Een van de duurste en minst opwindende onderdelen
van een PC is toch wel de harddisk. Volgens Hitachi moeten we nog een paar jaar geduld hebben, en dan zijn Seagate et al. failliet...

The new chip will allow instant recording and accessing of a massive amount of information, Hitachi said, and will eliminate the need for current storage devices such as computer hard drives. PLEDM is smaller, faster and consumes less energy than current Dynamic Random Access

Memory chips.

Nintendo gaat samen met IBM een nieuwe spelcomputer maken...

In a $1 billion agreement, Nintendo has called on IBM to create a custom 400 MHz CPU using its .18 micron copper technology. The chip, which is an extension of the PowerPC architecture, has been dubbed the “Gekko” processor, and is far enough along in development for Nintendo to commit to a late 2000 launch date for the Dolphin system. Dolphin will be a complete multimedia center, capable of playing DVDs and CDs, as well as hooking up to the Internet.

Hmmmm...
Nintendo begint dus bang te worden van de Sega dreamcast en de nieuwe psx2

GA Sports heeft 9 screenshots van NFS: Motorcity op de frontpage staan:

EA announced a special Need for Speed: Motorcity title which brings us back to the 50's and 60's where muscle cars were the biz. This title looks great and we have gotten ahold of 9 exclusive screenshots for your viewing pleasure. Take a look.

Ziet er kewl uit, doet m'n een beetje denken aan het oeroude Streetrod (met vette EGA graphics).

Gamer's Alliance heeft 12 nieuwe screenshots van Remedy's Max Payne gepost. Hier heb je de info:

Max Payne, a third person shooter co-developed by Remedy and 3D Realms, puts gamers in the shoes of Max Payne, a hardboiled, fugitive undercover cop who is being framed for the murder of his boss. A mission to revenge his slaughtered family is taking him on a bridge burning, rock n' rolling rampage through the criminal underworld of New York City. Max goes up against a horde of stone cold murdering mobsters, drug-enhanced killers, bad cops, professional assassins, corrupt politicians, and other diabolical masterminds lurking in the city's heart of darkness in this intense 3D action shooter.

De overige 9 screenshot vind je hier.

Creative heeft een nieuwe CD-Rewriter geïntroduceerd. Hier heb je de weinig opwindende press release, gejat bij GA Source (pr-etjes mag je jatten ):

Creative Labs announced today the latest addition to its CD family of products, Blaster CD-RW 4224. The Blaster CD-RW 4224 lets consumers copy, distribute, and save music or database files to a recordable CD-R or CD-RW disc. The Blaster CD-RW 4224 stores up to 650MB of data or over 74 minutes of audio on a single CD-R or CD-RW disc, offering customers the perfect solution for archiving files, storing large databases, or compiling MP3 files.

The Blaster CD-RW 4224 allows users to customize personal CD compilations by recording their favorite songs from various CDs to a single disc. Digital audio enthusiasts will save valuable hard drive space by downloading MP3 files and storing them directly to CD-R discs. By using inexpensive CD-R and CD-RW discs that are easily read by standard CD-ROM drives, the Blaster CD- RW delivers a low-cost alternative to sharing files at a fraction of the cost of Zip disks.

Creative's new CD-RW drive can write CD-R media at 4X, CD-RW media at 2X speeds, and read CD-ROMs at up to 24X (3,600KB/sec), making it fast and simple for users to create and transfer documents or music files. In addition, Blaster CD-RW supports Direct Memory Access (DMA) mode for faster transfer rates and lower CPU utilization. The Blaster CD-RW reads a variety of disc types including, CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, Photo CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and Video CD. The CD-RW looks, installs, and works like a CD-ROM, so not only can users create CDs, but they can also play audio CDs, run popular applications, or read other CD-R and CD-RW discs.

The Blaster CD-RW 4224 is available through Creative's extensive network of distributors and resellers worldwide at an estimated street price of US$229.99.

