Tech News
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Gainward’s Ultra-750XP Review @ GamePC
Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 | By: DennisGainward is one of my favorite video card makers, they produce a quality product that performs well under all conditions.
Keep in mind; the Ultra-750XP card uses the Ti4800SE nVidia GPU, which is basically the Ti4400 with AGP 8x support. In the past there has been some confusion as to what chip is the Ti4600 replacement. Just remember Ti4800 "SuxX0r Edition" and you'll never go wrong. -
10,000rpm SATA Western Digital
Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 | By: Dennis" Expected to be shipping later this month, the WD Raptor hard drive is expected to sell for approximately 30 percent less than competing SCSI hard drives. Initially, the hard drive will be available in a 36 GB capacity. In addition to its 5.2 ms average seek time, 10,000 RPM, 1.2 million hours MTBF and five-year warranty, data throughput is 150 MB/second from the SATA interface. The performance roadmap for SATA extends up to 600 MB/second, ensuring a reliable standard for storage providers and customers in the years ahead. "
I have been pretty loyal to Maxtor over the years but knowing this I might just switch. -
Drug Charges for the Dell Dude
Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 | By: DennisEveryone is making a big deal out of this so I figured that I would post the news story.
" Curtis, 22, was charged with criminal and unlawful possession of marijuana, two misdemeanor charges that carry possible jail sentences of up to three months.
However, at his arraignment on Monday afternoon, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Ellen Coin adjourned the case for one year and said the charges could be dismissed if Curtis, who lives in New York City, gets in no trouble for the next 12 months."
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Chaintech GeForce FX card
Published: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 | By: DennisI've noticed that many companies are being pretty hush hush when it comes to showing off their designs for the GeForce FX but not Chaintech. Here is a card that not only looks pretty cool but also has built in lighting effects.
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Nvidia Expected to Dump GeForce FX??
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: DennisSome rumors don't hold enough water to be taken seriously.
"SOURCES CLOSE to Nvidia tell the INQUIRER that the graphics firm has told its partners that the GeForce FX is likely to be discontinued, with the firm instead concentrating on the NV35 platform.
The sources said that the firm has made the move because of an update that its bitter rival ATI is expected to soon roll out of the door."
Kyle from [H]ard|OCP posted info over the weekend about this move by nVidia, concluding that the GeForceFX Ultra would never reach retail shelves.
Considering the performance, and lateness to market I think getting the NV30 out the door and quickly washing their hands of it is the best move for the company. Now they can move full bore into NV35 production and hopefully get rid of the huge blower. 
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Abit NF7-S Review @ Digital-Daily
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: DennisHere is another nForce2 board that uses the 4-pin power connector. To bad it doesn't appear to be overclocker friendly.
"At speeds like 166 MHz and higher the radiator is simply red-hot - :) I first noticed that on the Epox 8RDA+ board - that time the chipset radiator seemed hot to touch. But when I removed the radiator, put out the thermal pad resembling chewing gum and then fitted the radiator back on KPT-8, I felt the aluminum radiator burning my fingers. " -
AMD Introduces Barton-Core
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: Dennis"According to AMD, the Athlon XP 3000+ offers a total on-chip cache memory of 640KB, an increase of nearly 70% over previous AMD Athlon XP processors, and a FSB (front-side bus) speed of 333MHz."
The new proc is a little 'spensive right now but it is nice to actually see a new proc on the market. -
K8 Delay Good for Business
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: Dennis"Taiwanese chipset designers VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) expressed little disappointment regarding yet another delay by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in launching its K8-core Athlon 64 processors, stating that the postponement may in fact help maintain chipset prices as well as their profits."
A little delay isn't always bad.
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AMD Barton Reviews
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: DennisIt would seem that the NDA has lifted on the new Athlon processor codenamed: Barton. The processor is basically a Tbred processor with twice the L2 cache (512), and a 166Mhz FSB. On paper this processor looks as though it will fly, though it doesn’t seem to be much faster than a equally clocked Tbred.
I’ve listed a few Barton reviews below, though if you search around you’ll find a few more.
Anandtech
AmdMB
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nForce2 Reviews - reference system
Published: Sunday, February 9, 2003 | By: DennisI have seen a few comments stating that I should have compared the Soltek Sl-75FRN to some of the more common nForce2 boards out there like the Epox EP-8RDA+. Well I assure you that tried to use the 8RDA+ as the reference system in the 75FRN review but unfortunately the Epox that I received was DOA and is currently in the process of being RMA'ed to the mfg.
