Tech News
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Good Comics Today
Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: DennisToday is a great day for online comics. The "Tube" saga continues at Penny Arcade, and looks to be in vain for Tycho.
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AMD Could Extend 333MHz FSB to Athlon XP 2600+
Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: DennisCould this be a gift from AMD or just a feeble attempt to keep an aging processor line alive for just a few months more? I think the jury will be out on this one for a while.
"Despite its launch of the new 333MHz FSB Athlon XP 2700+ and 2800+ on October 1 and continuing production transfer to the 0.13-micron process, AMD has been facing tough sales, as its latest processors attract mainly top-end users with their relatively higher prices and its progress in transferring processes has still been slower than that of archrival Intel." -
Albatron PX845E Silver Edition Review @ accelenation
Published: Tuesday, November 5, 2002 | By: DennisI always get a kick out of accelenation reviews since there is usually something pretty wacky contained within.
"Like always, before I get to the benchmarks I like to check the FSB to make sure the manufacturer isn’t cheating in benchmarks, which some manufacturers are known to do. Here the PX845E’s FSB is clocked only a tad higher then the Intel Desktop boards, which shouldn’t make that much of a difference in benchmarks."
I think this is pretty much standard practice.
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Nvidia Mania's Day
Published: Tuesday, November 5, 2002 | By: DennisNot much to report here since the page is really just a bunch of pictures. Check out the NV30 fun facts.
"More floating point power than a Cray SV-1 Supercomputer"
Thats alot
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CP-100 Pentium 4 Liquid Heatsink
Published: Monday, November 4, 2002 | By: DennisThis is actually a pretty neat idea, phj34r the babblephish.
" As for the mechanism of the cooling " CP-100 ", those which heat are sent to the fin top from the heat sink by the fact that it circulates the liquid of the tank which is attached to both sides. The tank of the liquid entering is utilized in place of the heat pipe, perhaps it is easy to understand, you say. Furthermore, this liquid being the water, or being special ones, details are unclear. "
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Doom ]|[ Leaked Over the Weekend
Published: Monday, November 4, 2002 | By: DennisAs you can guess John Carmak is pissed and after further investigation it would appear that ATI is to blame (or someone at ATI).I have also heard reports that the Alpha of Doom ]|[ is only playable on an ATI 9700 and pretty much runs like cr4p on the Ti4600, go figure.
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Be Sure to Load Everything
Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: DennisI have gotten some reports of the new site looking funny with links being green and some text being black.
The reason for that can be attributed to the new stylesheet not being loaded properly. To solve the problem do the following.
press [shift] + your browsers reload/refresh button. This should reload everything from the site instead of the browser cache. -
VIA Will Request a Retrial
Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: DennisThis lawsuit between VIA and Intel has been going on for quite some time now and VIA seems to be unwavered by it. I think this quote sums it all up.
Other board makers said that even if VIA loses the case, which targets the P4X266 chipset only, the result would not affect VIA’s sales much, as the chipset is close to being phased out of the market now.
To little to late??
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Moddin an Apple
Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: DennisI was just speaking to Talon about this the other day and he was very quick to discredit me saying that an Apple is already modded.
He was so unsure of what he was doing, he labeled every component, including all the screws, to make sure he could figure out how to put it back together again.
"I always end up with extra screws and parts left over," he said on his website.
The result is Blue Ice, a stunning, transparent G4 tower that lights up with fluorescent blue neon and has a nifty LCD screen mounted in the front panel.
"I hit the power switch and boom, half my room glows electric, icy blue," Salas writes on his site.
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The Search Engine Mafia
Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: DennisNormally I would discredit this news posting as an attempt to regain web traffic lost because Google hates them but, they do make a pretty good point."When you're No. 4 that plays well; when you fall off, you tend to lose phone traffic. And if you don't have the right relationship with Google to find out what you could have done wrong, you're out of luck," Ahern said, noting that this can have a dangerous domino effect. "If you're not ranked in Google, Yahoo won't list you. It's incestuous"
