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The Tech Report retests Western Digital’s VelociRaptor after receiving one with the final shipping firmware, also comparing it the engineering sample they received earlier this year. Read on to see whether finished firmware reels in the VelociRaptor's propensity to outrun the competition or if Western Digital has managed to wring even more performance from its radical Raptor redesign.
TweakTown analyse the new ATI Catalyst version 8.6 drivers and how they perform under XP and Vista. This month, looking through the release notes for the latest incarnation of Catalyst drivers we see that a few performance increases have been promised. We'll see if these performance increases translate to any of the games we use.
CPU3D compare a pair of mainstream motherboards based on the Intel P45 chipset. The ASRock P45R2000-WiFi is pitted against the ECS P45T-A (Black Series). Both motherboards utilises the Intel P45 chipset/ICH10R southbridge. While the ASRock supports 1600FSB, DDR2 and DDR3 ram, the ECS will only support 1333FSB and DDR2 ram. Who will win the battle of the mainstream?
Bit-tech published an interview with Jim Vesella, executive producer for C&C Kane's Wrath. Now, as Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath prepares to launch on the Xbox 360, we chat to executive producer Jim Vesella about the future of the Command and Conquer series, the difference between the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the game and how Red Alert 3 is shaping up…
Digit-Life compares high-end chipsets from Nvidia and Intel to see how they compare. Today we examined two chipsets that shook themselves free of DDR2 and introduced support for top Intel processors with the 1600 MHz FSB. We should admit that these solutions offer similar characteristics, possessing support for all necessary technologies to become top products.
Trusted Review take a look at AMD’s recently announced Puma platform for the notebook market. As TR reported when the NDA finally lifted, the platform sees the introduction of new power-optimised dual-core processors called Turion X2 Ultra, as well as a new chipset, an accompanying range of HD 3000 series discrete mobile graphics cards and many much more.
Agg sent in details on how to make a cheap red laser light show, consisting of 3 laser pointers, a package of balloons, a small mirror and a couple of things around the house.
FLB sent in a pair of links, which contain a wide selection of high quality/resolution wallpapers that didn’t make it into the final shipping version of Windows Vista. They are available free of charge for download here and here.
Nvidia has now released a new set of GeForce drivers. The GeForce 175.19 drivers are WHQL certified, feature support for the GeForce 6, 7, 8 and 9 series cards (GeForce FX support in XP only).
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