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Partnership With BanglaGunMen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:28:00 +0000

Tomorrows Gaming is Proud to announce that we recently have bought a small new Bangladeshi concept gaming forum named "BanglaGunMen".

Due to time management and the excessive maintainability we have decided to merge BanglaGunMen with the official Tomorrows Gaming Forum so that its easier for members to sort things out and not to struggle.

An Announcement made by Admin from BGM, "THE GAME" reads as follows,

Quote:

PARTNERSHIP WITH TOMORROWS GAMING

Dear All, Tomorrows Gaming Has Bought BanglaGunMen, As a Result for the best we have closed this forum and merged with Tomorrows Gaming.
VISIT OUR NEW FORUM @: http://forums.tomorrowsgaming.com/ Thanks for staying with us and see you there.
THE GAME

BANGLAGUNMEN TEAM

Thanks to BanglaGunMen Team for all their support through the process.
Tomorrows Gaming Team.

PochaDim & Tomorrows Gaming™ Partnership

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:14:00 +0000

Since the beginning we have had affiliations.
Today we are most proud to announce not just a affiliation but a New Partnership with POCHADIM™, a well renown online community of Bangladesh.

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The Tomorrows Gamers & The PochaDims Collide; & so starts the dawn of a new era, a new step for both Tomorrows Gaming™ and PochaDim, It starts here.

The Tomorrows Gamers welcome everyone from PochaDim here to join our community and feel free to discuss and seek help on any topic.

PochaDim is a friendly community with a very positive attitude and we encourage all our members to Join PochaDim, to Share & Discuss & become a part of the movement.

The two of us will be working together in new projects that will be reverent and targeted mainly at the Gamers and Tech enthusiasts of Bangladesh.

Special thanks to Shaggy and every one at PochaDim.com for making this happen.

Kind Regards,
Tomorrows Gaming & PochaDim

www.tomorrowsgaming.com - www.pochadim.com

The 9800GX2 is faster and sexier,but its high price tag might make you think twice before buying it

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:00:00 +0000

After much hypothesis ,Nvidia finally kicks off its much anticipated 9800GX2,which according to the green team is aimed towards hardcore gamers who wants the most out of their GPU, creating a new level of visual realism packed with unmatched performance without compromising quality.As always,TG is always here to serve you with the best review, supplemented with just the information you need to know .So,before we jump onto the card's actual performance tests,lets see what Nvidia says about their product :

NVIDIA® GeForce® 9 Series GPUs turn your PC into a powerful and interactive entertainment system, with features designed to enhance every aspect of visual computing on a PC. From playing the latest, graphics-intensive games, to editing and watching HD videos, to viewing photos and getting 3D directions, GeForce 9 Series GPUs are essential for a visually immersive, optimized PC experience.

KEY FEATURES:

Resolutions up to 2560 X 1600 allow for extreme HD gaming

- PureVideo® HD technology provides a premium HD DVD or Blu-ray movie viewing

- HybridPower™* technology offers exceptional graphics performance and power savings for everyday needs

- SLI® technology and PCIe 2.0 compatibility guarantee amazing performance scaling and ultra fast data transfers

- The perfect price and performance combination to get the most bang for your buck

*Only available on select 9 series models

SPECIFICATIONS:

Now lets move onto the main review:

The real countdown:9800GX2 is definitely faster ,but how much?

Imagine what will happen if two 8800GT,with slightly increased clock rates ,are sandwiched in a single card ?You will get something called "9800GX2".If you already own a 8800GT,this thing is hard to miss that 9800GX2 is actually two 8800GT cores running on a single board .Now what can this do for you ?A lot indeed .First of all,you get the opportunity to run SLI on a single PCI express slot,even id you dont have Nforce Motherboard .Even if you have two slots ,but one of them is filled up already ..or there is not enough room left over your slot due to a external sound accelarator ..you still get two 8800GT,with a great price ,and mind you what i said at first ,"They are clocked slighly faster ".

After taking a close look at its "Bright" and "Dark" sides we will head forward to our benchmark tests:

The Bright:

1.Incredible overclocking possiblity
2.Sounds calm and quite
3.HDMI and SLI capable
4.Faster than 8800GT SLI
5.SLI on a single slot

The dark:

1.Massive power usage .
2.You might need to sell your kidney to buy this card (580$-650$)

The benchmarks:

For benchmark tests we choose the XFX Geforce 9800GX2
(Benchmark source:www.bjorn3d.com)

TEST MACHINE:

(Benchmark source:www.bjorn3d.com)

The system that is being used for testing is a what is called a real world system. That means it's in a case, it has a security suite, instant messenger, and various other software that a normal user would use on their machine. To me, reviewing on what I call a real world machine is very important to me. Just ask yourself, when was the last time that you played a game or used your machine daily that was spread all over a bench and not running any security software at all? Don’t think very many of you do.

Test Platform
Processor	Intel QX9650 @ 4GHz
Motherboard	ASUS P5E3 Deluxe, BIOS 1001
Memory	4GB of Corsair DDR 3 12800 @ 1600MHz
Drive(s)	2 – Seagate 7200.11 1TB Barracuda 1 - Seagte 7200.10 750GB
Graphics	Video Card # 1: XFX® GeForce® 9800GX2 running ForceWare 174.53 64-bit Video Card # 2: XFX® GeForce® 8800 Ultra XXX running ForceWare 169.21 64-bit WHQL
Cooling	CoolIT Freezone
Power Supply	PC Power and Cooling 1200
Display	Dell 2707 FPW
Case	Lian-Li 2000B Plus
Operating System	Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

At this stage of the game, high-end graphic cards are meant to be run at 1920x1200 or higher resolution. Running them at a lower resolution is rarely needed and I have found only one game. That game being Crysis and that one I run daily at 1600x1200 instead of 1920x1200 and will bench it at the 1600x1200 resolution. The card we are going to test it against is a XFX 8800 Ultra XXX. I had hoped to have an ATI X2 card to compare to but could not get one in time. From what we have seen on the web from other sites the 8800 Ultra XXX is still a faster card than the 3870X2 so this should be a good battle to see if the 9800GX2 is the new king of the hill.

Comparative Specifications
Specification	XFX 9800GX2	XFX 8800 Ultra XXX
Memory	1024 MB	768 MB
Memory Clock	2.0 GHz	2.0 GHz
Stream Processors	256	128
Shader Clock	1500 MHz	1667 MHz
Clock Rate	600 MHz	675 MHz

Synthetic Benchmarks & Games
3DMark06 v. 1.10
Company of Heroes v. 1.71 DX 10
Crysis v. 1.2 DX 10
World in Conflict DX 10
F.E.A.R. v 1.08
Half Life Lost Coast

Overclocking

Overclocked Specifications
Specification	XFX 9800GX2
Memory Clock	2.106 GHz
Shader Clock	1652 MHz
Clock Rate	661 MHz

Final tests:
(Benchmark source:www.bjorn3d.com)

POWER

To measure the power draw I left the machine at idle with the monitor off. Then, I turned on the monitor, started the Crysis benchmark, and shut off the monitor to measure load levels. All test readings where taken from the wattage draw reading on my battery backup.

