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Tuesday, 13-May-2008 16:21:01 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Daztay spotted the world's first digital camera, which used a cassette tape! In December of 1975, after a year of piecing together a bunch of new technology in a back lab at the Elmgrove Plant in Rochester, we were ready to try it.
InsideHW have an article about AMD's K10 architecture. As far as desktop computers are concerned, the K10 architecture also brings along an entirely new platform, which should unify all vital system components under a single brand - Spider.
BenchmarkReviews meanwhile explore the world of DDR3. Sadly, it might take an article like this to open the eyes of my fellow hardware enthusiast and overclocker, because it seems like DDR3 is the technology nobody wants bad enough to learn about. Pity, because overclocking is what it's all about.
Bit-Tech have some info on the removal of DirextX 10.1 from Assassin's Creed. Huddy said that he is working hard with his team to get DirectX 10.1 support back into the title for Radeon HD 3000 graphics card owners.
Microsoft have said their recent blocking of YouTube links was a glitch. Microsoft said in a blog posting Sunday that the issue was a mistake made by the third party that handles blocking of potentially unsafe content for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
LegitReviews checked out Vista game performance with 2GB or 4GB of RAM. We got our hands on a 2GB and a 4GB set of Corsair DOMINATOR PC2-9136C5 memory modules and set off to see what happens to the average frame rate in nine games at 1920x1200.
Scratchy reminded me of the Fair Go Broadband initiative. There is a clear and present danger that in its rush to roll out the National Broadband Network (NBN), the Government will give away critical competition and consumer safeguards.
Bit-Tech ponder consumer and game publishers' rights when it comes to copy protection. Copy protection and piracy seem like two inescapable forces in modern digital media. But is either side right? Brett Thomas sounds off about pretty pictures, perils of intellectual property, and the dollars and cents behind everyone's favourite "freedom fighters."
IBM have a new liquid-cooled supercomputer for weather simulation. Using the IBM Power 575 architecture, the system sports POWER6 microprocessors, operating at a speedy 4.7 GHz. The system utilizes 4,064 of these blazingly fast processors, 12 terabytes of memory, and 150 terabytes of FAStT DS4800 hard drive storage. The computer is one of IBM's new systems that utilizes water cooling, which allows higher clock speeds and lower energy usage, as the PC enthusiast market has long recognized. Well, mainframes were water-cooled back in the 1960's or so, so it's not entirely a new idea. :)
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