Deze TNT2 kaart van Diamond is al in de prijzen gevallen. Ook hebben Compaq en Dell deze kaart gekozen voor hun high-end systemen. Dit stond er in het nieuwsbericht:

Diamond Multimedia today scored three OEM design wins for their NVIDIA TNT2 powered Viper V770 2D/3D accelerator. Compaq has selected the Viper V770 32MB graphics accelerator as the upgrade graphics solution for the Prosignia desktop 330 equipped with the Intel Pentium III 550 processor. Dell has also chosen the 32MB Diamond Viper V770 NVIDIA AGP graphics card (an OEM version of Diamond's Viper V770 graphics accelerator) as an optional graphics solution in their new Dimension® XPS T550 desktop and Dell Precision WorkStations. In addition, the Viper V770 16MB graphics accelerator, has been chosen as the principal 2D/3D graphics solution for the Micron Millennia® MAX line of high-power desktop systems.

Dit bugje van 800 miljoen zullen ze niet leuk vinden.....

De lancering van een 800 miljoen dollar kostende satelliet in de VS is mislukt doordat gebruik is gemaakt van verkeerde besturingssoftware. De kunstmaan werd met behulp van een Titan IV raket, een product van Lockheed Martin, de ruimte ingestuurd.

De satelliet kwam door de softwareproblemen in een te lage baan om de aarde. De fouten in de software waren bij de eindcontrole van de programmatuur niet ontdekt. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie, in wiens opdracht de kunstmaan is gelanceerd, stelt evenals Lockheed Martin een diepgaand onderzoek in.

Lockheed Martin is overigens bezig met een forse reorganisatie. Hierdoor zullen nog dit jaar 900 banen bij het ruimte- en luchtvaartconcern verdwijnen.

Zou dit programma misschien uit de toko van Bill komen??

Nog een low-end product vandaag, maar wel een goede...

Comparing the Vanta to the TNT, we see that the Vanta scores right up there with a TNT, despite the 64 bits vs the TNT's 128 bits.

Bij CGO hebben ze een preview gepost over Unreal Tournament.
Dit een een serieuze tegenstander voor Quake 3 Arena.
Hier is het plot:

It's the year 2341 (a full 100 years after Unreal), and you're a combatant in a brutal and immensely popular "sport" of arena combat. You may be a prisoner fighting for freedom, a scientifically bred madman who lives to fight, a soldier proving your abilities, or an alien trying to prove the superiority of your race. The current tournament champion is Xan Krigor, who fights in a cybernetic shell. Nobody knows whether he is human, alien, or a sophisticated robot. Players compete in a series of deathmatch-style matches, progressing to tougher opponents, until they defeat Xan Krigor and win the ultimate trophy.

Kijk hier voor de rest.

Op The Adrenaline Vault site hebben ze een preview geplaatst van Total Annihilation Kingdoms, dit is een RTS game die afspeelt in de middeleeuwen ofzo.

Dit zijn o.a. de Features:

Features four different sides with their own units and hierarchies.

Hardware support and 16-bit graphics for improved detail and special effects.

Units gain experience points from battle.

Veteran units clearly identified by changes in physical appearance.

Balance of defensive structures and offensive units enables players to guard against early rushes.

Non-player humans, wandering monsters and life forms.

Multiplayer missions and varied victory conditions.

Multiplayer gaming supported through Cavedog's Boneyards online community as well as via LAN and the Internet.

ga maar hier ff kijken.

De mensen bij Devils Thumb Entertainment hebben een website gemaakt voor Hired Guns, een 3d first-person shooter gebaseerd op de Unreal engine.
Hier een stukje ove Hired Guns:

A futuristic, first-person 3D shooter set in a slick, neon-washed cyberpunk world -- combining all-out first-person shooter action with tense strategic gameplay. Hired Guns' quad-screen view enables players to simultaneously command and view a four-character squad of ruthless mercenaries. Team play is key as each player faces a relentless onslaught of action while leading three other mercs to victory. Hired Guns features the Unreal engine and supports cooperative multiplayer play via a LAN.

