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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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Strolling through the 8th floor of a shopping centre in Beijing's popular Xi Dan Shopping District, it's hard to believe that you would come across a place called "Korean Town" (韩国城) where you can find anything from Mashimaro Toys, Flashy Cellphone chains, the latest Anime figurines, as well as hair dressers and Computer games packed on one floor.
The most interesting part of it is probably the Computer games and hardware section, where little stalls are happy to copy popular games like Battlefield 2142, Anno 1701 etc. onto a DVD or several CDs on request. Price? About 10 RMB per CD or 15 per DVD. If you are thorough in your search, you can also come across Japanese Anime Subs copied onto DVDs (they usually just hand you a 200 Disc CD Holder so you can browse through them). |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 March 2007 )
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
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After lots of NVIDIA driver bashing, G80 flaming and R600 praising, Fuad and Charlie have finally decided to change their tone about ATI's savior R600 and skip this soap opera deluxe to preach that R700 is going to be even more wonderous, because AMD is going to give them some proper engineering experience...
Talking about Athlon 64 however, it hasn't really changed that much in the last few years, with constant socket upgrades and memory bus upgrades. AMD's road map is quite a mess right now, since they have to fight on two fronts. If their graphics division suffers, their revenues also go down the drain. Apparently, ATI only contributed to a quarterly 257 million in revenue. If you compound that by 4 (I know it's inaccurate), you'll still be a long way off from ATI's pre-acquisition revenue figures.
So, as Fuad puts it in this article:
"So R600 is in a bit of a mess. The delay mean that ATI fanbois who wanted to get this card will just give up and buy a Geforce 8800 GTX instead. We've had a verutable deluge of emails confirming this scenario. ATI delayed until Q2 and that's just too long. "
What's gonna happen next? Graphzilla (dubbed by Inq) is just going to flood the market with G80 refresh products and wait till Intel can come up with a potent alternative. Good luck and DAMMIT AMD...  |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 February 2007 )
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
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Graphics Cards based on the GeForce 8 Graphics chips have been dominating the high-end graphics market over the past few months. Yet, it was a shock to find out that NVIDIA's 'Essential Vista' campaign backfired on themselves with the release of sub-standard graphics drivers by the time of the Vista Launch on Janaury 31st 2007.
Under Vista's Aero interface it is hard to notice any difference between the graphics card, as well as the Beta drivers reporting a massive 5.9 Windows Experience Score for Graphics. Still, the BETA graphics drivers stopped responding during a crucial Guild Event (on World of Warcraft).
Anyway, you can find 3Dmark06 benchmark scores under the 'Read More' Section (after installing the new 100.65 WHQL GeForce 8 Vista Drivers). |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 March 2007 )
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