Tech Bits

[Dec 22, 1999, 03:50 am ET] - Post a Comment

Reverend's The Pulpit has links to a new version 4.06 of the WickedGL super-driver for Voodoo accelerators that fixes the "lost railings" bug in OpFor, the Quake III Arena retail version fan texture bug, and adds support for Windows Millennium. Thanks MajestY.
A new version 1.0.41 of the WinTune 98 benchmark is now available, offering ways to speed test your CPU, Video, OpenGL, Direct3D, Memory and Disk. Thanks DemoNews.
3Dlabs sells $7.5 mln 5-year note to investor Intel. Thanks Haakon Larsen.
Sharky's Private Eye Volume 6 offers their top ten gifts for last minute shoppers, ABIT & Coppermine Issues, an X-Box update, an interview 3dfx' Scott Sellers, new year's predictions, and more.
GXS reviews the Diamond Viper II Z200.
An 800-MHz Match-Up on PC Magazine First Looks offers AMD vs. Intel benchmarks, pitting a Coppermine-based Dell Dimension XPS B800r and a pre-release Athlon 800 MHz Falcon Northwest Mach V.
There's a Coppermine & Slocket2 Review on HardOCP.
iXBT reviews the Chaintech 6WEX2 motherboard.