Tech News
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Gigabyte 8PENXP Review @ Digital-Daily
Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 | By: DennisThe Intel i865 (Springdale) chipset was officially released today despite many companies already having boards on the market. Digital-Daily takes a look at the Gigabyte i865PE offering.
"All these features and specifications are given a detailed focus in the review on i875P "Canterwood", so we won't dwell on them. Let's better take a look at the overclocking options offered by the i865PE chipset. "
Getting right down to brass tacks I see.
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MSI Releases a Line of Springdale Motherboards
Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 | By: Dennis"For the product line using Intel’s 865PE discrete chipset, MSI offers a total of six models with different features. The Neo series consists of the 865PE Neo and 865PE Neo-L. Paired with Intel’s ICH4 south bridge chips, the new boards support six USB 2.0 ports and feature one AGP 8x graphics port and six PCI slots. With two DDR SIMM slots, the Neo series boards offer a memory capacity of 2GB. The 865PE Neo-L, built with Realtek’s 8101L chip, also supports 10/100 Ethernet."
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Overclocking the ATi 9500 Pro @ hardfind
Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 | By: DennisAs some of you may know the 9500 Pro series video card from ATI is built pretty much just like the 9700 Pro with only a few minor differences. Basically the core and memory clocks are slower and the card is clock locked from the factory meaning that you’re going to have a hard time overclocking it. Well as with most things related to the computer industry this problem is pretty easy to get around and hardfind has a guide showing you how to do it.
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UT2003 Software Rendering
Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 | By: Dennis"That "software rendering" part of the Unreal Tournament 2004 press release last week wasn't in error"
Actually I didn't even see the press release.
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The Hotties of E3 @ The Tech Zone
Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 | By: Dennis8 pages of booth babe goodness! Almost makes you want to go there yourself.
"However, according to the Interactive Digital Software Association (the owners of E3) interactive games are played by just as many girls as boys. So this begs the question, if 50% of your market is female how come E3 booth babes are 100% girls?
The answer is simple: Who the hell cares?"
The site is a little slow at the moment, I wonder why.
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Antec Sonata Review @ Bjorn3D
Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 | By: Dennis"The hard drives mount sideways with screws going into the bottom of each drive. Sounds odd, but it works well. The drives are easy to remove in their 90 degree orientation, which is always a positive feature for the tweaker. The included rubber grommets reduce drive vibration and contribute to the quiet running of the system. "
Not only that but it comes with spots for 2 120mm fans! The jury is still out on how moddable the case is but we should find out soon enough. 
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Gigabyte GA-8PE800 Ultra Review @ Hardware Zone
Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 | By: DennisQuite a few of the i845PE boards in existance will support the 800Mhz FSB right out of the box with the help of a simple bios flash. I was always curious as to how well the boards would OC if you used an 800Mhz P4.
"The overclockability of the board was good and it managed to let users reach a system bus setting of up to 210MHz (820MHz FSB). For those thinking of overclocking their 533MHz FSB P4 would surely find a lot more headroom in overclocking with the GA-8PE800 Ultra."
Not sure I like how everyone is running benchmarks with the "unlocked" 800Mhz Pentium 4 but I guess complaining won't get me anywhere.
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Gainward FX 5600 Ultra Review @ NordicHardware
Published: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 | By: Dennis"As always Gainward have that great looking red PCB and red/purple heatsinks. This time the core heatsink looks like a giant flame, pretty nifty. One thing that I really liked with this product was the fact that Gainward stopped using thermal pads, instead they are using high quality thermal paste and the heatsinks are easy to detach without having annoying sticky "pad-goo" everywhere."
This is a NV31 card and depending on what you are doing may or may not be as fast as the Ti4600 but does support all of the cool DX9 stuff and enhanced AA. -
Theory of LCD Love @ DansData
Published: Monday, May 19, 2003 | By: DennisDan's theory as to why people like LCD monitors.
"People like LCD monitors.
People are idiots.
The above two statements are not connected. Well, not necessarily. Liking LCD monitors does not make you an idiot."
This is an interesting read to say the least. Personally I hate the color rendering of an LCD, it just doesn't seem to produce the same colors as a CRT. -
WD Raptor 10,000rpm HDD
Published: Monday, May 19, 2003 | By: DennisThis is a first of its kind, and likely not to be the last." The results speak loud and clearly for themselves. The Western Digital 10,000 rpm Raptor is a stellar performer leaving the 7,200 rpm competition far behind. This Western Digital harddisk drive is a must for the enthusiast desktop user."
The initial cost of a Raptor was $250 but has since dropped in price. I found one last night for $152 with free second day air.
