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HardOCP has a few pics of the console on their site. if you look at this pic near the center inside the console you can spy a DVI connector. Looks like they just ran off some of the S-video and other connectors from that card.

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No doubt. [H] did a little review of one of those USB drives last week though. I've always found that their forums are really good to get answers and discuss things. When they're up.

This should be of intrest

TFA is Slashdotted, but there's a small news article at HardOCP if you're interested.

now this wont kill the smell but it may help you deal with it. its expensive and somewhat geeky but this is slashdot right?

seal up all the holes you can that would allow air in/out of the computer and buy yourself an external water cooling unit like this one http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Mzc2

the radiator is external (methinks) and you will limit the air exiting the case.

try this at your own risk. if it turns you into a smoldering pile of carbon i take no responisbility! good luck

"I know I am anal enough that if my blowhole were cocked to one side, it would drive me nuts. (Show me another non-sexual sentence that uses "anal, cocked, blowhole, and nuts" and you will have my props.)

Interestingly enough, on the 14th (last Saturday) at the same time that this conference with the Infinium Labs CEO was going on, Kyle Bennett from [H]ARD|OCP was on stage at Quakecon, smashing a Phantom console with a big fucking sledgehammer.

Pictures are up at qconpics.org in the Saturday gallery. The pictures of the smashing start here. It was pretty cool to see, and Kyle promised the crowd that next week they are going to have a story up all about the internals of what the Phantom REALLY has.

According to this HardOCP article, textures are already uncompressed in high with the only difference being that lighting maps are uncompressed in ultra. But then maybe I'm just reading it wrong.

HardOCP had a couple of benchmarks with the 5200 (http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0). Basically, it's playable at 640x480 medium quality, and with DX9/OGL2 (???) pixel shader support. 38 FPS average.

I was reluctant to beleive this myself (and i always have a lot of faith in iDs' engines), but it was confirmed by a couple of friends of mine. Doom 3 is playable in a 5200.

I'm not so sure...

The error that the install gives refers to "winsrv" not "winserv" (according to screenshots I have seen elsewhere - the journalist may have gotten it wrong).

There are no files called "winsrv.*" on the trend micro page you linked to.

A quick google shows the "winsrv.dll" appears to be part of Windows, although I could be wrong.

Luckily, I left all this behind for the greener pastures of OS-X on my own machines, but I am still gonna have to deal with all this crap when I update family machines...

HardOCP had a hardware guide for Doom3.According to your specs, it should run fine but you have to run it at low settings and low resolution unless you have a top of the line card like an ATI Radeon 9800 or a NVidia FX5900 Ultra.

Doom 3 Hardware Guide
Fire up nextag and mix & match.

>mfh, are you serious? I can't tell the difference between the two ... what's different?

I'm not sure if it's a dither on the BFGTech Geforce or what, but I could see many of the cells towards the darker area of the image quite a bit more pronounced than on the image with the ATI card. Whenever the dark background is blended with the light, the ATI card seems to be hiding the cubism better than the BFGTech cardie. You see the little cubes all over? They are present in both cards, but the difference is more pronounced with the BFGTech, thus making it less believable. The ATI handles these imperfections in a quite stunning manner, IMHO.

There also seems to be better interpolation between the brown line in the light on the ATI card, as the line seems to be less jagged.

Maybe this was just a varriation from the position the screenshot was taken between the cards, but in that representation I think the ATI looks nicer.

The article did mention that the low end cards were run without specular lighting, making for a somewhat darker world. It might be easier to see enemies with a card that's capable of sustaining the extra load of specular textures.

FTA: "There are no major differences in image quality between NVIDIA and ATI video cards when playing DOOM 3 at the same settings."

From this shot, I would have to say, ATI looks nicer for quality of lighting. The blending seems more natural.

FTA: "There is no doubt that DOOM 3's minimum system specifications can easily deliver a good gaming experience."

If you don't mind frames dropping to this and their ultimate Doom 3 system.

