Begin volgend jaar komt Logitech met een nieuwe speakerset op de markt. De Soundman Xtrusio DSR-100 is een 4.1 set met een vermogen van 12Watt per satelliet en 52Watt voor de subwoofer (RMS). De speakers zijn aan te sluiten via een digitale ingang, wat zorgt voor een heldere geluidsweergave. Over de analoge aansluiting is men minder te spreken. Bij een hoog volume is het dan ook aan te raden de digitale aansluiting te gebruiken. Voor de geleverde prestaties is dit setje zeker niet duur:
These speakers just about kick ass. Certainly there are better out there, but for a $179.99 MSRP, you'll be hard pressed to find another set of speakers that sound as nice for as little. If you want the professional gamers' sound experience without a $400 price tag, this is definitely a setup to consider. One caution though: I'm very disappointed with the analog setup of these speakers. I would strongly suggest using the digital -- which of course means you must have a sound card that supports it. If you have a digital-capable sound card, these speakers simply rock. If you're running analog, all I can say is don't turn the volume up too high.
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If you have a 4.1 or 5.1 speaker set, the Acoustic Edge will take any stereo signal and expand it to play through all of your speakers. Music and other stereo audio take on an immense, enveloping quality.
Gary Tarolli, Scott Sellers and a group of ex-SGI engineers founded 3dfx in 1994. At the time, 3d gaming as we know it was defined by id's DOOM. Doom and its followers basically spawned a new genre of gaming - the First Person Shooter. Looking back at it now, Doom was a pixilated mess compared to games today. The most popular videocards of the generation before 3dfx introduced their first chipset included the S3 Virge, the Rendition V100, the Matrox Mystique and the ATI Rage.
. Er wordt een nieuw 0,15micron proces gebruikt om de Samuel 2 te produceren. Hierdoor gebruikt de nieuwe Cyrix minder vermogen, heeft hij een kleinere die size en kan hij bovendien op hogere kloksnelheden lopen dan zijn voorganger. De processor moet beginnen met snelheden van 700MHz en zal nog volgend jaar de 1GHz halen.
Though that theory sounds all peachy, VIA has an uphill battle in the Value PC market. Although the Samuel II performs the same as the Intel Celeron, many system builders still may opt for the $10-$20 more expensive Celeron, for the simple reason of the increased 3D performance. VIA's main angle with the Cyrix III will be cost. With prices expected to be around $50-$60 for a Samuel II Cyrix CPU, the price is very appealing. However AMD is currently in a very big price war with Intel in the market VIA hopes to capture a share of, the value market. The AMD Duron's can be found for as low as $50 and with performance topping that of the Intel Celeron and for sure the Cyrix III, VIA may be in trouble. One of the advantages the Cyrix III will have over the AMD Duron is a more widely available integrated chipset. The Cyrix III is Socket 370 and is compatible with current Intel i810 motherboards and the VIA PM133 chipset. The AMD Duron has integrated chipsets from VIA and SiS, but as of yet, they have not hit the market.
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The European launch was expected next year but the date now looks likely to slip into 2002! The US launch is still due to go ahead in the fourth quarter of 2001. It looks likely that Sony's recent struggles have made Microsoft think about the potential pitfalls of attempting to fulfill the huge demand of a simultaneous launch on both sides of the Atlantic.
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