Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Best utility for your graphics card
Anandtech has a nice post about the best utility software programs for the owner of a recent graphics card (be it an nVidia or and AMD-ATI). They compare: ATI Catalyst Control Center ATI Tray Tools ATITool nVIDIA Control Panel & nTune RivaTuner nHancer BIOS Flashing options and programs
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roumazeilles.net first on Technorati!
This is what was signaled recently on Technorati, as I have been informed. Unfortunately, I was unable to find the original page…
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Baby on board, more of the worst
If the usual “Baby on board” sign no longer satisfy you. Have a look at its best extension.
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Graphics cards, product lines
Today, the market for independent graphics cards on PCIexpress is split between two product lines only: nVidia has setup a long list of boards around the 8×00 moniker (the 8 series). The high-end, 8800 GTS and 8800 GTX, are providing a lot of gaming power. The lower end, 8600 GTS and 8400 are much more…
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Crysis: November, 16
This is now official! Electronic Arts will launch Crysis, the most anticipated First Person Shooter video game for PC on the 16th of November.
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Canon EOS 40D: First real images?
This time, it seems that Canon let go a few images to start just-not-officially teasing the public. The first shots are not giving too much information, but it’s a good confirmation that it’s probably arriving very very soon. No violent changes visible when we compare with the old Canon EOS 20D or 30D. I think…
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F.E.A.R. 2 is not the sequel to F.E.A.R.
This is becoming weirder and weirder. I had previously spoken about Ubisoft announcing FarCry 2 to follow in the footsteps of FarCry (a sequel?) while Crytek was working on Crysis (a technical improvement and a sequel). Here, we have to speak of another video game in the First Person Shooter (FPS) category, F.E.A.R. that has…
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Color laser printers: 12 to compare
It is already an old tradition of this site that we keep repeating that color laser printers, without being able to do full photo-quality printing, progressed to the point where they are priced reasonably (often less than $300 and with a price-per-page that is strictly out of range for inkjet printers). Beyond the comparisons already…
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Difference between DirectX 9 and DirectX 10? Not much
This is the sour conclusion the testers from NeoSeeker drew when they tested World in Conflict (a Real Time Strategy game) stratégie temps réél ou RTS) to compare the results in both Microsoft graphics modes. The conclusion is big: the difference is not, except that performance is more or less divided by two when you…