Tech News
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VIA Wafer Orders Increase to Meet Demand
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2002 | By: Dennis"VIA Technologies recently confirmed that it has placed an extra order of 3,000-5,000 wafers at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to resolve the tight supply of its KT266A, P4X266A and P4M266A chipsets. Output of the products is expected at the end of this month."
These older chipsets are much cheaper than the higher end models thus making upgrades easier on the end user. -
MSI and Leadtek First with GeForce FX
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisSimply put
"Based on the production schedule, GeForce FX graphics cards are expected to hit the market at the end of January at the earliest."
This is some good news for sure, it also means that the cards will be pretty spendy at first. -
800MHz FSB Roadmap Updates
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: Dennis"The updates were in response to Intel’s specification changes in its new Springdale platform. The chip giant had announced that instead of 677MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR333 standards, its Springdale products, expected to be launched in the second quarter of 2003, will come with 800MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR400 designs."
Go Intel!
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AOpen AX4PE Max Review @ Active Hardware
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisAnother AOpen motherboard under review at Active Hardware this time it's the AX4PE Max. This AOpen board is one of those that doesn't have the "tube" style audio but performs about the same with more PCI slots. Be aware the review is a little light in the image department.
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Springdale Benchmarks
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisThe next chapter in Pentium 4 performance has yet to be written but we can always rely on rumors and leaked info to get us by. Though I endorse HyperThreading I will have to say that I agree with this statement.
"THE SAME document showed "positive press coverage" across print, TV, and Web sites. Those quoted as endorsing Hypethreading were [H]ardOCP, Ace's Hardware, Extreme Tech and Cnet. Intel reached over 1,000 press and analysts when it launched the 3.06GHz, apparently. It got two of us from the INQ, that's for sure, so reaching its "critical mass" target. However, no-one at the INQ has been let loose on HT technology yet, unless Andrew Thomas has got one in his bottom drawer and hasn't told us yet. Our jury of four is, therefore, still out on this technology... "
Ninjalane hasn't gotten one either.
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DFI AD77 Infinity Review @ ExtremeCooling
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisThis DFI board is based on the KT400 chipset and looks to be a very solid package. All of the needed connectors come included in the box, even a serial ATA cable. Even though the EC guys didn't post any benchmarks
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JavaScript is not the Problem
Published: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 | By: DennisBelieve it or not there are groups out there saying that JavaScript is the root of everything evil on the web. The scripting language has been used to help spread virri, launch popup ads, and even make cool mousetrails. Though can you really punish JavaScript? I don’t think so, in all reality the functionality for all of this has been there for years and was just used as a tool to help get the job done. In the case of virri, It is still the consumer that made it spread and security holes that make it happen.
"Hartmann said. In this way, Nimda would set the stage for replication. "It was just one to two lines [that] caused vulnerable (unpatched) browsers to automatically execute infected .eml files. As a result, people got infected with Nimda by browsing infected Web sites." " -
Mozilla is the Coolest
Published: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 | By: Dennis"While Microsoft claims to be a champion of innovation, the Mozilla team has developed features that Explorer still does not have. Christopher Blizzard, one of the Mozilla developers, told NewsFactor that it is all about choice. "One thing that Mozilla does better than all the other browsers out there is that we understand that people want to use the Web in their own ways,""
Speaking as a web developer I'm quite impressed with the advances that the Mozilla team has made over the years. -
AOpen AX4R+ Review @ Sudhian Media
Published: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 | By: DennisThis is really more of a "what is Granite Bay" article than a review of the AOpen AX4R+ but you can never have too much enough of a good thing. We did visit the AOpen booth at Comdex this year and actually saw the AX4R+ first hand. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the board strays a little from the "typical" reference design.
"The question now is whether or not moving to a platform that equalizes total bandwidth between the DDR and RDRAM systems will show much of a benefit to DDR. Its possible, in fact, that a single-channel DDR system may provide almost all of the performance of a dual-channel system—a question we’ll be investigating today as well."
It is possible to reach similar speeds with overclocking but issues with stability become a problem. -
Soltek SL-85ERV Review @ 3dXtreme
Published: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 | By: DennisThis is kind of a short review of the SL-85ERV but they do make some valid points. Not sure I agree with the perfect 10 score but hey do your own comparison. Here is our review of the SL-85ERV for reference.
