TweakTown New Content Alert for June 24th 2008
 

NEW CONTENT (Visual) - XFX GeForce GTX 260 XXX Edition

QUOTE: "I'm looking forward to seeing how the GTX 260 fairs in this extremely competitive graphics
card market, and hopefully its cheaper price tag can win us over. The graphics card market has
never been this hot before, and while AMD are fighting the good fight to take the market share
crown back, NVIDIA is battling them off with sticks at the moment.

While looking at how the GTX 260 XXX goes against the GTX 280 XXX, we will see how it also
compares against the 9800 GTX and 9800 GX2 to see if the price drop affects performance much."



NEW CONTENT (Digital Lounge) - Hands On With BD Live

QUOTE: "Thanks to Sony Pictures, I recently had a chance to play with Blu-ray's fancy new BD Live
(formerly known as "Profile 2.0") system. The first Blu-ray disc on the Australian market to come
with such a feature - Men In Black, streets on Wednesday 25th June (look for my in-depth review
within the next few days).

Keep in mind however, there are very few Blu-ray players on the market that come BD Live equipped;
essentially it means that a player needs an ethernet port, and persistent flash storage of at
least 1GB. Of course, most Australians with a Blu-ray player have a PlayStation 3, which became BD
Live equipped earlier this year, and indeed I sampled BD Live using a PlayStation 3."



NEW CONTENT (Visual) - XFX GeForce GTX 280 XXX Edition

QUOTE: "If the GTX 280 AMP! Edition from ZOTAC wasn't enough MHz for you, we might have the card
for you today. XFX is back once again, carrying with it some pretty mean speeds on the new GTX 280
XXX Edition.

While the XFX GTX 280 does come in 30MHz lower on the core compared to the ZOTAC offering, it does
carry with it a significantly higher 200MHz DDR memory clock. Let's find out if that makes up for
the reduced core speed."



NEW CONTENT (Software) - ATI Catalyst 8.6 Analysis - XP & Vista

QUOTE: "We've been so busy with the new HD 4800 series of cards that I
honestly thought I would never get the time to really look at what's going on with the latest
Catalyst release. With some good performance promises this time around, we'll have to see how the
new driver set goes on our mighty test bed.

From next month we might have to begin to mix it up once again with the inclusion of the HD 4800
series, but for now let's see how the established HD 3800 series go."