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Monday, 29-October-2007 13:36:28 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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FatMan spotted this Brütal Legend adventure game on the way, featuring Jack Black and a few metal legends. Sounds fun. :) There's a YouTube trailer here.
Shacknews have an interview with Crytek about Crysis. We would say first CPU, then GPU, then memory. But it must be in balance. If you are balanced, we are more CPU bound then GPU, but at the same time at higher CPU configurations we scale very well for GPUs.
The Opera 9.5 Beta has been released. Website rendering has been significantly improved, along with performance, stability and usability.
Apparently USB 3.0 is on the way. The third-generation Universal Serial Bus interconnect will transfer data at speeds up to 4.8Gbit/s, ten times faster than USB 2.0's 480MBit/s. It will be backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, which is backwards-compatible with the first USB 1.1 definition.
From Juppy: Check out free-track.org. Basically its a freeware alternative to TrackIR, which is software/hardware that tracks movement of your head so you can control camera angles in racing games/flight sims etc, works with rFactor, GPL, GTR2, Flight Sim X, Future Pinball and plenty more. Software is free and there's instructions to make the LED hardware at the site. You just need some basic tools/ materials, LEDs, resistors, battery pack and a webcam to bring it all to life. I started a thread about it a couple of days ago here.
Xbitlabs checked out some DX10 games on current video cards. The number of games using DirectX 10 keeps growing day by day. This time we would like to discuss the performance of 12 latest generation graphics cards in 6 popular DirectX 10 applications such as Bioshock World in Conflict and a few others.
They also have a 24" monitor roundup. We’ve covered almost each and every existing diagonal in our LCD monitor roundups, from now-obsolete 15" models to newest 27" and 30" giants, but 23-24-inchers have remained out of our focus for some reason. Today we are going to make up for this omission by offering you a detailed review of 8 eight 23" and 24" monitors including solutions from Acer, Apple, Dell, LG, Samsung and ViewSonic.
Phoronix investigated heatpipes. In this article we have some new details to shed on heatpipes from a numbers of manufactures, including Thermalright, Thermaltake, OCZ, and Abit. These cooling mechanisms are supposed to keep our beloved PCs from overheating, but how does their manufacturing quality differ? With this article, we have plenty of pictures and videos showing you the differing qualities in heatpipes.
NordicHW checked out the effect of FSB on quad-core performance. This information is namely sent through the common system bus, which is a lot slower than a direct path between cores in the same die. This should also mean that the performance should improve if we raise the system bus, also known as the FSB. That is precisely what we're going to investigate in this article, and we will not settle for just comparing 266 MHz and 333 MHz FSB.
Dan meanwhile answers questions about quad-core chipsets among other things, and also has some letters. In this edition: Radiation protection, car battery woes, plug adapters and lithium voltage, terrifying welders and eBay jerkwads.
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