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10th August 2006 Archive

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  • AMD ships low-cost dual-core Athlon 64

    Socket AM2 3600+ aimed at China

    AMD has begun shipping its anticipated budget-priced Athlon 64 X2 3600+, initially pitching the processor at the Chinese market but with a view to offering it across a wider range of geographies in due course. So say distributor sources cited by DigiTimes. The 3600+ is a Socket AM2 part clocked at 2GHz and fitted with 256KB …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Aug 2006, 09:21

  • Nvidia posts final Quad SLI drivers

    Ready for owners of two GeForce 7950 GX2 cards

    Nvidia has finalised its Quad SLI drivers and yesterday shipped the software with a new, non-beta WHQL-certified driver package. The 32.8MB download is listed as version 91.45 and is part of Nvidia's ForceWare Release 90. The drivers run under Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows 2000. The update's tweaks …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Aug 2006, 09:36

  • Intel cans 3GHz, 3.2GHz Pentium D CPUs

    8xx and 9xx versions EOL'd

    Intel has told its customers that from 15 December they will no longer be able to order Pentium D 830, 840, 930 and 940 processors because demand for said chips has now shifted to other products. The 3GHz and 3.2GHz, 90nm and 65nm products will still be shipped to customers out through to February 2008 in the case of tray- …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Aug 2006, 09:54

  • VIA unveils 19W fanless mini-itx mobo

    EPIA EK arrives August

    VIA will this month ship its EPIA EK Mini-ITX mobo, pitching the product at enthusiasts, system builders and OEMs keen to construct near-silent x86-compatible machines. The motherboard provides six-channel audio, plus MPEG 2 and 4 decoding hardware, and yet consumes no more than 19W of power, the company claimed. The EPIA EK …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Aug 2006, 10:02

  • 3dfx's quad-GPU Voodoo5 board offered to bidders

    Never-released 6000 card eBayed

    A never-shipped 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP graphics card has popped up on eBay to tempt fans of historical GPUs. Speaking of fans, this boy has four of 'em, one each for the four VSA-100 graphics chips the board sports - along with 128MB of frame-buffer memory. The full-length card requires a 3.3V AGP slot should the successful …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Aug 2006, 10:24

  • Sony Ericsson readies 3G media phone

    Push email, blog apps on board

    Sony Ericsson this week launched a mainstream 3G phone, touting the handset as a media-friendly business-oriented device - it's got push email support on board - that's no bigger than an average GSM/GPRS-only machine. The candybar K618 sports a 1.9in, 176 x 220, 262,144-colour display. There's a two megapixel, 2.5x digital …

    Phones 10 Aug 2006, 10:53

  • FSP Booster X3 GPU-friendly power supply

    Review Some extra juice for your graphics cards

    Upgrading your PC? Want to fit two graphics cards, but you don't have a powerful enough power supply? Well, PSU-maker FSP may have just what you need. The Booster X3 is a supplementary PSU that slots into a 5.25in drive bay and is used exclusively to power your PCI Express graphics cards... The X3 is about the size of a …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Aug 2006, 11:19

  • Intel posts Linux-friendly GMA 3000 drivers

    Start of an 'ongoing commitment' to open source plaform, apparently

    Intel has released open source drivers for the GMA X3000 and 3000 graphics engines it's building into its G965, Q965 and Q963 chipsets. According to the company, the drivers provide both 2D and 3D rendering under Linux. The chip giant said the release represents "the beginning of an ongoing commitment" to open source …

    Bits 'n' Chips 10 Aug 2006, 13:53

  • Hauppage takes aim at Slingbox with TV Anywhere

    Cheaper, but not digital

    Hardware sites appear to be going crazy for Hauppage's TV Anywhere, a system that brings together the company's USB-connected TV tuner and Orb video streaming software, all for just £100. However, we don't think Sling Media, make of the Slingbox, needs lose any sleep over it just yet. Over here, the Slingbox is more expensive …

    Gadgets and Gizmos 10 Aug 2006, 14:16

  • Neuros brings SD card support back to MPEG 4 Recorder

    Memory Stick not lost

    First Neuros' MPEG 4 Recorder had an SD card slot. Then it got a Memory Stick slot instead. Now it's got the SD slot back, fortunately without losing the PSP-friendly Memory Stick compatibility. The company is offering the MPEG 4 Recorder 2 Plus, just like its predecessor but now fitted with a multi-format card reader which does …

    Media players 10 Aug 2006, 14:40

  • Samsung shows 'first' 3in VGA digicam viewfinder LCD

    Based on TV tech

    Samsung today said it has developed the world's first 3in 640 x 480 LCD panel for digital cameras. DSC support means it's capable of connecting using the ITU-R601 standard, a 30Hz system chosen by camera makers even though, in Samsung's words, it's "incompatible with LCDs, which normally run at 60Hz". Makes you wonder how …

    HD 10 Aug 2006, 15:07