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Whirlpool is reporting that Blitz Telecom, purchaser of G-Node and Koala Telecom, is in financial trouble and was placed in administration earlier this month. Despite the trouble, Omer attempted to further reassure users, saying that the "Administrator has confirmed that services will not be interrupted during this period." But this didn’t stop Blitz customers losing their broadband connections earlier this week. Blitz reports that some customers should now have their broadband connections back, albeit with some potential slowness. There are issues with some customers in Victoria though, said Omer. Discussion on the forum.
It has been a busy week for graphics cards releases and technology announcements, and it is about it get busier. AMD lifted the NDA date for its Radeon HD 4850 graphics card almost a week early, catching many people off guard. You can find reviews/previews of this card on AnandTech, ExtremeTech, Tech Report, Guru3D, Legion Hardware, TweakTown, techPowerUp and PC Perspective. Discussion on the forum.
While AMD was moving dates and times around, Nvidia felt threatened by the cards performance and value, so they decided to announce a new revision of the 9800GTX called the 9800GTX+ (Plus). Sporting higher clocks all round and support for the newest technologies like CUDA, PhysX, Folding@Home; Nvidia will be keeping the price for this card at $229USD, while reducing its current 9800GTX price to $199USD. Discussion on the forum.
TweakTown recently published an interesting article comparing the latest chipsets from Intel, focusing on performance between PCI-Express configurations and how they can affect gaming performance. While there are a few differences between the two, we only cared about one of them. We wanted to know the performance difference between the X48 and the P45 when running Crossfire.
TweakGuides have released their Firefox Tweak Guide for Firefox 3.0. The guide provides all the information you need to know about Firefox 3's new features, and how you can customize and use them to your advantage. Consider it a crash course in all things Firefox.
BurningFeetMan spotted the first official trailer of a game called Cities XL. This next-generation take on the city building genre, realism will be pushed to the limit with cities that are bigger, more realistic and more sophisticated than ever before. CITIES XL™ will expand upon all the features that make city builders fun and interesting, while also letting players take their game online, as they interact with others in a massive online environment.
MadBoxPC travelled to Shenzhen (China) for a factory tour at ECS facilities, and showed them how to build a motherboard from scratch. Unfortunately, the article is not in English and I had to translate it, but there are plenty of pictures to give you an idea of what is going on.
Daniel sends in word that Valve’s Team Fortress 2 is again free to trial over the weekend and is available for pre-load via this page. Discussion on the forum.
Hot Hardware have a in-depth look at NVIDIA’s latest line-up of Tesla products based on their new 10-series GPU that you’ve seen also driving their new line desktop cards today. Graphics processors for the desktop, workstation, and server space still dominate NVIDIA’s portfolio. But it’s also involved in notebooks, handhelds, software development, and more recently, high-performance computing; we take a look at the later.
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