Tech News
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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. -
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. -
LED Chaser Kit
Published: Monday, April 14, 2003 | By: DennisBYOKRLS, 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: DennisEvery 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. -
Intel i845PE/GE Roundup @ Digital-Daily
Published: Friday, April 11, 2003 | By: DennisThis 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." -
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! -
Soltek 1200Mhz FSB!
Published: Thursday, April 10, 2003 | By: DennisThe 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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Antec TrueControl 550w Powersupply Review @ TweakTown
Published: Thursday, April 10, 2003 | By: DennisThis is actually a very special power supply and true to its name. Not only do you get supa extra long power cables but you also get a 5.25 control bay and an external molex connector. Check out the review for more info.
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CoolerMaster Aero Review @ Rojak Pot
Published: Thursday, April 10, 2003 | By: DennisOMG 12 pages to review a copper heatsink.
The Aero cooler uses the same copper heatsink from the XDreamSE the differance being the huge blower motor sitting on top.
"Because of the protruding clip, I wasn't able to mount the motherboard because the PSU was in the way of the clip! So what did I have to do to get the motherboard in?
I had to unscrewed two of the screws that were holding the PSU in place so that I could tilt it upwards. This was the only way I could get enough free space to accomodate the huge thumb-clip!"
Its pretty safe to say there will be quite a few of these reviews in the coming months. -
Soltek SL-75FRN-R Review @ VR-Zone
Published: Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | By: DennisThis is the RAID version of the same board we reviewed here. They did have some problems with overclocking and of course blamed it on how the bios doesn't "unlock" the processor.
I would have to agree with them, it is annoying but hardly a shortfall.
"The Soltek SL-75FRN-R is not able to unlock the CPU through its BIOS therefore we had to do a pure front side bus overclock, and were able to achieve a maximum clock frequency of 2470mhz using a front side bus of 190mhz."
Keep in mind they started from 166Mhz.
