Tech News
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Rumor Mill Intel Product Roadmap Details
Published: Friday, February 28, 2003 | By: DennisExtremeTech is calling this info an "Exclusive" while other sites are simply calling it rumor material. Either way if the info did come from Intel and covers the next 2 years of future product development somebody will most likely be in big trouble.
Thus far ExtremeTech has posted the following information.
Secret Centrino Features:
Pinless Tejas:
Grantsdale Chipset:
"Not only do we have details about other innovations, including a new graphics core, and the "NewCard" expansion format for wireless, we've even tracked down where the codename actually comes from (think big sky country)."
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Gigabyte SINXP1394 Review @ GamePC
Published: Friday, February 28, 2003 | By: DennisHere is another review of the Gigabyte SINXP1394 SiS655 enabled motherboard. I seem to remember that AOpen was first to announce a SiS655 motherboard and the first review of a SiS655 motherboard was the AOpen AX45-4D. So, knowing that why did Gigabyte beat them to market?
"So today at GamePC, we're looking at the first motherboard to hit the market based on the new SiS 655 chipset, Gigabyte's confusingly-named "SINXP1394". The board was previously sold in small quantities, and is still mentioned at Gigabyte's website under the name "GA-8SQ800 Ultra2". The board has a feature-set and design eerily reminiscent of the popular Gigabyte 8INXP, based on the Intel E7205 chipset. Can Gigabyte one-up themselves with a new top of the line Pentium 4 performance board? Let's see. "
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ATI and nVidia, What is the Big Deal?
Published: Friday, February 28, 2003 | By: DennisTech Report seems to have all of the answers.
" Since ATI released the Radeon 9500 Pro, I haven't recommended a GeForce4 Ti to anyone, and not recommending GeForce4 Titaniums means that I haven't recommended graphics cards from Abit, Jetway, Albatron, Asus, Chaintech, Gainward, PNY, Compro, eVGA, MSI or XFX. It's not that those manufacturers aren't building quality cards, because in many cases they are. The problem is that each of those manufacturers' recent graphics products were, and still are tied to NVIDIA's GeForce4 line, which hasn't been competitive for months. "
Call me a fanboy but I still think nVidia can pull it off, they just need to stick to things they know and create spin offs for the things they don't. -
400Mhz Barton-core Athlon XP
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2003 | By: Dennis"Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to introduce a new 400MHz FSB (front-side bus), Barton-core Athlon XP processor in May to strengthen its product portfolio before it launches the long talked about K8-based Athlon 64 processors in September."
Makes you wonder if this processor line will ever die. -
Interview with Nvidia CEO
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2003 | By: Dennis"Q: What is Nvidia’s plan for the chipset business this year? Is the company thinking about entering the Intel-platform market?
A: Despite our strong product portfolio, we have still claimed only a limited share of 3-4% in the chipset sector. However, with the performance of the nForce chipsets being recognized by more and more customers, we expected to take up 50-60% of the AMD-platform market by the end of 2003.
We are not considering entering the Intel-platform market at present, as chipsets and processors are only part of the components in PCs. We believe in the future PC users will care more and more about applications, instead of whether the PC is built with Intel or AMD platforms. Also, the profit margin of chipsets is already small, so companies will not be able to gain much profit if they have to pay Intel the US$5 licensing fee. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) is the best example."
They could always pull a VIA, so far it would appear that they have gotten away with it too. Then again VIA have been rather quiet these past few months. hummmm -
Lan Party Humor
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2003 | By: DennisIf you have ever attended a LAN party you undoubtedly have seem one of not all of the people on this list. Keep this page in mind the next time you hit the LAN party scene.
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Asus P4PE - Black Pearl Review @ AMD3D
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2003 | By: DennisA funky black board from Asus featuring the worlds first and only rotating heatsink, a huge variety of BIOS level controls, and decent overclocking. A must have if you happen to like Asus stuffs.
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Dell Dude Talks of Life, and Stuff
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2003 | By: Dennis"On February 9, he was arrested on charges of buying less than two ounces of marijuana. The arrest prompted Dell to cancel the actor's contract, which was valued somewhere in the vicinity of $500,000.
The down-to-earth NYU acting student says it's the best thing that’s happened to him.
"I'm done with the Dell stuff," he told The New York Sun in his first interview since his arrest. "I wasn’t being taken seriously as an actor, I was having a hard time getting proper auditions. I'm a little [angry] at how Dell handled it, but I feel done with the commercials. I learned a lesson I needed to learn. It's me; people can accept it or not. It's a part of life." "
Whoa, I wonder how long it will take before Compaq picks this kid up. -
Soltek SL85DR3-CL Review @ AMD3D
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2003 | By: DennisIt isnt' very often you see an Intel review on an AMD site but the world is filled with mysterious things.
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Epox 8RDA+ Review @ 3dXtreme
Published: Thursday, February 27, 2003 | By: DennisThe nForce2 platform is really the top of the line when it comes to Athlon performance, and Epox pulled out the stops when it comes to available bios options making this board an overclockers dream.
"The Epox 8RDA+ at stock speed performed very well however it was during the overclocked testing that the Epox 8RDA+ really shined. I have been running this motherboard with the front side bus set at 200 mhz for about 2 weeks now and with 100% stability."
Sounds a little like the Soltek nForce2 board with the sweet spot being more in the 195Mhz range. This of course was with the 1.2bios revision, things got better when the 1.3bios was released.
