Review: ASUS TUF Gaming B760-PLUS WIFI D4

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/24/2023 12:34 PM | 4 comment(s) ]

If you are a devoted gamer or power user, the ASUS TUF Gaming B760-PLUS WIFI D4 motherboard may pique your interest. With its speedy Wi-Fi 6 and 2.5 GiGE support, expansive array of RGB lighting choices, and dependable power delivery system, it is certainly worth considering. Our testing was conducted on the DDR4 version, but the question remains: will it perform equally well compared to DDR5?

Read the review here:

Download: NVIDIA Releases 531.41 WHQL GeForce Game Ready Drivers with Fixes and Optimizations

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/23/2023 03:04 PM | 143 comment(s) ]

NVIDIA has launched a new Game Ready Driver that offers the best day-0 gaming experience for the latest games, including the open beta for Diablo IV, which features NVIDIA DLSS 2 technology.

Download: AMD Radeon Graphics Drivers 23.3.2 WHQL

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/23/2023 09:40 AM | 71 comment(s) ]

AMD has released the Radeon Graphics Drivers 23.3.2 WHQL, which includes support for Resident Evil 4 Remake and The Last of Us Part 1, along with additional Vulkan extensions.

64-Core Desktop Processors to Emerge in 2012

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/30/2008 01:45 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

So we just pourchased a new server, 4 cores .. pretty spiffy right ? Yet Forrester Research analysts believe server processors will get 64 cores next year and that the same number of cores is expected in desktop processors by 2012. However, to fully take advantage of so many cores software makers will need to get ready:

While the era of multi-core computing is here, application development teams must embrace new programming approaches to reap the full performance and economic benefits of the new hardware. The new

Intel DX48BT2 motherboard Photo

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/30/2008 01:40 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

Chipzilla Intel published information on its website about the new Desktop Board DX48BT2 motherboard which uses the all new X48 chipset.

Pulse-pounding gaming and high powered multimedia experiences require the ultimate in performance from your processor and motherboard. Intel

Creative cripples drivers?

By Watcher on: 03/30/2008 08:24 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

[QUOTE]read the whole thread, the have crippled previous gen cards drivers for vista on purpose to sell more X-Fi cards. They also shut down the only guy who made them work but also fixed their broken Vista drivers for their X-Fi.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=47444[/url]

[url]http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=116332&view=by_date_ascending&page=1[/url]

[QUOTE]Message to Daniel_K

Daniel_K:

We are aware that you have been assisting owners of our Creative sound cards for some time now, by providing unofficial driver packages for Vista that deliver more of the original functionality that was found in the equivalent XP packages for those sound cards. In principle we don't have a problem with you helping users in this way, so long as they understand that any driver packages you supply are not supported by Creative. Where we do have a problem is when technology and IP owned by Creative or other companies that Creative has licensed from, are made to run on other products for which they are not intended. We took action to remove your thread because, like you, Creative and its technology partners think it is only fair to be compensated for goods and services. The difference in this case is that we own the rights to the materials that you are distributing. By enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, you are in effect, stealing our goods. When you solicit donations for providing packages like this, you are profiting from something that you do not own. If we choose to develop and provide host-based processing features with certain sound cards and not others, that is a business decision that only we have the right to make.

Although you say you have discontinued your practice of distributing unauthorized software packages for Creative sound cards we have seen evidence of them elsewhere along with donation requests from you. We also note in a recent post of yours on these forums, that you appear to be contemplating the release of further packages. To be clear, we are asking you to respect our legal rights in this matter and cease all further unauthorized distribution of our technology and IP. In addition we request that you observe our forum rules and respect our right to enforce those rules. If you are in any doubt as to what we would consider unacceptable then please request clarification through one of our forum moderators before posting.

Phil O'Shaughnessy
VP Corporate Communications
Creative Labs Inc.

Forum Moderator
Creative Labs[/QUOTE]

Watcher

Cybernet All-in-One PC keyboard

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/29/2008 11:33 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

Cybernet (?) Cybernet released a computer that's housed inside a keyboard. A pretty spiffy one as well. it's An All-in-One PC in a keyboard that not only takes up far less desktop space, but also puts an Intel Core

Transformers 2 Already Filming?

