Archive for July, 2008
DirectX 11 in 2009
In about two weeks, Microsoft is going to officially announce the DirectX 11 specifications. The new API is supposed to be the default one in the upcoming Windows 7 (codename Vienna), but Fudzilla informs that DX 11 will also be available for Vista, since Vienna is based on the Vista kernel. This means that DX [...]
1.5TB HDDs
There are huge amounts of information flowing all over the Internet and it seems like we are already making the transition from gigabytes towards terabytes. I, for one, can’t deal with my 400 GB total storage space. When I finally make some space by transferring stuff to DVDs, all that freed space gets immediately clogged [...]
4870 X2 Official Price
Although the R700 Radeon HD 4870 X2 with 2GB of GDDR5 is supposed to be available in late August, ATI has already revealed the price for this card. I was hoping to see it under $500, but I guess the $549 final price is influenced by those 2GB of on-board video memory.
Maybe NVIDIA rushed things [...]
NVIDIA Helping ATI?!!?
We already know that NVIDIA is about to release a PhysX driver for the GF 8/9/GTX 200 and it also mentioned something about making the PhysX platform open source. It would be nice to see how my GTS 8800 can act as a PPU, but I actually plan to make the jump for the Radeon [...]
Samsung SH-S182D
In the last years, every time somebody asked my advice regarding a DVD writer, I leaned towards recommending Samsung or LG drives. Why? Unfortunately, Yamaha doesn’t manufacture optical drives anymore, Plextors are usually too expensive, and they use parts that can be found in much cheaper drives, in most cases, Teac also seems to [...]