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• VIA fills KT333 shortage with remarked KT400

  Published: Monday, September 23, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Digitimes is reporting that due to a shortage and eventual "phase-out" of the KT333 chipset they are going to start selling remarked KT400 chipsets as KT333 parts. This change does pose a problem for motherboard makers in that the new remarked chip cannot be applied to current KT333 PCB's.
  
  "The major specification difference between the current KT400 and the remarked version lies in their AGP technology support. The present KT400 supports AGP 8x, while the remarked chipset offers only AGP 4x graphics function."

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• Albatron GeForce4 Ti 4200 Turbo Review @ EXHardware

  Published: Friday, September 20, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is one of the most custom geForce4 Ti 4200 cards that I've see in recent months. The card has a copper GPU cooler, ramsinks and features tinyBGA memory instead of the recommended TOSP. It is quite an amazing low-end card.

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• Albatron GeForce4 Ti 4400 Review @ got|apex?

  Published: Friday, September 20, 2002 | By: Dennis

  After Hercules backed out of the nVidia video card market many of use wondered where we would get our fix of blue video card PCBs. got|apex? has a shinny new Albatron geForce4 Ti 4400 that might just fit the bill.

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• How to make a damn fine sandwich

  Published: Friday, September 20, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Yum Yum,
  
  "(NOTE: DO NOT use those sick-ass pickles McDonalds and Burger King put on their burgers. Use real pickles that have been soaked in garlic, vinegar, and beet juice. If you can't find any, just skip the pickles)"

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• Hynix Independence??

  Published: Thursday, September 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is the story of the memory company that wouldn't go away and even the South Korean government is "skeptical" about their survival.
  
  In case you might have forgotten Boise based Micron offered to buy up the debt ridden company until a last minute Hynix board vote squashed the deal.

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• Big Names Pay for Game Ads

  Published: Thursday, September 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "In a development that brings together the trends toward "advergaming" and product placement, Intel (Quote, Company Info, News) and McDonald's (Quote, Company Info, News) have signed on to have their products and brands integrated into the debut version of Electronic Arts' The Sims Online. "
  
  They say that in the game the faster Pentium 4 computer will increase their logic and fun points but I wonder what the McD's will do to your sim.

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• NV18 and NV28 Launch This Month

  Published: Thursday, September 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  According to Digitimes Nvidia will be launching two new chips on September 25 thus entering the AGP 8x market.
  
  "The NV18 and NV28 in fact differ little from the former NV17 and NV25 chips in core structures, except that the two new products are able to support the latest AGP 8x graphics technology. According to sources, the NV18 and NV28 will be named the GeForce4 MX440 8x and GeForce4 Ti 4200 8x, respectively, following Nvidia’s two better-selling products, and will be priced only slightly higher than the current chips."
  
  I find myself asking the question, "Why?".

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• VIA and S3 Graphics to use Quad Band Memory (QBM) Technology

  Published: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "The QBM controller interface license provides VIA and S3 Graphics with the necessary IP coverage to incorporate QBM into their line of core logic chipsets. QBM technology doubles the speed of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory devices while maintaining the existing 64-bit bus structure common in today's general purpose computing systems and meeting market requirements for low cost memory modules.
  
  This license marks the first time that PC based systems will be able to interface to high speed DDR533 and DDR667 modules featuring QBM technology. New systems using QBM enabled chipsets from VIA and S3 Graphics will combine the fastest speed memory in the industry with the fastest processor bus speeds and maintain backward compatibility with today's DDR modules."

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• Anandtech on Quad Band Memory Technology

  Published: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Anandtech has a write-up on the new technology and it looks to be quite promising for both the enthusiast and the motherboard maker. Basically a switching module is added to a regular DDR memory module.
  
  "The end result is that you get two DDR transfers per clock, or 4 bits of data are sampled per clock thus doubling the throughput of DDR (hence the name Quad Band Memory)."

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• Intel Dual Channel DDR

  Published: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "Much to the market’s surprise, Intel is reportedly to become the first company that will start mass-producing dual-channel-DDR-based Pentium 4 chipsets. Supporting motherboards are expected to enter volume production in early October."
  
  This new chipset from Intel, Granite Bay, will have dual memory channels for increased bandwidth but will only support DDR266.

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