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Benwin BW2000 Speakers review

Door Tweakers , 7 augustus 1999 19:571 reactie, bron: Speedy 3D

Speedy 3D heeft een review van de Benwin BW2000 Speakers gepost. Met een dikte van slechts 7mm vallen deze speakers inderdaad in de Flap Panel categorie. Hier heb je een gedeelte:

The subwoofer that came with these speakers was a little disappointing. Unlike some really powerful subwoofers that come with speaker systems made by Altec Lansing, and Cambridge Soundworks The subwoofer that came with these speakers does not seem to provide enough bass to shake a room, or even provide a little rumble for that matter. You really can't tell that the subwoofer is actually working unless you put your ear right up to it, or listen to the speakers without it attached. Don't get me wrong, the bass provided by the 2 speakers alone (if you have the bass knob turned all the way up on the subwoofer) is enough for me, and certainly helps me feel any deep heavy sounds by causing a slight vibration in my desk. Games like unreal, mechwarrior 3 and Quake 3: Arena are excellent examples of games that use heavy bass.

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Athlon/Pentium3 Price Comparison

Door Tweakers , 7 augustus 1999 18:184 reacties, bron: CPU Review

Bij CPU Review hebben ze een prijs vergelijking geplaatst van de Athlon en de Pentium III. Alleen bij 600MHz is de Athlon wat duurder dan de Intel. Verderop in het artikel staan ook wat mobo prijzen, en die vallen voor de Athlon wel vet duur uit. Hierdoor wordt een vers Athlon Systeempie toch best prijzig...

Prices as of 8/7/99 Athlon qt 1k AMD FAQ Athlon qt 1 ShopHere Athlon qt 1 PriceWatch

Pentium3 qt 1 PriceWatch
500Mhz $324.00 $375.99 $333.00 $387.00
550Mhz $479.00 $555.99 $505.00 $593.00
600Mhz $699.00 $834.99 $747.00 $657.00

It looks like we will be paying a bit more for an Athlon based system than for an equivalent clock speed Pentium 3 - at least until the motherboard manufacturers ram up production and lower prices on their motherboards.

All of the other components that go into building a PC would be the same in an Athlon or Pentium 3 based PC the only difference in price will be the cost of the motherboard and CPU.

The difference in cost will likely become even smaller as prices drop; and as a percentage of total system cost the difference is insignificant.

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Windows and System Optimization artikel

Door Tweakers , 7 augustus 1999 18:106 reacties, bron: Absolute PC

Absolute PC heeft een klein artikeltje in elkaar gedraaid om je windoos wat sneller en beter te later draaien (voor zover dat mogelijk is).

Do you hate waiting for your computer to boot up? Do you wish it made better use of your current RAM? Want to squeeze more performance out of Windows? Wish no more.

These instructions will better tweak your computer to higher levels of optimization. After doing these, I freed up 12% RAM usage in Windows, and my CPU ran a good bit cleaner. Seeing the performance gain, I couldn’t help but tell more people about this.

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AVB CC-FBW1 Force Feedback wheel review

Door Femme Taken, 7 augustus 1999 14:193 reacties, bron: The Tech Zone

The Tech Zone heeft een review van de AVB CC-FBW1 force feedback stuur gepost. Het merk 'AVB' komt mij volledig onbekend voor, maar afgaande op het uiterlijk lijkt AVB zijn stuurtjes van dezelfde fabrikant te betrekken als o.a. Trust:

Ondanks het feit dat het een produkt van twijfelachtige Trust kwaliteit lijkt te zijn, geeft The Tech Zone toch een beoordeling 9/10:

The wheel itself works great. Playing a game of Need For Speed High Stakes was an altogether new experience. It does take some getting use to. When playing on the keyboard, it's either full steering on or off. The wheel is much more linear. The kick back produced by the wheel as your car goes over bumps or get hit by the car next to you feels perfect. You find yourself bumping into things just to feel the kick back. It can even do the different engine vibrations of each car! However, this has a lot to do with the programming. Some games, like Monaco Grand Prix and Viper Racing wasn't nearly as good as Need For Speed High Stakes. Monster Truck Madness and Motorhead were pretty good but Need For Speed High Stakes rules for the best force feedback.

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Evergreen Celeron PCI upgrade card

Door Femme Taken, 7 augustus 1999 13:5710 reacties, bron: Hardware One

Ik kwam bij Hardware One deze nudie tegen van de Evergreen AcceleraPCI, een PCI kaartje met daarop een 433MHz Celeron en 64Mb geheugen, die fossiele pc's nieuw moraal zou moeten ingeven:

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Matrox RT-2000 specs

Door Femme Taken, 7 augustus 1999 07:170 reacties, bron: Matrox Users

Matrox Users heeft de specs gepost van de nieuwe RT-2000 video-editing kaart. In tegenstelling tot de Marvel G200 en Rainbow Runner richt Matrox zich met de RT-2000 op het professionele segment, vandaar ook het minder blije prijskaartje van 1295 dollar:

Product- Matrox RT-2000

Snapshot: Real-time editing solution for corporate and event videographers.

