Tech News
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Foxconn Revenues Grow
Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 | By: Dennis"Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry), the largest private company in Taiwan, posted its fourth straight month of record revenues at NT$29.015 billion for December 2002, closing the year with a staggering NT$245.002 billion in sales, up 69.8% from 2001.
The company’s full-year revenue is expected to top the NT$300 billion mark this year."
Not to shabby for a privately owned company. -
Nvidia to Sell NV30 Cards
Published: Monday, January 13, 2003 | By: Dennis"Nvidia is said to have decided to handle all the design and production of new GeForce FX (NV30) graphics cards to ensure product stability and quality. According to industry sources, Nvidia will only release the more simplified NV31 and NV34 chips to card makers for product design."
Not many cards change from the reference design though I can see how this might make a few companies a little upset. -
More Speed for the Pentium 4
Published: Monday, January 13, 2003 | By: DennisNews.com is speaking of the new "Springdale" chipset from Intel, you may remember that Intel announced the "Springdale" during Comdex and pretty much caught everyone off guard.
" The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker is coming out with a new chipset, code-named Springdale, for Pentium 4 PCs. The chipset runs at 800MHz, substantially faster than the 400MHz and 533MHz chipsets currently available for Pentium 4 computers, according to sources close to the company. "
Being able to deliver is key in the tech sector and right now it seems that Intel is doing just that.
" The chip is expected to be discussed at the Intel Developer Forum kicking off in San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 18. Earlier, some analysts speculated that Springdale would come with a 667MHz bus. Desktop chip price cuts, which haven't occurred since November, will also likely occur around the same time to ease the introduction of the 3.2GHz chip. " -
Albatron PX845PEV Pro Review @ Nexus Hardware
Published: Monday, January 13, 2003 | By: DennisYet another Albatron review, and yet another ruined board with the floppy connector in the wrong spot. But who am I to judge.
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Aopen MK77M-V Review @ ExtremeMhz
Published: Monday, January 13, 2003 | By: DennisThis is a cute little board from AOpen and has the a-typical PCB color, blue. This is your typical Socket A motherboard review though there is something a little a-typical about it. If you happen to check it out look at the page title for the review.
"ExtremeMhz-Chaintech 7NJS Zenith Motherboard Review"
Someone grab me my web developer beatin' stick! -
Overclocking the Intel 2.4B @ OCAddiction
Published: Friday, January 10, 2003 | By: Dennis"Intel made great strides recently with the introduction of the Northwood Processor with a .13micron die as well as 512KB of L2 cache. Intel has since furthered this with the inclusion of the 533MHz System bus with it's latest processors beginning at 2.26GHz. Note the label showing Intel has intended this product to be installed by a professional."
They go on to clock the processor to 3GHz and show performance differences. 500+Mhz o/c's are quite common with the Northwood core provided you have proper cooling. -
Pentium 4 Cooler Roundup @ Digital-Daily
Published: Friday, January 10, 2003 | By: Dennis"Today we'll be looking into more coolers with the aluminum radiator and the same amount of copper-based coolers, among them "the heavy gun" - Zalman 6500B-CU. "
On the testing page they have a shot of the Intel "Sunflower" cooler that I eluded to in my Sunflower II review. Quite impressive IMO. -
Soyo miniDragon Preview @ Accelenation
Published: Friday, January 10, 2003 | By: DennisI'm really not sure what to make of this due to the disclaimer at the bottom.
"*Note* Please remember information in this article is based on confirmed information as well as speculated information. "
Looks cool though. -
VIA Unveils Their First DirectX 9 Graphics Core
Published: Thursday, January 9, 2003 | By: DennisMicrosoft makes the world go round, and all this time I thought it was money. Go figure.
"Developed by S3 Graphics, a joint venture between VIA and SONICblue (formerly S3), the Delta Chrome supports Microsoft’s DirectX 9 application interface using HLSL (high level shader language)."
But will it play Quake? -
Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra Review @ Active Hardware
Published: Thursday, January 9, 2003 | By: DennisA picture is worth a thousand words, so what do you do if you have no pictures? Write a thousand words.
Active Hardware has posted another motherboard review and this time the focus is on the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra.
The board isn't as colorful as previous Gigabyte boards.
