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I happen to own shares of ATI... :mrgrn: However, I'm very sceptical about the claim in bold. ATI's first chipset was so sluggish that seeing their second try matching what's probably the most optimized chipset of the entire PC market is unlikely IMO.

I believe KaZaA lite is also affected and I know many of you use it. You might consider switching to other file-swapping tools like eDonkey. News source.

Earlier today, Intel announced it would slash the prices of its Celeron processors. Quickly after, AMD replied with an almost generalized price drop of its Athlon XP lineup (with the exception of the highest and lowest-end model : 3200+ and 2000+). As a result, we'll be able to get, in the...

This guy just doesn't stop to give me reasons to loathe him.

I noticed this drive on my pricelist today (although it's been there for a few days already) and what stroke me was its price compared to other similar offerings. It is 10-15% cheaper than other 2MB cache 7200rpm hard drives. Am I the only one with such a price difference in favor of the new...

At Explosive Labs. There's so many flaws to that review that it's not even worth mentioning them. They used PC Mark, which should tell you enough. The main reason I link it is to provide a hint of the performances (or lack of) of the upcoming 160GB SpinPoint. Look at the transfer rates...

SCO Group today announced that it is suspending Linux sales. The Inquirer points out: SCO has distributed their own version of Linux. And Linux is licensed under the GNU General Public License. And, according to the GPL, SCO has therefore granted full rights to all source code -- including...

Official press release Download locations : Windows: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6/MozillaFirebird-0.6-win32.zip Linux: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6/MozillaFirebird-0.6-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz Mac OS X...

In their review of the Athlon XP 3200+, they also pitted a reference board from VIA using their upcoming KT600 cheapset against a new nForce2 400 Ultra by Asus and the outcome isn't what you would expect. The KT600, despite being a single-memory-channel design, defeated the new revision of the...

So yesterday, NVidia launched the GeFarce 5900 Ultra based on the NV35 GPU and you can read reviews on it at many hardware-dedicated web sites like X-bit labs and Anandtech. According to what I saw on it, it is even faster than ATI's Radeon 9800, therefore making it the fastest gaming graphic...

Icrontic reviewed the newly introduced and more affordable version of the Parhelia GPU : the P750. Many of us, not being gamers, should be quite interested in such a graphic card. I surely am.

Looks like SiS is doing whatever they can to get their grafix line back up in touch with the big boys. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has decided to spin off its graphics chip division (multimedia product division) as a new subsidiary in May or June under the name of Tu Chiang Technology...

People found a hole related to the SETI@home client for FreeBSD and it is believed that the hole could be common to all SETI@home versions : So if you're SETI'ing at your home (or elsewhere), this is a story to follow. I'm not very found of public reports on holes and flaws that haven't been...

There might be at least one judge on this planet with something grossly similar to intelligence afterall. Let's hope the verdict will hold in later lawsuits. Full story.

In fact, it's the main reason why I prefer not to sell their stuff : strong arming to kill the concurrence. It's ugly, unacceptable, and undefendable. These tactics are ultimately bad for the customers, since they weaken companies with competitve products but lower market share. It's squarely...

Board is a new SuperMicro i875-based. What's the error in the picture below? The ISA slots, damnit!

Right here. 295$ for the OEM version, 315$ for the retail kit. Only the slowest Opteron (1.4GHz), but still. Now the only thing you need is a motherboard to plug it into.

IMO, Intel now slightly in panic mode because of Opteron. I don't think IA-64 will ever be a success if x86-64 offers a decent speed improvement. And that's a good thing. Not because x86-64 is good, but because IA-64 is bad replacement. More infos on News.com

Is anyone surprised? Visit X-bit Laboratories for the details. AMD's slash is just as important, if not more, than Intel's one earlier this week. The two processors that dropped the most are the Athlon XP 3000+ and 2800+, with 45% and 40% reduction respectively. The Celeron looks simply...

Given the small price difference between the 1.6GHz and the 1.8GHz, I don't think the first one will sell as well as the later. Here's Opteron naked : Additional informations at a hardware website near you.

The price cut, which is steeper than usual for Intel, fixes the oddity with the Pentium 3GHz (so chipzilla restarted to distribute it again). Here's the meat of it : AMD's processors nonetheless remain cheaper than comparable Intel's offsprings. They are simply not as cheaper as they were...

The press release. The monitor. The monitor's specifications. Bottom line : 700:1 contrast ratio. 170° viewing angles. Consumes only 36W. Complain : Why no sub-20ms response times? :-( Anyway, 25ms should still be quite respectable. I would prefer 1280x960 to the 5:4 display ratio like...

Western Digital WD800JB @ 89$ shipped, but NOT AVAILABLE FOR QUÉBEC RESIDENTS. EPoX EP-8RDA+ @ 94$ shipped, but NOT AVAILABLE FOR QUÉBEC RESIDENTS. The best prices I can get the WD800JB is 151$CDN (104U$) and 8RDA+ is 179$ plus non-free shipping (123U$ + shipping). I HATE YOU! But then I...

I hope there won't be problems with its availability in North America and that it will arrive soon.

Guess it'll be a while longer for an 800MHz-bus P4. Intel apparently delayed its new P4 chipsets about two hours after the product launch due to a "product flaw". Specs look sweet(RAID0, DDR400, SATA, Gbit LAN) if you swing that way, but rumors are pointing to logistical issues for the real...

