Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Alice Deejay
Alice Deejay was a popular Dutch electronic dance group that performed from 1999-2002. The group consisted of record producers Pronti (born Sebastiaan Molijn), Kalmani (born Eelke Kalberg) and DJ Jurgen, with lead singer Judith Pronk and background dancers Mila Levesque & Angelique Versnel. They were VERY popular after their single "Better off Alone" in 1999. in 2000 they released an album entitled "Who Needs Guitars Anyway" (The only CD I ever bought.) In 2002 the lead singer, Judith Pronk retired to work in the cosmetic business. Alice Deejay was disbanded.
In 2004, a new act was formed from the same producers called Candee Jay, but had no where near the success of Alice Deejay, after two hits it the project was disbanded.
In the summer of 2007 Alice Deejay performed at Winterfresh with a remixed version of "Better off Alone" Judith Pronk however, was not there. Producers Pronti & Kalmani formed a new act called Dash Berlin, focusing on trance rather then dance music. Their single "Till the Sky Falls Down was released in April 2008 and was a huge sucess.
note: most of the above was copied from wikipedia, I tried to rewrite it in my own words but its like 4 AM , anyways, just citing it to make it legit :)
In 2007 a song appeared on youtube called "Far Away" but whether or not Judith is singing is to be debated, sure sounds like her though. Will Judith Pronk ever return? Her energy is unmatchable.
In 2004, a new act was formed from the same producers called Candee Jay, but had no where near the success of Alice Deejay, after two hits it the project was disbanded.
In the summer of 2007 Alice Deejay performed at Winterfresh with a remixed version of "Better off Alone" Judith Pronk however, was not there. Producers Pronti & Kalmani formed a new act called Dash Berlin, focusing on trance rather then dance music. Their single "Till the Sky Falls Down was released in April 2008 and was a huge sucess.
note: most of the above was copied from wikipedia, I tried to rewrite it in my own words but its like 4 AM , anyways, just citing it to make it legit :)
In 2007 a song appeared on youtube called "Far Away" but whether or not Judith is singing is to be debated, sure sounds like her though. Will Judith Pronk ever return? Her energy is unmatchable.
Graphics Cards recited from memory IN ORDER
Graphics Cards recited from memory IN ORDER, I won't remember all of them but I will try. Cards in bold means I have owned one. I love video cards each one improves upon the last, offering new features and faster framerates. The first video card I bought was a VGA 2 MB VESA card, and the first graphics accelerator I bought was the 3dfx Voodoo Banchee.
3DFX: 1995-2000
Voodoo, banchee, 2, 3000, 3500, 4, 5, 6
ATI: 1997-present
Rage, Radeon, Radeon 8500, 9500, 9600 pro, 9700 pro, 9800 pro*, x800, x800 pro x1600, x1650, x1800, x1900, x1900XTX, HD 3800, HD 4800
(Wow I am terrible at remembering ATI, their naming scheme is harder to remember and I never owned as many of their cards)
Nvidia: 1997-present
TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra,
(All from here on have Geforce name before them ) Geforce 256, 2MX, 2GTS, 2Ultra,2 Ti, 3 ti 200, 3, 3 Ti 500, 4 ti 200, 4 ti 4600, FX 5600, FX 5700, FX 5800, FX 5900 Ultra, 6600, 6600GT, 6800, 6800 GS 6800GT, 6800 Ultra, 7600 GT, 7800 GS, 7800 GT, 7800 GTX, 7900 GT, 7900 GTX, 7950 gx2, 8500, 8600 GT, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS, 8800 GTX, 9600 GT, 9800 GTS, 9800 GTX, 9800 GX2
GTX 260 , GTX 280
Video card interfaces:
ISA, PCI, AGP, PCI Express
Note: this is mostly in terms of when they were released, but a few are in order of performance, for example; the Geforce 3 ti 200 came out after the geforce 3 but was actually slower.... Heh, I had a friend that "Upgraded" from the geforce 3 to the Geforce 3 ti 200, what an idiot... I may have missed a few this is reciting from memory hehe.
