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Who exactly is to blame for nVidia's packaging SNAFU?

Written by t-readyroc
Thursday, 03 July 2008
There's been plenty of stories floating around the web today about how nVidia's currently taking it up the pooper. The main reasons behind this are their decreased earnings forecast, and their admitting fault in a notebook GPU manufacturing mistake; leading to many expected recalls. EETimes digs a bit deeper into the story to ask, "who's exactly to blame here?" The chain of PR emails goes round and round: placing blame, shifting blame, accepting blame; you name it. My take is that both nVidia and TSMC are to blame on this one, which begs the question of why nVidia's taking it all upon themselves to correct it? I guess it all depends on how bad this news ends up hurting their bottom line - it could be a long way to go to do the "right" thing.

Radeon HD4870X2 Labor Day Sale! $499!

Written by t-readyroc

Thursday, 03 July 2008

Citing unnamed sources, DigiTimes is reporting that the X2 version of the card currently taking the mainstream by storm will be available at the end of August for around $499.

"Evaluation samples are schedule to be available in mid-July, and AMD will begin shipping reference design boards with 2GB GDDR5 memory at the end of the month, the sources detailed."

Sony pulls 2.40 PS3 firmware update

Written by t-readyroc

Thursday, 03 July 2008

Sony's pulled the 2.40 update since many users were apparently experiencing hang-on-load issues. Kotaku reports that Sony is "looking into it."

"It now appears that Sony has since pulled the newest update, reverting back to firmware 2.36 as the most recent available version. We were just prompted to download version 2.36 after having skipped the most recent pair of PS3 software updates."

Shots of Fujitsu's retail Lasso product at Fudzilla

Written by t-readyroc

Thursday, 03 July 2008

As you may recall, we told you about Fujitsu-Siemens being first to market with DAMMIT's external Lasso graphics card for notebooks. Well, Fudzilla's scored some shots of the retail "card" in the wild.

"We had a chance to see the Fujitsu Siemens soon to become retail, Lasso product. The ATI’s name is called XGP and Amilo will be the first notebook to have one."

geekE news: Reviews from the web edition

Written by t-readyroc

Thursday, 03 July 2008

Notebooks

Gateway P-6831FX @ HotHardware

Asus Eee PC 901 @ DigitalTrends

Video Cards

Sapphire 1024MB Radeon HD3850 @ Bigbruin

HIS HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 @ 3DGameMan

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 280 AMP! Edition @ BenchmarkReviews

Motherboards

Zotac GeForce 8300 @ the TechReport

Audio

XtremeMac Tango X2 @ Techgage

Symphonic Designs Tube Amplifier @ TechwareLabs

Razer vs. SteelSeries Headset Comparison @ TweakTown

Etc.

PowerColor AMD TV Wonder 600 PCIe x1 @ techPowerUp

SumoSac bean bag chair @ the TechReport

Scythe Orochi CPU Cooler @ HardwareLogic

Sigma SP-700 700W PSU @ ThinkComputers

Dynapower (TL-WR543G) 54Mbps & (TL-WR642G)108Mbps Routers @ Virtual-Hideout

In Win B2 Stealth Bomber Mid Tower @ Bigbruin

AMD SB800 details surface

Written by t-readyroc

Wednesday, 02 July 2008

Thanks again to the guys at ChileHardware, we've got some more info on AMD's upcoming SB800 chipset, to be released early next year. Looks like some serious updates are in store for AMD's next southbridge, including PCIe 3.0, and support for 6Gb/s SATA & Fusion CPU power management.

A dozen Firefox 2.x holes plugged; support until 12/08

Written by t-readyroc
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
If you're still holding on to Firefox 2.x like I am, you may have already seen the update daemon do its thing today. 2.0.0.15 is now the latest version, which patches twelve holes in the browser, several of which are rated "highly critical." Hit the link for the full listing, and you can update yourself manually here. Their download page for 2.x states that the browser will be maintained until December 2008, at which point I'm guessing the auto-update feature will push you up to 3.x.

Pro-clockers Cyber Snipa contest

Written by t-readyroc

Wednesday, 02 July 2008

Pro-Clockers is giving away some games and some gear to play them with, care of Cyber Snipa. Just need three forum posts along with one in the contest thread.

"Two lucky winners will win a total of eight items (5 to first place and 3 to second place) sponsored by Cyber Snipa. And to begin fragging with the new gear Pro-Clockers will be sponsoring the first winner with copies of COD4 and GoW and second with a copy of COD4."

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