Ships With- RT2000 codec card, Millennium G400 graphics accelerator, stereo audio/video breakout box, Adobe Premiere, a professional titler and audio editing software. SRP. $1,295

The Matrox RT-2000 is a real-time non-linear editing solution for corporate and event video artists that provides an impressive array of professional features at an unprecedented price. The revolutionary "Flex 3D" architecture of RT2000 exploits the explosive 3D graphics performance of the award-winning Matrox Millennium G400 accelerator to provide broadcast-quality 3D digital video effects and 32-bit uncompressed animated graphics in a native DV editing environment. MPEG-2 output for DVD, Video CD and web video streaming applications, along with IEEE 1394 and analog video output for tape distribution, round out the box solution.

From within Adobe Premiere, Matrox RT2000 lets users work with two video streams and a graphics layer to which organic and 3D transitions, 2D and 3DDVE, and transparencies can be added in real time without the need to render.

The real-time editing power of RT2000 gives Adobe Premiere users the creative freedom to experiment. Everything happens instantly at full on-line quality, and the results can be viewed immediately on a PAL or NTSC monitor. Instant random access to any frame in a project gives a very responsive real-time scrubbing interface. The user can see what's happening at any point in the timeline at full quality without waiting for a preview to render. At its breakthrough price point,RT2000 brings professional quality, speed, and creative freedom to a new class of users.

Corporate multimedia producers, event videographers, educators, and video hobbyists can now afford a truly professional real-time non-linear editing system.

Check de newspage van Matrox Users voor meer info over de RT-2000.

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Nieuwe ATI Rage128 drivers

Door Femme Taken, 7 augustus 1999 07:121 reactie, bron: ATI Drivers Page

Voor de personen die per ongeluk een Rage128 hebben gekocht heeft ATI een paar nieuwe Win9x en WinNT drivers op z'n FTP los gelaten. Hier heb je de soep:

RAGE128 Windows 95b/98 Display Driver

Optimized Direct3D/OpenGL Special Purpose Driver (K6/K7 3DNow!, Pentium III SSE, Quake3 Test)Version: 6.20CDH28
Size: 10.7MB (Now with multiple language support)
Posted: 08/06/99
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RAGE128 Windows NT4.0 Display Driver

Optimized Direct3D/OpenGL Special Purpose Driver (K6/K7 3DNow!, Pentium III SSE, Quake3 Test)
Version: 6.20CDH28-4.3.58
Size: 6.2MB (Now with multiple language support)
Posted: 08/06/99
Release Notes

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Tim Sweeney / Unreal Tourney Q&A

Door Femme Taken, 7 augustus 1999 07:100 reacties, bron: Gamefan

Gamefan heeft een kort Q&A'tje met Epic baas Tim Sweeney online gezet. In het interview vind je o.a. een aantal vragen over vorderingen op het gebied van de Direct3D, OpenGL en network performance:

Q: How do you expect Unreal Tournament's netcode to stack up against Quake III Arena's?

Sweeney: We're in good shape. We've been doing a lot of testing under hellish conditions of high packet loss and lag, making sure we handle all of those conditions well. And playing a lot of Quake 3, so we know what we're competing against.

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Videologic Neon 250 interview

Door Femme Taken, 7 augustus 1999 07:080 reacties, bron: 3D Spotlight

3D Spotlight heeft een interview gepost met Julio Franco van Videlogic. In het interview spreken ze over de langverwachte Nec/Videologic Neon 250, waarvan het de bedoeling is dat deze binnenkort leverbaar zal zijn. Dankzij tiled rendering zou de Neon 250 op een 'magere' 125MHz toch vergelijkbare prestaties moeten kunnen leveren als zijn hoger geklokte concurrenten:

Q: How do you think the Neon 250 will be doing it against the TNT2, Voodoo3 and G400 in terms of performance?

PowerVR's unique architecture means that for the latest cutting edge 3D games like Quake 3 we perform VERY well indeed, often better than chips you've mentioned - and we are less expensive than our competitors' high performance boards.

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Falcon Xentor SE review

Door Femme Taken, 7 augustus 1999 07:076 reacties, bron: Gamespot

Gamespot heeft een review gepost van de Falcon Northwest Xentor Special Edition, een door Falcon en Guillemot opgepepte versie van de Xentor 32 TNT2 kaart die stijf staat van de viagra (195/235MHz). De kaart is vooral leuk bij games met 32-bit rendering (zoals Quake 3), want anders vormt de CPU al snel de limiterende faktor:

On the Pentium III/500, the card generated the highest-ever GameGauge score on our test bed, at 51.51. The score on the Pentium III/600 was a stunning 57.38. The 32-bit scores at 1024x758 were also quite good. You often see the phrase "playable in 32-bit color," which is usually a euphemism for "the frame rate didn't really suck." With the Xentor 32SE, the frame rates at 1024x768x32 not only didn't suck, they were quite good. (People playing Q3test should note that if they just turn off trilinear filtering, they'll gain an additional 10 percent in frame rate.)

En een plaatje van het ding (zo te zien met heatsink-vergroting en koelribben op de DRAM chips):

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