Power Draw
	Idle	Load
XFX 9800GX2	368	501

TEMPS

The temps readings are being taken from RivaTuner 2.08. The temps where taken at idle and then thru the Crysis benchmark.

Temperature
Specification	Idle	Load
Core 1	65º C	74ºC
Core 2	67ºC	75ºC

VIDEO PLAYBACK

To look at the how well the graphics card engine ran 1080p videos I put it up against a 7800 512 GTX and watched Hi-Def videos keeping track of overall CPU usage percentage on my machine. I looked at over 10 different videos on both cards, took scores, and came up with the following CPU average.

Video Playback
	Avg. CPU Usage
XFX 9800GX2	13%
7800 GTX 512MB	37%

The final thoughts:

The 9800GX2 does what it is supposed to do.Its faster,more massive ,equipped with more sophisticated technologies ,but all of that comes with a bit "sky high" price.While it does not blow away its close rivals in all benchmarks,it does set new promises .No doubt, it will take a long time until we (Bangladeshis) can have this card delivered to our hands ,it will be a great deal for gamers that cant compromise image quality in games like Crysis and Assassin's creed and fall under the category of "money no matter" kind of person.However ,it is cheaper than two 8800GT,isnt it ?

The Upcoming Battle : CPU vs GPU

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:13:00 +0000

As you have read in one of my previous posts, there'll be a huge war between CPU and GPU regarding Physics in games. But that's not all.

As CPUs get more and more cores and become more efficient in Ray Tracing, they will try to overthrow GPUs out of the market.
On the other hand, GPUs are becoming more and more General Purpose (GPGPU) and things like CUDA (on nVIdia GeForce 8 or later) are already challenging CPU. Nvidia launched the APX2500, a system-on-a-chip product that uses an ARM11 core for CPU-type computing and an ULP GeForce for the rest of the system.

Now-a-days, Ray Tracing is really getting some attention due to Intel's Larrabee. Recently, nVidia commented on Ray Tracing. They believe that rasterization will not be overthrown by ray tracing and that it will always be preferred cause of its speed advantage. However, they also believe ray tracing will make its place in time and a combination rendering is the way to go and their GPGPUs will be able to handle both (ray tracing through CUDA).

"Software Rendering!" Rings any bells? Remember how once upon a time, we used to play many newer games using this? Hold you breath. This might make a comeback! A direct comment from the Tim Sweeney (Unreal creator and a member of MS DirectX Advisory Board):

Rendering can be done on the CPU. As soon as we have enough CPU cores and better vector support, these schemes might get more practical for games. And: As GPUs become more general, you will have the possibility of writing a rendering engine that runs directly on the GPU and bypasses DirectX as well as the graphics pipeline. For example, you can write a render in CUDA and run it on Nvidia hardware, bypassing all of their rasterization and everything else.
All a software renderer really does is input some scene data, your position of objects, texture maps and things like that - while the output is just a rectangular grid of pixels. You can use different techniques to generate this grid. You don’t have to use the GPU rasterizer to achieve this goal.

This very same thing is also true for GPUs as they are similarly, day by day, gaining the ability to preform more CPU-like operations. When GPGPUs will understand C++, you'll be able to run OS like Linux entirely on GPU.

So in the end, the hard-line between the CPU and GPU will start to fade and they will simply try to overthrow each other out of the market.

Should you buy 9600GT, the new budget-mainstream card from nVidia?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:00:00 +0000

The answer actually depends on one single point. Money!

nVidia GeForce 9600GT is the new main-stream (budget) card. It uses a G94 processor, has 512MB VRAM and lacks direct X 10.1 support unlike many expected.
Therefore, this has very little to offer feature-wise when compared with G92 (8800GT).

nVidia GeForce 9600GT from BFG (OC version)

Lets first focus on the performance of nVidia 9600GT.
I wont bother about the FPS benchmark images as they are available in almost every tech-news site. I would rather try to summarize the whole thing and let you guys know what is the best thing to do.

9600GT is:

almost equal to (but always below of) 8800GT on lower resolutions (<1600).
slightly below or equal to ATI Radeon HD 3870 (without AA)
better than Radeon HD 3870 (with AA)

Price range of:

9600GT is $169-$189
8800GT is $199-$200+
Radeon 3870 is ~$180

Now, if you think about it carefully, you should try to buy a 8800GT (the 512MB one; not the one with 256MB VRAM) if you can.
If you are really short on budget, can't afford $20-$30 more, go for 9600GT.
And finally, there's not much reason to go for 3870 unless you want DX 10.1 support.

On a side note, 9800GTX will be released next month (followed by a 9800GT) and you can blow out any 8800GTX with it for a mere $599.

Fate of Future Gaming

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:13:00 +0000

As this is my first blog here, I'd like to introduce myself just a little.
I go by the nick CvP, age is 21 and I study CSE in North South University.
Please feel free to contact me if needed. You can use my email address but it is better to use pm/forums of TomorrowsGaming. Advanced thanks for reading my blogs.

Fate of Tomorrows Gaming
(no pun intended!)

A lot of things have been happening in gaming world lately esp in the physics area which is very tightly attached to the fate of tomorrows gaming.

The Story So Far:
Some times ago, it was AGEIA (physX) and Havok (Havok Physics or HavokFX)..two unique solutions to implementing physics in games.

physX of AGEIA is based of their own code-set- physX SDK, and a discreet Physics Processing Unit (PPU) called physX card.
HavokFX is totally about using existing (and future) GPU to process physics (through the general concept of GPGPU).

Havok and AGEIA

physX is superior to HavokFX. Havok could only do "eye-candy" physics i.e. things that only appeared visually, no effect on gameplay/world. On the other hand, AGEIA's dedicated PPU could process physics that effect the real gameworld. It is true that those calculations could have been done in the CPU, but that kills the frame-rate as seen in Unreal Tournament 3 physX enabled maps. CPU is not suited for something massively parallel calculation like physics calculation.
While a GPU could handle it, it'd need to communicate back-and-forth with the CPU. But given the nature of CPU-GPU interconnections, GPU is (or was?) not suited to that.
By the way, Source engine also uses Havok, but a hugely customized version.

Physics in Valve's Source Engine

While Havok was getting more market due to their "cheap" way, AGEIA was struggling as less developers were embracing them due to the fact people really don't want to buy another piece of extra card. However, AGEIA secured a BIG market when EPIC used AGEIA physX in their Unreal Engine 3. If you don't know, games like BioShock, Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War, American Army all used UE3 and a lot of (different kind of) developers bought UE3 for their up coming games.

LightHouse: One of UT3's physX enabled map
As most of the walls are breakable, it results in a new type of gameplay!

nVidia and ATi
nVidia and ATi, on the other hand, both have been boasting about processing physics in their GPU. The idea was mainly to have SLi/CrossFire between three (or two) cards; two (or one) for gfx processing and one entirely for physics. They both were looking highly of Havok; their savior.

AMD
Then something weird happened. Even if Intel was wipping floor with AMD in desktop processor scenario, AMD bought ATi; with a huge risk but with a huge possibility also. This gave AMD the firepower to go for something more unified- CPU+GPU (i.e. their Fusion project). They also announced of a weird crossfire between their upcoming integrated GPU and discreet GPU. And they are indeed, looking at the physics field.

this is what people use to refer AMD/ATi combination!