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/29/2008 11:26 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

Okay it's a slow day for hardware news, something that tickles the mind then .. we all adored the movie Transformers right ? These shots, snapped in a drive-by of a trailer in the movie-making capital of Culver City, Calif. are two Saleen Mustangs outfitted with that familiar paint scheme that marks a very special 'stang. This can only mean filming of Michael Bay's next masterpiece is underway or getting pretty damn close. We can already hear Wert's robogasms from here.

The latest word is the script is still in development with filming to start in June, and really, why worry about something as silly as a script when there's giant freakin' robots to blow stuff up. Bay is pretty excited about the sequel, so we wouldn't be surprised if things were already starting to get underway.

Now the questions start to fly: why would there be two Barricades? One would think that multiples would be needed for the filming process, but the little kid in us believes Barricade multiplies and fights as twins, or, you know, Ford's bringing out their new Barricade special edition Saleen 'stang. Nah.

Bumblebee's ass is grass man ...

GPU-Z 0.1.8 available for download

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/29/2008 11:15 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

Changes in version 0.1.8:

Fixed SLI detection for Vista32 and Vista64
Added automatic refresh of clocks and multi GPU status
Added support for NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400, Quadro NVS 440, GeForce 7350 KE, 7300 GT, 8400 SE, 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX, 9500 GT, 8400, Quadro NVS 140M, 135M, FX 360M, 9300M G, 9500M GS, 8600M GT, 8700M GT, FX 3600M
Added support for G96
Added support for ATI FireGL V8600, some RV635 and RV620 variants
Fixed fan speed monitoring for RV6xx
Fixed fillrate for 8800 GTS 512
Fixed some subvendor names
Fixed shader calculation for M68
Process size, Die size, DirectX Support will now show "Unknown"
Fixed crash when no sensors detected
Fixed NV44 ROP and shader calculation
Fixed crash when NVIDIA BIOS couldn't be read
Added Splash screen

Download - click here

ForceWare 174.75 3D Stereo Driver

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/29/2008 06:52 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

glasses.jpg (8136 Byte) Stereo drivers are intended to enable the NVIDIA stereo Control Panel for the support of 3D Glasses. This is a beta driver so there might be a bit of stability issues for you. Then again it has been a long time since NVIDIA released such a driver so it'll make loads of you quite happy.

Two files are required to use your 3D glasses with any GeForce card. The first is the ForceWare video card drivers (I suggest Forceware 174.74), and the other is the NVIDIA Stereo drivers you can download from this download section.

> Download

Rockstar Releases "Everone's a Rat" GTA IV Trailer

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/28/2008 12:27 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

Rockstar Games has just released the final Grand Theft Auto IV trailer: "Everyone's a Rat". " GTA IV reinvents the series with a renewed version of Liberty City detailed to the last pothole and rooftop vent. There are now four boroughs to explore plus extra area outside of Liberty City proper ".

Samsung NV 24HD Premium HD Camera

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/28/2008 12:25 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

The Samsung NV24HD boasts high 10.2 megapixel resolution with a 24mm ultra wide angle 3.6 optical zoom lens so that wide shots can be taken from a limited distance. It is equipped with the Dream Engine, a rapid image correction feature developed with exclusive Samsung technology so that high quality images can be shot more quickly and clearly. Samsung NV24HD

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky released in August

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/28/2008 12:22 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

GSC Game World and Koch Media have announced S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, the prequel to the irradiated first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, will hit the store shelves on August 29, 2008, and will be published by the games labels Deep Silver and GSC World Publishing.

The topic of the release date for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky has created a lot of interest among gamers, press and fans. We

Albatron GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB review

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/28/2008 12:08 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

Albatron GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB review

Albatron recently released their GeForce 8800 GTS armed with 512MB. This product is all about value for your money. We've seen cards like these sell for 219 USD already. Over the next pages we'll dive into the technology called G92, which is powering that 8800 GTS 512MB, we'll look at the card stripped naked in a photo-shoot, then fire off a nice round of benchmarks at the cards top see how they perform and where they stand among the rest of the 8 series products. Check out this review.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/514/

Corsair Flash Voyager 32 GB review

These are the flash memory sticks that Bruce Willis could carry around while making Die Hard 4.0, they've been laundered, baked, frozen, boiled, dropped, and even run over by a SUV in many third party reviews. After all the punishment it receives, these sturdy little freaks continue to work. Now available in a 32GB capacity. It's a small HDD in your pocket. With that file size you could even partition it, split into two partitions, and make one encrypted as the product supports EAS-256 bit encryption technology.

