Saturday, August 28, 2010
IT News HeadLines (HardOCP) 28/08/2010
ATI CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a Performance
Today's evaluation focuses on the performance benefits of the new ATI CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a. The new CAP provides a noticeable performance boost in AVP and Battlefield: BC:2. Hit the link for all the info as well as a local link to the CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a. CrossFireX gets a performance boost in two games thanks to a new CrossFireX Application Profile update. Performance in Aliens vs. Predators and Battlefield Bad Company 2 has been greatly improved, finally. CFX users will want to make sure to check this out. We will have the new CAP file hosted here locally for our readers. Comments
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Valve Wants to Make The Half-Life Movie Themselves
During an interview with PC Gamer, Gabe Newell basically said that if there was going to be a Half-Life movie it would be made by Valve. "That's when we started saying 'Wow, the best thing we could ever do is to just not do this as a movie, or we'd have to make it ourselves.' And I was like, 'Make it ourselves? Well that's impossible.' But the Team Fortress 2 thing, the Meet The Team shorts, is us trying to explore that." Comments
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You Can't Multitask
You can't multitask. Seriously, this guy says so. Not very scientific but mildly entertaining. I can only think about one thing at a time. Any girl reading this just going to roll her eyes and think, "Of course. You're a guy!". But it's not just true for me, it's true for everyone. It's true for you. And not in that way. Comments
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Intel Warns 3Q Results Will Miss Expectations
Intel has just announced that it is cutting sales forecasts for the current quarter. Intel shares slipped a penny in morning trading to $18.17. Intel is the world's biggest provider of microprocessors for PCs and a bellwether for the broader technology industry. In a statement Friday, the company said it is seeing "weaker than expected demand for consumer PCs in mature markets." The company says it now expects revenue of $10.8 billion to $11.2 billion for the fiscal third quarter, which ends in September. That compares with a previous forecast of $11.2 billion to $12 billion. Comments
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Auditors Question U.S. Wireless Competition
A new report from the Government Accountability Office says that, although prices have come down over the years, consumers currently have fewer choices. As requested, this report discusses changes in the wireless industry since 2000, stakeholders' perceptions of regulatory policies and industry practices, and the strategies FCC uses to monitor competition. To conduct this work, GAO collected and analyzed data and documents from a variety of government and private sources; conducted case studies in both rural and urban areas of four states; and interviewed stakeholders representing consumers, local and state agencies and officials, and various segments of the industry. Comments
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Awesome Vintage Circuit Board Art, Furniture
You really have to see this to believe it! Make sure you hit the link and check out the dozens of projects this guy has done, I snagged a few images from the gallery to get you started: Comments
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ATI Southern Islands Codenames Spotted
Besides performance enhancements and new features, yesterday's Catalyst 10.8 driver release also offered up a list of codenames of upcoming products from AMD. ATI's latest driver release, Catalyst 10.8, offers plenty of performance boosts and new features (notably OpenGL ES 2.0, which enables WebGL acceleration in modern browsers). However, Catalyst 10.8 also lists several new and familiar codenames, which most likely refer to Southern Islands products. Interestingly, all codenames are prefixed by "NI", which might stand for Northern Islands. Some of the codenames divulged are Cayman, Antilles, and Blackcomb. Comments
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SATADIMM: Enterprise SSD in a DIMM Form Factor
Designing faster and more efficient enterprise server & storage solutions is now possible with Viking Modular Solutions™ SATADIMM. The SATADIMM is a high-performance, high-availability Enterprise Class Solid State Drive (SSD) in an industry-standard JEDEC 240-pin DDR3 DIMM form factor (JEDEC MO-269). Viking Modular's SATADIMM is designed to take advantage of available DDR3 DIMM sockets, deriving power from the 1.5V supply to the DIMM socket; eliminating the need for a power cable. Simply insert SATADIMM into any available DIMM socket, connect a SATA data cable and begin enjoying all the benefits of high performance SATA SSD. Comments
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Beat it! MSI World Champion Challenge
The finals of MSI's Beat it! World Champion Challenge is just around the corner as 12 of the planet's best teams prepare to do battle. Each member of the winning team will not only receive an MSI GT660 laptop designed specifically with the gamer in mind, the winners of the CS competition will walk away with US$15,000. Taipei—The final stage of the MSI Beat it! World Champion Challenge is scheduled to take place in Beijing from 4-6 September. After the smoke cleared following almost three months of white hot battles, only 12 teams remain standing, including Fnatic, the European team that has been the world champion in CS and WC3 several years running, and the Evil Geniuses, the American team that won the CS championship last year in the US. 12 teams will be going toe-to-toe in the finals and the winning team in the CS contest will not only receive US$15,000, each team member will receive a GT660 NB, the latest and baddest addition to MSI's G series. Comments
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Intel vPro Tackles Industrial-Strength Jobs
Intel Core vPro processors are most commonly seen nurturing and protecting countless business laptops and desktops in corporate offices. However, in August's RTC magazine Intel industrial automation expert Ian Gilvarry tells how vPro is now rolling up its sleeves to tackle "Industrial-Strength Computerized Machine Management." Comments
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Intel Close To Buying Infineon's Wireless Unit?
According to anonymous sources claiming to have "direct knowledge" of the deal, Intel is close to an agreement to buy Infineon's wireless business. An announcement could come as early as this week, the people said, declining to be identified because the talks are private. Infineon, Europe's second-largest chipmaker, is seeking about 1.5 billion euros ($1.91 billion) for its wireless business, two people familiar with the talks said on Aug. 2. Comments
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Meet The Modern Warfare 2 Pacifist
Some guy is trying to reach level 70 in Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer without killing anyone? I'm not sure what is so special about this, there are tons of these people on my team every damn time I play online. I thought it just meant they sucked. Glen McCracken is hero to hippies. The Modern Warfare 2 player has set an interesting goal for himself. McCracken is going for level 70 in the game, without killing a single person. He gains experience through securing flags in Domination, but also plays Demolition and Team Deathmatch as well. Right now, Glen is level 11, with 272 deaths and zero kills. Comments
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Lights Go Out at Netscape HQ
Moving out of the old mansion and into your new apartment must suck. Bet they wish they had that $4.2 billion security deposit back. With a flick of the switch today at 5 pm PT, a critical chapter in Silicon Valley will finally go dark. That's when AOL (AOL) officially moves out of the legendary HQ buildings of Netscape Communications in Mountain View, Calif.–along Ellis Street and East Middlefield Road–to new, snappier digs it is subleasing from Google (GOOG) in Palo Alto on Page Mill Road. Comments
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ATI CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a Performance
CrossFireX gets a performance boost in two games thanks to a new CrossFireX Application Profile update. Performance in Aliens vs. Predators and Battlefield Bad Company 2 has been greatly improved, finally. CFX users will want to make sure to check this out. We will have the new CAP file hosted here locally for our readers.
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