Intel
While AMD was securing this field, Intel got one step ahead! They acquired Havok! As Intel was in discreet GPU business a long ago, has the largest GPU market share (with their integrated gfx) and rumored to come back to GPU business in up coming years, all they were missing is physics. And they just secured that part.

It is only natural that Intel wants a good way to process physics of games in their processors i.e. their Larrabee (GPU+PPU in x86 architecture) project.

nVidia
Now if you were in nVidia's position, all these news will scare you.

Intel : CPU, GPU (integrated & discreet), PPU (not discreet), Motherboard chipset
AMD : CPU, GPU (integrated & discreet), PPU (may be in future), Motherboard chipset
Havok, the physics on GPU project is dead

Where is the place of nVidia in this new scenario?

Therefore, nVidia had to do something..and you guessed it right- they acquired the only thing left: AGEIA!
nVidia is now planning to enable physX to be processed on ANY GeForce 8 series card by using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), a C like programing lingo that can turn a GeForce 8 GPU to GPGPU. It is still uncertain whether nVidia will provide discreet PPU like AGEIA did. However, with their current plan, it seems they wont.
A few days ago nVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said,

"We're working toward the physics-engine-to-CUDA port as we speak. And we intend to throw a lot of resources at it. PhysX on CUDA is just going to be a software download. Every single GPU that is CUDA-enabled will be able to run the physics engine when it comes."

???
Among all these major players, we are missing one, aint we? Where is the software giant Microsoft? Well, they will play a vital role in this physics game.
If you are still now getting it, it is their DirectX- the most used, de facto standard game development API. Microsoft has always helped gaming through DirectX. It provides a easy, widely used way to develop games. It also standardizes the key features as you can see, all gfx cards now boasts about supporting DirectX.

It is rumored that Microsoft will include some sort of DirectPhysics just like Direct 3d/Draw/Sound/Music/Input/Play. And they should. Without it, things will turn nasty.

The Story of the Future:
Physics will indeed play a vital role in tomorrows gaming. However, what will happen to physics itself? Consider this situation:

Intel with its Larrabee GPU+PPU
nVidia with its GeForce + physX on CUDA
DAAMIT with something on their own

It is very much clear these physics SDK/instructions/process wont be compatible with each other. nVidia got a head-start with physX implemented in several games and physX on CUDA. But given Intel's current records, if their Larrabee can beat GeForce, they can just throw out nVidia from the market. Forget not DAAMIT! They are the cornered mou...err...tiger.

The only solution I see is a DirectPhysics from Microsoft.
However, that wont happen before DirectX 11 which is due in 2009 (rumor though!).
If they all go their own way instead of standardizing things, it is a bad news for us, the gamers.

DirectX 11 : Will have DirectPhysics?

The fate of tomorrows gaming is still uncertain...

Windows Vista -Is It Ready For Gaming ?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:27:00 +0000

Gaming. Pastime for some, necessity for others. Yes, gaming is an integral part of everyday life on the PC and Vista promises to be a great OS for the job. It is quite obvious that Direcx10 will provide a dramatic boost for next gen games .But what about today and yesterday? Just because newer games arrive ,it isn’t quite expected that games only few years old will be left to eat dust in the garbage .Is vista fully baked for gaming or only a half cooked food that will leave you disappointed ?Lets find out !

The number of “Directx10 only games” is still quite rare. Games like Crysis ,Bioshock ,company of heroes are optimized for Directx10 ,but they do not drop support for Directx9.DX10 enabled Games obviously look finer in vista, but do they also run faster ?Read on ...

Let’s take a deep look. Windows vista is the first ever windows that is supplemented with a unique game explorer that keeps track of your already installed games ,shows their rating and also helps you update them periodically. It is also the first windows to use a separate branding for games called “Games for windows”. So far, sounds good .Both nvidia and Ati have already shipped DX10 enabled GPUs and completely rewritten their drivers for Microsoft s newest baby. The atmosphere is ready and so are the gamers. And be noted,DirectX10 is a vista exclusive.

(Vista game explorer automatically organizes your installed games)

We first evaluated how DX10 enabled games performed under vista compared to XP.Then also took a look at the performance of DX9 games in vista compared to xp.We tried to find out ,how much performance varied under these two platforms .To be honest, the results were not quite groundbreaking for vista lovers…

Now first find out what DX10 can do for us and what DX9 can’t:
Directx 9 vs. Directx 10:
As mentioned before,DirectX 10 is exclusive to Windows Vista and is not slated to be supported by any other platform. This will ensure that the next-gen games will be available on Windows Vista before any other platform.
So how much better DirectX 10 is in comparison to DirectX 9? check these screenshots for blowing your mind.

(Age of conan DX9)

(Age of conan DX10)

(Microsoft Flight simulator DX9)

(Microsoft flight simulator DX10)

(Crysis)

Test for DX9 games:
Test machine:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Conroe 65 nm, 2.93 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache)
Motherboard :Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
Chipset: Intel P965, 82801HR (ICH8), BIOS: F8
Common Hardware
RAM: 2x 1024 MB DDR2-800 (CL 3.0-4-3-9)
Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 XMS6403v1.1
Graphics Card: HIS Radeon X1900XTX IceQ3
GPU: ATI X1900XTX (650 MHz)
RAM: 512 MB GDDR3 (1550 MHz)
System Hard Drive: 1x 150 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150
Western Digital WD1500ADFD
Data Hard Drive: 1x 150 GB 10.000 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/150
Western Digital WD1500ADFD
DVD-ROM: Teac DV-W50D

Benchmark:
Higher numbers indicate better performance.Calculations are based on Frame per second(FPS)

Benchmark image source:www.tomshardware.com
Test for DX10 games:
Test machine:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz) LGA775

- X2 1024MB Corsair XMS PC3-10600 CAS7 Module(s)

- ASUS P5E3 Deluxe (Intel X38)

- OCZ GameXStream (700 watt)

- Seagate 500GB 7200RPM (Serial ATA II)

- Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX (768MB)
- ATI Radeon HD 2900XT (512MB

Benchmark:
Higher numbers indicate better performance.Calculations are based on Frame per second(FPS)

Crysis makes the most of DX10 visual effects so we chose it for our benchmark:

Benhmark image source:www.techspot.com

We were told Crysis would perform better in Vista but this apparently excluded DX10 performance as both the 8800 GTX and Radeon HD 2900XT were slower in Vista/DX10 when compared to XP/DX9. While the GeForce 8800 GTX only suffers from a small performance loss the Radeon HD 2900XT is completely killed off in Vista. Therefore we recommend anyone running a Radeon HD 2900XT to stick to XP

Final Thoughts:

It may seem like our testing with gaming performance in Vista all resulted in a feeling of doom and gloom, but don't let that scare you off just yet. I think we all expected there to be some initial growing pains with the Vista operating system and PC gaming simply because of the dramatic shift in driver technology that had to take place; I just don't think we expected it to be this bad. This may change as driver revisions are updated through the comings months, so we'll definitely be keeping an eye on both companies progress.

