Tech News
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3GHz P4 Requires New Powersupply
Published: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 | By: DennisThe 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." -
New AMD Processors Released
Published: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 | By: DennisIt 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
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SiS 648 chipset Reference Review @ t-break
Published: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 | By: DennisThis 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: DennisHardware 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. -
Corsair XMS 3200 Review @ Hexus
Published: Monday, August 19, 2002 | By: DennisCorsair 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: DennisWatercooled 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: DennisBreakdown 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. -
SiS and VIA Dive Into the DDR400 Market
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisSiS and VIA are taking their Pentium 4 chipset designs to the next level by using DDR400 as their anchor into the high-performance P4 market. Kind of sounds like what Intel did with Rambus a few years back, wonder if it will work.
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The Poisoned Apple
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisThis is an older mod that has been done quite often since the release of the G4 tower but it will still turn heads and get you in good with the graphics guys at work. The best part is you'll get all this and more without needed to jump to the Mac platform.
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Dual-channel DDR
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisDDR seems to be the answer to the Rambus problem and until DDR-II becomes around the next logical solution is dual channel DDR, basically DDR333x2
"The dual-channel DDR-333 systems will offer 5.3 Gbytes/s."
"Currently, Nvidia Corp. is the only company to offer a dual-channel DDR chip set for mainstream PCs, which was released last summer. The company has not claimed much in the way of market share, partly because the set is based on CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. "
Ouch
