• VR-Zone Technology Showcase @ NTU

    By on July 24, 2005 2:11 pm

    VR-Zone Technology Showcase @ NTU Venue: Outside OCBC, Canteen A Time : From 10 am to 4 pm Date: 25th, 26th , 28th and 29th July VR-Zone is proud to showcase Intel’s latest Dual-Core processor technology at NTU in the form of a “Digital Hostel”. Come and experience how...

  • Razer Launches Professional Line of Mouse

    By on July 24, 2005 1:43 am

    Razer, the company that got famous making high-end precision gaming mice and mouse pads, has just launched its Razer Pro line of products. Targetted at the professional developers, engineers, graphics designers, etc, it aims to decrease repetitive mouse movement and shorten design times in all key software programs.

  • NVIDIA G80 Takes Unified Shader Approach

    By on July 22, 2005 11:54 pm

    NVIDIA’s Chief Architect David Kirk has said in the recent interview that they will do a unified architecture in hardware when it makes sense and when it is possible to make the hardware work faster unified. It will be easier to build in the future, but for the meantime,...

  • Sony Adds Physics Enhancements To PS3

    By on July 22, 2005 11:41 pm

    Real-time physics simulations are expected to replace motion capture while programmable shading will replace texture mapping in the new console, Sony executives said. To support game programming in physics simulation, Sony has entered into strategic licensing agreements with Havok (Dublin, Ireland), a top supplier of physics engines, and Ageia...

  • Longhorn Is Windows Vista

    By on July 22, 2005 1:15 pm

    Microsoft has decided on an official name for Longhorn: Windows Vista. Microsoft is expected to make the official announcement of the new name on Friday morning. The last major version of Windows, code-named "Whistler," eventually was christened Windows XP. Longhorn Beta 1 is widely expected to be unveiled next...

  • OCZ PC-4000 EL 1GB Gold Edition

    By on July 22, 2005 11:01 am

    OCZ today announced the release of PC-4000 Gold Edition which will be available in 1GB modules and 2GB Dual Channel Kits. Witnessing a growing trend in memory-hungry PC games, OCZ developed the PC-4000 1GB Gold Series with gamers’ distinctive needs in mind. The large capacity PC-4000 Gold Edition 2GB...

  • Coolermaster Praetorian 730 Photo Preview

    By on July 22, 2005 1:58 am

    Coolermaster has expanded their top of the line Praetorian family casings, with this new Praetorian 730. Now with sleeker looks, and an improved internal for better thermal performance, click on right here, for a photo preview of this great new case!

  • 24-pipes R520 Yield Rate at 3%

    By on July 22, 2005 1:24 am

    We heard that the last R520 spin at TSMC is at 3% yield rate for 24 pipes and we can certainly expect a much lower yield for 32-pipes R520. Obviously ATi is still facing some yield issues for their R520 @ 90nm process and ATI could resort to a...

  • GeForce 7800 Ultra or 7800 Quadro?

    By on July 22, 2005 1:04 am

    It seems like the so called 7800 Ultra card that takes up dual slot with 4 heat pipes cooler design has been exposed. I think we have seen this cooling design somewhere before but not exactly identical. If you look closely, there is a genlock on the card which...

  • GeForce 7800GT Card Exposed

    By on July 22, 2005 12:44 am

    GPU 3DMark03 1024×768 6800 Ultra 13135 7800GT 14829 7800GTX 16310

  • Intel & NVIDIA To Present @ Hot Chips

    By on July 22, 2005 12:26 am

    Intel engineers are expected to present five papers at the forthcoming Hot Chips conference including presentations of “Magpie”, described as a real-time “milliflow aggregation processor”, together with “Paxville” a Xeon-based multiprocessor and “Twincastle” a chipset for servers in support of multiprocessors. Intel is also going to present on “Foxton”,...

  • Radeon X800GT Card Pic

    By on July 21, 2005 1:08 pm

    Our friends at HKEPC has landed themselves with a Radeon X800GT reference card. It is based on R430 core, 8 pipes, 395Mhz core, 700MHz GDDR1/3 memory. It will be announced on 9th of August and will be priced at US$ 149. HIS will be producing this card exclusively at...

  • Forceware 77.76 Released

    By on July 21, 2005 12:16 pm

    NVIDIA today extended the Company’s multi-graphics processing unit (GPU) technology leadership with the introduction of the BETA version of NVIDIA ForceWare graphics driver Release 77.76. Available today at www.nzone.com, the Release 77.76 graphics driver features: · NVIDIA SLI™ technology support for NVIDIA GeForce™ 6600 LE GPUs — delivering SLI...

  • Creative SB Live! 24-bit On More Boards

    By on July 21, 2005 12:13 pm

    Creative today announced that three major PC motherboard manufacturers: GIGABYTE, Shuttle Computer and MSI, will be incorporating the Sound Blaster Live!® 24-bit processor into their upcoming product lineups as their on-board audio solution. GIGABYTE will be incorporating the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit processor in its GA-G1915P motherboard that will...

  • Pentium XE & D Take New B-0 Core

    By on July 21, 2005 10:53 am

    Intel® Pentium® processor Extreme Edition 840 and Intel® Pentium® D processors 840, 830, 820, will undergo the following changes for the A-0 to the B-0 core processor stepping change: • CPUID will change from F44 to F47 • B-0 is pin compatible with A-0 • New S-Specs for converting...

  • Card Makers To Design Own 7800GT Cards

    By on July 21, 2005 10:36 am

    The Inquirer has more juicy specs on the 7800GT card for us; 400MHz core, 20 pipes, 1GHz GDDR3 memory, 256-bit memory interface, 32GB/s memory bandwidth, 8B gigapixels/s fill rate, 700M vertices/s, US$ 399 at launch on Aug 11. VR-Zone has also learned that the card manufacturers will be designing...

  • AMD Socket F CPUs w/ Integrated PCIe

    By on July 21, 2005 10:23 am

    AMD first integrates the memory controller onto their processors and is now looking to integrate PCIe as well. The expected timeframe for the PCIe integration onto CPU core will be H2 2006 and AMD Opteron based on Socket F 1207 is expected to take up this integration. You can...

  • ATi X800GT Is 8 Pipes

    By on July 21, 2005 10:00 am

    ATI will soon introduce, possibly very quietly, its X800GT card. ATI X800GT is eight pipelines card based on R430PRO chip developed on 110nm featuring 160 million transistors. It will be available as both 128MB and 256 MB card in both cases featuring 256 bit memory interface. Card will be...

  • AMD Processors w/ Reduced Lead

    By on July 21, 2005 9:59 am

    AMD today announced it began this month offering microprocessors with reduced lead content to customers worldwide, nearly one year in advance of a regulatory deadline to reduce lead in electronic products. AMD began offering RoHS-compliant* processors earlier this month, including the AMD Opteron™, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Athlon 64...

  • Western Digital Extends Warranty To 3 Years

    By on July 21, 2005 9:55 am

    Western Digital announced that it is increasing the warranty period of some of its hard drives by standardizing all WD enterprise drives to five years and WD desktop and notebook drives to three years. All drives sold through WD’s authorized distributors and manufactured or purchased after June 1, 2005,...