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[01:50] <mK[mark]> (TTEOR): Will nVidias products beable to rival the quality/speed of the Playstation 2 when that delivers?

[01:56] <NVIDIA> PS2 is going to be rocking machine. I'm really excited by it. It will reset the bar of "minimum 3D quality" for consumers worldwide. It will also reset the bar for content developers. As a consumer, you'll see lots of content created with tons of geometry. So, 3D processors without geometry processing is going to be severely bottlenecked.
[01:56] <NVIDIA> w.r.t. our roadmap, I can tell you with complete certainty that we will "crush" the PS2 in performance and quality by next year.

• Microsoft DirectX Runtime (Win9X - v7.0a - 6.04 MB)
  
  
  

• Vooodoo3 2000/3000 Drivers (Win9X - v1.03.05 - 5.3 MB)
  
  
  

All these motherboards can use Coppermine Slot one without need for BIOS upgrade:

• BE6-2
• BF6
• BE6

This need BIOS upgrade:

• BX6-2

This need BIOS upgrade and cannot go above 100MHz

• BH6 1.1

A new FCPGA to Socket 370 converter will be available in January. The part number is RA3702.

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• One Signed copy of Raven Software's Soldier of Fortune, and 4 regular copies of Soldier of Fortune (Upon Release)
• 3 Copies of Quake III: Arena from id Software and Activision
• 5 Copies of Unreal Tournament from Epic Games
• 12 Copies of Tread Marks from Longbow Digital Arts (Upon Release)
• 5 Copies of Slave Zero from Infograme
• 2 Copies of Age of Empires 2, Flight Simulator 2000, and Links LS 2000 from Microsoft Games
• Global Win Fans
• 3dfx Voodoo 3 graphics cards. Three 3000 models.
• eGo Portable MP3 Player, 96 MB
• Razer Boomslang 2000 Gaming Mouse
• D-Link 10/100 Network In A Box Kit.
• Kinesis Keyboard
• Audio Navigator Speakers
  
  
  

In this article, we will be testing all 15 different L2 cache latencies in order to determine their effect on performance. Optimizers would be interested in just how much performance increases from the reduction of the L2 cache latency. Overclockers, on the other hand, would be interested to know the degree of performance degradation when using a higher L2 cache latency because that will help them determine if the increase in clockspeed made possible by the higher L2 cache latency is worth the loss in L2 cache performance.

• Canopus Spectra Drivers (Win9X - v4.12.01.0362 - 8.3 MB)
• Canopus Spectra Drivers (WinNT - v4.12.01.0362 - 5 MB)
  
  
  

• Matrox G400 TurboGL Driver (Win9X - v1.00.002 - 1.3 MB)
  
  
  

• Diamond Viper V550 Driver (Win9X - 3.53 - 2.95 MB)
• Diamond Viper V770 Driver (Win9X - 3.53 - 2.95 MB)
  
  
  

To get a grip on how powerful Blue Gene will be, Horn and other researchers said it will be 500 times faster than Deep Blue, 40 times faster than the aggregate sum of the world's top supercomputers and a million times more powerful than a traditional PC.

"It will be the first petaflop-scale computer," Horn said, explaining that it will calculate 1 quadrillion (that's one followed by 15 zeros) instructions per second.

And bandwidth? Blue Gene will have all the power of all the ISDN modems in the world, capable of downloading the entire Internet in one second.

VE: What sort of support for games will the upcoming Itanium and PIII EB (coppermine) incorporate?

GA: See my answer above for Itanium. Pentium(R) III processor on 0.18 micron process takes the basic Pentium(R) III processor with its SSE support (used in MS DirectX and many apps and games) and adds an on-die full speed 256bit-wide path 256K L2 Advanced Transfer Cache as well as increased number of buffers (Advanced System Buffering) which allow more information to get to the CPU faster. These improvements allow for an immediate 25% boost in performance clock to clock over the .25 micron Pentium III processor, as measured by CPUmark99. System level performance is significant as well. When you add the higher MHz and SSE optimized GeForce drivers you have a kicking game machine.

DMA has kept a low profile so far and isn't divulging details about its technology, since patents are pending. According to Sullivan, the Multiplanar Volumetric Display uses not one plane of image data-as conventional displays do-but 12 planes, each depicting a different depth. The end result is essentially a stack of images floating either a few inches in front of the display or inside the display, as if you're watching fish inside an aquarium. The display uses an array of optical components, such as parabolic mirrors and beam splitters to collect, focus, and project light in space to form volumetric images. Since the images have volume, they're measured in voxels-volume picture elements-rather than pixels.

Amazing off-the-shelf performance - I maxed out my SOYO 6BA+IV at 155 MHz giving me 776 MHz at 1.6 volts. The PIII 500E should rank with the C300a, PII 300 SL2W8, PII 333 SL2WY Week 37 and PIII 450 SL35D for overclocking ease.

BOTTOM LINE:
The best gaming mouse we've had the pleassure of using to date.

Recently, we took a look at iiyama's VisionMaster Pro 450. Well, if that monitor was not large enough for you, read on as we take a look at the 22" model of this line. Like the Pro 450, the Pro 510 also uses Mitsubishi's DiamondTron^TM CRT. The result is breathtaking clarity, and precision of anything that is displayed on the CRT.