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Latest creative sound card from Fatalaty Series, Creative has announced that it is offering a new range of internal Sound Blaster cards from Fatality Series that promise even better performance than the company’s current range. The new PCI Express Creative sound cards will be available in two amazing models, the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series and the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion.

The Champion series sound card includes all the same features as the Professional range, however adds an internal I/O drive for quick front panel connection to headphones and headsets to save gamers fiddling around under their desk. Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel is the best-known professional gamer in the world with 38 First Place wins in eight years of tournament play. Championship Gaming Series™ (CGS) is the only worldwide professional video gaming league. Only the best gear is rigorously tested and approved by CGS for the highest level of professional gaming.

The first to jump the 2000 MHz “fence” in the memory business was Adata with their Vitesta DDR3 2000X offering. The other memory manufacturers have also started offering DDR3-2000 chips and modules, but these almost never go beyond the gigabyte limit per card. Kingmax has made a comeback in the spotlight and presented its 2GB DDR3 memory module to reach a blazing frequency of 2000 MHz.
The company was also showing DDR3-2000 without heat spreaders, plus several other modules including a 2 gigabyte DDR3-1066 notebook part (SO-DIMM). The majority of the parts shown are already shipping, and Kingmax is ready to take orders on its DDR3-2000. The fins increase surface area for improved heat dissipation, and the DDR3 modules shown are rated at 2000MHz data rate and 9-9-9-24 timings using 2.15 volts.

New online FPS concept. Buy Ammo. Fight. Make a Killing.

Kwari is a first-person shooter multiplayer online game, the first game of its kind with participants competing against each other for money. Players fund their accounts up front, buy “ammunition” from Kwari Limited, and are matched against other players of similar strength in groups of 16 to 64. A player who is hit pays to the hitter an amount that was arranged in advance (between 1 eurocent and 1 euro). Players can also earn money by collecting and holding various objects; “The Pill” is the most lucrative one and renders its holder visible to other players through walls. Players pay into a jackpot to be paid out regularly to the pill holder. Strict anonymity of the participants is ensured to avoid the possibility of real-world retaliation. Kwari is free to download, you only need money to buy ammo and you get money by getting some frags plus some other extras on each game!

This is only a preview and specs aren’t quite sure yet but the new top of the line for nVidia graphics card range, the GeForce 9800GX2 is like the older 7950GX2, two graphic cards in one, it will consist in two 8800 with 65nm (most likely G92s with 128 stream processors) and SLI on to one board, 1 GB of memory (512 MB for each GPU) and two DVI outputs, and HDMI output, expectations for the new GeForce 9800GX2, is supposed to be 30% faster than the 8800 Ultra, will support Quad SLI configurations. The expected price: around $449 US. Expected announcement date: February 14, 2008.

• 1GB frame buffer
• Two graphic cards in one
• 65nm GPUs
• 256 Stream Processors

GeForce 9800GX2 Front

GeForce 9800GX2 Back

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