• AMD, Fujitsu said to be in talks to merge flash businesses
• Open source BIOS developed
• Nvidia confirms dual display drivers buggy
• Homeland security bill limits vendor liability
• Flat-panel sellers perk up monitors
• Court to decide Kazaa's U.S. liability

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The aim of this product is to reduce the number of monitors, keyboards and mice down to one, and then share them between each PC. You may think this is a simple task. However if you swap around PS2 ports while a system is live, you will find that when you plug it back in, the devices wont be recognised.

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Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie recently suggested that in the name of security, it may be appropriate to force you to install Microsoft patches or updates, and if that breaks your existing applications, well, it's for your own good. ~ Forcing security upgrades to that vast installed base of "older systems," and implementing security fixes even if they do break existing applications, explicitly leaves users to untangle the mess and pick up the pieces afterward -- if they can.

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The easiest way to frequently change the most common 3D-Options.
Now with "No Click Mode" and Support of nView and Windows 2000 / XP Dual-Monitoring.Now with full 40.41-Support: Reveal the Deto D3D Refreshrate Fix with aTuner, and choose 8x AF for D3D (due a Bug in the Detonator Driver Panel you cannot switch to 8x AF with the original Driver Frontend.)

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Monthly 3D Digest is the project of iXBT.com devoted to releases of new Windows XP (monthly) and Windows 9x/ME (once in 4 months) drivers for popular videocards (released from the 10th of September 2002 to the the 10th of October 2002 ). As usual, there are many diagrams containing the information on changes in operation of videocards at change to last version drivers, and also summary diagrams of popular modern videocards performance. Traditionally for our 3Digest we provide the best price/performance ratios information. Quality aspects are reviewed in the Windows XP section.

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That is where the MX line of cards comes in. A GeForce4 MX card will definitely not appeal to a gamer addicted to ridiculously high FPS gaming running smoothly at high resolutions with high quality settings, but someone concerned with just getting the job done well enough to run the game he wants to play can find satisfaction in the MX line. Leadtek is definitely one company that can help you out if you are the latter type of gamer, especially if you are also interested in VIVO (Video-In Video-Out) capabilities.

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There's no doubt that most people looking at this have come across a video projector before. Maybe it was at a business meeting, or maybe it was during a high school or college class. If you're anything like me, you probably thought of the gaming possibilities of the projector instead of it being used for boring PowerPoint presentations. I decided to look further into projectors and found a very interesting niche in the technology that lets you build (don't get scared! There are no tools involved!) a quality projector for under $200.

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As a folding farm starts to grow, just like in a corporate network you start to experience growing pains and management of all the machines can become a real nightmare. Each machine running its own OS and just folding seems simple enough, which it can be, however the model can be simplified down even more. When I was making folding machine I would try to dig up any hard drive I could that was about 500MB or bigger for whatever bargain price someone was willing to accept. Usually they would run fine for a few weeks then die, or just act up randomly. Needless to say this was a real pain. By setting up folding machines to boot over the network, it eliminates the need for a hard drive, and even a video card.

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The question you need to ask yourself is if you have an older setup, is it more worthwhile to do a complete system overhaul, or to tryout an upgrade kit? Normally, I'd say you're better off changing everything if your system is very old, but the P4/i850 still has a lot of life left, and as I've said, parting with all that expensive RAMBUS ram would be a waste. Still, I was curious to see if the performance gained in a CPU upgrade, motherboard remaining the same, would be worthwhile.

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There are few products that are truly innovative, because innovation requires companies to step away from the norm and take risks. The PC platform has remained relatively unchanged for the past several years. When you look at the back of any given PC, you know you will probably find things like parallel ports, serial ports, PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, and maybe a couple of USB ports.
All that is changed with the IT7-MAX. Gone are all the legacy ports, and in their place you will find 8 USB2.0 ports and 2 Firewire ports. But, the innovation doesn't stop there.

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When I think of the name "Vantec" the only thing that use to come to mind was fans, heat sinks, and other cooling devices. Likewise, when I heard "Thermal Monitoring" or "Fan Control" Vantec is not the company I would have thought of. Well, that's changed now, with Vantec's latest product, The Nexus. In one sleek device, Vantec has managed to bring you a CPU fan controller, three thermal sensors, an LCD readout, and to top it off, they even threw in two USB 2.0 and one FireWire/1394 ports. If that wasn't enough they've also added interchangeable faceplates to give your computer a whole new look.

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GeIL Pocket Muse MP3 Player/USB Flash Drive Review
GeIL was gracious enough to send Scott and I on our way, from their Comdex booth, with a sample of their USB Pocket Muse. While there were a plethora of USB flash devices on display in many exhibit booths across the Las Vegas Convention Center, there were very few that matched this little gem. Aside from a handful of flash devices that added a thumb-print type of encryption security (which is pretty darn cool itself) there were very few with any kind of specialized functionality. We've reviewed several Plain-Jane "key chains" here at Club Overclocker, but this one perked interest as soon as Victor started talking about it. Key phrases being "Check your mail" and "Play MP3s" Ok, it's got my attention!

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Comdex Coverage
We have wrapped up our coverage of our tour of Fall Comdex 2003. This was our first experience at such an event, and a very pleasurable one. It was a honor to finally meet face to face with the companies we deal with from day to day, not to mention see all the cool stuff on display. Although there really wasn't a whole lot of new and exciting things to see, we still had a great time. If there is a Comdex next year, you can bet your hard earned dollar that we'll be there! Check out our Comdex coverage here.

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nVidia insert two new Anti-Aliasing modes, intended for the GeForceFX, already into
Detonator 40.72 and 41.03 drivers. These modes are also available for GeForce3 /Ti and
GeForce4 Ti owners! Our article gives a short description of them and provides some
Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmarks from a GeForce4 Ti4600 using 6xS and 8x Anti-Aliasing
plus some 8x Anti-Aliasing screenshots, taken from a GeForce4 Ti4600

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Memory module speeds seem to be getting faster and faster each day with a handful of memory manufacturers pushing the limits. One such manufacturer is the provocative OCZ Technology group based out of Sunnyvale, CA who has been releasing ultra fast memory modules for sometime now. Today TweakTown takes a look at one of their newest modules - their PC3500 DDR-433 part. Does it have what it takes to compete with the likes of other ultra fast modules on the market? Read on and find out!

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