Bij AGN Hardware hebben ze nu een review van de nieuwe 19" monitor van Iiyama met een platte beeldbuis. Hij blijkt vrij goed te zijn en ook nog eens allerlei hoge resoluties aan te kunen:

At 1600x1200, the maximum resolution for the VM Pro 450, the image quality was clear and bright. There was very little sizzle associated with text on a white background and the maximum refresh of 80hz at that resolution left everything clear and flicker free. Pushing the monitor with our ever favorite Re2Flex (featured on Metabyte video cards), it was able to handle most of what we threw at it, including some rather odd ball resolutions.

Dat dit een goede monitor is kan ik zelf ook beamen omdat ik het geluk heb er zelf ook één te hebben :)

Hier kun je de info vinden die A-Open geeft.

This high performance AX59 Pro motherboard is designed for maximum 100MHz CPU bus clock. But it comes with clock generator of 112MHz and 124MHz when we design it to accommodate future CPU bus clock.

Hier kun je een preview vinden van Kingpin. Altijd handig voordat je die 100 Meg gaat downloaden.

There have be SinCTF, Blood 2: Nightmare Levels and the Heretic II Enhancement Pack - and with the imminent release of both Quake II Arena and Unreal Tournament, it was going to take something out of the ordinary to catch everyone's attention. Kingpin does this by taking the genre one step closer to the full roleplaying interactivity that Unreal and Half-Life have hinted at.

Hier kun je hem downloaden. Bedankt Dolf M!

Madamme Tussaud heeft Bill Gates als wassenbeeld uitgebeeld.

Bill Gates is so busy promoting his new book he hasn't got time to be photographed and measured for his very own waxwork by sculptors at Madame Tussaud's. Due to be included in Madame Tee's New York exhibition when it opens next year, the artist chosen to recreate Gates has to work from two-dimensional photographs instead.

Ik ben best wel benieuwd hoe ze die $-tekens in z'n ogen hebben uitgebeeld.

Op Tom's Hardware Guide vond ik een stuk over de CeBIT. Hier wat clips:

If anyone expected to find any new and earth shattering information about AMD's K7, he was pretty disappointed. AMD showed a K7 running at 600 MHz again behind closed doors, and the presentation was pretty much the same I had already seen at Comdex last November. There was no performance comparison done, so that I can still not tell you how well it will perform against Intel's Pentium III processor. K7 is still supposed to start shipping sometimes in the second half of June 1999, and it will run on a platform based on AMD's own upcoming K7-chipset. We can still expect a very high performance and clock speeds of more than 600 MHz.

My meeting with Intel didn't produce any big news about their future CPUs, Coppermine is supposedly well on track for the second half of 1999 and until then we're supposed to enjoy the slower and less sophisticated Katmai-version of it, called Pentium III. The most important information was about their anti-overclocking strategy. Now since the new Pentium III CPUs are equipped with an information that can let you check the clock speed it's supposed to run at, there's no real reason for implementations that inhibit overclocking anymore. Remarking Pentium III processors is pretty much pointless, because a simple software from Intel is able to tell its real speed marking. In this context Intel explained that there aren't any plans to implement a clock speed locking into their CPUs for the next three months, they will hang on to their multiplier lock though. Let's hope that this is true, because it would leave the Celeron open for overclocking as well as Pentium II and Pentium III as soon as 133 MHz front side bus becomes reliably available.

Wij hebben er al een tijdje een Tiberian Sun preview online staan, maar anderen beginnen nu ook TS previews te maken. Check deze uit die ik via AGN 3D vond. Hier een stukje:

The original Command & Conquer did what no other game up to that time did; it created a realistic modern warfare strategy environment. The game was very successful, and it spawned a bunch of mission packs and a sequel called Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Red Alert was also a big hit and mission packs were made for it also. The unfortunate effect of these successes was a ton of strategy games that tried to be like Command & Conquer, but most failed miserably. Finally, after a long time, Westwood announced Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, a game which will attempt to be even better than its predecessors. C&C: Tiberian Sun takes place in the future, after the first Command & Conquer. This game will offer new things like dynamic colored lighting, unit advancements, and new combat vehicles.