PowerColor announced their EVIL KING 4, what is based on a single 3dfx VSA-100 chip. As you understand, this is an ordinary Voodoo4 4500, but just not from 3dfx. They don`t tell the price and time of availability of it, but I think it will be cheaper, than the original Voodoo4 4500.
By the way, EVIL KING 4 will be manufactured in two variants:
This baby rocks the GeForce2 chipset. Specs for this baby gurantee no hiccups specially when you're midway thru a frag fest, something that you can expect from the insufficiently fed 64MB max for GeForce2 cards. Q3 1600x1200@60fps with all the eye-candy on rocks. What can you expect from a hot hoochie mama with 128MB RAM and 4 VSA-100 procs? Go find out for yourself.
Saw this over at Voodoo Extreme.
ZD Net UK has posted an article on Nvidia's upcoming NV20 video chip. According to them, they state that during complex 3D scenes the card performs up to 7 times faster than a GeForce 2 Ultra... 7 times faster is a helluva lot! Here I was thinking the 7500+ 3DMarks I was getting from a GeForce 2 DDR on a Pentium IV was amazing... guess not :)
Saw this over at Geeknews:
I posted this from a Compaq iPaq connected via a Nokia 8210 *grin*
Seagate has announced the impending release of their Barracuda 180, and 180GB Ultra160 SCSI 7,200 RPM hard drive. The drive is expected to retail at USD 2,195. Ouch. But oh well - like everything else, expect the price of it to drop by about half 6-12 months from the release date.
Pioneer has introduced a rewritable DVD drive. The drive reads and writes in four formats: DVD-R, CD-R, DVD-RW and CD-RW, has up to 4.7GB capacity per DVD side and records on DVD-R at twice the normal speed. Sounds like a pretty wicked combination.
The people at Merilus have grabbed a PCI card, embedded Linux, added some Ethernet ports and come up with the FireCard. The OS on the host system can crash out, without affecting your firewall. Once installed, the FireCard provides firewalling, routing, bandwidth management, virtual private networking, redundant failover, intrusion detection and much more. Sounds all most too good to be true if you ask me.
It looks like ATI (the current king of the hill in the laptop graphics chip sector) is going to have a fair bit of competition from nVidia. This Yahoo article tells about the Nvidia release, and PlanetHardware has a preview of the chip (a low-power derivative of the GeForce 2 MX), with some technical specs as well.
While harnessing unused desktop CPU cycles via the Internet has become the basis of a trendy cottage industry, Computer Sciences Corp is coming in at the other end of the distributed computing spectrum. They plan to offer "companies in biotechnology, engineering, seismic exploration and mapping or molecular science" processing time on their banks of supercomputers for a pay-per-use fee.
