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• Canterwood Reviews Abound

  Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  I'm not going to list them all but here are a few that you can cut your teeth into.
  [H]ard|OCP
  The Tech-Report
  The HardwareZone

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• Intel i875P Canterwood Review @ Accelenation

  Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Intel’s 875P has shown impressive gains over the existing i850E and i845PE even on our benchmarks that aren’t too memory bandwidth intensive. Compared to the E7205, the 875P performs on par except the 875P offers one advantage, 800 MHz FSB support. Integrating CSA and PAT technology, the 875P is an awesome solution for the high end enthusiast and/or workstation user."
  The gains are smaller than I had expected but this is a new chipset and motherboard direct from Intel, so the impressive stuff is yet to come.

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• Soltek SL-75FRN-RL Review @ Maximum OC

  Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "EDIT: I received an email asking about the lack of four holes around the socket. I tell ya, I totally forgot about that! Yes this board does not have four holes around the socket as you can see, but it didn't affect me (which is why I forgot about it) as I used a heat sink that utilized the socket clips."
  This was the first question I got about the Soltek 75FRN. The holes are not there and I suspect that this "oversight" is only because they didn't need to be there per AMD documentation.
  
  Check out our review of the SL-75FRN here

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• ASUS P4SDX Deluxe Review @ Hardware Zone

  Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Strangely, the deluxe version of the P4SDX comes with system bus settings up to 166MHz only. The good thing is that the board will allow you to overclock all the way to 166MHz, but that's about it. This left us with a rather sour feeling as we felt that there's more untapped potential in the P4SDX Deluxe. The non-deluxe version, however, has settings up to 200MHz. "
  This usually means that there is some other chip or hardware peice that can't run at any speed above 166 so they have to limit your overclocking ability or risk system instability.

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• Power Supply Round-up @ NordicHardware

  Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "As computers evolve they need more and more power to function as they are supposed to. There are many demands put on your power supply, and it is supposed to handle them to be good enough for your system. The first is of course that it is powerful enough, you want to avoid voltage fluctuations and drops."
  There is really no rule of thumb for choosing a power supply though I'd say 350w is the minimum for any high performance computer.

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• LED Chaser Kit

  Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  BYOKRLS, or Build your own Knight Rider LED Strobe. Not sure I'd be willing to build my own but the possibilities are endless for the electrically inclined.

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• Networking With FireWire @ Voided Warranty

  Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  Every Mac user in existence knows of Firewire and some will even swear by it. Though in the midst of video editing and hot swap hard drives there is the ability to Network across Firewire and it actually works pretty good, cept for the length limitations. Voided Warranty has a little something something up on the subject; though they don't recommend it, go figure.

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• Intel i845PE/GE Roundup @ Digital-Daily

  Published: Friday, April 11, 2003 | By: Dennis

  This roundup list reads like a whos who of i845PE/GE motherboards including just about everyone under the sun. Check it out.
  "As for the choice of a board for the value system, there are merely four such boards in our review: Jetway PX845 PEV, Albatron PX845 PEV, Soltek 85DR3-C and Elitegroup L4IPEA. They all are of approximately the same price (but Soltek is a bit more expensive), provide the same performance and offer the same feature-set.
  
  For the overclocker on a tough budget, I would recommend the Albatron PX845 PEV board which is the only one of the listed that allows selecting the MEM:CPU multiplier arbitrarily. If you don't intend to overclock, any of the mentioned boards is a good choice."

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• Asustek, MSI to Launch VIA Boards

  Published: Thursday, April 10, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "With the resolution of the legal dispute between Intel and VIA Technologies, Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) said that they will soon introduce motherboards based on VIA’s 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) PT400 chipsets.
  
  According to the companies’ schedules, MSI is expected to be the first manufacturer to release the PT400 board, which will be available in May. Asustek said that its PT400 motherboards will hit the market in June."
  Does this mean that VIA will be back in the Pentium 4 chipset game?, wonderful news!

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• Soltek 1200Mhz FSB!

  Published: Thursday, April 10, 2003 | By: Dennis

  The lab guys at Soltek were playing around again and got the soon to be released Springdale boards to overclock from 800Mhz to 1200Mhz FSB!! See the latest Soltek press release in the Ninjalane Message Forums
  
  In the same press release Soltek announced info on 800Mhz processor support in their i845PE line of motherboards (SL-85DR3, etc..)
  
  Not bad if you don't mind running your system overclocked.

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