For now, gamers that were interested in running off to get a copy of Windows Vista, I'd caution you to take a minute and contemplate. Gaming under Vista is definitely possible and if you're comfortable with some slight performance drops for now while taking advantage of Vista's other new features, then a move to Vista sooner rather than later should be considered. If gaming and gaming performance is your only metric for your PC, then I'd definitely hold out on upgrading until AMD and NVIDIA have their software perfected.

Mafia MP Mod

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:01:00 +0000

Mafia Goes Multiplayer

From the releasing date of Mafia it’s been one of the Top Games of All Time. Based between the early and late 30's timeline on the fictional city of Lost Haven; Mafia was the story of a life of a simple man, from just another guy in the crowd to getting involved in the mafia and reaching to the top; and finally to a practical ending where it was all worth nothing. The story is considered as one of the best storylines of all time. At the end of he game the gamer is left with a whole open city all by their self’s and with some side missions. But how many of us has felt it as boring as any other third person roleplay game of the same genre?

"Never Play Alone" is the catchphrase theme of the new Mafia Mod MAFIA-MP, where MP stands For Multilayer which enables players to play online competing against each other. Its not revealed yet how the actual online game play and server features will be but the idea is much like GTA SA MP Mod that allows the player to play against players all over the globe on either official or personal servers running on different game styles, themes & mods both personal and official.

The Mod is currently under its final stages of development and was due to be released at the end of December 2007, but because of some final stage development issues and other fixes the release date has been canceled and currently under hold. Mod is being developed by a team of 7 who are from Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Finland & Sweden. The Leader programmer is Mats who is from Norway.

You can visit there website at for a more detailed insight information

http://mafia-mp.com/

Free Flash Games: TV Shows

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:54:00 +0000

There has been lots of flash games over the years based on TV shows, Today we review 2 very addictive flash games, Both are free and are based on 2 most popular TV shows.

Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

This Fantastic flash Game resembling the exact gameplay of famous TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire The Game features 15 random questions, that you must answer between a time limit. You will have 3 lifelines, 50-50, Audience Vote & Phone a Friend. Like the Tv show you will have 3 checkpoints, The Game is very nicely designed, with its matching interface & with all original Tv show soundtracks it creates a enjoyable environment . Thanks to he the random question selection you will never get the same question twice, questions get harder each time you get closer and closer to the million dollars. A must play addictive game.

PLAY

DEAL OR NO DEAL

Based on the Game DEAL or No DEAL, is a fairly nice game with all original soundtracks and likely interface. Like the TV show you start off with selecting one of the 26 briefcases. Among the cases there is one case that has the $1000,000. You pick out the briefcases one by one and after every round the banker will call and make you an offer depending on your gameplay, if you take out the largest amounts first you are more likely to get a low offer from the banker. Its up to you if you wish to continue or make a deal & settle with the money that the banker offers you. Most of the times you will get lot more than the banker offers but some times you just might run out of luck and get nothing. Overall a very well designed game that offers you a addictive gameplay that wont bore you any time soon.

PLAY

Top 8 Email Services of 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:47:00 +0000

We done a brief review and rated the top 8 free email services of 2007. All ratings are made depending on the provided support, security, features, interface & storage.

1.Yahoo! Mail – Free Email Service

Yahoo mail is a very easy to use reliable email service offered by Yahoo!. It came on top because its very fast, Rich Text/HTML Editor & has a very nice spam filter that keep away all your spam mails. It uses Norton Antivirus to clean all your attachments. Other features include mobile alert, unlimited storage*, unique email filters etc, and you also get to use your yahoo ID in Yahoo Messenger.

Visit Yahoo Mail

2.Gmail – Free Email Service

Googles approach of a free mail service offering astonishing 5GB Mail storage. With a very simple but smart interface it allows you to nicely sort out all your mails & attachments; it also has a pretty good spam filter that gets rid of almost all the spam on your mail box. Intergraded with Googles own web based chat program so you can chat with all your contacts while checking the mails or browsing the net. Other features include IMAP, POP, Free Mail Forwarding, Vacation Response etc. Usually you need a Gmail invite to open a Gmail Account. For a free service and all of its features it’s subsequent to Yahoo.

Visit Gmail

3.Inbox Mail – Free Email Service

Like Gmail Inbox offers its users 5GB of storage. Users can access their mail either via web or POP in your mail program. It’s fast has a very solid spam protection so you don’t have to worry about any spam mails, The interface is very refined and looks more like a mix of Yahoo! & Hotmail. Unfortunately Inbox doesn’t support IMAP and lacks uses of encrypted mail , digital signatures and most of all no smart folder options.

Visit Inbox

4.AIM Mail – Free Email Service

AIM is the free email service from AOL. It offers its users unlimited storage* & includes a stable built in spam protection system. Its rich interface make it stand out from most other email services. AIM supports IMAP and POP & you can also use it for AIM chat messenger. AIM lacks smart folder options.

Visit AIM Mail

5.Windows Live Hotmail – Free Email Service

Hotmail is a free email service from Microsoft that gives you 5GB of space, Spam protection & a glamorous easy to use interface. You can integrate your email account with Windows Live Messenger. It lacks of folder options & also doesn’t supports IMAP & POP.

Visit Hotmail

6.My Way Mail – Free Email Service

My Way is a fresh mail service that offers you 125MB of storage, normal spam protection and a one click access to Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL etc. My Way doesn’t have any Ads or Popups and has a interface similar to Yahoo! Doesn’t support IMAP or POP.

Visit MyWay

7. Crawler Mail – Free Email Service

Crawler is easy to use email service with 5GB of storage. With its plain but effectual interface its easy to manage your account & mails. Supports POP3 & SMPT access, also has Smart Folder organizing features. Other crawler features include Attachments upto 20MB, normal & efficient spam protection.

Visit Crawler

8. Goowy Mail – Free Email Service

Goowy is a virtual desktop email at the web. The interface is very glamorous and easy to use. Has its own spam /junk mail folder and all your messages are nicely organize able by groups. Unfortunately it only offers you about 100MB of space and no POP or IMAP support. But its worth a try for those normal email users who don’t want much space.

Visit Goowy

AGP's Last Stand: HD3850XT

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:52:00 +0000

AGP gets one last boost up, introducing the New HD3850XT AGP 8X

Featuring DX 10.1 Support; this is the world’s most powerful AGP card.

PowerColor is the first partner to list HD 3800 card for AGP. The AGP version of HD 3850 PCS will work at lower clocks when compared to the PCI-Express version. HD3850 PCS works at 720 MHz for the core and 900 MHz for memory (1800 MHz effective). The AGP version works at more modest 668 MHz for the core and 828 MHz (1656 MHz effective) for 512MB of GDDR3 memory. Unlike the PCI-Express version, this card lacks Crossfire connectors, and has a heatsink that covers memory modules.

After the arrival of PCI-Express now a days the market is mainly dominated by CrossFire & SLI. But still a large part of the market is owned by AGP cards, Its certain that the AGP is dying and has few breaths left, still as the top bandwidth speeds of the 8x AGP slot haven’t been reached yet users that use a 32bit PC system or simply that aren’t too keen of upgrading their old machine would love to get every bit of juice out of it.