Op de site vind je wat screenshot die er wel cool uitzien.

Ik heb op AGN3D een interview gevonden over Amen Awakening.
Lijkt mij een tof Half-Life like spel.
Hier een gedeelte over het verhaal:

So, the basic idea of the story is in the year 2032, about a third of the world’s population goes inexplicably insane, and basically, all hell breaks loose. Your job is a British SAS agent whose job is basically to find out what is going wrong here and figure out how to fix it. Either get rid of these people or figure out, you know, what they’re doing, what are their motivations, why they’re trying to kill off the human race.

Lees de rest hier.

Intel heeft het vorige week al gedaan, dus AMD kan eigenljik ook niet achter blijven en verlaagt de CPU prijzen, tot wel 45%!
Doe er je voordeel mee...

Lees verder...

Voor het low-end segment komt Abit met dit zeer vriendelijke plankje, gebaseerd op de i810 chipset...

ABIT’s latest All-in-One model, the WX6, is designed with the Intel’s value-oriented 810 DC-100 chipset. Integrated with a high performance 3D graphics accelerator in the chipset, and a high quality, Aureal A3D 3D positioning PCI audio controller, the WX6

will be the newest and best price/performance solution for the Value PC segment.

Hee kijk nou : Thomas Pabst (ook wel Tomzilla genoemd) zegt sorrie. Hier ff een clip uit de reactie op zn site :

Still I am completely aware that I have to apologize for publishing numbers that don't really represent what they are supposed to, the real world average frame rate in Q3TEST. I can also not say for sure, if the rating of the different cards is indeed correct, although I am personally convinced that we will still see the same ranking list once the proper test has been made available. To make this serious mistake good again, I will hurry to compare all these cards with different software, to give you something we all feel safe with.

Verder biedt ie z'n excuses aan aan zijn lezers en Brian Hook. Maar moest die foto er nou absoluut naast??

Ik kreeg net van Maarten een mailtje dat Asus nieuwe BIOSsen voor z'n P2B moederborden gereleased heeft. Het betreft de complete P2B serie, incl de varianten met onboard SCSI, LAN, dual CPU enz. Hier heb je de download locaties:

P2B-D/
P2B-D2/
P2B-DS/
P2B-F/
P2B-L/
P2B-LS/
P2B-N/
P2B-S/
P2B-VM/
P2B/
P2B98-XV/

CPU Review heeft getest hoe RedHat werkt op een AMD processortje.

For the purposes of this review, I used my 'Super 7' test computer, configured with the devices listed below: Test System: Soyo 5EHM Super 7 motherboard AMD K6-2 400 processor Canopus Spectra 2500 AGP Riva TNT video card Acer PCI NE2000 compatible network card Quantum SE 6.4Gb hard drive Pioneer DVD-rom drive generic ISA sound card Northgate Omnikey Plus keyboard generic serial trackball Nokia 447X monitor What you get for

Er is een nieuw bios uit voor de Abit BH6 de KJ, wat er nieuw aan is weet ik niet, maar je kan hem hier downen.

Screenshots.net heeft een emmer screenshots van Indiana Jones 3D gepost:

En zo zijn er nog 33. Hier heb je nog wat info over het spul:

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is an upcoming 3D action title from LucasArts. They will attempt to dethrone Lara from her genre-defined throne. From the screenshots, it appears that Indiana might just do it.

Check ze hier.

Alex en Joan hebben op de news page van Sharky Extreme ff vlug hun mening over de E3 beurs geventileerd. Hier is tie:

From a hardware perspective, E3 lacked any major announcements. Other than 3dfx's Voodoo3 3500 TV, no 3D chip manufacturer was brave enough to damage sales of their current technology by making an announcement. Matrox's G400 made a strong impression on all game developers that we spoke to. But the most widely used 3D card on the stands was NVIDIA's TNT2, which seems to go hand-in-hand when developers were showing demos of their games in 32-bit color. The Voodoo3 seemed to be a firm favorite with developers showing off games that will be shipping sooner, rather than later.

