Tech News
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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.
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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. "
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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)."
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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.
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Crucial voted best place to buy RAM
Published: Wednesday, January 8, 2003 | By: Dennis"For the second year in a row, Crucial Technology has been voted the "best place to buy RAM" by readers of Computer Shopper magazine, a premier technology magazine in the US. "
Yeah! The best part is that the warehouse is like totally just down the street from me.
If you feel the urge to buy some ram click on the Crucial banner located above ^ and to the side -> (if the are missing just hit refresh a couple of times.)
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Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra2 Review @ Target PC
Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: DennisGigabyte has been on a "color" thing lately and it doesn't have anything to do with unified colors. Despite this we still have the same feature packed Gigabyte board we have grown to enjoy.
"We at TargetPC have been trying to get our hands on a Gigabyte motherboard for over a year. Recently at Comdex 2002 we sat down with Gigabyte and arranged our first review with them. "
Funny I didn't see Gigabyte there, then again I guess we missed a lot. -
Hercules DigiFire 7.1 Review @ Maximum3D
Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: DennisThis is one of the strangest sound card combos that I have ever seen but I'm a purest when it comes to add-in cards. From a sound-processing standpoint the DigiFire is a Fortissimo III 7.1 with the unique feature being the two Firewire ports.
"PC audio performance has truly come of age in the past two years. What was once a simple system speaker beeping, is now a full-featured surround sound system with input and outputs to satisfy even the most tech savy gamer."
Hey I remember that beeping, it was cool. -
Cooler Master X-Dream Review @ RadiativeNZ
Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: DennisWe have been kicking this heatsink around the labs for the past few months and it has yet to dissapoint.
"Christmas is also coming up, so today I went to the RNZ labs and saw what DiscoSanta had left in my stocking.
Something brand new... something Coolermaster. The Coolermaster HAC-V81 "XDream"." -
RoydRage's Prometeia / Lian-Li Build
Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: DennisThis is one of those case mods where once you have it built you're not going to want to move it, you will have to check out the mod to see what I mean.