Its now certain that in the last stand of the AGP would be fought using HD3850XT; which has been proven to be more powerful than the GeForce 8800GT itself! This would be the most powerful AGP card in the world. Its currently being parallel imported in Europe, South Pacific and is available from as low as 200Euro or $300 NZ

www.MovieForumz.com Returns-Site Restart

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:05:00 +0000

MovieForumz has just come back online; it’s just few days before Christmas that they appear fully functional and better than ever. “Very happy to get the best Christmas Present” as the members cheer. The whole database is intact including the previous posts, usernames, profiles information etc & absolutely nothing has been changed. On our previous story you have learned about the shutdown of MovieForumz. As stated the reason for the shutdown was a suspicious looking cease and desist letter from the MPAA. Further rumors spread across the net including this interesting one “Owner Sold Out”. On day 4 of shutdown specific members were sent emails from a moderator of the forum regarding invitations to join 2 new free online movie forums that are suppose to take place of MovieForumz, For security reasons we can not release any names or address.

Everything still seem to be in dark as nothing has been confirmed yet. The owner Brian Holt (A.K.A. Rouier and Pers Eshuam) has records of scamming peoples money with scams like NGSERVERS and other Gaming and Porn scams before he had started MovieForumz. People have started to believe that there is some one else behind the entire incident rather than the MPAA. Its almost certain if the MPAA was behind this MovieForumz wouldn’t be Restarted again.

They currently have 184,753+ Members & have restricted registration of new members.

Forum Released!! Join Today!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:33:00 +0000

For the past few months you have seen us very inactive in the Groups & Blogs, Apologize but we didn’t have the time & man power to update even our most relevant possessions.

We have recently been focusing most of our times on our new forum, after almost 10 weeks of hard effort testing all the security, errors, bug fixes, and installing new add-ons we have developed our latest and foremost of all; We Present to you The Tomorrows Gaming Community forums!! Its still on Beta. Why Join ? well why not? Offering more than 20 different forums on subject to posts,

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www.MOVIEFORUMZ.com Shut Down!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:29:00 +0000

Movie Forumz probably the worlds largest online pirate movie’s website or forums, has been taken down by the MPAA( Motion Pictures Association of America), The Site was famous for its huge collection of links to latest, new and old movies, Tv shows and other copyright content that is usually uploaded into Stage6, Youtube, Google Videos, Megavideos, Dailymotion etc by its member and staff. Months before there had been rumors among the members and the net that FBI had hacked Movie Forumz multiple times till the Admin had changed the servers. The site was officially closed at 29th November. Its said to be that the site had more than half a million hits a day world wide! The Domain was active when we last had a visit and it had been turned into just another community forum.

Visit Movieforumz.com for more info and the exclusive Notice from the MPAA.

Mafia 2

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:53:00 +0000

MAFIA 2 is under work, The game is being developed by Illusion Softworks and will be published under 2K Games, After the first game MAFIA that was released way back in 2002 , The game was a huge success with more than 2 Million copy's sold world wide. We heard endless rumors that they are making a sequel, but now its been officially confirmed!! Mafia: The City Of lost Haven was personally my favorite game of all time.... Like Mafia, Mafia 2 will take you back to the 1940-50's, Thou the storyline hasn't been publicized yet but you can expect to be playing after the murder of Tommy Angelo, Or maybe even between the time Tommy was working for Saliare?? The screenshots show that the area/city is the same,
Also dosn't that guy in the suite in the 4th picture look like Pauli ??
Well whatever is in the new story line, if illusion Softworks follows the strong story line with the exciting gameplay of endless car chases and gunfights of MAFIA, then it wont be disappointing those of us who have high expectations on the sequel MAFIA 2.

For More Info visit here

WWE RAW 2007 (PC)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:12:00 +0000

Those among us who dont own a PS2 or XBOX are not able to play any WWE games at all, But here is an un-official Mod that is available on the internet which converts your WWF RAW( 2002) into WWE RAW 2007, Whole new Roster, all new Superstars, All of them have new entrance videos & music.The Facial expressions have been increased to max,

While I was planing to make a home version of my own but stopped when i went through this Mod. Its great try it today.

Its 100MB's zipped, You can download from Here

NOTE: If you dont have the"WWF RAW" game installed in your PC you wont be able to patch it, But still you can play the game it with some lack of music, sound effects & videos.

PS: This is not the Create a Superstar Edited Version available at Market under the name of RAW 2.

Requirements:
PIII 600Mhz
16MB AGP
128MB RAM
800 MB Free HDD Space
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From website:

"WWE RAW 2007

This is an edited version of WWE RAW 2 comes with all new superstars with their special moves.This includes an autopatcher witch makes older versions of
WWE RAW(RAW 1,RAW2) to WWE RAW 2007.

New WWE stars added are : Batista,Jhon Cena,Bobly Lashley,Rey Mesterio,Great Khali, Randy Orton, Sandman, Ray Mesterio, Sabu, GOLDBERG, brock Lesner and many more.
Old players like Undertaker,Kain,Rock etc have been updated in this version."

Few Screenshots :

GAMING CONSOLES: The History

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:19:00 +0000

Go back In time, Where it Started....
[PART 1]

Dear readers, We all are interested a little or more in games. And for Games these days a Game Console is a very desirable thing among all of us. This article is about the history behind the gaming consoles.

Nintendo Entertainment System ( 1985-1990)

It should be hard to find any gamer who hasn’t herd the games “Super Mario Bros” Or “The Legend of Zelda”- That’s what I think, Nintendo entertainment System-‘s these games became most popular after the birth of em; and they also took Nintendo to the top. Nintendo Entertainment System is known as NES. This baby was the markets first ever 8 bit gaming console. Even if it was released in Japan in 1983; but it started its journey to win the world in 1985 when it was released in USA. Later on it became one of the best selling gaming consoles. Nintendo’s game consoles was sold more than 300M units over the globe !!

Sega Master System (1985-1991)

This was Sega’s first ever game consol. Like NES it was also a 8 bit gaming console. The Sega Master system had a few good games but it lost the war with NES because of 3^rd party Game developers who ware more interested in making games for NES. But all through it was running well in the European market & in 1990 Sega Master System 2 was released.

NEC Turbografx 16 (1988-1994)

Turborafx 16 was the first ever 16 Bit Gaming consol. In Japan it had a huge want and it was called PC Engine. It had good graphics and also you could use audio Cd’s and CD add-ons and enjoy High Quality gaming. But with all the other completive’s of the 16 Bit console war the NEC Turbografx 16 lost.

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (1989-1994)

Sega Genesis was released in 1988 but started to be a point of the gamers eyes in mid 1989.

All of Sega’s popular games was upgraded with there own genesis version. And Sega Genesis made a major Impact in the market by introducing there Game Sonic the Hedgehog mainly By this game Sega pointed there power of Great Sound Effects and Graphics quality to all the Gamers world wide. This Sonic Game took Sega to such a point that at last Sega made “Sonic” as there official mascot.

In 1994 In front of Nintendo’s new war machine the SNES Saga started to lose the market and in mid 1995 they said goodbye.

NEO GEO (1990-1994)

SNK ‘s this 16bit marvelous gaming console was released in the market with some tremendous games. But its prize was very high for most of gamers which was a high 600$. Plus There Game Cartage’s was very high prized. So even if it came in the market with a lot of hope it couldn’t stay there for a very long time.