In terms of games, the final day of the show was certainly the most fruitful for us but E3 was, by and large, a disappointment. It had all the right ingredients, nice weather, LA, a huge venue - but sadly the atmosphere was somewhat subdued (not at night we night add). The show floor, though noisy as ever, seemed to be 'toned down' of many violent or 'risque' themed games, which the mass media (in evidence everywhere) was itching to go off on. Getting in 'behind closed doors' seemed to be key (thanks for Blue's help on this) if one was to see any real substance. Raven's gritty 'Soldier of Fortune' (seen only behind the black curtain at Activision) certainly deserved more exposure and most likely would have been prominently displayed in prior years.

AMD heeft een nieuw domein geregistreert met de naam alereon.com. Wat mag die naam betekenen? CPU Review heeft er maar meteen een artikeltje over gebakken:

"Top 10" things ALEREON could stand for
10 "AMD Powered" campaign for Oldsmobile Alero's
9 AMD wants to take over GM?
8 Maybe GM is taking over AMD
7 AMD can't spell "aileron"
6 AMD is getting into the aircraft business
5 Someone has too much time on their hands
4 Golden retrievers anyone?
3 Sounds like a contraction of AMD and Celeron
2 Name for a K7 derived low-cost "Celeron-like" cpu
1 New name for AMD's K7

En dat gaat vooral om de minder lollige opties 1 en 2 .

Hmmm...moet je eens kijken naar deze benchmarks van Anand (in z'n PIII-550 review):

Wat is die naamloze CPU? Dit is wat ze er bij AMD Zone over te vertellen hebben:

Apparently Anand has gotten some benchmarks of the K7 that may be at least feasibly accurate. They are listed here as an unnamed processor. I guess some sneaky individual working for an oem did these benchmarks, they are definitely not official. There's no telling what speeds the bus for the K7 was at, and of course no telling what the video card was. I wonder why videocard info would be left out? Doesn't make sense to me. Of course we will have to wait until official marks come out to settle this one. I have reason to believe that these could be somewhat accurate, although not from final silicon. These aren't from any 'engineer' at Acer. Anyway, this should be a good topic of discussion on the message board.

iXBT heeft een vette SCSI harddisk roundup in elkaar gebouwd. 4 IBM en 4 Seagate schijven worden vergeleken, waaronder de Seagate 9LP en Ultrastar 9LZX (DRVS-09V) 10.000rpm disks:

So, IBM DRVS-09V HDD with a 4MB buffer turned out to be the indisputable winner of our contest. Nevertheless, all the other models proved very likely to surpass most IDE disks in more complicated applications than common office ones. And this feature together with a considerable price reduction for younger SCSI harddisk models will definitely attract numerous users, who set great store by capacity as well as by speed, easy system expandability and universality.

Adrian Wong van Adrian's Rojak Pot (whatever dat mag zijn...) heeft een review van de Abit ZM6 gepost. De ZM6 is gebouwd rondom de ZX chipset, die door Intel zodanig gemankeerd dat-ie een geheugen limiet van 256Mb zou moeten hebben. Volgens deze info in de review van Adrian lukt 512Mb ook met bepaalde DIMMen:

One of the things that Intel did to further widen the gap between the 440ZX chipset and the higher-end 440BX chipset was to limit the 440ZX's DRAM controller so that it will only support up to a maximum of 256MB of RAM. That's quite alright because the 440ZX is hardly the chipset of choice for use in servers.

However, if you are interested in using more than 256MB of RAM with the ZM6, you will be interested to know that ABIT has discovered that the ZM6 could operate normally with 512MB of SDRAM using two double-sided Hitachi PC66 SDRAM with a capacity of 256MB each. Incidentally, the exact SDRAM chip used in those modules is the Hitachi HM5212805LTD-10. This could also be possible for other 440ZX- based motherboards.

