We knew that ESG were beavering away behind the scenes working on several "top secret" projects that they hoped would make a major impact on the cooling scene and although the subject of today's review is perhaps the least radical of all of those efforts it's still being billed as a premium quality thermal grease that should have what it takes to go beyond anything currently available.

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• Ballmer Pledges More Cooperation from Microsoft
• Itanium lags behind Pentium 4
• British hacker faces US charges after Pentagon, other sites cracked
• Via updates Hammer, Intel chipset roadmap
• HP claims nanotechnology patent
• States to vote on Internet taxes

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LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Nov. 12, 2002 - Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today announced the largest and fastest external hard drive currently available in the market, its new 200 GB FireWire® external hard drive. Combining lightning fast 7,200 RPM spin speed and high performance FireWire interface with massive storage capacity, WD's FireWire external hard drives outperform external hard drives spinning only at 5,400 RPM.

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Gainward provides just about everything you’ll need in the box; including, two DVI-Analog Monitor adapters, an S-Video cable, a driver CD, a copy of Serious Sam, and even a PCI Firewire card – making it quite obvious that they intend their customers to use this card for video editing from their DV-Cams. The card and its fan/heatsink follow the NVIDIA reference deign with the exception of the passive heatsinks on the memory chips and a red PCB.

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The firm said it will intro its Tachyon G9700 Pro and include a specially tweaked overclocked driver that will mean the performance of the card kicks butt on the "other guy's" card.

Getting first to the market isn't that important and that's why Tyan claims it has taken its time before releasing the card.

The heatsink is specially designed and Tyan claims the card will clock a 400MHz core speed. The designers, Tyan said, have tweaked the board layout and the card will work with all AGP 8X chipsets, again, unlike the "other guy's".

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Release Candidate 0 is now available for download @ betaplace.com for all MS testers

Note: We have only released the SDK, SDK Extras and DirectMusic Producer downloads. The End-User Runtime and the SDK Sample Binaries will be posted soon.

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 SDK
This is a Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of Microsoft's DirectX 9.0 Software Development Kit (SDK). It contains all DirectX software required to create DirectX 9.0 compliant applications.

Major components include: DirectX 9.0 system components (runtimes); DirectX 9.0 Application Programming Interface (API) Documentation for each of the DirectX core areas (written for C++, C#, or Visual Basic developers); DirectX 9.0 headers & libraries; Sample applications and source code; miscellaneous tools and utilities.

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Apparently, NVIDIA’s developers have been able to play with certain hardware samples of NV30 technology since February 2002. According to NVIDIA, the cost of developing the NV3x family of products will be close to $400 million. At this moment I know for sure that there will be NV30, NV31, NV34 and NV35 code-named graphics processors as well as chipsets with integrated NV3x graphics core. Keeping in mind that there may be some problems with the NV31, NV34 and NV35, just as there were a lot of them with the NV30, the cost of developing will eventually be close to a half of a billion ($500 million).

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There are costs associated with both increasing the datapath width and increasing the computational core. If you look at the new programmable features on the OpenGL and DirectX, you’ll see that a lot more floating point math is required, which requires both bandwidth and computation growth. Both of these will be increased in the next generation. We’ll move to 256bit when we feel that the cost and performance balance is right.

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No problems encountered with the PCI and AGP cards tested. I was interested more in the DDR memory compatibility and reliability because MSI KT3 Ultra2 is still a KT333 based board. We tried several 400Mhz modules because I wanted to force the memory settings up to the limit and DDR2700 modules cannot function at the same parameters as the DDR3200 modules.
The HP adaptor device we used to verify the Bluetooth compatibility had a limited operation range so that the test may not be very accurate. The MSI Bluetooth adapter is able to operate within a 10m-100m range, as stated by the manual. Although the transfer rate is pretty limited (less than 1Mbs) I think that the future of the Bluetooth interface is promising.

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It literally takes just a few minutes to have the kit up and running and the results are fantastic, with drops in temperature of 6C compared to aircooling. The kit does have a few little flaws, such as the instructions; it would have just been nice to have more of a visual aid to go with the simple text.

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"Unfortunately, Nvidia has delayed the nForce2 schedule again, which will make it tough for us to deliver this year," said one motherboard maker. "We're expecting production in mid-December, which will miss the Christmas rush."

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few weeks back, I wrote an article on installing the Apache web server on a Windows machine. This article continues along that line with the installation and configuration of PHP 4. If you have Apache up and running, PHP will further enhance your server by offering a myriad of new possibilities. First, here is a short explanation of each PHP.

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For those of you that have had your eyes closed for a split second, you may have missed the release of another revision of the popular 845 series DDR platform for the Pentium 4. Today we are going to be looking at one of the latest incarnations, the Intel I845GE chipset, in the form of the Intel D845GEBV2.

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Danger Den has a long history of having the best performing water blocks in the world. Within the last few years I have seen blocks come out of Danger Den that absolutely stomp the competition only to be copied by other companies, yet Danger Den always seems to come out on top. I have had several occasions to use DD blocks and have always received surprising results in cooling temperatures with or without a peltier.

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Fast-forward to the year 2000. In 2000, optical mice became the norm; they came with new PCs almost as standard. Optical mice overcame the reliability problem (an LED will typically last 100,000 hours), they were often ergonomically designed, and will track almost any surface - no more mouse pad. Everything was perfect, or was it?

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"The Sky Hawk Jupiter Aluminum Case is one very neat looking case which includes a LCD/Light Module, two USB2 ports, one IEEE1394 port and places to plug your Microphone and Earphone into at the front. Also, it’s lightweight due to the aluminum construction and inexpensive considering the high price of some other cases in this category. Watch the Video to find out more..." ~3dGameMan.com.

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