Panasonic 3DO (1990-1994)

This was the worlds first 32 Bit Gaming Console. The Graphics quality and sound was in one word a masterpiece. Mainly the death of there console was with something wrong with the marketing polices. Well at first it had a High Prize of 400$ and for giving the permission to make these consoles in Gold Star & Sanyo- they had to pay by losing the market bit by bit..

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991-)

After there Game consoles got a huge market Nintendo started to go ahead depending on there consoles. In 1991 they released such a gaming consol that was the father of all Gaming consoles that time. Its features had such as high Quality Sound, 32,000 color option, 3D image enabled mode 7 technology.

It had low gaming collection when released but later it got rid of that problem too.

They released games such as Pilot wings, StarFox etc. It was sold more that 46 Million Units over the world. And it was the top best selling game consol according to year 2001.

Atari Jaguar (1995 – 1996)

In the middle of Nintendo & Sega Atari’s this 64 bit consol got in the market. The only cause of its untimely death was the less amount of its software. But later on many of em have given many complains against it. Like it was the first 64 bit gaming console, many have tried to prove that it was really a 32 Bit one!!! What ever the main cause’s ware Atari’s Jaguar gaming consoles death also because Atari’s Death of making gaming consoles.

Sega 32X/ Sega CD ( 1994 – 1996)

To Save Sega genesis from Nintendo’s Attacks Sega Released 32 X & Sega CD. By Doing this Genesis could render 32 Bit polygon & entered the multimedia Gaming.

Even it had great games like Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racer it got it self by its own Product Saturn.

Virtual Boy (1995-1996)

By this product Nintendo tried to expand its Gaming in various technologies. Actually Virtual Boy was a 32 Bit Portable Virtual Reality Gaming Console. But in many Magazines and media questioned its portability and Gave there word that it was heavy for carrying. That was the Big Bomb that fell on Nintendo’s pearl harbor. Total 25 Million US Dollars of adding and introducing it went to the drains. In 1996 Nintendo again threw a rope to pull it off but they again failed; it went down the deepest.

Sega Saturn ( 1995 1998)

Sega Saturn and Sony’s Play Station was released almost at a very close time. Head 2 Head and Toe 2 Toe in the first Sega Saturn was ahead but finally The Great Play Station Won the War of 32 bit gaming consoles.

Sony Playstation (1995 – 2001)

So the saga begins.The Sony Playstation AKA PS was released in such a time when all other consoles war fighting to get the market. But for its Wondrous Marketing Polices and Low Prize it because every one’s Favorite. In the List of worlds best selling consoles it has sold more that 79 Million Units. In Playstation’s Most Popular Games there is Grand Turismo, Twisted Metal, WWF. Etc. But as later after the release of Playstation 2 it’s popularity didn’t get much lower at all.

Nintendo 64 ( 1997 -)

After the world wide popularity of Nintendo’s “SNES” in 1997 Nintendo 64 came in the market. Even if Nintendo 64 was a good power house it never could take the number one spot of the Playstation. According to many people the problem of them was they used cartages for games while others ware using CD’s. But some games like Zelda 64, Pokimon, Mario 64, Golden eye— saved it from being super flop.

Sega Dreamcast ( 1998 – 2001)

Sega’s 128 Bit Sega Dreamcast was mainly Sega’s Death of making Gaming Consoles. They Lost in Sony’s Great marketing Polices and moved from making Gaming Consoles. But this great machine which had good Graphics and Audio capability did had a 56 K Modem which made it a good was of playing games online!!

Sony Playstation 2 ( 2000- Running)

One of The most greatest gaming Consoles of all time the Play station 2 was released in march 4^th of the year 2000. and after only 1 week it had more than 1 Million units!! Which made a Record. After this many had claimed that the Evolution of PC Gaming Was Over….But that really didn’t happen…did it??? Today PC Gaming is like taking more that 60 % of the entire GAMING Industry. The PS 2 Was Completely backward Compatible, So you could run all PS 1 Games on the PS 2. in other features it had DVD support, a 128 Bit 300 Mhz Processor, a 150 Mhz Graphics Processor ( Which is almost lower that a 64 Mb ATI Radeon 7000 Series AGP cards) USD and PCMCIA support etc

Indrema ( 2002--)

Well it was to be completely different from any other console. It was based on Linux Operating System And another thing was it was to be developed as open source…More information on this console couldn’t be dug out about this console…

Nintendo Game Cube ( 2001-)

Nintendo Released this Mega Gaming console to take over the market…The Game Cube Had 150 MHz IBM Gekko Processor, a Mini DVD Drive, and it could handle 6 – 12 Million Polygon’s in a second…../But it Didn’t become as the hoped it will…cause of The Playstation 2 ’s Great Game Collection no console yet got it…..

Microsoft X-Box ( 2002)

Finally the great PC Software Giant Microsoft and Bill Gates came down for the first time into the war of gaming consoles, It wasn’t only a gaming console, It worked as a Home Entertainment System and a Internet experience. Every one had the fear of The X Box and it was indeed Power Full than PS 2 or Game cube. But it didn’t take the Number one spot just because it Didn’t had such Game Collection of Sony’s Play Station 2.

GAMING VIOLENCE

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:44:00 +0000

THE ONE”S THAT ARE CHARGED FOR VIOLENCE

Reader,

Tomorrows Gaming today starts with a new Story “Gaming Violence”.. we all need to participate and play our roles to prevent gaming violence around the globe. No no I don’t want to lead a mob against the game developers. And don’t even want this topic to be misunderstood by parents and might stop your gaming days.

Facts are Heavy Violence mixed games seems to have a effect in some teenage minds, some time a change in there accent and behavior has been found- this is what every one near and far are talking about. Even in some Hollywood Movies have been complained of these kind of things. Many of the games today get denied from sensor board due to excess gore and violence. Anyway I don’t want to get in a argument between weather kidz are getting good & bad or ugly effects by playing games.

Instead today I am writing about some games that have a lot of violence and all of they haven a reason of some one’s murder or things breaking the law…. More or less each & every gamer out there are familiar to these games.

1. Mortal Kombat ( 1992)

Just from when Mortal Kombat was out it was reported for a lot of blood, Sharp Objects used to Cut off a arm leg or to put gutts out-in!! But I suppose gamers don’t get afraid of seeing Too much blood Gore etc instead they get more interested. I m not saying we all are psychopaths, but after all complains There has been many future versions of Mortal Kombat and they have all followed the same way as their forefathers! Another Thing in this game to be discussed was its Fatality Option which was used after you defeat your opponent you can use some special moves to take em completely out on there way to hell. You could do that by removing their Arm-Legs, Neck, Head cut off, cut the whole Body in peaces with a machete or so. After receiving lots of reports & charges all over the globe the makers got a better Idea to improve their games, They didn’t take off the fatality option instead added 2 new options to it!!! 1. Babalities & 2. Friendship.

In Babalities after the fight is over both opponents turn into Baby’s & in Friendship Both start to shake each others hand and become friends!!

