Tech News
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AMD Introduces Barton-Core
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: Dennis"According to AMD, the Athlon XP 3000+ offers a total on-chip cache memory of 640KB, an increase of nearly 70% over previous AMD Athlon XP processors, and a FSB (front-side bus) speed of 333MHz."
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K8 Delay Good for Business
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: Dennis"Taiwanese chipset designers VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) expressed little disappointment regarding yet another delay by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in launching its K8-core Athlon 64 processors, stating that the postponement may in fact help maintain chipset prices as well as their profits."
A little delay isn't always bad.
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AMD Barton Reviews
Published: Monday, February 10, 2003 | By: DennisIt would seem that the NDA has lifted on the new Athlon processor codenamed: Barton. The processor is basically a Tbred processor with twice the L2 cache (512), and a 166Mhz FSB. On paper this processor looks as though it will fly, though it doesn’t seem to be much faster than a equally clocked Tbred.
I’ve listed a few Barton reviews below, though if you search around you’ll find a few more.
Anandtech
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nForce2 Reviews - reference system
Published: Sunday, February 9, 2003 | By: DennisI have seen a few comments stating that I should have compared the Soltek Sl-75FRN to some of the more common nForce2 boards out there like the Epox EP-8RDA+. Well I assure you that tried to use the 8RDA+ as the reference system in the 75FRN review but unfortunately the Epox that I received was DOA and is currently in the process of being RMA'ed to the mfg.
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MSI 655 Max Reveiw @ Anandtech
Published: Friday, February 7, 2003 | By: DennisThe Anandtech motherboard review gang takes has the SiS655 enabled motherboard from MSI. Incase you don't remember this is a dual channel DDR chipset for the Pentium 4 platform supporting DDR333. So far this is the second board that we've seen with this chipset, could there be more?
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Chaintech 9EJS1 ZENITH Review @ Viper's Lair
Published: Friday, February 7, 2003 | By: Dennis"Chaintech uses a nice gold heatsink and fan combo (as well as the biggest fan grill I've seen on such a small fan) to cool the Northbridge down. The Northbridge doesn't run very warm, but when you're overclocking, any extra cooling will help. In case you're wondering, the fan grill on the Northbridge does not get in the way of heatsink installation."
This is a i845PE enabled motherboard from Chaintech. Even though they claim that it doesn't overclock very well they still got 3Ghz out of their 2.4B. -
Soyo P4I 845PE Review @ Overclockers NZ
Published: Friday, February 7, 2003 | By: DennisIt would appear that the growing trend to integrate and bundle less has hit Soyo, though in this case I don't see it as a bad thing. They have posted some good overclocking and tweaking results but have taken issue with some of their marketing decisions.
" P4I 845PE isn't the ordinary Soyo motherboard. Soyo cuts down the usual heavy loaded accessories and made some improvements on performance and overclocking. The choice of onboard chips is somewhat different from other makers. The overall features offered looks nice at glace but a bit weak when examined in details. 4-Channel sound is below today's standard sound 6-channel sound is the standard feature these days."
This is inspiring me to finish my comments system this weekend.
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R350 in Mass Production
Published: Thursday, February 6, 2003 | By: DennisThe Inquirer has some good information on the new graphics core from ATI and even claims that we should see it sometime near the end of March.
"We expect the chip to launch at a core clock of 375MHz. It will incorporate DirectX 9.1 features, which is great if you're going to keep the card for at least two years, but don't expect to see any games written for it released for at least a year."
Kind of makes you wonder why you would want to upgrade doesn't it?
On a side note the Radeon 9900 will initially be released with DDRI but also supports DDR2 for even more theoretical bandwidth.
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Adversity makes Nvidia Stronger
Published: Thursday, February 6, 2003 | By: DennisThe question is, after a bunk deal with Microsoft will nVidia be able to come back on top of the graphics market?
"Huang is confident that Nvidia will end up back on top. "Tiger Woods doesn't win every day. We don't deny that ATI has a wonderful product and it took the performance lead from us. But if they think they're going to hold onto it, they're smoking something hallucinogenic."" -
Radeon 9700 Pro Review @ 3dXtreme
Published: Wednesday, February 5, 2003 | By: DennisI actually broke down and bought one of these cards for the test bench and though I won't be doing a review of the card I can tell you that the 9700 Pro is the fastest card I have ever owned.
