Tech News
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Computex Starts This Week
Published: Monday, June 3, 2002 | By: DennisOnce again I am stuck in the states when I could be oversees checking out some of the newest computer hardware available to the public. I suppose I could also use the time to rub elbows with other hardware site webmasters and make some new hardware contacts but thats not really the point.
DigiTimes is kind enough to post a daily newsletter from and about Computex and so far it would appear that despite the "turndown" there is quite a crowd this year. (unlike the 2k1 Comdex). -
IBM Network Storage Solution
Published: Friday, May 31, 2002 | By: DennisIn a way this article sounds like something that has been around for many years now. Can you say "thin client"?, I knew you could. IBM is taking the concept a bit further though by actually removing the storage need from computers and putting all of the data into a single repository. This includes the "thin client" the dev server and even the production servers will contact the repository for their OS needs, and data storage. Kind of makes it easy for the government to get at your stuff huh?
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Super Flower 201S Aluminum Tower Review @ Hardware Pub
Published: Friday, May 31, 2002 | By: DennisSupa Flower Power!
Oh wait its just a case, dang. So what more could you ask for? we have Aluminum case construction, the inclusion of 3 windows 4 case fans, and multimedia ports up front. Well, how about a powersupply!?!. -
VIA P4PB Pro Mainboard Press Release
Published: Friday, May 31, 2002 | By: DennisVIA has announced the P4PB Pro motherboard which in many respects is really quite impressive. Here is a clip,
"The VIA P4PB Pro's impressive performance features includes AGP4X and 533/400MHz FSB support, as well as the industry's fastest memory controller, providing the Pentium® 4 with 2700MB/sec of fast DDR333 SDRAM memory. The VIA P4PB Pro's unsurpassed connectivity features include integrated USB 2.0/1.1, IDE ATA/133, onboard IEEE 1394, 10/100 LAN, and a Smart Card connector. " -
Sneak Peek - New Motherboards from Soltek
Published: Thursday, May 30, 2002 | By: DennisSoltek has pictures and specs posted on 8 new Pentium 4 motherboards in 12 different variations. These boards are based on the new Intel chipsets (i845E, i845G, i845GL) supporting the new 533MHz FSB. Soltek has also changed a few things in the process. The PCB color has been changed from red to Silver! and to spice things up even further these new boards feature any of not all of the following additional features.
6x USB 2.0/1.1 Ports, 2 or 6-Channel AC'97 Audio, 
RealTek LAN Controller, 
LPC 80 Port Debug (Optional), 
and PROMISE IDE RAID Controller. (ATA133) 
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PowerLeap 423 to 478 P4 Adaptor
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisPowerLeap, remember them? They come up with some very cool and wacky upgrade parts to help extend the life of your older computer. They now have this adapter that will allow you to put a socket 478 Pentium 4 on a socket 423 Pentium 4 motherboard. I would classify this upgrade part as wacky.
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Doom III E3 Demo Clarification @ Shacknews
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisIt turns out that the MSNBC article didn't tell us everything about the Doom 3 E3 demo hardware. So for those lucky enough to see it at E3 the demo was running on "next-gen" hardware ATI card at medium quality!
Here is a quote of the email from John
"We actually screwed up at E3 -- we should have been running it at high quality settings (uncompressed textures, anisotropic filtering), but we were chasing some problems the first day, and it got set back to medium quality. The problems had gone away, so we left it that way, rather than risk changing it back." -
Intel and the Itanium 2
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisTest results from a prototype Itanium 2 processor show new promise for the 64-bit chip.
" Intel said that tests of prototype 1GHz Itanium 2 chips show that the improvements help the new chip deliver twice the performance of an 800MHz Itanium on tests such as Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s SPECint2000 and SPECfp2000, Intel said. The SPEC tests measure a computer's processor, memory and software performance. " -
Don't Diss on Doom III
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisMSNBC has posted an interview/article with John Carmack on id' software's new game called Doom 3. They even explain why they choose to demo the game using a Pentium 4 2.0Ghz and ATI Radeon video card.
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SOYO Unveils 10 New Motherboard Designs at Computex
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisI really need to start attending some of these trade shows.
It looks like the SOYO booth will be a "must stop" attraction this year being that they will Unveil 10 new motherboard designs with integrated Serial ATA-133. In case you didn't know this is the next gen HDD interface that is supposed to be supa fast. I also hear that Soltek has something up their sleeve so make sure to stop by there too.