FTA:"Without a doubt, our AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 system sporting the ABIT AV8 motherboard with 2GB of Corsair XMS RAM was the pinnacle of DOOM 3 performance in terms of image quality and speed when outfitted with the BFGTech GeForce 6800 Ultra OC."

And that is a nice system by any standards. I think I am very interested by the Alienware Doom system. The Aurora ALX looks sweet.

Xian has some cool quotes for the guys at Hard|OCP here. Most notably:

"I am proud to say that DOOM 3 is quite possibly the most aurally detailed and complex game ever made, on any platform."

Drooooool.........

FTA: "There are no major differences in image quality between NVIDIA and ATI video cards when playing DOOM 3 at the same settings."

From this shot, I would have to say, ATI looks nicer for quality of lighting. The blending seems more natural.

FTA: "There is no doubt that DOOM 3's minimum system specifications can easily deliver a good gaming experience."

If you don't mind frames dropping to this and their ultimate Doom 3 system.

FTA:"Without a doubt, our AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 system sporting the ABIT AV8 motherboard with 2GB of Corsair XMS RAM was the pinnacle of DOOM 3 performance in terms of image quality and speed when outfitted with the BFGTech GeForce 6800 Ultra OC."

And that is a nice system by any standards. I think I am very interested by the Alienware Doom system. The Aurora ALX looks sweet.

Xian has some cool quotes for the guys at Hard|OCP here. Most notably:

"I am proud to say that DOOM 3 is quite possibly the most aurally detailed and complex game ever made, on any platform."

Drooooool.........

FTA: "There are no major differences in image quality between NVIDIA and ATI video cards when playing DOOM 3 at the same settings."

From this shot, I would have to say, ATI looks nicer for quality of lighting. The blending seems more natural.

FTA: "There is no doubt that DOOM 3's minimum system specifications can easily deliver a good gaming experience."

If you don't mind frames dropping to this and their ultimate Doom 3 system.

FTA:"Without a doubt, our AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 system sporting the ABIT AV8 motherboard with 2GB of Corsair XMS RAM was the pinnacle of DOOM 3 performance in terms of image quality and speed when outfitted with the BFGTech GeForce 6800 Ultra OC."

And that is a nice system by any standards. I think I am very interested by the Alienware Doom system. The Aurora ALX looks sweet.

Xian has some cool quotes for the guys at Hard|OCP here. Most notably:

"I am proud to say that DOOM 3 is quite possibly the most aurally detailed and complex game ever made, on any platform."

Drooooool.........

Found this image on [H]ardOCP: off-road segway

For those of you using lynx: it's a segway with huge spiked tires on a sled hitched to the back of a Hummer H2. Go figure. ;)

If you look at the table here

http://www.hardocp.com/images/articles/1090364971V EVx7HppJJ_3_2.gif

you can see the ATI X800 Pro performs 21.5 fps yet the graph bar is clearly not extending past the 20fps threashhold on the graph backing.

Tt's hard to be sure since the faded backgrounds make me think all those pictures are PR. It seems like in the end, the high-powered cards that would really blow us away will take up two slots apiece.

This will suck for two reasons:

• First, you lose 4 (four) PCI slots vs Alienware's 3.
  
• Second, one of those cards will:
  
  • (a) cook itself to death or
    
  • (b) throttle back its performance to avoid (a).

Here is a much more detailed article about this

HardOCP Article

The relavent quote: "Obtaining overclocks in the 4GHz range were not an issue though."

Bottom line: wait for retail boards to become available before jumping to conclusions.

http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA4NjI5Mj kyN0o4ZEZBRUdjWHJfMV8xX2wuanBn

Just saw this a few minutes ago. Not tech related, but still quite amusing.

My first thought, too. But a cable company doing it (as opposed to, say, an investment scammer) strikes me as a "good-fit" idea.

This isn't a recommendation, just an anecdote of my current situation...

