HEXUS.net has posted the first four articles of their IDF Fall 2004 coverage
Introduction
Introduction
HEXUS.net send words that ATI have launched an All-In-Wonder card based upon the X800 XT GPU.
Everything USB reports that the first customer of DiskOnKey T5 - the fastest flash drive yet - is Verbatim.
Hexus.net's Senior Reviewer, Ryszard, has visit the ECTS for the first time.
Accelenation has posted a coverage from the European Games Network and Game Stars Live events held in the ExCeL Exhibition centre.
Sudhian Media has posted a new editorial: How the "Dell Model" Cripples Computing--And Drives the Industry.
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HEXUS.net has posted a few ECTS features
ATi's New Graphics Control Panel
ECTS 2004: No More DirectX Graphics?
Interview with Fatal1ty, the world's number one gamer
The Filtering War Will Be No More?
ATI On Track With Shader Model 3.0
ATi's New Graphics Control Panel
Weighing in currently at a lardy 60MB, the new control panel is built in .NET using DirectX Graphics to allow realtime preview of applied card settings, so you can see immediately what effect your new settings have on the image quality in your games.Read more
ECTS 2004: No More DirectX Graphics?
Speaking with ATI and NVIDIA at ECTS allowed us to confirm that after DX9.0, DirectX Graphics is no more. In name only. Microsoft's next set of core presentation and 3D APIs are now under the umbrella of Windows Graphics Foundation and Avalon.Read more
Interview with Fatal1ty, the world's number one gamer
Aged 23, Fatal1ty has been a pro-gamer for the last five years, having cut his teeth on the likes of Wolfenstein 3D on a 286 nearly 10 years ago. Between then and now he's played everything there has been and worked his way up local and state rankings, eventually through to national and then international finals.Read more
The Filtering War Will Be No More?
Windows Graphics Foundation clearly defines, with literally no wiggle room, what the hardware and driver should do with regards to basic texture filtering, anisotropic filtering and texture and geometry antialiasing.Read more
The result, after discussion with ATI and NVIDIA yesterday? Turn on trilinear anisotropic filtering at 16X and apply multi-sample anti-aliasing and both ATI and NVIDIA's hardware and driver will, via WGF's strict notions of what comprises correct filtering, render identical images, with only the smallest of mathematical differences tolerated.
ATI On Track With Shader Model 3.0
ATI, while not wishing to say anything completely on the record, strongly hinted to me yesterday that they're on track to release a set of Shader Model 3.0 parts in the coming year. Somewhat acknowledging that they're a little behind the feature curve compared to their major rival...Read more
Accelenation has posted a report from the ECTS 2004
Junk e-mail now accounts for 38 percent of the 31 billion e-mails sent each day in North America, according to IDC.
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Logitech's new mouse is as comfortable on opaque glass as it is four-wheeling over rough desk surfaces.
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AMDBoard has posted the Opteron High Performance Tatung Blade Server TUD 4010 Specs
Hardware Avenue has posted an article entitled 'Future Broadband'.
In a first, Opera plans to support Microsoft's cell phone operating system, indicating progress for Windows.
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Advanced Micro Devices will demonstrate dual-core chips Tuesday, but Intel will likely do the same in a week.
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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, the company that invented and heavily promoted Bluetooth wireless technology, has decided to discontinue its design and development of new Bluetooth systems for the semiconductor industry.
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Issue 123 of Dan's Data letters are online
AMD Board has posted specification and picture of the Tatung first blade server for low-power AMD opteron
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D-Silence has posted a news story on Gateway's first 'BTX' Desktop PC
Dan's Data has posted an article about PC upgrades
