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Saw over Warp2Search that AOpen has posted new drivers for their nVidia based video cards. AOpen 12.60 Win9X/Me AOpen 12.60 Win2K/XP AOpen 12.60 WinNT 4.0 Aopen EnableCoolbits utility

Warp2Search send words that a new version of NVMax is out. Changes: New Setup program. Various internal code fixes. DirectX force refresh. New Help file. High contrast icons. Nicer interface (minimize etc) with ability to switch on/off systray icon. Large & bold fonts should work now. Small anisotropy bug on 6.50. Download

Asus has posted the follow new bios updates: Bios A7V133-M 1003 Final ( 17.08.2001 ) Bios A7V-E 1003 Final ( 17.08.2001 ) Bios A7S-VM 1007 - 01 Beta Download

GideonTech.com has posted a review on the Golden Gate Cooler We´re looking at the new version of the Gladiator cooler, now known as the Golden Gate from SVC. There are a few design changes to the GG, in addition to having a stronger fan. We´ve tested it against its old self and with some other coolers. Read more

Everything USB send words that Kodak has announced three new additions - the DX3215, DX3700 and DX3900 - to their Digital Still Camera (DSC) lineup. The highest priced DSC is the DX3900, at an estimated price of $499. With a 3.1 Megapixel resolution and 3x optical / 2x digital zoom, the DX3900 features an 8MB CompactFlash memory card. It is available for purchase in August 2001. Read more

RatedPC has posted a review on the ASUS A7M266 motherboard. As the DDR prices have drastically dropped and the 266MHz FSB processors are also reduced in price, it only makes sense to consider buying a DDR-Athlon system at this time of the year. Your choice of chipsets would include: ALi MAGiK, VIA KT266, AMD-760, and SiS 735 which is the most recent. Although we maybe a few months late in our presentation, we have reason to believe that the AMD-760 still deserves a serious consideration and there is a logic why it continues to be in demand. We will be looking at the ASUS A7M266, and see how it still holds up in the industry. Read more

TacoNuts has put up the third edition of the Gaming Screwdriver. Unlike Max Payne, however, Serious Sam seems to have been made for multiplayer. I know, I know, it’s been out since Granny was riding horses in her youth, but I’ve just begun to appreciate the complexities of…aw, nevermind. There are no complexities. Just lots of Sams bucking down both other players and monsters alike with gratuitous firepower. Read more

BoomGames has posted a review of a new device - The Claw. Since the dawn of FPS´s (First Person Shooters) the standard for top level players has always been the mouse and keyboard. Sure, quite a few companies have come out with "the next great thing" but in the end, they´ve always flopped. Take for example the Fragmaster, an odd shaped multi axis joystick controller with a bazzilion buttons on it. Original retail, $100.00, on close out, I saw stores giving them away with rebate. It´s just hard to compete with the mouse and keyboard because it works so well. Read more

Serial Addiction has posted a review on the Dragon Orb 3 Ah yes, yet another orb style heatsink from our good friends at ThermalTake. The Dragon Orb 3 follows the same design as its orb siblings. The Question is weather or not it will follow the same lacking performance trend. Read more

Slautech has posted a review on the Noise Control Silverado CPU cooler The Silverado is the quietest cooler, although the YSTech case fan is almost inaudible, but that´s just a fan by itself. The only problem is, you need a quiet computer to take advantage of the low noise generated by the Silverado. I have 3 hard drives in my system and they are louder than the Silverado. The 4 case fans also drown out the Silverado, and the Enermax "whisper quiet" PSU isn´t exactly that quiet once it´s been running for a while (my system seems to make huge power demands on it). Read more

3dlabs has released new Windows NT 4.0 drivers for the Oxygen GVX1 Pro video card. Thanks Mark. Current release --------------- • Fixed lockup problems with VX1 and GVX1 AGP boards in VIA based motherboards. • Fixed 16x16 color cursor problem seen with Electric Image. • Fixed stencil problem seen with SolidDesigner. • Fixed screen corruption problem seen with Socet Set on dual processor systems. • Fixed rendering problem seen with Animation Master on dual processor systems. • Fix for lockup problem seen with QuikVu. • Fix for glDrawPixels lockup problem seen with Socet Set. Download

TweakMax has posted a review on the Dell Poweredge 2550 Server Intel CPU´s + more than 512 MB RAM = i8XX and RDRAM? No, actually not... Is it BX then? Nope, it´s a ServerWorks HE-SL chipset that is powering a lot of server motherboards today. ServerWorks has found a niche that Intel currently not is serving, providing the cabability to, among other things, run Intel CPU´s in up to 8x configurations featuring up to 8 GB of plain ol´ ECC DIMMs, making it unneccesary for server manufacturers to jump onto the RDRAM bandwagon. Read more

Digit-Life has posted a review on the NVIDIA Quadro2 Go The NVIDIA Quadro2 Go is a hybrid of a professional and mobile graphics solution. As we may suspect, such development costs NVIDIA only a certification of professional drivers for the GeForce2 Go, which we have already written about. But such certification of drivers for basic professional packets, correspondence to the OpenGL 1.3 standard and some hardware standards (SpeedStep, ACPI etc.) costs much and brings problems. Besides, the company also had to develop these drivers. But in this case it wasn´t a problem: the drivers are standard and changes are not great as compared with Quadro MXR. In fact, an identification chip code is different. And that´s all. All professional possibilities are enabled in the drivers on a program level, and there is even a utility which can get drivers identify any card based on GeForce 256/2/3 chip as a corresponding professional model. Read more

