Tech News
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MSI GNB Max2-L Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2003 | By: DennisGranite Bay boards have been slowly trickling into the retail marketplace but with Springdale right in its heels I wouldn't expect a flood of Granite Bay boards to happen any time soon. Sad really but that is how progress goes.
"Although the GNB Max2-L comes with better overclocking features, it doesn't come with as many on-board peripherals as the previous GNB Max-FISR. On-board, we found only a miserable Intel Fast Ethernet controller based on the Intel 82562EZ 10/100Mbps controller. It's not the usual Gigabit Ethernet LAN that was used on the first GNB Max-FISR. According to the manual, the Fast Ethernet controller is an optional item that can be replaced with a Gigabit Ethernet controller. However, we think MSI may not offer the GNB Max2 with Gigabit LAN as they had initially wanted this board as an affordable lower-end product. " -
CoolerMaster LED Fan Review @ Voided Warranty
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2003 | By: DennisPersonally I'm starting to like these fans more and more ever since our review of the same fan not to long ago. The fan was of course using the Blue LED's but CoolerMaster has since expanded the line to include White, Purple, Red, etc.. (the White ones are rather bright
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Pentalpha Aqualia Repost @ DataFuse
Published: Thursday, March 20, 2003 | By: Dennis" Every day for the last 3 months I've been getting emails from visitors who really want to read the pentalpha aqualia preview. Because of some legal shit back then I decided to take down the preview until I had some more information. Since pentalpha didn't even bother to contact me, I decided to play the game their way. If for some reason they've changed their minds and want to settle this like adults, I hope they will contact me. But I'm afraid they won't."
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KT600 and SiS SiS748 ready for 400MHz FSB
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 | By: Dennis"IA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) are poised to support the new 400MHz FSB (front-side bus) Barton-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with their respective KT600 and SiS748 chipsets."
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"With the new offerings, both companies are expected to be more competitive in the high-end sector against Nvidia, whose nForce2 chipset has been gaining popularity due to its strong price/performance ratio. According to motherboard sources, monthly shipments of nForce2 chipsets are likely to have exceeded 500,000 units."
There is no doubt that the current nFoce2 motherboards can handle 400Mhz FSB, they will just need a BIOS update to accept the new processor configurations. -
Corsair TwinX Review @ Tech PC
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 | By: DennisWith Dual Channel DDR becoming a mainstay in new chipset development there will be an increased demand for paired memory modules like TWINX from Corsair. Even though the need for a true paired memory module can be argued the performance gains do speak for themselves.
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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 ;-)"
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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.
