables listing the maximum supported temperature for the main CPUs available on the market.
P2P researches have found that unsuspecting file sharing users are tracked 100% of the time. Anirban Banerjee, Michalis Faloutsos, and Laxmi Bhuyan collected more than 100GB of TCP header information from P2P networks back in early 2006 using a specially-doctored client. The goal of the research was a simple one: to determine "how likely is it that a user will run into such a 'fake user' and thus run the risk of a lawsuit?" The results are outlined in a recent paper (PDF), "P2P: Is Big Brother Watching You?"
A Soldier of Fortune sequel is on its way for consoles. Now Activision announce Soldier of Fortune Payback will smash out of the PC platform onto next-gen consoles: The saga continues with the organisation known as “The Shop,” where players take on the role of a hired mercenary blasting through brutal do-or-die battle scenes in the world’s most dangerous criminal and terrorist hotspots.
It seems that video game controversy is actually good for business. There is this opinion by those who crow about violent games endlessly that their misguiuided, but well-meaning, witterings will in some way hurt the offending game. Wrong. It just generates a ton of publicity that will attract buyers that might not have even heard about it, or were in two minds about it in the first place. Banned movies and books do a roaring trade so why shouldn’t games? I give you the Hot Coffee Mod in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as Exhibit A. Sales there weren’t what you’d call ‘slow’.
HardOCP have looked at the performance of Half Life 2: Episode 2. Half Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal have just been released to anxiously waiting gamers everywhere. It has been an excruciating wait considering Episode 1 was released on June 1st of 2006, over one year ago. While Episode 2 may not push the boundaries of graphics by offering DirectX 10 graphical effects, it none the less offers spectacular DirectX 9 graphics with a few tricks up its sleeves, including the ability to offload particle effects to the GPU and of course massively fun gameplay.
Hackers have managed to get a swag of useful applications running on the iPod Touch. We're not looking at general availability yet, but those happy hacking cats unravelling the iPod touch have decrypted the ramdisk and are now busy installing applications. Already, Mail, Maps, and other 3rd party apps are up and running on their jailbreaked touches. The race is on between the cat and the mouse to see who will release their wares first. Maps screenshot after the break.
Online DVD rental service Netflix is showing HD-DVD as being more popular than Blu-Ray. One often overlooked statistic when comparing the two main high-definition optical formats is rentals. While Blu-ray Disc movies have consistently sold more units than HD DVD at retail, the popularity of the formats appear to be reversed in the rental market. According to Netflix data gathered by Compete’s online traffic metrics, HD DVD is the preferred high-def format for customers of the largest online rental firm in the U.S. Netflix users that deliberately set a particular format as preferred chose HD DVD by a factor of 2.4:1 when compared to Blu-ray Disc favorers.
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