Acer Predator Aspire G7700

While Dell has APS and Alienware, Acer announced its Predator series gaming desktop computers. The Acer Predator, also known as Aspire G7700, is powered by Intel Core 2 Extreme or Core 2 Quad processors, nVIDIA nFoce 780i SLi chipset, up to 8GB of memory, up to 1TB of hard drive capacity. You can get up to three nVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX graphic cards or two GeForece 8800 GT.

Other features include TV tuner, Blu-ray Super multi burner, WiFi 802.11b/g, integrated card reader and optional Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum.

Quatatition:itechnews.net

ATI Catalyst 8.5 announced

ATI announced new driver ATI Catalyst 8.5 for Windows Vista, XP ve Linux platform ATI's vga .
release notes about Catalyst 8.5 :

* Call of Juarez DX10 – ATI Radeon HD 3000 series vga %12 performance increase
* Lost Planet DX10 – ATI Radeon HD 3000 series vga between 5% - 35% performance increase
* World in Conflict DX10 – Radeon 3600 ve 3800 series 25% performance increase. Radeon 3870X2'de more than increase
* Stalker DX9 – if HDR and DX9 is enable %20-%50 performance increases. All Radeon 3800 series vga

ID Software : Doom IV coming ...

John Carmack and his team announces to DOOM IV . DOOM 3 was made by IDTech's last game.Normally IDTech develop game engines for games.They develop new game engine .So , with new game engine and physic motor maybe Quake 5 will come ..

Call of Duty 5 announced by Activision

Next Generation is reporting that the next addition to Activision's excellent shooter franchise will hit six platforms. The information was revealed during the publisher's recent earnings call. Publishing president and CEO Mike Griffith commented:

For Call of Duty, we're bringing the intensity of the recent Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare title to yet a new military theater to engage our significantly larger userbase which nearly doubled last year"

The new Call of Duty game is said to be coming later this financial year to PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, Nintendo DS and PS2. It was also noted that Infinity Ward will be releasing more downloadable content for Call of Duty 4 in the future. This news will surely please those gamers that delight in CoD4's online play. No mention was made as to whether the CoD4 DLC would be coming to platforms beyond the PS3 and Xbox 360 this time around.

Asus motherboard sold with embedded Linux and web browser

Asus anounced before high level motherboard has Asus Express Gate System (embedded Linux and Web browser ) instead of BIOS .Now , asus will integrate this system whole motherboard . This is nice improvement for Linux grow up ..

Express Gate is meant to be complementary to your traditional operating system for when you want to surf the Internet without fear of Windows attacks and when you don't want to wait for your computer to turn on. ASUS Express Gate also consumes less power than using a traditional operating system

Express Gate consists of two modules: the Core Engine (CE) and the Virtual Appliance Environment (VAE). The Core Engine is a "proprietary real-time operating environment" that is integrated inside the BIOS flash chip. The Core Engine can be as small as 64KB so that it can embed into current-generation BIOS flash chips. This Core Engine is made up of a multi-threaded operating system (Linux), a networking stack, and a set of drivers (LAN, USB, video, and audio).

To speed up the boot time, the Express Gate only does a minimized POST to initialize critical hardware, prepare the environment for the Core Engine, and then enter the Core Engine. This is opposed to a full-blown desktop BIOS POST that would generally take much longer.
Quatation : Phoronix.com

AMD withdraw Ferrari Sponsor Agreement

Amd pay over 2 figure million dollars for appear in Ferrari F1 car.In coming news end of this year , Amd won't make over aggrement.
This aggrement made with Ferrari since ex director Henry Richard was Amd director.Some source says this sponsor aggrement price for amd between 10 and 20 milion dollars.So, this is big money for Amd .

NVIDIA ForceWare 175.16 WHQL drivers

NVIDIA issued new whql drivers which support whole video graphic cards.This driver fixes some game performance troubles and support PureVideo HD for 9800 GX2,9800GTX, 9600GT and 9600GSO
Windows XP for 32 bit:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_175.16_whql.html

Windows Vista for 32 bit:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_175.16_whql.html

Windows Vista for 64 bit:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_175.16_whql.html