Published May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at ATI’s latest system chipset for Intel’s Pentium 4 processor. Since they are one of the larger graphics chip makers they’ve decided to place a decent video solution into the chipset as well as all of…

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Published May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital Audio News writes of Fraunhofer Institute’s plan to add digital rights management into its future MP3 format. It will allow vendors, I presume, to add a purchaser’s info to a track which can then be traced back to the…

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Published May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

Security Pipeline has the story of a man that put together an unofficial service pack for Microsoft’s Windows 98 SE operating system. The “outdated” OS hasn’t received a service pack at all so Alper Coskun grabbed most, if not all…

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Published May 2, 2004 · 0 comments

Intel is getting ready to release is code named “Dothan” mobile processor in early May according to Computerworld. The chip sports double the cache of current Centrino processors which will give laptops and other such devices a sizable performance boost….

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Published May 2, 2004 · 0 comments

InfoWorld writes of Microsoft’s turn around, finally, on security issues and some of what Windows XP’s upcoming Service Pack two will bring about. The software giant has been trying hard recently to shore up security issues but SP2 seems very…

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Published May 1, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft is planning a new specification that would get their software communicating with devices according to ZDNet. Their Web services for devices API would make a whole host of things easier to do with your electronic gadgets and I suspect…

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Published May 1, 2004 · 0 comments

Those Elite Bastards have some information on a new anti-aliasing scheme made available by ATI’s latest Catalyst Driver release on, presumably, their Radeon 9500 and on up video cards. It seems like an interesting technique which should appeal to those…

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Published April 30, 2004 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware did some temperature testing with Thermaltake’s Silent Tower heatsink. The cooler is designed for both Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Socket A platforms. It uses six heatpipes to pull away heat to a large number of aluminum fins…

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Published April 30, 2004 · 0 comments

The U.S. Senate has banned taxes on broadband internet connections for four years according to ZDNet. I’m sure this is a load off for many web users but once broadband is more pervasive there will be, no doubt, an urge…

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Published April 30, 2004 · 0 comments

VR-Zone took a little trip down to AMD’s fabrication plant in Singapore and has a bunch of pictures from their trip. Like most chip plant tours a lot of the areas weren’t able to be photographed so competitors can’t see…

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Published April 30, 2004 · 0 comments

Guru3D spends an awful lot of time with NVIDIA’s latest high end graphics chip the GeForce 800 Ultra. A total of 24 pages covering the new technologies introduced into the company’s line of chips as well as various benchmarks with…

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