DOOM (1994)

The most known first person shooter game that started a whole new erra of FPS. We might not find a gamer who never herd about it. From the grate path of Doom we got the next gen- FPS games like Quake 2, Delta Force, MOH, COD. At last even doom had to be the prey of Gaming Violence, When a young teenage boy named Evan from Kansas City, U.S.A entered his school with a loaded shotgun and went on a horrific rampage, he killed one of His school class mates and His Principal at February 15 1997. Evans father Don Ramsay later on told the police that his son Evan was a serious fan of the computer Game Doom, and probably he did all of this for trying to do the same in the real world!!

Duke Nukem 3D ( 1996)

.Another popular Game is Duke Nukem 3D. I used to call it Duck (the “Duck of Death” Actually) how ever This Game was Banned by the government of Brazil, Justice ministry declared to ban total 6 games including This Duke and was going to take all copy’s of it from store’s. Other games included doom, Mortal Kombat, Requiem, Blood, Postal.

A 24 year old boy named Mateus Da Costa Meira had the most important role behind The banning of these games.

He was a medical Student & he killed 3 people by shooting at rage and Hurt other 8. After he was caught he told the police that he did this all by copying “ Duke Nukem” ! Now who to blame! Call him Psycho, but I say all that medical stuff made him go berserk!!

Carmageddon (1997)

This Driving / Racing Game was highly complained for its game play, because The main reason was if You would drive over some pedestrian walking on the footpath or road you would get extra Points, bonus and extra Game Play time!!! More to it was how stylish was your killing of a pedestrian as you could gain extra points! And to courage Gamers to kill Pedestrians they even had some messages like Splatter Bonus, bonus for Artistic impressionetc.

But unfortunately this pedestrian Killing Game was driven Over when Germany and UK and their government declined to let any games like this to enter there country.

And at last for the UK version instead of human The Publisher used Zombie’s & for the German version They used robots! I don’t know if any other Game Has faced such a problem for accusing of violence.

Half Life (1998)

This game was the one of the greatest FPS games with a combination of strong storyline and great gameplay.It had won More that 50 Award in many websites and magazines for Game of The year 1998.

But tragedy took place when in 25^th January of the year 2000 the board of sensors of Singapore declared to ban this game and all of its expansion Packs. They said that all teens and kidz are playing this game and they will be affected by the violence in it.

But only after 1 week of the declaration they removed the ban of Half Life saying that being in the market for more that 1 year it has spread all over the country and trying to ban it now is just no use!! (Go on Half Life!!!)

Solder Of fortune ( 2000)

It got lot’s of popularity just after its release in 2000. But the things in it like taking off some ones hand Leg Or head, Good guys or bad guys, killing every one in the end, throwing some one under the subway train, and heads getting cut by open Fan,s etc made this game very violent and had to face many problems. For those reasons It was rated Adult and was banned for teen’s in Canada-Province, British& Colombia..

Grand Theft Auto

In the Gaming world GTA has its own reputation. There has been many accusing of this game being the reason of encouraging people to attempt Murder, just Like that in February 2007, a jury in New Mexico finds Cody Posey, 16, guilty of two murder and one voluntary manslaughter for killing his parents and stepsister. He was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of his thirteen-year old sister, Marilea and second-degree murder for killing his stepmother, Tryone. He received the lesser count of voluntary manslaughter for killing his father Paul who Cody claimed abused him physically and emotionally from birth until the time of the shooting.

On September 25, the victims’ relatives filed a wrongful death suit seeking an unspecified amount of damages. They named Posey, Sony Entertainment, Take-Two Interactive Software, and Rockstar Games as defendants. They claim that Grand Theft Auto is a "murder-simulation device" that caused Posey to kill his family.

Just like that many Games had to face hard times. No matter how much violence it has now a days Action Games have entered such a era that they have their own category, which they cant be forced back. To say the least most games that have a lot of Violence have been a great hit.

After getting reported time and time again for a lot of violence Mortal Kombat ‘s publishers midway decided to use sweat instead of blood, they said that way the violence ratting of the game will get a little bit lower, sweat started to fall instead of blood, and midway released a version of Mortal Kombat with sweat, and what happened was; the fans of Mortal Kombat used the ultra fatality move and threw the game on the garbage disposal bin!

10 Tips To Upgrade: Graphics Card

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:27:00 +0000

A graphics card is the most important thing in gaming. So weather you are a hardcore gamer or a normal player or just play games to entertain/fun the major factor that might be keeping you from gaming is your graphics card. There was a time when games ran excellent on a 8 MB AGP card. And 16 MB AGP card was the best. Remember those Voodoo cards?? Now days even some games don’t like to run on a 128 MB card. And graphics cards have changed till the past 10 years. Now there is PCI express. While AGP ran on 8X speed PCI dose it in 16X. Now adays PCI Express cards have dual GPU’s and Mother Boards use dual PCI express for the excellent performance…The technology from ATI is cross fire and from N Vidia is SLI( Scable Link Interface). Mother boards give true 16X bandwidth speed for each graphics card. PCI Express graphics cards have reached 1 GB. Already there are 512MB graphics cards available in the local market.

Now adays the graphics card manufacturers have slowed AGP cards marketing and they have the PCI-E's on Go. So usully there is little stock of AGP cards in the local market rather than PCI-E. But every one who is upgrading there graphics card always thinks which one can I get in the best prize. Well we cant suggest you about the prizing but we have brought up some ways that will be the most helpful for you in buying a graphics card and upgrading your gaming Life. So before you buy a graphics card do remember to follow the suggestions given below.

THE THINGS YOU NEED THE KEEP IN MIND:

1. Memory: When you are buying a graphics card the first thing that comes in mind is the memory. These days if you want to play perfect then it wont do under 256 MB. But even if you have a lower budget then you shouldn’t go under 128 MB. When you are playing Racing games the thing that more important than any thing is the Total RAM of your system and your graphics card. Because the games that change sequence very fast eat a lot of memory of both RAM & GPU. So keep your Eye on that factor.

2. Memory Clock: When you are set on a card, be sure to know the memory clock speed of your card. This is the most important thing. If you have a card with a lot of memory which possess a low memory Clock speed can’t run all games very well.. And the case will be games running slow, un predictable and sometimes might not run at all! So give the memory clock more importance that the memory itself. Try to get as much as clock speed as you can get.

3. Core Clock: You should even have a fast core clock. As much as the memory Click is important the Core Clock is as much as important. So It should be a card with a powerful core clock.

4. Memory Interface (Bit): The memory Inter face is another thing it depends on your card and its model it can be 128 Bit, 256 Bit and even 512 Bit. For cards that have 128 MB or lower model 256 MB‘s have 128 Bit. Like the GeForce 6600GT is 256 MB and is 256 Bit has a 1 GHz core clock and a 500 MHz memory clock. That’s a good card indeed! And some cards like X800 or GeForce 6800GT or upper have 256 Bit and higher cards like 512 MB or 1GB has 512 Bit memory interface. But that’s not such a big matter in hand.

5. Version/ Model: Always try to buy a card which is in a upgraded model. Like for instance for ATI when you are buying a 256 MB X550 PCI Express Card (6,400 TK) it’s better to buy a 128 MB X600 or the X700 Series, even if its gets less MB. Why? Because games today don’t only need the memory clock and memory they need to support your card. Like for instance Flat Out 2 supports above ATI Radeon 9600 Pro/XT and GeForce 5,6,7 series cards. Its wont run on any earlier models such ATI 9250, 9550 etc. So most of games are build supporting most of the latest cards so remember to try to buy the newest model you can.

