by Grigoriy Gubankov
07/30/2003 | 03:53 PM
The Summer is hot and shiny in all parts of the big world, there are holidays, parties and laziness as the main reasons why almost nothing interesting appears on the World Wide Web, but there are still things that attracted my attention and that I definitely want to share with you.
<%BANNER[article]%>Only a true, diehard, dyed-in-the-wool graphics enthusiast can truly appreciate the wonder of Siggraph, Tom’s Hardware says in their Siggraph 2003 coverage. They also note that from a dazzling event for graphics enthusiasts the Siggraph turns into a trade-show with world’s biggest companies showing their innovations. Frankly, everything is not that bad, there are still a lot of things to see there and in a coverage here.
For all those who have been keeping an eye on AMD 64-bit technology for a while, I would suggest to bookmark AMDBoard.com’s Opteron Special Live News over here and always stay updated on almost everything related to AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 processors.
The unreleased and the last of the legendary 3dfx family of 3D graphics cards got into hands of boys from NextHardware.com web-site. The graphics processor code-named Rampage and a product that has never seen the light of the say – the 3dfx Spectre – are exposed two and a half years after the death of the emperor over here. The journalists also promise some performance figures for the Rampage, but until now you can look on the screenshots from the original Unreal Tournament here.
Pay attention to the sizes of the 3dfx Spectre masterpiece. The card is shorter compared to the also never-released Voodoo5 6000, but it is still a very large one, just like the recently released GeForce FX 5900 Ultra is.
If you are experiencing problems with a chipset from NVIDIA, a company that acquired 3dfx in late 2000, you should probably download the latest version of nForce unified drivers here.
There is another company that grabbed a living legend and that is actually well-known for such kind of deals. I talk about Creative Technology who acquired 3Dlabs last year. From the very beginning the co promised to launch a consumer-oriented product line-up based on 3Dlabs’ technology, though, it took it a year to unveil a single graphics card powered by 3Dlabs P9A VPU. Is the Creative Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect a good performer in games or graphics applications? Head over this German web-site for more information or click here to read the article in English.