Computer Games Online heeft een artikeltje gepost met info over DirectX 7. Hier heb je een stuk:

So what’s new in DX7? One of the biggest features on the graphics side of the API is support for Transformation and Lighting calculations on the graphics processor. Though no consumer graphics chip does this right now, it’s going to be a major feature of video cards late this year. This will enable developers to use far higher polygon counts in games, without requiring a 700MHz CPU. As far as the progression of PC graphics goes, Kevin said that a common question he was asked throughout the show was about the Playstation 2. People wanted to know if the PC is going to catch up to the specs of the PSX2, and when. Kevin noted that by the time the hype was taken out of the specs and you got down to what real-world useful in-game performance would be, you’re looking at around 10-15 million polygons per second. He assured us that PCs will definitely offer performance that is comparable or superior within the same time frame.

Hardware One heeft een overgeklokte Viper V770 met Q3Test gebenchmarkt. Hier heb je de resultaten, op 1024x768 met de hoogste quality settings (32-bit kleurdiepte enz.):

1) At 140/160 = 29.7 fps
2) At 150/175 = 32.1 fps
3) At 150/183 = 33.7 fps
4) At 160/190 = 35.2 fps
5) At 160/200 = 36.7 fps
6) At 165/200 = 37.1 fps (with fan attached to V770)
7) At 170/190 = 35.1 fps (with fan attached to V770)
8) At 160/200 = 30.1 fps (resolution 1152 x 864 / all other settings being the same) [break]Oja, deze opmerking is ook wel interessant:[/break] It is interesting to note how overclocking the memory seems to offer pretty significant jumps in frame-rate as compared to overclocking the core. Also, increasing the resolution to 1152 x 864 doesn't seem to drop the frame-rate that badly - so perhaps, I'm seeing a CPU limitation now....

Super7.net heeft een review van de 3Dfx V3-2000 gepost. Ze doen nogal positief over het ding, hoogstwaarschijnlijk omdat ze niet weten hoe lekker een TNT2 of G400 kan zijn (want die draaien niet goed op de brakke super7 chipsets):

As I stated before; if you are the typical super7 user, this may be the best $129.00 you spend this year. While hard-core gamers may opt for the 3000 or even 3500 version of the Voodoo3 chip, the fabulous image quality at even high resolution, ease of installation, adequate software bundle notwithstanding, the pure performance and compatibility of the Voodoo3 alone make this a sure fire winner in every respect. Even if you're not a gamer, the video and excellent 2D performance should provide all you need to slap this card into your system. You may even be so impressed with this cards 3D abilities that you'll - all of a sudden - find yourself hurrying home for a quick session of Quake II or Need For Speed III before supper...

Scott en Joel van Sysopt.com hebben een dik artikel gebakken over hun trip naar de E3 beurs in LA. Uiteraard ben ik te lui om daar stukken uit te gaan copy/pasten. In plaats daarvan neem ik veel meer moeite om deze opsomming netjes in dit nieuwsbericht te lijmen :

• NetTV
• Sharedware Savage
• Real Feel Pool Cue Controller
• Microsoft Sidewinder Dual-Strike
• Dreamcast/DreamNet
• 3Dfx
• Matrox G400
• Flight Unlimited III
• Fly!
• Flight Simulator 2000
• Pro Pilot 2000
• Rainbow Six Rogue Spear
• Supreme Snowboarding
• Need For Speed: High Stakes
• Microsoft Midtown Madness
• Microsoft NFL Fever 2000
• Quake3 Multiplayer
• Battlezone II
• Electronic Arts Misc.

Nog meer interviews bij Gamecenter: onze grote vriend John Carmack is aan de beurt. Het gesprek gaat vooral over 3D videokaarten. John vind de TNT2 geweldig en over de V3 doet-ie minder blij:

GC: What do you think of the Voodoo 3?

