Tech News
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pcToys DDRMaXX Heatspreaders
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2002 | By: DennisThese appear to be the same spreaders that you can get on some factory pieces of DDR.
" My gripe with this product is the presence of crappy TIM. It's best to take the extra couple minutes and remove it. Unless you want to permanently affix the heatspreaders to your ram, don't use the TIM. The temperatures won't make much of a difference." -
Inno3D Tornado Ti4200 AGP 8X Review @ BoogleTech
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2002 | By: DennisInno3D makes some pretty good middle of the road video cards that seem to overclock quite well.
"I seem to be handing out too many awards as of late. Hardware manufacturers seem to have listened to their users and changed everything that they have complained about. The only area this card has failed in is quality due to the visual distortions. I'm guessing that this is most likely a bug (albeit a fairly common one) because it definitely doesn't happen to all cards, but it does happen to a few. "
I'd say its all or nothing bud, my award. "No soup for you!" -
Pepsi boots Britney, picks Beyonce
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2002 | By: Dennis" After two years, PepsiCo Inc. has said goodbye to Britney Spears as its spokeswoman and replaced her with Beyonce Knowles of the R&B trio Destiny's Child. "
I think this is a good move on Pepsi's part, and no I'm not switching to coke.
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Soltek 'cube' System Announced
Published: Saturday, December 28, 2002 | By: DennisThis new mini barebones cube comes in 2 sizes both using the Intel i845GE chipset making it one of the more powerful cubes to be released.
I have posted some pictures and specs of the new barebones system in the message forum -
Kind of Slow on the News Front
Published: Thursday, December 26, 2002 | By: DennisWell its the day after Christmas and all through the house not a CPU fan was spinning not even a mouse. Actually I liked my vacation so much I decided I would take some time to get things caught up and play some new games that I got for Christmas.
I'm looking for some cool news stories to post but its been one of them typically slow news days being the day after a major US holiday.
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Holiday Time, Read a Book!
Published: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 | By: DennisI would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and to thank everyone that helped make Ninjalane what it is today.
I'm going to take the next couple of days off and spend some time with family and friends, I'd suggest that you do the same. -
Vacuum Tubes by AOpen
Published: Monday, December 23, 2002 | By: DennisNormally you see this sort of thing on a hardware review site but AOpen has pulled out the big guns on this one, or there is some hardware nut with some pull at News.com, either way AOpen has gone mainstream with their vacuum tube sound system.
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Intel to Fight VIA Antitrust Win
Published: Monday, December 23, 2002 | By: DennisVIA posted an announcement of their win on their website but really didn't go into detail as to what they won. The Inquirer article doesn't do much better but I'm thinking it has something to do with this.
" This slab of a complicated set of legal proceedings relates to a law suit Intel started last year in this country claiming Via's CPUs and chipsets infringed five Intel patents."
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SiS Gets HyperThreading License
Published: Monday, December 23, 2002 | By: Dennis"Chipset designer Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) recently revealed that it has acquired licensing for Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology and that five of its products support the new standard. Instead of an official announcement, SiS released the information on its website last week. Most motherboard makers said that they had not been informed and were unaware of the news."
Negotiations are not over for SiS since HyperThreading isn't the only license SiS will need to get.
"SiS says that it is still negotiating licensing for the 800MHz FSB technology." -
Concern About Intel Springdale Licensing
Published: Friday, December 20, 2002 | By: Dennis"For the new platform, though Intel did not ask clients not to manufacture products based on the Taiwanese-made chipsets, the chip giant has been reminding its customers during recent monthly meetings that the three Taiwanese chipset designers have not yet acquired licensing on its new technologies, motherboard sources said."
So Intel is saying that even though the chipset company doesn't have a license mobo makers can still make boards right?
"Without the licensing, manufacturers will not be able to feature support for the new-generation P4 processors in their products. As a result, if Taiwanese chipset designers are unable to get the licensing, board makers will have to adopt more Intel chipsets."
It would appear that the answer is yes and no. They can make the boards without recourse from Intel as long as the additional features of the Pentium 4 are not enabled.