Read our review here:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/memory/511/

Quad SLI Review With Dual 9800 GX2

Today is the 25th, the press is "allowed" to publish results on new NVIDIA technology today. It's a topic we quite frankly already have covered before, yet back then on a different operating system. It was exactly that operating system which limited what we really needed and wanted to achieve, and that is utilizing more than two GPU's to render a game.

It's 2008, times have changed and obviously we'll play peek-a-boo with a Quad-SLI system. What do you need for Quad-SLI ? A pretty beefy system, that's for sure.

You can find the article at this URL:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/515/

HWiNFO32 v1.80 (download)

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/28/2008 09:15 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

Retrieved information's are presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports. Comprehensive hardware information
System health monitoring
Basic benchmarks
Text, CSV and XML report formats
Periodical updates
For Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003; Windows 9X/Me (limited)

nges in HWiNFO32 v1.80 - Released on: Mar-26-2008:

Added several new nVidia G96 and G98 models, GeForce 9800 GX2.

Added support of ADT7490 sensor.

Added S3 Chrome 400 Series.

Enhanced support of nVidia MCP73 (nForce 6x0i) and C73 (nForce 790i).

Added support of Enhanced Performance Profile 2 (for DDR3).

Added ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430, 3650, Radeon HD 3300, 3430 and M86.

Added Intel Atom branding for Silverthorne and Diamondville CPUs.

Updated Intel XMP support to v1.1.

Added recognition of Intel Mobile Diamondville.

Improved memory module timing information.

Added monitoring of CPU power consumption and current for Giga-Byte boards supporting DES.

Added ATI FireMV 2260 and 2450.

Improved identification of LGA771-based Yorkfield (QX9775).

Added ATI Mobility RADEON HD 3850 X2, 3870, 3870 X2.

Enhanced identification of Cantiga SKUs.

Upcoming changes in the next release:

Enhanced support of AMD Geode-LX.

Added nVidia GeForce 8800 GT, 8800 GS, 9400 GT, 9500 GT, 9500 GS.

Added nVidia GeForce 8200M, 9200M GS, 9300M G, 9300M GS, 9500M G, 9600M GS, 9600M GT, 9650M GT, 9700M GT, 9700M GTS, 9800M GT, 9800M GTS, 9800M GTX.

Added nVidia Quadro NVS 150M, Quadro FX 770M, 2700, 2700M, 3700M.

Download - http://downloads.guru3d.com/HWiNFO32-version-1.80-download-1078.html

NVIDIA ForceWare 174.74 download

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/28/2008 09:02 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

This is NVIDIA ForceWare 174.74, an all new driver as released by NVIDIA. This drive comes with full support for all current GeForce graphiocs cards from the GeForce 6, 7, 8, and 9 series.

We have a discussion thread open on these drivers right here.

Supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs including these newly released GPUs:
o GeForce 9800 GX2
o GeForce 9600 GT
o GeForce 8300
o GeForce 8200
o GeForce 8100/NVIDIA nForce 720a
o NVIDIA nForce 730a

Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI

BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT OC2

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/27/2008 11:34 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

BFG Technologies announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT OC2 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics card for a suggested retail price of $249.99 USD.

Seagate CEO bashes SSD

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/27/2008 01:17 PM | 0 comment(s) ]

Solid State Drives are up and coming, so it's not too surprizing that HDD manufactuirers are not exactly charmed by it as .. well let's be honest here, SDD is the future and in the end will replace the traditional Hard drive. Check out these absolutely silly comments from Bill Watkins, CEO of hard drive maker Seagate. He states says he's not impressed by solid state drives. He claims sales won't take off and if they do that Seagate may sue SSD makers as he believes that SSD manufacturers are infringing upon several of Seagate's and Western Digital's patents, can you tell the man is feeling some heat ?:

Seagate, a company firmly entrenched in traditional hard disk drive (HDD) storage, unsurprisingly is not impressed with SSDs. "Realistically, I just don

