Tech News
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SY-KT400 Dragon Ultra Released
Published: Friday, August 30, 2002 | By: DennisGiven current AMD Socket-A technology the KT400 won't really perform much better than the KT333 or even KT266 in terms of memory performance. This will most likely change when the XP2700+ processors hit the streets later this year.
If you didn't know the XP2700+ is a DDR333 FSB part that will take advantage of current DDR333 memory speed technology, the KT400 chipset is rumored to support that. -
Netscape 7.0 Released
Published: Thursday, August 29, 2002 | By: DennisI've been using the Preview Release of Netscape 7 since it was released and I must say I am very impressed with the speed, rendering quality and features. Download 7.0 and check it out, though be sure to do the custom install so you can remove the pesky stuff that makes it ghey.
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ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Review @ UK Gamer
Published: Thursday, August 29, 2002 | By: DennisWhen you think mobile computer you think, laptop, you also think "not for the gamer". With the release of the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, or M9 for short, the "not for gamer" stereotype is about to change.
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Sony To Axe the Betamax
Published: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 | By: DennisI had no idea Sony was even still making these things but it would appear that they plan to build 2,000 more of these machines and then retire the 27 year old product.
"Betamax -- held up as an example of how the first to market is not guaranteed commercial success -- had already been pulled from overseas markets in the 1990s, a Sony spokesman said. " -
KT400: VIA Could Lead the New AMD Market
Published: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 | By: DennisWhen I first saw this headline I said to myself, "Wasn't VIA leading the market anyway?" Here is a clip,
"VIA Technologies will probably assume the lead in the chipset market for Advanced Micro Devices’s (AMD) new FSB (front-side bus) 333MHz-based processors, with its current dominance in the AMD-platform sector and early volume production of the KT400 chipset, which supports the new bus."
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MSI 648 Max Preview @ OCworkbench
Published: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 | By: DennisAs of this posting this Pre/review consists of the following, 4 pages of badly watermarked images, a small amount of text about each image, and no benchmarks.
If you want to see a very poor implementation of a logo being used as a watermark and a pretty cool Red PCB motherboard click the link below. Otherwise I think we all can just point and laugh.
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An Apology from the UK??
Published: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 | By: DennisI was checking out the "I cannot post comics or anything funny on a regular basis" Little Gamers online comic today and noticed a link to anti-social.co.uk titled "An Apology To Our US Readers".
It was actually funny, imagine that..
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Dual-channel P4X600 and SiS655
Published: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 | By: DennisI knew this was coming but I didn't expect it to happen so soon. DigiTimes is reporting that P4X600 and SiS655 samples will be going out in September with an expected market date in the 4th quarter.
Intel is working on a Dual Channel DDR solution according to their roadmap but have yet to finalize the release schedule. -
Piracy, Windows XP SP1, and You
Published: Monday, August 26, 2002 | By: DennisSome information about the pending WindowsXP SP1 has surfaced at Microsoft in an attempt to field the question of, "What if my install of WindowsXP is pirated??"
Here is what Microsoft claims will happen if you try to install SP1 on a priated version of WinXP
" They will be unable to install the update until they have acquired genuine software and installed that software with a valid product key. Nothing will happen to their underlying Windows XP installation. Access to upgrades and service releases is a benefit that Microsoft offers to those who have acquired and use genuine Microsoft products only. There are no exceptions to this."
Here is how you can tell if you will be screwed or not
"What are the product keys that are affected by this?"
We are not publishing the product keys themselves, however the product IDs generated from these product keys are (where X may be any numeric value):
XXXXX-640-0000356-23XXX
XXXXX-640-2001765-23XXX
The product ID can be found by right clicking on My Computer and choosing Properties and viewing the General tab.
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Pentium 4 2.80GHz Released
Published: Monday, August 26, 2002 | By: DennisProcessor reviews galore! Just about every hardware site on the net has posted a review for this new processor and only a select few even mention the other 3 processors in the announcement.
2.50GHz 400MHz FSB
2.60GHz 400MHz FSB
2.66GHz 533MHz FSB
2.80GHz 533MHz FSB
So what does this mean for the consumer?? Faster, and yet Cheaper Pentium 4's. That us until the 3.06GHz processors are released which should happen in a few months.
Here is some reviewage for your viewing pleasure.
The Tech Report
AnandTech
Lost Circuits
]H[ard|(Opal Covered, Pinto)