My wife and I just had our little girl last Monday. It's been a week now, and for those of you who have gone through these first few days/weeks, there really isn't any sleep. I just got Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic last weekend. As addicting as that game is, it's a great distraction for my wife so she can sleep. While I am playing, I have my little girl in my lap fast asleep while my wife tries to catch up on some much neglected sleep. Since she normally sleeps for about an hour or so, I try to keep our little girl asleep or distracted as much as possible. And what better way than to play a game that can get you sucked in for hours on end AND also act as a relief mechanism for your SO?

If you want to see my little girl, go here.

Help populate the human race, it is one of the most rewarding, amazing experiences. Ever.

For those that don't have any idea what this post's parent is talking about: http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjE0 An article on the (ridiculous) power requirements of the new nVidia cards. If I had mod points, i would mod parent up.

but IMO it is still "ghost" until I actually see it on store shelves. For some reason I just don't trust Infinuim Labs to actually deliver or succeed due to their hyper-sensitive-lawsuit-threat of reaction to HardOCP's article questioning the legitimacy of Infinuim Labs new console. Still awaiting a comment from HardOCP reaction to the appearance of the console at E3 though.

There's always more to the story, and especially in this case. Lawsuits, criminal backgrounds, past failed ventures... it goes on and on. Whereisphantom.com and HardOCP have been leading the investigations into Infinium Labs. If you want to get more than press release information, then you should check out these sites.

... with a digital camera. I wonder what their offices look like? I'm sure we would all love to know.

Remember [H]ard|OCP's expose "Behind the Infinium Phantom Console"? Perhaps someone needs to perform some similar detective work in this case as well.

of course shader model 3.0 won't be used until directx 9.0c comes out (summer I think). Which then means that developers *might* use it then (yes i know the beta is out now), which means, it won't be needed probable until late this year, and maybe into next year as developers get familiar with it. By then, I'm sure there will be a new gen of vid cards out from ati and nvidia that will support it. And as far as image quality goes.... ATI wins. Look at the screens. And there is also the new AA stuff ati added in for when you are getting 60+fps in games to have a more dynamic AA done to the scene makign it look even better. The best review/comparison you will get is gonna be from HardOCP, so i suggest anyone thats interested in PS3.0, and the ati/nvidia battle to check them out.

stolen from Anandtech

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...can't you have single windows span multiple monitors?

It's been done before.

Check out this picture at HardOCP that I actually uploaded awhile back (they spelt my name wrong damnit!)

For a paltry $8499 in 1989 at RadioShack (Canadian dollars in 1989?) you got:
20 Mhz 80386
VGA graphics
2 MB RAM (up to 16MB capacity)
Cache memory.
Monitor and mouse not included.

I may actually still have that piece of paper somewhere. Not sure what that says about me.

Another day, another example of the cavalier attitude that Robertson has regarding IP, the community, everything...

Michael Robertson is a strange creature, bucking the trend like Steve Jobs, but only in very, very bad ways. The funny thing is (funny in a really perverse kind of way), Jobs is generally the guy Linux zealots love to hate (he was the cool kid in school). Robertson is the Linux-popularising martyr for FOSS, the almost untouchable.

Back in the day, MP3.com was lauded as visionary, a chance for the music companies to make something of online distribution, and so on. When the RIAA poo-pooed this and went after MP3.com, he played the prima donna and we all boohooed together - Michael tried so hard, he really cared about us, he identified with us, he wanted to free intellectual property. He was on our side. When MP3.com died, defeat reverberated around the geek/FOSS world...

So then this thing Lindows appears on the horizon, with talk of full Windows application compatibility, something that was later dropped when the WINE team realised what a prick Robertson was. When any other company makes crazy claims like that, someone will get on the case. In this case, the Lindows team rewrote history to erase this little hiccup from their PR. There are murmurs on the Internet about how source is not posted and so on, but somehow Lindows carries on.

