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• Pentium III to be Discontinued

  Published: Friday, August 23, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Intel has finally decided to discontiune the Pentium 3 line of processors something that should have been done quite some time ago.

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• Chipset Makers Ready for AMD FSB Change

  Published: Friday, August 23, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reportedly decided to change the FSB (front-side bus) standard of its upcoming Athlon XP 2700+ processor from the current 266MHz to 333MHz, contrary to its previous announcement that it would not alter the architecture of its K7-core Athlon XP products."
  
  This is some pretty good news. Though it makes you wonder, did the chipset market drive this change? or was it something else?

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• Wanna Win a Motherboard??

  Published: Thursday, August 22, 2002 | By: Dennis

  VIA will be giving away 10 P4PB 400 motherboards as a prize for filling out a questionnaire. Winners will be drawn on Sept. 20th.
  
  For more infomation on the VIA P4PB 400 motherboard click here.

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• 3GHz P4 Requires New Powersupply

  Published: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 | By: Dennis

  The word from motherboard makers is that the 3GHz Pentium 4 will require a 70W onboard power supply, which means that current motherboard designs are not compatible with the new processor.
  
  "Requiring 70W power supplies, the new P4 processor is incompatible with present motherboards, which only support the 60W standard, board manufacturers said. For the technology update, companies need to change the on-board PWN (pulse width modulation) controller IC design from three-phase mode to four-phase. In addition, to pack in an increased number of components, board makers have to rearrange the circuit layouts as well."

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• New AMD Processors Released

  Published: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 | By: Dennis

  It would appear that more hardware sites received samples of the new AMD chip (XP2400+ & XP2600+) than did R300's (Radeon 9700). The word is these new processors are a milestone for the Athlon by being able to break 2GHz and still remain cool enough to run at 2.5GHz.
  
  The short list of posted reviews thus far.
  hardocp
  Anandtech - yes listed twice
  Hot Hardware
  amdmb.com
  AMB Zone.com

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• SiS 648 chipset Reference Review @ t-break

  Published: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This chipset from SiS is very similar to the VIA P4X400 they both support AGP 8x, and DDR333 but the SiS648 shines a little in the DDR400 realm.
  
  "Look at those DR400 memory scores! They're very close to 32bit RDRAM 1066 and faster than all other chipsets at DDR333. Performance at DDR333 was just about average on the 648."
  
  They seem impressed.

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• Radeon 9700 Release Day

  Published: Monday, August 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Hardware sites across the net lucky enough to obtain the awesome Radeon 9700 have released their reviews. The first to be linked here is the "always good" review by Anandtech.
  
  As usual some sites are pretty slow today so, if you come across some other 9700 reviews send them in and we'll make a collection.

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• Corsair XMS 3200 Review @ Hexus

  Published: Monday, August 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Corsair has long been known to supply high-speed memory modules in many cases targeted to the overclocking market. XMS3200 happens to fall into that category and the Hexus crew was quite ingenious in how they attainted their 200MHz memory speed, I would suggest that you take a look.

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• WaterCooled Case Review @ Techware Labs

  Published: Saturday, August 17, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Watercooled systems offer some things that a normal aircooled system can't. Two of the most notable are cooling and noise. Water by nature has better thermal properties than air so your system will remain cooler, sometimes enough to allow some serious overclocking. Noise is also reduced since the only needed fan will be to cool the radiator. If you were ever curious about watercooling but don't have the time to build the system yourself Techware Labs might have a solution for you.

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• Silly Chipmunks

  Published: Thursday, August 15, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Breakdown sent in this story and his explanation was just too funny and needed to be posted.
  
  "sorry, but I would have just assumed that "Chipmunk in the toilet" was a euphemism for "my boyfriend took a big dump and it scares me"
  
  good thing I'm not a firefighter
  
  j"
  
  The site is work safe so feel free to click.

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