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Stories · 8

  1. Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash

    Games · Graphics · · posted by michael · from the in-the-library-with-the-candlestick dept. · 412 comments
    Latent IT writes "If you're into games, and unless you've been living under a rock for the past few days, you've heard a bit of a rumble from Valve on the relative quality of ATI vs. NVIDIA cards. Starting with articles like this one (previously reported), Valve told the world that the ATI 9800 Pro was nearly three times faster in some cases than the formerly competitive NVIDIA offering, the 5900 Ultra. Curiously, this happened at an ATI sponsored event, "Shader Day". But the story hasn't stopped there. NVidia released this response, essentially claiming that their new drivers, that were available to Valve at the time of their press conference, would make for vast, legitimate performance improvements. An interview with Massive, the creators of the Aquamark 3d benchmark, seems to confirm this opinion - that the NV3x chipset wasn't designed around any certain API very well, and the drivers are critical in achieving good performance. Anandtech writes here about the restrictions Valve placed on what benchmarks could be run. However, the key to this whole story may be this: an article, which I haven't seen get much coverage in all this, seems to make everything a little clearer - Valve stated that their OEM bundling deal with ATI came from the fact that ATI's cards were so superior, and that they were "performance enthusiasts". However, if the Inquirer is to be believed, the bundling deal was a result of an outright auction, on what will probably be the most popular game of the year. Which year that might be, is another issue altogether. Whatever happened to just making hardware, and making games?"

  2. Pentium 4 2.8GHz

    Intel · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the need-for-speed dept. · 317 comments
    DigitaBiscuit writes "The new 2.8GHz Pentium 4 has been officially launched by Intel today. Sporting a 533MHz System Bus, this new P4 looks to put the hurt on AMD's new Athlon XP 2600+. Benchmarks and a full review with performance versus AMD's new chip, can be found here." The NDAs must be expiring today, since we already have another review submitted as well.

  3. ATi Radeon 9700 Full Release Review w/ Benchmarks

    Tech · Graphics · · posted by timothy · from the the-smell-of-expiring-NDAs dept. · 287 comments
    Chalupa_Man writes: "ATi Technologies has officially released their new Radeon 9700 Pro today. Real benchmark numbers and a full review can be found here. The card is impressive for sure and should have NVIDIA on the ropes for a while, as it beats out a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 handily, especially with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering enabled. Image quality is also top notch for this new high end DX9 compliant product from ATi." sunny_talwar adds these links to more reviews of the new high-end Radeon at AnandTech's and Tom's Hardware. Update: 08/20 03:06 GMT by T : Cp writes "Gamers Depot also has their full review up of the Radeon 9700 Pro, including nice images of the driver tabs and 6x Antialiasing performance."

  4. Amiga's New SDK: A First Glance

    Amiga · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the boing dept. · 106 comments
    Mike Bouma writes: "Recently it began raining news coverages about Amiga`s new OS in the mainstream press like CNN`s Digital Jam, The New York Times and Gamersdepot. The first impressions of the new SDK have been very positive. Lars Thomas Denstad has written a small article about his experiences with the new SDK so far."

  5. AMD's Duron Birthed

    Amd · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the new-chips-for-sale-new-chips-for-sale dept. · 128 comments
    maniack writes "The AMD Duron, the "Celeron-killer", has finally been released and lives up to the hype. According to these reviews from Ace's Hardware, Gamer's depot, Anandtech, and Tom's Hardware, the Duron thrashes the Celeron clock for clock and even hangs with the P3 in a lot of the benchmarks. Looks like AMD has another winner in the value market to go along with the Athlon."

  6. Linksys Instant Gigadrive = Instant LAN Party

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by Roblimo · from the groovy-stuff-for-the-terminally-networked dept. · 0 comments
    Willlie writes "www.gamersdepot.com has a story where they rip the Gigadrive up. This puppy is loaded, some of its features include: a 20GB Seagate Barracuda, a DHCP server, and a print server. The best thing is that it runs Red Hat! I know what I want for Christmas." Looks like it'd make a nice little server for a small non-gaming network, too.

  7. Linksys Instant Gigadrive = Instant LAN Party

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by Roblimo · from the groovy-stuff-for-the-terminally-networked dept. · 0 comments
    Willlie writes "www.gamersdepot.com has a story where they rip the Gigadrive up. This puppy is loaded, some of its features include: a 20GB Seagate Barracuda, a DHCP server, and a print server. The best thing is that it runs Red Hat! I know what I want for Christmas." Looks like it'd make a nice little server for a small non-gaming network, too.

  8. ATI Introduces a Parallel Processing Video Card

    Games · Games · · posted by Roblimo · from the toys-for-rich-children-of-all-ages dept. · 89 comments
    bilestoad2 writes " ATI has announced the introduction of a new video card, The Rage Fury Maxx. It uses two RAGE 128 Pro Processors and 64 Megs of Ram. Follow this link for the complete story. I don't know about you, but I've got to have one of these..."