J. C.: It's unfortunate that 3dfx supports only 16-bit color--which is a pretty significant limitation. I have a harder time recommending a Voodoo 3 to people. It does have the highest texel rate--of anything right now, even the TNT 2--in optimal conditions. But you have to really focus a benchmark to make that come out on top when there are these significant issues, like 24-bit color, which it just doesn't support; and then there are these annoying things like 256 [-pixel] maximum texture size. It's unfortunate. I'm on 3dfx's advisory board, and they've certainly been aware of my positions for a long time. 3dfx does deserve a lot of credit, because you almost never see a delta like they had--where they were four times faster than their competition. It's just a little unfortunate to see them kind of slip off the lead. They kicked so much ass with the Voodoo 2, but right now you just can't call them the best accelerator any more.

Hmm...veel Valve/Team Fortress info vandaag. CGO doet gezellig mee met een preview van Team Fortress 2. TF2 heeft een aantal originele multiplayer aspecten, bijvoorbeeld de voice communications:

One exciting addition is the new voice communication. The "commander" of each team views the entire map in real time from the top down (they rip off the ceilings), and can watch the action unfold from a bird's-eye view. But he can also click on a character and actually give him spoken orders with real speech, such as "that sniper around the corner is one of our spies, don't kill him." There will be limits on how much each team member can talk to others, so they don't have a situation where an entire team of 16 player are all yelling and screaming, and nobody can hear anything. When players in the world talk via the speech function, their mouths will even move in synch with what they're saying. They were demonstrating this on the show floor, and it works so well it's scary. Whether or not they'll ship with a microphone or not hasn't been determined. This voice technology shouldn't bog down the game, though…it only takes about 2400 bits per second.

Gamecenter heeft wat zitten babbelen met Gabe Newell van Valve, wat een lading info over nieuwe Valve games zoals Team Fortress 2, Half-Life: Opposing Force heeft opgeleverd.

Hier heb je een stuk over de irritante copy protection in Half-Life (en TF2?):

GC: Valve and Sierra took a lot of flack over Half-Life's copy-protection scheme. Will TF2 be outfitted with similar technology?

G. N.: The interesting thing about the "flack" is that it occurred when we had sold one percent of the copies of Half-Life that have shipped to date. We checked some of the hacker sites, and they were specifically targeting the press and Sierra with complaints about the copy protection. This kind of hack is called "social engineering," and it is very much a part of the hacking tool set. Nowadays, with 100 times as many copies out there, we get a tiny number of complaints.

I personally handled about 200 support calls for Half-Life just to make sure I felt good about our quality level and the copy-protection issue. For our industry, viruses are a problem. For our industry, driver configuration and versioning is a problem. People not connecting the cable between their CD-ROM drive and their sound card is a problem. However, copy protection isn't a problem.

Piracy is a big problem. It's a huge problem. Talking to the Won.net guys, it turns out Tribes, which didn't have copy protection, had seven times as many people connecting as had bought the product in stores. That's the worst piracy rate I have ever heard of, but in Europe, for unprotected games, the rate is over 50 percent in some areas. Furthermore, the pirates who are willing to cheat the developer are more than happy to cheat other players. They are the people most interested in crashing servers, using autoaiming bots, trash talking, shooting their own teammates, and so on. If you can keep the pirates out of your community, you are doing your legitimate customers a service.

Het volk bij Gamers Extreme heeft een artikel in elkaar gedraaid met hun bevindingen over de Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Er zit o.a. info over Valve's Team Fortress 2 bij. Klinkt best wel goed:

The game will support real-time voice communications that are scalable depending on your bandwidth. Got that? Here’s the English version: you will be able to talk to your teammates, but if you’re on a modem, communication will be centralized – players will only talk to the Commander and not each other to save the bandwidth and make the game playable over a modem. If, however, you’re on a LAN, you can tune the communications to use the additional bandwidth.