Then Robertson takes on Microsoft. Robertson is the Man again, the Good Guy fighting against every true geek's arch nemesis. When he loses, Microsoft are evil bastards beyond reproach (I am not suggesting that this isn't the case, but bear with me...).

I think perhaps this could be put a clearer way - ask yourself only "Is my enemy's enemy always my friend, no matter what?" Personally, my answer to that would be no, but I suppose YMMV. Put it this way, I have no desire to ally myself with a person whose sole motivation to free the world from the shackles of IP (which would of course undermine the GPL) serves only to allow him to continue to profit off the unpaid labour of others.

Robertson is not a visionary. He's the asshole who was never tough enough to beat all us Slashdot-reading geeks up, but never missed the opportunity to hurl abuse from just round the corner. And he strikes me as being from the same sort of management school as McBride - his ethics are about as loose.

iqu :s

I've been a hardcord nVidia follower for years, but after last year I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. I'm glad to see another generation of video cards and I can't wait to see what ATI's got to offer - it's been a while since nVidia has had to play catch-up.

Yea! More horsepower for Doom ]|[ (only 2 more months!)

Old news-posted yesterday on HardOCP

Infinium Labs Vs. HardOCP - Round 2

HardOCP Press Release

Infinium Labs Vs. HardOCP - Round 2

HardOCP Press Release

As covered by arstechnica, there are also reviews at [H]ardOCP, Hexus, HotHardware.com, Sudhian, and The Tech Report. AMD's official announcement is here.

Right here.

Well-researched? HardOCP admitted that there were a few mistakes in their first article.

Sorry, but on this point HardOCP are (potentially) in the wrong. They state he was not an employee, but his resume says otherwise.

Actually, although I initially agreed with you, on re-reading the relevant section of HardOCP's article (HardOCP only changed the name of the company, as per point 5 on the nastygram, despite having originally quoted TR's resume accurately to get the "wrong" name), that simply does not hold true. HardOCP did not say TR did or did not work for, or direct, MedHire. The nastygram makes the claim that they did, but I would recommend you re-read the relevant section of the original article as well.

Not a single "allegation" of anything, HardOCP does nothing more than relate an anecdote, of sorts. The wording does have a certain sarcastic sense of disbelief to it, but they don't ever say TR did or did not work there, just that two different people who did work there, both named Lo/au/ra Roberts (ie, his own mother), had no contact info for him (and one had never heard of him).

Offhand, I'd say that point 8 counted as the only truly libellous one - And on that one, HardOCP agreed to change the wording to something less speculative (though more damning, I have no doubt intentionally). Additionally, I can see how an overly zealous lawyer could stretch point 12 into a copyright violation (though any even remotely fair court would dismiss it with prejudice a fair use)... But on that one, again, HardOCP agreed to back down slightly, and remove IL's logos from their site.


I'll add one more point of interest to this... HardOCP does claim that "Mr. Roberts is the registered contact on the MEDHIRE, LLC. website", and they provide a screenshot of their whois query to prove it (as an aside, notice that the screenshot amusingly shows the domain name as "emedhire.com", the same name that appeared in TR's resume, and that point 5 in the nastygram demanded they change). So, this company, including TR's mother, has no way to contact TR, the registered administrative contact for their domain name?

Sorry, but on this point HardOCP are (potentially) in the wrong. They state he was not an employee, but his resume says otherwise.

Actually, although I initially agreed with you, on re-reading the relevant section of HardOCP's article (HardOCP only changed the name of the company, as per point 5 on the nastygram, despite having originally quoted TR's resume accurately to get the "wrong" name), that simply does not hold true. HardOCP did not say TR did or did not work for, or direct, MedHire. The nastygram makes the claim that they did, but I would recommend you re-read the relevant section of the original article as well.

Not a single "allegation" of anything, HardOCP does nothing more than relate an anecdote, of sorts. The wording does have a certain sarcastic sense of disbelief to it, but they don't ever say TR did or did not work there, just that two different people who did work there, both named Lo/au/ra Roberts (ie, his own mother), had no contact info for him (and one had never heard of him).

