2-4-$1 – Nvidia’s Dual-GPU AIB
Posted by Kathleen Maher on June 5th 2006 | Permalink
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Long anticipated, since Nvidia showed its Quad solution in the big Dell tent at CES, the company has come out with a consumer version of the dual-GPU AIB.
Windows Vista tests
Posted by Kathleen Maher on June 5th 2006 | Permalink
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We had lots of stuff to play with this past three-day weekend—too much, as usual, but we gave it our best effort.
Devices that work
Posted by Kathleen Maher on May 22nd 2006 | Permalink
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A trip to eBay reveals that these players are still available and many of them are selling for less than $50. Rio was a pioneer in the industry, and the company got a lot of things right. What’s really wonderful is that it is expandable with an SD memory. The devices have gotten a bad rap for dependability, and indeed one of the players, a cute little khaki-colored Rio 256-MByte player, did go south—worse, it went south on a defenseless younger relative of ours who was given the thing as a gift. What did he do? He went right out and bought an iPod. It just works, you know?
Doing more, seeing more
Posted by Jon Peddie on May 22nd 2006 | Permalink
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We have been testing a variety of multi-screen controllers. The three hardware solutions we’ve looked at have been VillageTronics, Newnham Research’s USB-to-VGA adapter, and Matrox’s TripleHead2Go. All of these devices are external to the computer, with the exception being VillageTronics, which is a PCMCIA PC card.
Never buy another keyboard
Posted by Kathleen Maher on April 11th 2006 | Permalink
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Now that’s the last thing our friends at Logitech want to hear, but you get your hands, er, your fingers on a G15 keyboard, you’ll never want anything else, and you probably won’t need anything else.
Big boards, big fun – looking at Nvidia’s 7900GTXs
Posted by Kathleen Maher on April 11th 2006 | Permalink
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You may recall we recently tested dual Nvidia GeForce7800GTX 512 AIBs in SLI mode against dual ATI Radeon X1900XTX AIBs in a Crossfire mode. The results are on our website. No sooner had we finished than Nvidia announced the GeForce 7900 GTX
We do Crossfire – SLI tests
Posted by Kathleen Maher on February 28th 2006 | Permalink
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We got a new Asus A8R32 MVP Deluxe socket 939 motherboard with the new ATI Crossfire chipset (that we're not permitted to talk about now, but will do so in the next issue) and built up a new computer. AMD sent us a new dual-core 2.604-GHz 64 FX-60 processor and we beefed up the system with a 550W power supply and 1 GByte of 400-MHz DDR; we were ready to rock and roll.
What a chassis – the Lian Li memorial chassis, that is
Posted by Kathleen Maher on February 28th 2006 | Permalink
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e recently stumbled across the Lian Li 20th anniversary memorial chassis and thought it was exactly how a Crossfire or SLI chassis should look, like a giant exhaust fan. Further investigation, however, revealed it also to be very cleverly designed, and strikingly interesting looking, as well as totally unique, cabinet.
Wireless sucks
Posted by Jon Peddie on February 13th 2006 | Permalink
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That's right, you heard it here, up here on the mountain where we work by candlelight and still wax our own saddles. OK, it's not that bad, but we have learned that wireless isn't all it's cracked up to be, the QoS leaves a lot to be desiredÑeverywhere, except maybe Paul Ottelini's office.
Apple introduces Aperture; Adobe counters with Lightroom
Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 30th 2006 | Permalink
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Apple has been saving most of its surprises for the consumer end of its business, but just before the holidays the company rolled out Aperture as a gift for its dedicated professional customer base. The new photo-management and image-processing tool is a gorgeous complement to Apple's Cinema displays—which are making their way to being affordable—and the new Quad G5 computers, the last of the Power PC Apples.