From X-bit Laboratories : There's still a lot of decently fast offerings by the competition to not become desperate enough to waste money on that crippled card IMO. What the hell is thinking NVidia for bringing back such backward oddities as graphic boards with 64bit memory interface?

This must be old news to many of you and I heard about it some time ago, but while browsing a well-known online store (to compare my prices to theirs - they don't ship here, the bastards), it stroke me in the face. Here's the PCB of the old 9500 that is so famous to overclockers : Now look...

If what I've seen at X-bit Labs is true, then people should refrain from buying an AMD processor at 2000+ rating or above before the end of the month. Also note the absence of the very popular 1700+ as well as all sub-2000+ models from the chart. This probably means they will disapear soon, so...

At www.opera.com. Several improvements in this revision, notably in the bookmarks handling. Forum here finally shows up the boxes around text input spaces, but there is a major annoyance in the way the forum is displayed. All topics' titles are centerd instead of being placed on the left...

The day has finally come. Microsoft has acknowledged the existence of Linux by allowing one of its own applications to be ported over to the rival operating system. Earlier this week the software giant quietly announced that it had selected media player developer InterVideo to port its Windows...

You can get it here. Then, explain me what to download from the page I linked and how to install it.

We'll probably witness a boom of VIA-based motherboards for the Pentium 4 platform as a result of the agreement. Expect Pentium 4 chipsets prices to drop too. Bottom line : good news for the customers.

The full story can be found here at Beta News.

Although the current FIC AU11 and EPoX EP-8RDA are basicly the same board, it won't be the case for their soon-to-come nForce2 boards with the C1 stepping (written A1 on the SPP) that will officially supports 400MHz FSB for the new AMD Barton. FIC AU13 picture : EPoX EP-8RDA3+ picture ...

Because of a sudden anger spike, provoked by inconsistent scrolling, I've played (again) in another episode of "how it's made" (easier to figure out when it's broken into several parts), this time with my one year and a half old electronic roden. So there I was, this evening, looking for a new...

I'm pretty sure of my hit on this one and I'm merely seeking confirmation. On my pricelists appeared a few power supply units from ChannelWell with similar power ratings as those in the Antec TruePower series. ChannelWell is a name I have heard before, so I thought I was up for something here...

And IT WORKS! It's called the .execlient 3.24 B. No more segmentation fault and having to edit the client.cfg in order to make it work. On a side note, Mandrake 9.1 (dubbed RC3 on their mirrors) has been released yesterday and in my case, it fixes most of the bugs that prevent me from using...

Microsoft has put DirectX 9.0a on their web site. Many questioned the maturity of the first 9.0 version of DirectX, telling that it wasn't even at beta level. DirectX 9.0a is supposed to contain many bug fixes. Perhaps this should have been the true 9.0 afterall?

Well, although the overclocking potential of Thoroughbred processors was obvious to many, this new should be seen like a confirmation. Many of us should be VERY happy about it.

I found an interesting article at OSNews.com comparing 5 different desktop environments. Criterias were Look and Feel, Usability, Consistency, Integration, Flexibility, Speed, Stability and Bugs and Technology, Programming Framework, Conclusion

Why does OpenOffice always has so much difficulties to read/modify documents made with its previous versions? I installed 1.02 on my main computer after I cleaned up and re-installed Win2K and it generates errors almost on every damn document I try to open that was made with OO 1.01. It's...

I'm sure everyone here has heard about the new CPU/platform from Intel for the mobile market. I missed it on the front page due to a relatively charged schedule, but I think it still deserrves at least a thread in the forum. There have been several reviews about the Pentium-M on the Web, most...

No idea again about what has changed since 7.02 (or even 7.01 for that matter). I'm sure you can find the changelog at opera.com though.

Sony's first generation recorder will land on Japanese retail shelves on April 10, at a price of $3,815. It looks similar to the prototype Blu-ray player that Sony showed at the Ceatec show in Japan last October. To support the new machine, Sony also announced its first generation Blu-ray...

Tech-report.com had a reference design motherboard from VIA and they, of course, pit it against an nForce2-based mainboard : an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe for the occasion. So, are VIA's claim founded or not? Read the review to find out.

What an sore liar this guy is. I sit, more than half an hour, in from of my TV, listening to his garbage and he makes me sick. He doesn't answer any question about why so many foreign governments disagree with him, he just re-ass the same gabage all the time. He's clearly lying on all the...

Computer trophy. I understand that man like few can. The only reason mines haven't shared the same faith is because I don't have a gun.

From Eugene Ra : Western Digital Raptor WD360GD 36GB preview.

As seen on /. The news Inspiron 8500 will have, as an option, a freaking 1920x1200 15.4" screen Can you imagine how microscopic text will be on this thing? The pixel pitch will be 0.172 mm, smaller than the one from their UXGA 14" display. Mad, I tell you. Utterly mad. Len's Crafters must...

X-bit Laboratories has more details about the soon-to-come KT400A chipset from VIA. It will feature a new south bridge (VT8237, with among many goodies, 4 Serial ATA-150 ports) as well as a supposedly better single channel memory controller that should put it on par with a dual-channel nForce2...