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Thread ID: 22745	2002-07-29 08:51:00	monday news	tweak'e (174)	Press F1

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66491	2002-07-29 08:51:00	Slow start to the week with not a lot happening overseas on what is their Sunday. Anyway here's the best of the rest Here's another UT2003 video to download. The movie is 71.5MB and it shows CliffyB and Allen from Epic showing off maps, game types, UnrealED and it is Windows Media format. Go get it from Fileplanet (www.fileplanet.com). CPUCooL version 7.1.2 is out with the the following changes: ASUS ASB 100 now working. PLL's added. Mainboards added. bug fixes. CPUCooL monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards and works with all chipsets from Intel, ALI, VIA, AMD, and SIS 5595 motherboards. Get the new version here (www.podien.onlinehome.de). Nvmax has posted a sneak preview of nVidia's next great hope, the NV30. The preview offers some specs and screenshots. Here's a bit from the preview: This sneak preview of the NVIDIA NV30 focuses on the architecture behind the chipset and some, but not all of the new features that it will bring. Because we signed an NDA to get this information we wont be giving away performance figures, as mind boggling as we know them to be. Instead we shall focus on "CineFX", NVIDIA's new cinema engine that promises to render animation such as Toy Story; in real time. Since we can't share benchmark figures we will leave you with some thought. NVIDIA says Cinematic quality requires five key points: Go check out the preview over at Nvmax (www.nvmax.com). Western Digital has unveiled their new triple 67 GB-platter 200GB hard drive. The drive offers a 2MB buffer, 8.9ms read / 10.9ms write seek times (avg.), and liquid bearings and a FastTrack Ultra ATA controller card for systems that can't support drives beyond 137GB. You can read more at ars technica (arstechnica.infopop.net) and Western Digital (www.wdc.com). Hardwarezone has posted up a comparison between AGP8X and AGP4X to see what sort of performance gains there are to be had with the new format. Here's part of the article: Now that AGP bandwidth is doubled to 8X, the clock frequency will increase to 533MHz which means that it will transfer at about 2.1GB/s. This increase in bandwidth will directly help to improve the overall performance of the graphics subsystem. By how much? We'll investigate this further in this article. Currently, there are not many chipsets that support this new AGP 3.0 interface. One of the first manufacturer to demonstrate AGP8X was SiS with their SiS648 chipset along with the all-new Xabre400 GPU. Other chipsets which will have support for AGP8X transfers include NVIDIA's nForce2 and VIA's P4X333/P4X400 and KT400. Check out the whole comparo here (www.hardwarezone.com). I don't know if this is new or not, but Ahead Software has a program out called Nero BurnRights that apparently deals with the following: With Windows 2000 and Windows XP Microsoft decided to allow low level driver access only for programs running with administrator rights, because of security aspects. But in practice there must be a way to allow CD/DVD recording for non-administrators and being able to decide which users may record CD’s/DVD’s and which users may not. The way to solve this situation is to install Nero BurnRights. With Nero BurnRights, the system administrator can assign a specific group the rights to record CD's/DVD's on the system. If this situation fits your bill then go download BurnRights here (ftp://ftp6.nero.com/NeroBurnRightsInstaller.exe). IBM and Opera have announced that they will jointly develop a multimodal browser based on the XHTML+Voice (X+V) specification. The beta version of the browser (not yet available) can allow access to Web and voice information from a single mobile device. Here's a bit more on the new spec from Opera: This project builds upon IBM's and Opera's ongoing relationship. In 2001,IBM, Motorola and Opera submitted the multimodal standard X+V to the standards body W3C. This mark-up language leverages existing standards, already familiar to voice and Web developers, so they can use their skills and resources to extend current applications instead of building new ones from the ground up. Multimodal technology allows the interchangeable use of multiple forms of input and output, such as voice commands, keypads, or stylus -- in the same interaction. As computing moves away from keyboard-reliant PCs into devices such as handheld computers and cellular phones, multimodal technology becomes increasingly important. This technology will allow end-users to interact with technology in ways that are most suitable to the situation. Read more over at Opera (www.opera.com). thx monty (www.ozquake.com)	tweak'e (174)
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