Offhand, I'd say that point 8 counted as the only truly libellous one - And on that one, HardOCP agreed to change the wording to something less speculative (though more damning, I have no doubt intentionally). Additionally, I can see how an overly zealous lawyer could stretch point 12 into a copyright violation (though any even remotely fair court would dismiss it with prejudice a fair use)... But on that one, again, HardOCP agreed to back down slightly, and remove IL's logos from their site.


I'll add one more point of interest to this... HardOCP does claim that "Mr. Roberts is the registered contact on the MEDHIRE, LLC. website", and they provide a screenshot of their whois query to prove it (as an aside, notice that the screenshot amusingly shows the domain name as "emedhire.com", the same name that appeared in TR's resume, and that point 5 in the nastygram demanded they change). So, this company, including TR's mother, has no way to contact TR, the registered administrative contact for their domain name?

Sorry, but on this point HardOCP are (potentially) in the wrong. They state he was not an employee, but his resume says otherwise.

Actually, although I initially agreed with you, on re-reading the relevant section of HardOCP's article (HardOCP only changed the name of the company, as per point 5 on the nastygram, despite having originally quoted TR's resume accurately to get the "wrong" name), that simply does not hold true. HardOCP did not say TR did or did not work for, or direct, MedHire. The nastygram makes the claim that they did, but I would recommend you re-read the relevant section of the original article as well.

Not a single "allegation" of anything, HardOCP does nothing more than relate an anecdote, of sorts. The wording does have a certain sarcastic sense of disbelief to it, but they don't ever say TR did or did not work there, just that two different people who did work there, both named Lo/au/ra Roberts (ie, his own mother), had no contact info for him (and one had never heard of him).

Offhand, I'd say that point 8 counted as the only truly libellous one - And on that one, HardOCP agreed to change the wording to something less speculative (though more damning, I have no doubt intentionally). Additionally, I can see how an overly zealous lawyer could stretch point 12 into a copyright violation (though any even remotely fair court would dismiss it with prejudice a fair use)... But on that one, again, HardOCP agreed to back down slightly, and remove IL's logos from their site.


I'll add one more point of interest to this... HardOCP does claim that "Mr. Roberts is the registered contact on the MEDHIRE, LLC. website", and they provide a screenshot of their whois query to prove it (as an aside, notice that the screenshot amusingly shows the domain name as "emedhire.com", the same name that appeared in TR's resume, and that point 5 in the nastygram demanded they change). So, this company, including TR's mother, has no way to contact TR, the registered administrative contact for their domain name?

Infinium Labs may not like when someone make a search for Infinium Labs on google, they find this article about Infinium Labs.
So let's help Infinium Labs and don't make links for that article using their name on our blogs or high ranked sites like slashdot, so it don't get a high page rank. Specially not in pages with Infinium Labs on the name, like infinium-labs.html

You know, that's a damn good question. You'd think that threatening litigation you (apparently) don't intend to actually prosecute would be at least somewhat illegal. But maybe the lawyers have protected their livelihood well. :)

Mostly off-topic, I think jwz's law of software might have a new result. I read this article about the new NVIDIA drivers, and on this page, I was horrified to discover that NView now offers a Pop- Up Blocker. I think we need a few more ways to block pop-ups ...

You know, that's a damn good question. You'd think that threatening litigation you (apparently) don't intend to actually prosecute would be at least somewhat illegal. But maybe the lawyers have protected their livelihood well. :)

Mostly off-topic, I think jwz's law of software might have a new result. I read this article about the new NVIDIA drivers, and on this page, I was horrified to discover that NView now offers a Pop- Up Blocker. I think we need a few more ways to block pop-ups ...

That url again is Hardocp.

Don't forget those poor slashdotted souls over at Hardocp!

That url again is Hardocp.

Don't forget those poor slashdotted souls over at Hardocp!