Tech Bits

[Jun 05, 2001, 09:40 am ET] - Post a Comment

New NVIDIA Chip
NVidia Rolls Dice on New Chip on Wired looks at the nForce chipset. Thanks WarPig[doh], while there is another nForce Preview on PlanetHardware.
Dual AMD CPUs
There's a look at AMD's new dual CPU chipset on SimHQ.com, AMDZone, Amdmb.com, and CPUReview.
New CPUCooL
A new version of the CPUCooL utility is now available. Thanks File Flash.
DVD+RW
According to The Adrenaline Vault "AOpen has announced a new DVD+RW product that writes CD-R and RW media as well as 4.7 GB DVD+RW media," though the announcement doesn't seem online anywhere, and there is no info on the product yet on Aopen's Optical Device page.
Stereo Support
The Unofficial NVIDIA stereoscopic driver support page is online.
Carmack on PPC Performance
A post to the Articles x86 vs PPC Linux benchmarks thread on Slashdot by John Carmack (thanks Jacek Fedoryñski) offers the id lead programmer's assessment of his PPC versus X86 benchmarks, saying "I'll be right there trumpeting it when I get a Mac that runs my tests faster than any x86 hardware, but it hasn't happened yet. This is about measurements, not tribal identity, but some people always wind up being deeply offended by it..."