X-bit Watch: Undress NVIDIA Elf Lass Using ATI RADEON.

by Grigoriy Gubankov
05/26/2003 | 05:44 PM

Some time ago we told you about the way to undress the elf-girl from NVIDIA's Dawn demo (see this news-story). It seems that NVIDIA perfectly understood that things associated with sex are the best for promotion all possible [and impossible] products and services. Every promotion should have its limits, I believe, but it appears that NVIDIA thinks that these limits are too broad. The Inquirer, quoting Yahoo! Investor’s bulletin board, is reporting about NVIDIA's party which took place in Los Angeles, California, during the E3 exhibition. NVIDIA introduced a very unusual way to warm up the crowd: they invited a porn star, named Catalina, to the party. The crowd had some fun, of course, though, do porn stars have something to do with technologies? Now investors are talking about the cost of such extravagant events and the others can think about the causes for NVIDIA to invite a porn star to its show. I have no idea about the reasons that may force a company to invite a porno actress to the product-launch after-party. What about you? You may e-mail me your ideas [as well as new links for X-bit Watch] here.

By the way, if you want to see the Dawn demo on the ATI RADEON 9500, 9600, 9700 or 9800-based graphics cards, there is a way to do it. Rage3D last week issued an OpenGL wrapper which interprets code calls for NVIDIA extensions and maps them to ATI/ARB extensions, so the demo can run perfectly on all graphics cards based on graphics processors from ATI that support Pixel Shaders 2.0. Read the article and download the wrapper here. And check our older news-story for the links on the patch that “undresses” the lass.

Now let us talk about another PR action that seems to be a lot better compared to the one discussed in the first paragraph. We often use terms like "CAS Latency", "buffered DIMM" and so on, but do we always correctly understand their meanings? Corsair Memory has posted a presentation where they explain quite a lot of specific words, terms and so on we use when talking about computer memory. You may probably ask me why do I consider this as advertising, the answer is very simple: along with explanation of the ABC of RAM, Corsair tells us why its memory modules are better than others. You can see the presentation here.

The Tech Report has reviewed the first and, as far as I know, yet the only SFF PC based on the recently announced Intel 865G chipset. Guys encountered some strange issues with memory timings, but they believe that these problems will be solved by BIOS update or by utilising other memory modules. Except the issue with memory settings, the reviewers were quite happy with functionality of the box. Read their article here.