On the graphics side, Valve is hyping their "Parametric Animation" which combines the effects of events to create realistic character animations. The demo showed a soldier jumping off a tank just as it exploded – typically the jumping animation would be suppressed for the animation of the soldier being thrown, but the TF2 engine adds the effects for a very realistic resulting animation. The player models are high-polygon count and very intricate, and when using the real-time voice feature, the model’s lips even move to match the words.

The realism was quite impressive, but the problem with realism is it doesn’t always equal fun when it comes down to playability. It was cool that soldiers morale and performance increases when they are in the same area with an officer, but the demo also showed a gunner who had an extra man there just to feed ammo belts into the machinegun. While it’s a cool idea, I’ll go out on a limb and predict that very few TF2 players will be volunteering for machinegun loading duty.

News.com heeft een nieuwsbericht met info gepost over prijsdalingen van Intel en AMD CPUs. Er zit ook wat spul bij over nieuwe processors en hun release date:

In June, a number of business PCs will come out using the integrated "Whitney" chipset with a built-in graphics subsystem. While the graphics quality of a Whitney system will not be as high as a system that uses a separate 3D chip, these machines will cost up to $100 less, according to, among others, Peter Glaskowsky, graphics analyst at MicroDesign Resources.

The Coppermine chips will then come out in September, which will boost performance on high-end PCs. The Coppermine processors will contain 256KB of integrated secondary cache. Cache memory serves as a handy data reservoir for the processor, which reduces the time required to access oft-used data. While Coppermine will contain half the cache of a standard Pentium III today, integration will make it far more effective, said many.

In addition, the company will release the "Camino" chipset, which will allow computer vendors to include high speed Rambus memory into computers as well as take advantage of the latest version of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), a chipset-level technology that speeds graphics performance.

AMD, of course, will release its touted K7 processor in June at 500 MHz, 550 MHz and 600 MHz. Although AMD has traditionally played second banana to Intel in terms of performance, a number of analysts have said that the chip will equal and even best the Pentium III.

Entech Taiwan heeft een nieuwe beta afgeleverd van Powerstrip, een handig proggie waarmee je zo'n beetje alles dat een VGA signaal produceert kunt overklokken. Hier heb je de info, mocht je nog nooit van Powerstrip gehoord hebben:

Designed to compliment the native Windows Display Properties sheet under Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT, the PowerStrip combines advanced, multi-monitor API support with extensive programmable hardware support. A simple toolbar and menu that pops up from the system tray provides configuration and fast access to your favorite display settings, incremental enlargement and reduction of desktop size, comprehensive color calibration controls with gamma hotkeys, the ability to associate specific applications with custom display settings, graphics system diagnostics, flexible font controls, extensive hotkey and screen saver support, a database of over 1500 monitors, and on-the-fly color depth, resolution and refresh rate switching. Additionally, the PowerStrip includes direct hardware support for many chips, permitting an unprecedented degree of control over your display sub-system, particularly under Windows NT.

Beta 2.41.12 kun je hier downen.

Verder is er een nieuwe beta gereleased van SoftFSB, waarmee je on-the-fly je frontbus speed kunt aanpassen (werkt helaas niet met alle moederplanken / clock genators). Versie 1.6 beta 7 kun je hier neerhalen

Het volk bij Playdevil heeft eigenhandig een expansion pack voor de Quake3 Test bij elkaar gescharreld. Hier is de info:

Quake III: Arena TEST Expansion Pack That's right fellow gamers. We have just posted an Expansion Pack for Id's gem, Quake III: Arena TEST This entire new expansion pack includes the following:

- a compilation of public patches
- 2 new weapons (bfg and grenade launcher)
- 2 new map variations (with the new weapons)
- and lots of new skins However, we didn't create the expansion pack so credits shouldn't go really out to us, we just put the file online since no other ,to my knowledge, site has posted that expansion pack ... we thought you may need it

Je kunt 'm hier neer gaan halen (3,9Meg).