• SanDisk To Ship U3 Smart Flash Drive

    By on September 20, 2005 3:13 am

    SanDisk today introduced its first USB smart drive using U3 technology, a powerful new platform that enables users to store and manage their "personal workspace" — including files, programs, passwords and settings — on a tiny device the size of a pack of gum. SanDisk Cruzer® Micro smart drives...

  • AMD-Sponsored Film Contest

    By on September 20, 2005 3:11 am

    AMD today announced its sponsorship of "The 64 Second Film Contest," providing digital media enthusiasts an opportunity to invent and share digital creations defining the concept of "Waitlessness" in 64 seconds. AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 dual-core processors "shatter the hourglass," taking content creation and multimedia performance to an all...

  • LG Multi-Function LCD TV Promo

    By on September 19, 2005 1:36 pm

  • GeForce Go 7800 GTX on Sep 29th

    By on September 18, 2005 8:56 pm

    NVIDIA is going to launch their mobile G70 to be officially known as GeForce Go 7800 GTX on Sept 29th and it will be available immediately on the day of launch. 7800 GTX Go is packed with 302M transistors and is clocked at 400MHz core / 550MHz memory. It...

  • Radeon X1800 XT Preliminary Results?

    By on September 18, 2005 8:54 pm

    Hardware Analysis has published some preliminary benchmark results on the X1800 XT and PRO but has caused some controversies over the net currently. We knew that the X1800 XT scores can’t be from the AIB partners because they haven’t got it yet and if the scores are coming from...

  • Sapphire X800GTO Ultimate & Fireblade Editions

    By on September 16, 2005 11:09 am

    Developed to take advantage of its unique safe overclocking tool, TRIXX, Sapphire has just launched several exciting new models of graphics accelerator in the Sapphire RADEON X800 family. Silently cooled by an amazing new heatpipe system, the Sapphire RADEON X800GTO ULTIMATE 256MB is equipped with GDDR3 memory and has...

  • X800 GTO² to X850 XT Mod

    By on September 16, 2005 9:48 am

    Sapphire’s special version of the X800 GTO is called X800 GTO² which uses an R480 core similar to that on the X850 series. The GTO² comes with 12 pipelines enabled by default but through a soft mod by flashing a BIOS, the full 16 pipelines can be unlocked to...

  • ATi Radeon X800 GTO Launched

    By on September 16, 2005 12:14 am

    ATI is pleased to announce the introduction of its Radeon ® X800 GTO premium graphics card, the newest member of the Radeon family of products that is designed to give gamers the ultimate combination of graphics performance, gaming power and value. ATI’s Radeon X800 GTO combines a powerful 12-pipe...

  • Chaintech Volari V5 & GeForce 6200A Cards

    By on September 15, 2005 11:59 pm

    Chaintech today announced a pair of mainstream graphics cards, which deliver everything the Home Theatre PC users need for output as well as enough power for graphics-intensive applications and 3D gaming at a modest price. Chaintech’s Volari V5 (SAV5) graphics card features XGI Technology’s Volari V5 chipset. The Apogee...

  • ULi RoHS-Compliant Chipsets

    By on September 15, 2005 11:57 pm

    ULi today announces the availability of Green and lead-free solutions for all line of products including core logic chipset, PC peripheral host controller and video/audio device controller. ULi is responding as a globally responsible corporation, to be fully committed to provide eco-friendly products as an alternative solution for customers,...

  • AOpen EX761 XC Cube For AMD

    By on September 15, 2005 11:43 pm

    AOpen presents its latest 64-bit XC Cube platform, a PC featuring powerful audio and video capabilities – EX761, today. EX761, which has a 754-pin socket and supports AMD Athlon 64 and Sempron CPUs, is one of the first generation of Cube PCs which can run 64-bit Windows XP operating...

  • Airgo MIMO Gen3 Chipset

    By on September 15, 2005 9:47 am

    Airgo Networks announced its third generation True MIMO chipset with support for data rates up to 240Mbps. For the first time consumers will be able to experience faster-than-wired speeds over a wireless network – and almost three times the speed of other premium wireless technologies on the market today....

  • “SuperFetch” To Accelerate Boot Time In Vista

    By on September 15, 2005 9:39 am

    Microsoft previewed a new feature in Windows that can significantly increase the speed applications are loaded and extend the virtual memory of a computer system by accessing secondary and peripheral storage devices such as USB Flash memory sticks. Microsoft calls this feature “SuperFetch.” Library system codes of most used...

  • 7800GTX Enough For X1800 XT

    By on September 15, 2005 1:59 am

    We heard that GeForce 7800GTX will compete nicely against the Radeon X1800 XT therefore we can expect their performance should be pretty close. There isn’t a need for NVIDIA to bring out their Ultra version as we learned. In comparison, the 7800GTX has 24 pipelines while X1800 XT has...

  • NVIDIA C51G Chipset Pic

    By on September 15, 2005 1:33 am

    As we know, C51G core contains GeForce 6 graphics and it is based on 90nm micron process technology from TSMC. In comparison with ATi RS482 using 0.11 micron, C51G is more advanced and performance is estimated to be 5-10% higher. C51G has improved Video Playback capability.

  • GeForce 7800 Standard Info

    By on September 15, 2005 1:24 am

    NVIDIA plans to introduce GeForce 7800 Standard using the G70 core which makes it the third line-up for the 7800 series. It will have 16 pixel pipelines and 6 vertex shader. The core clock is at 375MHz and the memory is at 1Ghz. GeForce 7800 will be replacing GeForce...

  • ATi R520 Core Revisions

    By on September 15, 2005 1:02 am

    ATi has decided to go with 16pp R520 with their latest re-taped revision called A1023 so the launch of R520 on Oct 4th has only 16 pipelines for their top lineup X1800XT. We expect ATi to replace R520 quickly with R580 in early next year to better compete with...

  • NVIDIA C51 Chipsets Info

    By on September 15, 2005 12:40 am

    NVIDIA plans to launch their C51 chipsets on Sep 15 but we do not expect reviews to come out until later this month or early next month. There seems to be some chipset problems at the moment and the motherboard manufacturers need to change the PCB layout so there...

  • ASUS 7800GT-Dual Card

    By on September 15, 2005 12:17 am

    Instead of a bare PCB of the 7800 Dual card posted a day back, this is how the actual card with all the components soldered on will look like. The core used is 7800GT not the GTX as reported earlier and the memory is 1.6ns Samsung GDDR3 totaling 512MB.

  • ATi Crossfire On 24th Sep

    By on September 15, 2005 12:16 am

    ATI is getting ready to release its first Crossfire motherboards and retail boards should follow, and some even ready at the launch date. ATI plans to lift its NDAs on the 24th. One of the key problems with Crossfire was the linking external cable that caused a few weeks...