3DFX: 1995-2000
Voodoo, banchee, 2, 3000, 3500, 4, 5, 6
ATI: 1997-present
Rage, Radeon, Radeon 8500, 9500, 9600 pro, 9700 pro, 9800 pro*, x800, x800 pro x1600, x1650, x1800, x1900, x1900XTX, HD 3800, HD 4800
(Wow I am terrible at remembering ATI, their naming scheme is harder to remember and I never owned as many of their cards)
Nvidia: 1997-present
TNT, TNT2, TNT Ultra,
(All from here on have Geforce name before them ) Geforce 256, 2MX, 2GTS, 2Ultra,2 Ti, 3 ti 200, 3, 3 Ti 500, 4 ti 200, 4 ti 4600, FX 5600, FX 5700, FX 5800, FX 5900 Ultra, 6600, 6600GT, 6800, 6800 GS 6800GT, 6800 Ultra, 7600 GT, 7800 GS, 7800 GT, 7800 GTX, 7900 GT, 7900 GTX, 7950 gx2, 8500, 8600 GT, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS, 8800 GTX, 9600 GT, 9800 GTS, 9800 GTX, 9800 GX2
GTX 260 , GTX 280
Video card interfaces:
ISA, PCI, AGP, PCI Express
Note: this is mostly in terms of when they were released, but a few are in order of performance, for example; the Geforce 3 ti 200 came out after the geforce 3 but was actually slower.... Heh, I had a friend that "Upgraded" from the geforce 3 to the Geforce 3 ti 200, what an idiot... I may have missed a few this is reciting from memory hehe.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
New Nvidia video card may be appearing in June
Nvidia might be releasing a new graphics card series "GTX 2xx" this summer, a successor to their 9800 series. Originally called the 9900 GTX, Nvidia has ditched their previous naming scheme. Their new flagship gpu (Graphics Processing Unit) will be called the GTX 280, rather then GTX being at the end like the 9800 GTX. This will be the first time Nvidia changed their naming scheme since 1999 with the introduction of the Geforce 256 as a successor to the TNT2 Ultra. It looks a hell of alot better than the 9800 GX2, it will be the first gaming GPU to feature 1 GB of ram in a single GPU.
The previous Nvidia Speed king, the 9800 GX2 had 512 mb on each board and was essentially two GPU's in one, and the same is true for ATI's Radeon HD 3870 X2; which adequates to not fully utilizing 1 GB. The older generation 8800 GTX actually performed better than it at high resolutions due to it having 768 MB over the 512x2 MB in the 9800 GX2.
In my opinion the 9800 series offered nothing new but higher framerates, and not enough higher to justify owners of the 8800 series to upgrade. When the 8800 GTX was released in late 2006, it was a significant improvement over the 7800 Series: Direct x 10 support, stream processors, onboard physics acceleration, and shader model 4.0 just to name a few. The GTX 2xx series however, looks like it will have new features in addition to faster framerates.
The GTX 280 has a entirley new architecture: GT200. (9800 series is G92) I hope to be seeing more than 40 FPS in Crysis on Very High . That is what the 9800 GX2 performs at and is simply unacceptable; not much of an upgrade from 30 FPS on the 8800 GTX. The new architecture means we will be seeing a much greater leap in framerate then the 8800-9800 series.
However the negative side, Nvidia doesn't seem interested in supporting direct x 10.1. The new card from ATI, the HD 4800 series, will. I am looking forward to this June when we will hear more about this exciting graphics card, and I hope it will be worth spending $500 to upgrade from my almost 2 year old 8800 GTX.
If you are interested in reading more about the GTX 280, I recommend you search for it on tomshardware, that is where I got most of my information.
The previous Nvidia Speed king, the 9800 GX2 had 512 mb on each board and was essentially two GPU's in one, and the same is true for ATI's Radeon HD 3870 X2; which adequates to not fully utilizing 1 GB. The older generation 8800 GTX actually performed better than it at high resolutions due to it having 768 MB over the 512x2 MB in the 9800 GX2.
In my opinion the 9800 series offered nothing new but higher framerates, and not enough higher to justify owners of the 8800 series to upgrade. When the 8800 GTX was released in late 2006, it was a significant improvement over the 7800 Series: Direct x 10 support, stream processors, onboard physics acceleration, and shader model 4.0 just to name a few. The GTX 2xx series however, looks like it will have new features in addition to faster framerates.
The GTX 280 has a entirley new architecture: GT200. (9800 series is G92) I hope to be seeing more than 40 FPS in Crysis on Very High . That is what the 9800 GX2 performs at and is simply unacceptable; not much of an upgrade from 30 FPS on the 8800 GTX. The new architecture means we will be seeing a much greater leap in framerate then the 8800-9800 series.
However the negative side, Nvidia doesn't seem interested in supporting direct x 10.1. The new card from ATI, the HD 4800 series, will. I am looking forward to this June when we will hear more about this exciting graphics card, and I hope it will be worth spending $500 to upgrade from my almost 2 year old 8800 GTX.
If you are interested in reading more about the GTX 280, I recommend you search for it on tomshardware, that is where I got most of my information.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
My top 5 most anticipated PC games
1. Starcraft 2 (TBA, December 2008?)
2. Deus Ex 3 (TBA, guessing late 2009) http://www.deusex3.com/
3. Mafia 2 (TBA,guessing fall)
4. Grand Theft Auto IV (TBA, probably October-December, all the other GTA's took 6-8 months to come to PC)
5. fallout 3 (September 2008)
(Games I will play but most likely bit torrent and only have interest in due to the hype)
Mass effect
Spore
farcry 2
2. Deus Ex 3 (TBA, guessing late 2009) http://www.deusex3.com/
3. Mafia 2 (TBA,guessing fall)
4. Grand Theft Auto IV (TBA, probably October-December, all the other GTA's took 6-8 months to come to PC)
5. fallout 3 (September 2008)
(Games I will play but most likely bit torrent and only have interest in due to the hype)
Mass effect
Spore
farcry 2
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