6. Features: These days games don’t just require a Big memory it also requires some features in your graphics card. Features such as Hardware TNL. Transform and lighting, with out this feature you can play GTA SanAndreas, True Crime plus some games. Also you need some more features smart shader, Pixel shader, vertex shader color separations etc. So be sure to check the features of your card. If it has it all that is! But don’t get worried!!! Nowadays new models cards have them all cards like GeForce FX series, ATI plus 9250 series etc. And if you are buying a PCI Express card then no matter all the new PCI express have them all in different models and versions. But always try to get the higher version of all the features.

7. Heat: All Graphics cards come with a heat sink, but many of em comes with a Fan attached with the heat sink. The fan is very neat & effective when it comes to cool down you card while you are playing seriously! But some older and some new Graphics card models have such fans that are too Big and take away one of your other normal PCI slots. And many of them make a disturbing sound that might detach you from having fun. Also there are some problems such if the Fan stops working then your card might be overheated. And some older versions with cooling fans have problems such as that specially AGP’s. So try to get a cool and quite technology card that uses a good heat sink and if you are going to buy a card with Fan then be sure to buy a card which is made by a good manufacturer such as SPARKLE, GIGABYTE, ASUS, SAPPHIRE, and MSI etc.

8. Real Memory: Some times as much memory is written in the box might not be in the card so be sure to open the card check the chips if the memory is written on any chips and try to check it before bye. But that’s really not a big matter why dose it happen is most of the cards come without the box and that saves a lot of space for the distributors. The Boxes come in other shipment and some times they order boxes in one writing like a hundred boxes for ATI Radeon 9600 256 MB might come in Boxes which say 128 MB. Later it gets hidden by a sticker which says the original memory.

9. Normal or SLI/ Crossfire: When buying cards be sure to buy one which supports SLI™ (If you are buying one from NVIDIA) and Cross Fire™ is you are buying it from ATI. Always remember to keep in mind that you are buying your computer and graphics card for the future so you can play it for more that 1 or 2 years with any further upgrading or any thing. So buy a main board that has 2 graphics port and supports whether SLI™ or Cross Fire™ technology.

10. Power: Some new cards need extra power for there powerful cooling fans if you decide to get such a Graphics card or to use 2 Graphics Cards like SLI™ or Cross Fire™ you should also have a big power supply or you might have your PC crashed. The power Supply can be 400W minimum; there are many kinds of Power supplies available in the local market. Among them there are two kinds.. One that is Fake brand / none brand and made from china and One that is made by a real brand. Most of the power supplies that are

China

made are no capable to give you the full power that it says. And some times might cause your System to crash / restart. But that’s very rare when it comes to crash. But on the other hand the real brads can give as much as power as it’s written. The Non Brands are very cheap and are available at almost any Computer parts Reseller or Dealer. And the Real brands are very pricy and only a 350W can cost you twice as more a 500W china made one. For the prize the china ones give good enough performence. But they don’t really are from any real company or brand that exists.

New Technology: nVidia 8800 GTX

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:08:00 +0000

Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX

The world’s most powerful & First DirectX 10 Graphics Card.
by Md. Sadat Hussein

The next generation game consoles Xbox 360 and PlayStaton 3 are out now, Nintendo Wii is coming soon. Now what about Pc gaming? Well, With Windows Vista & DirectX 10, Pc gaming is going to be even better than game consoles! And Nvidia has just released their first DirectX 10 graphics card: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX. According to the results of lots of benchmarks, currently this card is the world’s most powerful graphics card beating Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX 2 and Ati Radeon X1950XTX! As this is a DirectX 10 Graphics card, first we look at what is DirectX 10.

DirectX 10 DirectX 10 is an evolutionary step over the current DirectX 9C. DirectX 10

introduces new unified shader architecture with Shader Model 4.0. One of the new things on DirectX 10 is geometry processing. Until now the system CPU was in charge of this task. On DirectX 10 geometry processing can now be done by the graphics processor. Geometry processing smoothes curved surfaces and you can see a better quality on character animation, facial expressions and hair. DirectX 10 provides more resources to the GPU, improving 3D performance. In DirectX 9C, Pixel and Vertex shaders were separated. DirectX 10 cards have unified Pixel and Vertex shaders’ processors meaning that any shader processor can handle the workload of Pixel and Vertex processing. This is will improve game performance dramatically. The key differences in GPU resources between DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 you can see on the table below.

Resources	DirectX 9	DirectX 10
Temporary Registers	32	4,096
Constant Registers	256	16 x 4,096
Textures	16	128
Render Targets	4	8
Maximum Texture Size	4,048 x 4,048	8,096 x 8,096

There are also several new features on DirectX 10, but in summary the goal of this new programming model is to reduce the system CPU role on 3D graphics performance – i.e. it tries to avoid the use of the system CPU as much as possible.

Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX Staying close to DX10 specifications, GeForce 8800 GTX fully comply with the DX10 standard with Shader Model 4.0, various data storage and transmitting specifications, geometry shaders and stream out.

Nvidia said: "The GeForce 8800 design team realized that extreme amounts of

hardware-based shading horsepower would be necessary for high-end DirectX 10 3D games. While DirectX 10 specifies a unified instruction set, it does not demand a unified GPU shader design, but Nvidia GeForce 8800 engineers believed a unified GPU shader architecture made most sense to allow effective DirectX 10 shader program load-balancing, efficient GPU power utilization and significantly improved GPU architectural efficiency."

Architecture of Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX Instead of the graphics chip having separated shader engines accordingly to the task to be performed – for instance, separated pixel shader and vertex shader units – the GPU has now just one big engine that can be programmed on the fly accordingly to the task to be done: pixel shader, vertex shader, geometry and physics. This new architecture also makes it easier to add new shader types in the future.

The reason behind unified architecture is that in some situations the GPU was using all shader engines from one type(pixel shader engines, for example) and even queuing tasks for these engines while engines from another type.

So Shader 4.0 allows the use of any shader engine by any shader process – pixel, vertex, geometry and physics.

Features of Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX

GeForce 8800 GTX has 128 shader engines (i.e. streaming processors; 16 streaming processors x 8 units) and 384-bit memory interface (64 bits x 6).

Support for thousand of independent simultaneous threads, technology nVidia calls GigaThread.
16x anti-aliasing and 128-bit floating point precision HDR (High Dynamic Range) – GeForce 6 and 7 use a 64-bit precision engine. Nvidia is calling these two technologies as “Lumenex”.
Nvidia is calling their physics simulation technology as “Quantum Effects”. Physics simulation improves the reality of effects like smoke, fire and explosions.

Hardware-based features to enhance 2D high definition video quality. Nvidia calls these enhancements as “PureVideo HD”. Two new features are provided on GeForce 8 series, HD noise reduction and HD edge enhancement. GeForce 8 series also support HDCP decryption, in order to play HD-DVD and Blue-ray that have this technology on PCs. Of course GeForce 8 supports all other enhancements provided on previous nVidia chips, like de-interlacing, high-quality scaling, inverse telecine and bad edit correction.

Recommended for resolutions starting at 1600 x 1200.

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