Tech News
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Inside nVidia with Digit-Life
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 | By: DennisDigit-Life had an opportunity to take a very in-depth tour of the nVidia facilities including many of the server and development labs. There are tons of photos and very little commentary to confuse you, check it out.
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CeBit Photos @ Guru3D
Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 | By: DennisThere is lots of good stuff here including a watercooled Gainward GeForceFX Ultra, the motherboard in the picture is even using Corsair memory!
"Gainward is also working on what I think is going to be limited editions of water cooled graphics cards. It should be out in month or two. Of course water cooling is completely silent and very effective. What they have in mind right now is a water reservoir as baybus (the place where you put a CD-ROM for example) and from there on blow out the air. The design was looking good, yet was in development stages. If this product really comes to the market .. I don't know for sure. Would a lot of people buy it? "
There is also an AOpen GeForceFX with a red PCB? how is that for strange
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EPoX EP-8RGA Review @ Hexus
Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 | By: DennisThe 8RGA is almost exactly the same as the 8RDA except for the inclusion of the MX class integrated video. They even provided enough connectors for two monitors.
Very Nice!
" We were able to overclock the 8RGA+ up to a front side bus speed of 220 MHz with ease. This involved reducing the XP3000+ multiplier to 11.5, and therefore generated a clock speed of 2540 MHz. We also needed to increase vcore to 1.95v, vdim to 2.9v and vdd to 1.8v. These results were obtained using moderate air cooling."
I normally don't like cranking the voltages up that high but 220Mhz FSB is still really impressive. -
Cooler Master Xdream SE Review @ DarkVision
Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 | By: Dennis" The Xdream SE is really a thing to have! A better edition of the Xdream! You can control the speed external, on PCI bracket or 3.5” drive. This is really the #1 overclokers’ choice! You can easily overclock with 300 Mhz! I didn’t have any problem with the installation, it was just hard to open the packet. You’re a happy man when the packet is open ;-)"
I'd have to agree the package was a pain in the arse to open. Here is our review of the xDream for comparison. -
CeBit Geforce FX Ultra 5800 Pictures
Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 | By: DennisTons of pics and they all have one thing in common, the nVidia GeForceFX GPU. Be sure to check out the Gainward offering, it looks pretty sweet.
"Gainward were kind enough to take us at the rear of their stand and show off the below system which was running a reference 5800 Ultra board, but with watercooling. Apparently it was done by one of the Bit-Tech guys so kudos to them. The thing was running sweet (looping 3DMark 2001 and 2003 in front of our eyes) at 550/500, sadly they couldn't get rid of the memory lock, otherwise they were pretty sure it would go higher too. Still, the setup looked very l33t."
You might also notice that most of these cards are the Ultra version which we have been told won't be making it to retail shelves. -
Abit NF7-S Review @ AMD3D
Published: Monday, March 17, 2003 | By: DennisIn typical Abit fasion the PCB is a very dull brown so the board won't be the highlight of your next casemodding project. To some people that isn't important though.
"Here, I used an Athlon XP2200+ (Thoroughbred) and two sticks of good quality Samsung DDR400 ram for overclocking. I managed to overclock my Athlon XP2200+ (13.5x133) to 2.2Ghz (11x199) ... that's equivalent to an XP2600+. Rock solid stability with no problems. Amazing."
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Foxtrot and the l33+
Published: Monday, March 17, 2003 | By: DennisI'm sure that just about everybody has seen this comic so I won't say much about it, though be sure to check out the Ninjalane 1337 Dictionary for the translation.
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CeBit Day 3 Photos @ Hardwareluxx
Published: Friday, March 14, 2003 | By: DennisLots of good stuff in this gallery including some of the stuff that I already posted in the forums.
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Soltek CeBit Photos
Published: Friday, March 14, 2003 | By: DennisI got a press release from Soltek today showing off some of the cool things going on at CeBit this year, Of the items present we have two Springdale boards, Hammer board, VIA PT400 (in red!) VIA KT400A and a very cool and stylish look to the mini barebones cube called "QBIC-X"
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More Phj34r493
Published: Friday, March 14, 2003 | By: DennisLooking for news, though its kind of scarce at the moment, more later.
