Valve Software, makers of the ever popular Half-Life game, has finally mentioned something that resembles a launch period for their hotly anticipated Half-Life 2 game. How does Summer 2004 sound? CNNmoney has all of the sordid details that goes along…
Read more HL2 Summer Launch?
The HyperTransport Consortium has approved version 2.0 of their HyperTransport standard. The technology, which allows chips to communicate with each other at high speeds, currently allows up to 12.8GB/s of bandwidth, the new standard allows up to 20GB/s. ZDNet covers…
Read more Faster HyperTransport on the Way
Notebook graphic chips have been catching up to the performance of their desktop counterparts over the past 2 years. ATI’s Mobility Radeon 9700 puts out some impressive framerates according to AnandTech’s review….
Read more ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 Review
Microsoft has released a cumulative patch for most of the pesky problems and exploits recently found on their Internet Explorer browser. The fix is important so go get yourself patched, unless you happen to run a third party browser. PC…
Read more Get Your Patches Here
bunker MENTALITY has an interesting article that will clear up one of the more confounding problems when dealing with new PC cases and installing devices in them. Which screws go where?…
Read more What Things Go Where
While it’s not uncommon for tech companies to put up impressive sums of money for their microchip development projects, Sony’s “Cell” is getting a staggering $1.14 billion in funding. NewsFactor has the details….
Read more Sony Spending on Cell
Nanotechnology is poised to bring about huge changes, supposedly beneficial, to pretty much everything, but many questions remain to be answered before both cynics and scientists are content to move forward. The Washingto Post has this interesting article….
Read more Nanotech: A Boon or Menace?
Bjorn3D has the low-down on the Intel Pentium 4 based Shuttle XPC SB75G2. This “small form factor” barebones system crams a larger number of features, such as firewire and serial ata, into a tiny space….
Read more Shuttle SFF Review
Always a big hubbub when Intel releases a heavily reworked processor, and these Prescotts are no exception. Here are some of the first reviews out there: AnandTech HotHardware Hexus.net The Tech Report HardOCP…
Read more Prescott Monday
Hexus.net has gathered together many of the “public knowledge” nuggets floating around about the various processors and chipsets being released soon and have compiled an informative review of the months ahead. ETA: Q1 2004…
Read more A Look Ahead
With a multitude of wireless gadgets coming out it was only a matter of time before someone or a group of someones got together to try and protect copyrighted materials on such devices. ZDNet has more info….
Read more DRM Over The Air
