Tech News
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Intel Delays Springdale Launch
Published: Friday, March 21, 2003 | By: DennisBut only by 8 days...
"Intel has decided to postpone launching its Springdale products from May 12 to May 20 in response to client requests for more distribution time, as PC makers fear that deliveries might be affected by the US-Iraq war, sources said."
That pesky war, we all hope its over soon.
"Motherboard makers, however, voiced concerns about how long the war might last. They noted that if the war ends quickly, consumer confidence in the North American market is likely to increase. However, if the war drags on, it may not be favorable to business in general." -
800Mhz Overclocking Options on i845PE
Published: Friday, March 21, 2003 | By: DennisIt would seem that some mobo makers are going to target the low end Springdale market by overclocking their current i845PE motherboards to handle the new chips.
"Though the 845PE is cheaper than the Springdale chipset, to be launched in May, the sales prospects of 845PE, 800MHz-supporting motherboards are still unclear, as the 845PE lacks dual-channel DDR support and 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 processors are more expensive than 533MHz versions."
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AOpen AX4R Plus Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Friday, March 21, 2003 | By: DennisHardwareZone has posted another Granite Bay motherboard review this time featuring the AX4R Plus from AOpen, based on the included features I would have expected more but it appears to have some high FSB stability issues.
"the overclockability of the board was less than desirable. We managed to push the board to run at a system bus setting of only 145MHz and even then, we did not seem to get great stability. At frequencies higher than that (about 150MHz), most applications would run but 3D benchmarks would fall out or crash rather easily." -
AOpen HP-590 Vibrating Headphone Review Posted
Published: Friday, March 21, 2003 | By: DennisDespite what you might be thinking this set of headphones from AOpen is really a quality peice of work. Not only are they confortable but they are able to reproduce the full frequency spectrum of human hearing, and they vibrate too
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Cisco Buys Linksys
Published: Friday, March 21, 2003 | By: DennisThe company that powers the Internet is now going to be powering my LAN as well. Being an avid user of Linksys products I find the Cisco purchase to be a welcome and a little scary at the same time. Knowing how much Cisco routers and switches cost I'm hoping they don't plan to offset their 500Million dollar purchase of Linksys by raising prices on now low priced Linksys home networking equipment.
If so I’d say its time to stock up on those Gigabit LAN cards -
MSI GNB Max2-L Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2003 | By: DennisGranite Bay boards have been slowly trickling into the retail marketplace but with Springdale right in its heels I wouldn't expect a flood of Granite Bay boards to happen any time soon. Sad really but that is how progress goes.
"Although the GNB Max2-L comes with better overclocking features, it doesn't come with as many on-board peripherals as the previous GNB Max-FISR. On-board, we found only a miserable Intel Fast Ethernet controller based on the Intel 82562EZ 10/100Mbps controller. It's not the usual Gigabit Ethernet LAN that was used on the first GNB Max-FISR. According to the manual, the Fast Ethernet controller is an optional item that can be replaced with a Gigabit Ethernet controller. However, we think MSI may not offer the GNB Max2 with Gigabit LAN as they had initially wanted this board as an affordable lower-end product. " -
CoolerMaster LED Fan Review @ Voided Warranty
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2003 | By: DennisPersonally I'm starting to like these fans more and more ever since our review of the same fan not to long ago. The fan was of course using the Blue LED's but CoolerMaster has since expanded the line to include White, Purple, Red, etc.. (the White ones are rather bright
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Pentalpha Aqualia Repost @ DataFuse
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2003 | By: Dennis" Every day for the last 3 months I've been getting emails from visitors who really want to read the pentalpha aqualia preview. Because of some legal shit back then I decided to take down the preview until I had some more information. Since pentalpha didn't even bother to contact me, I decided to play the game their way. If for some reason they've changed their minds and want to settle this like adults, I hope they will contact me. But I'm afraid they won't."
Here is to hoping, in the meantime check out the review. -
KT600 and SiS SiS748 ready for 400MHz FSB
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 | By: Dennis"IA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) are poised to support the new 400MHz FSB (front-side bus) Barton-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with their respective KT600 and SiS748 chipsets."
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"With the new offerings, both companies are expected to be more competitive in the high-end sector against Nvidia, whose nForce2 chipset has been gaining popularity due to its strong price/performance ratio. According to motherboard sources, monthly shipments of nForce2 chipsets are likely to have exceeded 500,000 units."
There is no doubt that the current nFoce2 motherboards can handle 400Mhz FSB, they will just need a BIOS update to accept the new processor configurations. -
Corsair TwinX Review @ Tech PC
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 | By: DennisWith Dual Channel DDR becoming a mainstay in new chipset development there will be an increased demand for paired memory modules like TWINX from Corsair. Even though the need for a true paired memory module can be argued the performance gains do speak for themselves.
Here is our review of the TWINX modules for comparison purposes.
