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|  | Futuremark 3DMark Vantage - The Gamers New Benchmark
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
“3DMark Vantage is a gaming performance benchmark that is used to measure native DirectX 10 and multi-core CPU performance with large amounts of physics, AI and graphics on PC's running Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. 3DMark Vantage shows the user where their gaming system performs at its peak or doesn't have the horsepower, and how to get the most performance possible out of their hardware for today's and tomorrow's games. Legit Reviews takes a look at this new benchmark armed with a ASUS PhysX P1, XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 and an ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see what the benchmark is all about.” |   |
| | Assassin's Creed Gameplay Performance and IQ
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Mark Warner over at [H]ardOcp gets down and dirty with Assassin’s Creed to see how it runs on the latest GPUs and what the story is with DirectX 10.1. Microsoft added DirectX 10.1 to Vista service pack one and it’s interesting to see the difference it makes. I’m big on not only testing performance, but checking image quality as well, and when you see the screen shots in this excellent article you will understand why 1 of the 2 GPU makers has a lot of work to do! Nice Job Mark! | |
| Budget DirectX 10 Gaming
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
"The HD 3450 is also advertised for its ability to deliver "the next generation of HD games featuring life-like realism." Not many people out there picking up a $55 video card would expect a miracle when it came down to game performance, but the ability to play DircetX10 games is a claim made for the Diamond HD 3450. So in this review, we decided to put this claim to the test. We will try out some of today's more popular games with a HD 3450 in an effort to see what kind of performance (or lack of) you can expect from such an inexpensive card. While the HD 3450 is not supposed to be able to compete with a HD 3850, it is still nonetheless interesting to see how the performance levels compare.” This article from Neoseeker even has video footage of gameplay. | |
| Peripherals
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Peripherals:
LiteOn EZ-DUB External DVD Drive DX-20A4PU @ TechwareLabs
Samsung SyncMaster T220 Widescreen 22 Inch LCD Monitor @ Futurelooks
Samsung SyncMaster 2263DX Dual Display @ Digital Trends
NEC's AccuSync LCD24WMCX 24" widescreen @ bit-tech
ViewSonic's VX1940w 19" widescreen monitor @ bit-tech | |
| SDD vs iRAM vs HDD
Monday, April 28, 2008
“In this article we are going to introduce to you two solid state drives from Samsung and a unique data storage solution from Gigabyte aka i-RAM. Let check out their performance compared to that of conventional hard disk drives.” So begins a (customarily) mammoth article on XBitLabs. I first saw the Gigabyte iRAM at Computex last year. The reps on the booth didn’t know much about it at the time. Here’s a good explanation of it: “The point of i-RAM is simple and obvious from its appearance. The PCB with a PCI connector has four slots for DDR memory modules. So, this device uses DDR SDRAM, which is far faster than HDDs or flash memory, for storing data. SDRAM is volatile, and there is a 1.7Ah battery on the PCB to ensure data integrity when the PC is shut down. When working, the i-RAM is powered by the PCI bus.” | |
| Cable or DSL?
Monday, April 28, 2008
“The two most prevalent technologies used today to access the internet are Cable and DSL. Making the decision between one or the other can be difficult. We explain the technologies behind each, how they work, and the pro's and con's of each.” From Techwarelabs. | |
| Google Groups Guide
Thursday, April 24, 2008
It is really important for clubs and organizations to have a website these days. I know if I’m searching for a dance class for one of my girls or a group that might accept old computer hardware donations, I don’t reach for the paper phone book, I go straight to Google and see what I can find online. Google Groups is a great way for clubs and non-profit organizations to have a free website. The main advantage of Google Groups is that it features a mailing list system. Clubs can use this to email out calendars and event information etc. When I have searched the Internet for a group I must admit that I have never come across one in Google Groups, or at least I don’t think so. But if you go the Google Groups section and type in something like Cub Scouts, you’ll find heaps of them there – and they are usually for “members only”. That’s another approach you can take with Google Groups – to use it as an internal communication system. | |
| | NVIDIA Chips Comparison Table
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
"If you don't follow almost daily the video card market it is really complicated to understand the differences between the several different nVidia graphics chips available on the market today. To facilitate knowing and understanding the difference among these chips, we have compiled the following table:" | |
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| | | Update in Process | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onThursday, August 21, 2008 2:13 PM | |
| So, there’s a new iPhone update out there. The first thing I did this morning was plug in my iPhone to sync it with iTunes and get the latest update, hoping it would fix some of the crash Apple screens ... |  | | Comments (0) | More... |
| | @Me dot com | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onTuesday, August 19, 2008 9:34 AM | |
| iTunes has advertised the Apple @Me service to me a couple of times, so I thought I’d give it a spin. If you don’t know what @Me is, it’s iTune or Apple’s solution to Gmail but it’s meant to have more ... | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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| | Updating my iPhone | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onTuesday, August 12, 2008 11:39 AM | |
| iPhone 2.0.1 software update is now available from iTunes. This 249.2MB update was released to fix numerous issues that have been plaguing the release of the 3G iPhone. I personally have found the iPhone to be less stable than your average V ... | | | Comments (0) | More... |
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