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News archives from June, 2005
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Refined Cooling for Video Cards |
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June 10th, 2005 - "Today we are going to have a short excursion into graphics card cooling solutions and we shall submit six most interesting models to your judgement. A single model from each of the following manufacturers: Arctic Cooling, Cooler Master and GlacialTech, as well as three models from Zalman. We shall inspect their functionality and technical properties in tandem with ATI Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition from MSI (RX800XT Platinum-VTD256). Let''s get down to it!"
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Longhorn Microsoft improves graphics by 55% |
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June 10th, 2005 - "It''s a new operating system that will replace various Windows XP modifications approximately in 2006. Unlike Windows XP and Windows 2000, based on different versions of the same kernel and having almost identical driver models, Longhorn promises considerable changes not only in its interface and API, but also in the heart of hearts of the system, in the kernel, memory and source management architecture."
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Athlon 64 X2 4800+: The Fastest Dual Core Among the Existing x86 Processors |
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June 10th, 2005 - "Irregardless of how the events will unfold in future, we can presently say one thing for sure: we haven''t seen such a situation for a long time, when Intel has practically nothing to oppose to the AMD challenge in terms of the top x86 processor performance in the most promising vector of its development (both companies have agreed upon multiple cores being this vector). We haven''t seen it since Pentium 4 Willamette. But let''s hope that the company will come up with something like "the second Northwood": I think that even AMD zealots wouldn''t like to see this company alone in the sector of high-performance multi-core x86 CPUs."
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Review: Act Of War: Direct Action |
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June 10th, 2005 - " The follow-up to Command and conquer generals is here, not only does it incorporate the game play of generals with a totally new and brilliant graphics engine, the entire game play has changed too. The epic fight for global domination on the oil markets has begun."
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Review: Nintendo DS (Part 2) |
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June 10th, 2005 - " Carrying on from where Part 1 left off. Straight onto one of the most exciting features of the DS."
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Preview: Black & White 2 (Part 2) |
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June 10th, 2005 - " In part 2 we explain about the work that has been implemented into Black & White 2''s graphical engine and see if it can become a serious competitor. We also take a look into the decisions you can make to shape your destiny within the game. "
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Review: Nintendo DS (Part 1) |
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June 10th, 2005 - " The Nintendo DS has now been out since March 21st 2005. With record sales in Europe, America and Japan Nintendo has won the first round in the Handled Wars. This is in stark contrast to its position in the console market lagging behind the might of Sony and Microsoft."
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Crucial 12-in-1 Card Reader |
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June 10th, 2005 - "Today I have a new 12 in 1 Flash Card Reader from Crucial Technology. When you hear the name Crucial, you think of high quality memory. Since flash cards are a type of memory in itself, it was only natural that a company like Crucial would start making flash cards and
readers. Let us find out if their card readers can meet the Crucial standards that we have all come to know."
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ATI Brings Catalyst Drivers To Mobile Users |
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June 10th, 2005 - "For years notebook enthusiasts and gamers suffered with poor graphics drivers. ATI today proved that although it took a numbers of years to address the problem all the gripes did not fall on deaf ears. With the launch of CATALYST Mobility 5.6 this morning ATI has proved they have been listening all along..."
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DFI LanParty UT SLI-DR Review |
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June 10th, 2005 - "When SLI was first announced the enthusiasm here in the Ninjalane Labs for the new technology was crazy. Everyone was running around trying to get their hands on something SLI enabled in hopes of making that big score and upgrade to SLI."
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Motorola HS-850 Bluetooth Headset |
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June 10th, 2005 - "This is easily the best Bluetooth enabled headset that Motorola has in its arsenal. It has the perfect combination of long battery life, light on the ear, very good sound and speaker quality..."
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Gigabyte G-Power Pro |
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June 10th, 2005 - Along with their top quality motherboards and video cards, Gigabyte also produces heatsinks. We reviewed their first heatsink, the 3D Rocket last September. Gigabyte''s newest heatsink is G-Power series. The G-Power series appears to borrow much of it''s design from Thermalright''s XP-90 series of heatsinks. Today, we find out if Gigabyte''s new heatsink performs as well as the XP-90 series.
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Qpad Gamer Lowsense Mouse Pad |
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June 10th, 2005 - If you''re a serious gamer any extra edge in performance and ease of game play is greatly welcome. Well today we take a look at the newest mouse pad from Qpad their Gamer LowSense Mouse pad. This over sized mouse pad could give you that added extra edge you''re looking for.
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Kingston Ultimate 1-GB SD Card Review |
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June 10th, 2005 - "With Secure Digital media cards becoming more popular we are starting to see faster cards enter the market. Kingston was one of the first with a 133x SD memory card and we take it for a test spin to see how it performs during our daily grind. Read on to see if a high-speed SD card is something you need to invest in! ..."
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TITAN Bianca TWC-A05 Watercooling Kit |
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June 10th, 2005 - TITAN has built a good reputation with their cooling products. While we weren''t able to review their first entry-level water cooling kit, John had the pleasure of reviewing the TITAN Vanessa S-type heatsink. Although performance was great with the S-type, many of TITAN''s products are not widely available. Shifting our view to water cooling, a few kits have been released. While many water cooling enthusiasts like to buy their parts separately to achieve the best performance for their systems, those enthusiasts that are new to the scene may not. TITAN''s first water cooling kit was the TWC-A04. Now they introduce the TWC-A05 entry kit.
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ArenaNet Updates Guild Wars |
June 1st, 2005 - Some of you may have noticed that ArenaNet released a bunch of updates for Guild Wars today. The updates address a number of bugs, tweaks, and improvements.
- Added language-specific districts to European servers. There are now different districts for each supported language: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Players are placed by default into the district that matches their current language preference, but can still travel freely to any available district or to the International District.
- Added requirement for a guild officer to be present to initiate or accept a guild battle. This can help guilds protect their rating by removing the potential for malicious or careless actions on the part of a guild member.
- Added more boss-monster locations to high-level maps to make it easier for players to acquire elite skills.
- Assured that the skills Battle Rage, Crippling Shot, Defy Pain, Punishing Shot, and Warriors Endurance are now used more frequently by the boss monsters that carry the skills, to make them easier to capture.
- Added new art for unidentified salvaged runes so that the profession and rune quality are displayed. Identifying the rune is still required to learn the rune''s attribute and to unlock the rune. This change only impacts newly salvaged runes.
- Assured that all uncommon and rare armor drops have an unlockable ability.
- Assured that rare armor drops will always have either a major or superior rune, not a minor rune.
- Assured that NPC traders, whose price fluctuates according to market demand, will always pay at least the vendor value for an item.
- Assured that Celestial Sigils now have an inherent value of 1 platinum piece, which allows them to be sold at vendors.
- Assured that armor provided by collectors can now be salvaged.
- Added a new "/rank" emote for players who are rank 9 or higher.
- Improved Henchmen in missions beyond Iron Mines of Moladune. They now have three pieces of armor infused instead of one.
- Improved or clarified secondary missions in D''Alessio Seaboard, Divinity Coast, Augury Rock, Thirsty River, Ice Caves of Sorrow, Thunderhead Keep, Ring of Fire, Abaddon''s Mouth, Hell''s Precipice.
- Increased the gold reward in Divinity Coast that is given for protecting the Chosen.
- Improved the ambient ongoing fight in the D''Alessio Seaboard outpost.
- Doubled the duration of the buff....
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