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30442	2002-01-09 12:14:00	NVIDIA has released unified drivers for their nForce chipset. The new drivers will now allow users to keep there motherboard up-to-date like they do their video cards. Here's a bit from the announcement of the release: www.nvidia.com Today, NVIDIA has extended its Unified Driver Architecture to the nForce platform by releasing the new nForce Unified Driver Package (UDP) v1.0, a comprehensive set of graphics, audio, networking, and memory subsystem drivers, providing optimal performance for all nForce-based retail motherboards and PC systems. Extending our unified software support philosophy to our platform products allows NVIDIA to introduce performance enhancements and new features to our customers, system builders, and end-users quickly and efficiently. The nForce Unified Driver Package v1.0 also delivers a variety of system performance enhancements including improved broadband connectivity and graphics performance, and support for EAX. Audio Technology v2.0, a widely used environmental audio engine. NVIDIA's nForce UDP is forward and backward compatible with all nForce-based products. The benefits of NVIDIA's nForce UDP include: * Reduced hardware/driver conflicts-every driver is thoroughly tested with all previous products, and new products are even tested with old drivers. * Decreased maintenance time-ability to update the entire system in one pass. * Increased scalability-upgrading products, adding new hardware, and taking advantage of performance improvements is simplified when the graphics, networking, and audio solutions are based on NVIDIA hardware and software technologies. Legal eagles and government lawmakers are beginning to look into whether or not it's legal for the recording industry to implement copy protection of music CDs which violates people's right to make home recordings of music they purchase.www.newsbytes.com AMD has officially announced their AthlonXP 2000+ processor. The new chip actually only runs at a speed of 1.67Ghz, but early tests have it beating out there main competition, Intel. Here's a snip from the press release: SUNNYVALE, CA-JANUARY 7, 2002-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the new AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor 2000+, reinforcing AMD's commitment to provide the industry's highest performing desktop PC processors to our customers. Systems featuring the AMD Athlon XP processor 2000+ are expected to be immediately available from Compaq in the U.S. Other top-tier manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard Company and MicronPC, LLC in the U.S., and NEC-CI in Europe, also plan to offer systems soon with the AMD Athlon XP processor 2000+. 'With the AMD Athlon XP processor 2000+, AMD is making a New Year's resolution to PC users - to continue providing them the best performing products,' said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing for AMD's Computation Products Group. 'AMD is determined to provide users with the right solutions at the right time, as when we championed the introduction of a DDR memory-based chipset for the PC platform more than 14 months ago.' Home and business consumers benefit from AMD's innovations by experiencing improved software performance. As a result of AMD's close collaboration with Microsoft, the AMD Athlon XP processor is optimized for use with Windows. XP. The pre-Christmas sales figures are in for the US and in the battle of the console, the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox have all been out sold by the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. For the period of December 16th-22nd, 636,000 Game Boy Advances, 596,000 Playstation 2s, 259,000 GameCubes, and 165,000 Xbox units were sold. The Xbox still leads GameCube in overall sales though, 1.3 Million to 1.2 Million. Microsoft have announced at COMDEX that they will be going further down the the consumer electronics path by demonstrating a customized version of Windows XP that has been tuned to digital entertainment.news.cnet.com There is an updated version of Symantec LiveUpdate out. This new version (1.70) supersedes the version (1.64) that comes with all 2002 products. LiveUpdate is the Symantec technology that permits an installed Symantec product to connect to a Symantec server over the Internet to check for program and other updates such as virus definitions and URL lists. New in version 1.70: 1. Security. When LiveUpdate downloads the catalog of available updates it will now check for a Symantec digital certificate and only proceed with the update process if the file was signed by Symantec. In addition, the cryptographic signatures are verified for all updates that are downloaded before they are applied to the machine. 2. Windows XP compatibility. This version of LiveUpdate has been fully tested on the Windows XP operating system. We have no known incompatibilities with this new OS at this time. 3. Improved logging. As with any application that uses the Internet, LiveUpdate will sometimes fail due to the prevailing Internet conditions. In an effort to improve the troubleshooting process we have improved the logging feature in LiveUpdate. In addition, we now write critical security events to the NT Event Log. Grab it here.ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/liveupdate/updates/lusetup.exe Motherboard Monitor 5.1.0.4 has been released www.warp2search.net or http://mbm.livewiredev.com/	Guest (0)
30443	2002-01-09 15:15:00	Thanx for the info tweak'e. Any comment on my post about the differences / preference for MBM5 or CPU Cool? You seem to have some knowledge of them both. And you think u were late? Cheers.	Guest (0)
30444	2002-01-09 23:17:00	I see there is a post just above complaining about this sort of info being given. Ignore it tweak'e! I think your info posts are great! Been a great help to me. Suspect many others also. Thought that was the idea of this forum .....	Guest (0)
30445	2002-01-09 23:25:00	hi graeme. if you don't use the cooling aspect of cpucool then just use mbm5. check how well the cooling part actualy works. on mine the effect is minimal.	Guest (0)
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