The 93rd issue of ZZZ online is out. Read in the latest issue of ZZZ online about: - cooling by -50 degrees air stream - valveless pulse jet engine - freak car - self-assembling monolayer nanolithography Read more

Warp2Search send words that a new version of Hercules 3DTweaker is available You may change clock & memory frequencies with the 3DTweaker, but the tool also permits adjustments on the 1x, 2x or 4x AGP mode. Furthermore the fastwrites option is activatable. In addition FSAA modes including the new Quincunx FSAA and VSync can be separately handled in Direct3D and OpenGL. Download

T-Break has posted a review on MSI´s SiS735 chipset based board- the K735. One thing we noticed was that if you change the clock multiplier and the system fails to POST, just wait for a few seconds and the multiplier is automatically adjusted to it´s original setting- pretty neat. However, changing FSB speeds and not being able to POST doesn´t reset the FSB speed to the CPU default. Read more

Here the latest listing of the fixes that are included in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. Read more

USBMan send words that Iomega has released IomegaWare 3.06 Three months to the day after Iomega released IomegaWare version 3.0, the Zip disk peripheral and media maker has released it´s newest software offering. IomegaWare is the companies proprietary software that enables Windows based operating systems to use many popular Iomega devices. The software is required for Zip, Jaz, PocketZip (Clik!), HipZip, FotoShow, and Peerless drives. IomegaWare must be installed before these devices are attached to the system. Read more

Adrian´s Rojak Pot has posted a review on the 16x10x40x Lite-On BURN-Proof CD-RW drive BURN-Proof, as you would have read from the previous review, was developed by Sanyo to overcome the "buffer under-run" error that plagues most CD-RW users. For those of you who don´t know what a buffer under-run is, it´s an error that occurs when the computer cannot stream the needed data to the CD-RW drive fast enough for the burning process to proceed normally. As older CD-RW drives cannot pause the burning process to ´wait´ for the needed data, a burn error occurs, creating a coaster (unusable CD). As such, everyone using a CD-RW drive soon develops a fear of disrupting the data stream from the system to the CD-RW drive. That´s why people will tell you NOT to do anything with your PC when you´re burning a CD. Read more

Hardware Extreme´s reader has posted a review on the ATI TV Wonder USB Edition I wanted TV capabilities on my machine downstairs where I had no TV. I searched reviews and found a very positive review of the ATI WONDER USB. This fit my profile for such a device, because I did not want to use a PCI slot. The ATI TV WONDER USB is a pretty red tanslucent box crammed with an RF demodulator, USB and composit video interfaces and the USB connection. You plug it in and follow directions to load drivers and then the software. Read more

GideonTech.com has posted a review on the Swiftech MCX370-0A cooler. The heatsink differs from the previous model in that each individual pin is ribbed. Labeled as a helicoid pin design, it supposedly increases the pin´s surface area 2:1. That´s quite a jump in surface area! A total of 188 pins are mounted onto the base, each with its own helicoid design. It is also mentioned that this new design creates micro-turbulence which causes more airflow. Read more

Digit-Life has posted Part II of their VIA Apollo Pro266 motherboards roundup At last DDR SDRAM has become equal in price to usual SDRAM almost all throughout the world. New advanced revisions of DDR chipset for Athlon and renewed mainboards make the difference between a progressive well-balanced DDR platform and a SDRAM based one stronger. But Athlon based systems make only one third of the market. And what do we have in other two thirds? Read more

TweakFiles has posted a new version of Tweak XP Tweak-XP - The tweaking eXPerience. The First Tweaking And Tuning Utility Especially For Windows XP. Unlike other tweaking utilities, Tweak-XP bundles more than 22 different utilities in one: tweaks, tools, hardware optimizations and a lot more - too much to list here... New in this version: Major Update - new features added - several improvements New feature: Internet Explorer Pop-Up Blocker Brazilian-Portuguese language files added changes to the System-Folders module fixes a problem with the Ad-Blocker in the registered version fixes some minor problems on XP RC2 some minor changes Download

MandrakeSoft has released the first beta of Mandrake Linux 8.1 The Beta1 of the upcoming Mandrake Linux 8.1 for x86 has hit the mirrors. Sticking to the path opened by the 8.0 version, Mandrake Linux 8.1 Beta 1 provides a bunch of innovations, more user-friendly and amazing tools, and, as always with a Mandrake distribution, highly up-to-date software. Download

Serial Addiction has posted a review on the Compex DS2216 Dual Speed Switch Why use a switch instead of a hub? They both do the same thing, and a hub is cheaper right? Wrong! Hubs and Switches are very different. I guess the easiest way to explain the differences would be, If you had a 4 or 6 port hub running at say 100Mb/s all those ports would share the same bandwidth but with a switch allows all the ports to have a full 100Mb/s of bandwidth. It is much more economical to use a switch on any network with more than 6 computers, as you can guess 6 computers sharing 100Mb/s can get very slow. Read more