HP UMPC 2133 specs revealed

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/27/2008 11:00 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

We'd been hearing that HP's slick UMPC 2133 was going sport VIA processors, and now we've got some more info to back that up -- we just received what appears to be a full spec list for the upcoming machine, and it's VIA C7-Ms all around, with graphics courtesy of a VIA Chrome 9 chipset. According to our source, these will hit on April 7th, and it looks like those pricing whispers were pretty accurate as well: $600 will buy you a 1.2GHz C7-M, a 120GB drive, 1GB of RAM and Vista Home Basic, while $749 bumps you up to 1.6GHz and Vista Business and adds Bluetooth, another gig of RAM, and a bigger battery. There's also a mysterious $849 Vista Basic model listed as having "regional" availability (the others are listed as "Smart Buy") with Bluetooth and bigger battery, but we don't see why it's more expensive than the Vista Business version. Regardless, what really caught our eye was the $549 model that shares the same specs as the $600 unit, but looks to be running SuSE Enterprise -- another rumor that's come true. That could be the one that HP expects to sell like hotcakes -- after all, the goal is to have people buy these "without a thought," and that's certainly not going to happen at $749. We'll see soon enough, we suppose.

New AMD Phenom B3 CPU's launch today

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/27/2008 10:52 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

AMD today releases it's new B3 revision Phenom X4 processors. Solved and free's of the nasty TLB issues, the new and new, old CPUs are set to finally give Intel some reasonable competition and offer customers parts with a good performance-price ratio.

Coming in AM2+ form, the Phenon 9050 series CPUs go from 2.2 GHz (Phenom 9550), 2.3 GHz (9650) through 2.4 GHz (9750), and 2.5 GHz (9850 Black Edition) and all feature HyperTransport 3.0, a DDR2-supporting memory controller and 2MB of shared L3 cache. These B3 processors have 95W (9550, 9650, 9750) or 125W (9750 and 9850 BE) TDPs and are set to become widely available in April.

In the 8000 series we now spot the tri-core Phenom as well. The tri-core CPUs includes two Phenom parts that are set for "gamers and digital media enthusiasts" who want a good performance per price ratio and they are basically quad-cores with one busted and disabled core. Codenamed Toliman, the triple-core Phenom 8400 and 8600 are clocked at 2.1 GHz and 2.3 GHz respectively.

In terms of prices, the Phenom 9550 will be $209, the 9650 $215, the 9750 still $215 while the only B3 and highest-end Black Edition Phenom, the 9850 will cost $235, in 1000-unit tray quantities. The prices of the last three CPUs will go live on April 7 so that's probably the day they will start hitting the stores in sufficient numbers.

We're also expecting to see a 9850 Black Edition as well as the 9950 clocked at 2.6GHz, but these parts aren't listed yet.

AMD Phenom triple-core & quad-core processors

Model Frequency L2-cache L3-cache socket TDP

X4 9850 2,5GHz 2MB 2MB AM2+ 125W

X4 9750 2,4GHz 2MB 2MB AM2+ 125W/95W

X4 9650 2,3GHz 2MB 2MB AM2+ 95W

X4 9550 2,2GHz 2MB 2MB AM2+ 95W

X4 9100e 1,8GHz 2MB 2MB AM2+ 65W

X3 8600 2,3GHz 1,5MB 2MB AM2+ 95W

X3 8400 2,1GHz 1,5MB 2MB AM2+ 95W

Far Cry 2 Confirmed for Fall 2008 Release

By Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/27/2008 10:43 AM | 0 comment(s) ]

Far Cry 2 for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 is announced to be scheduled for release in the fall of this year, Ubisoft revealed in a production video released today.

In this video, Ubisoft Montreal producer LP Pharand says Far Cry 2 will see a simultaneous release for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Pharand adds, "The team has been working extremely hard and making sure that there are no compromises made for quality [or] features on each platform." The video also contains a brief clip of gameplay from the game.:

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X4 9850	2,5GHz	2MB	2MB	AM2+	125W
X4 9750	2,4GHz	2MB	2MB	AM2+	125W/95W
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X4 9550	2,2GHz	2MB	2MB	AM2+	95W
X4 9100e	1,8GHz	2MB	2MB	AM2+	65W
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