Tech News
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Fun GeForce4 Mod
Published: Friday, June 21, 2002 | By: DennisThis mod consists of putting a plexiglass cover over your GeForce 4 heatsink fan then attaching a Led to illuminate the edges.
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Soltek SL-85DR2 Review @ Tweakers Australia
Published: Friday, June 21, 2002 | By: DennisThe SL-85DR2 is the middle of the road offering from Soltek using the i845E chipset. It features the new Silver PCB design and a series of onboard features.
"Now the board can officially support up to 2GB of PC2100/1600 DDR memory, but unfortunately the Soltek SL-85DR2 only sports two DIMM sockets. Although it helps to reduce the overall dimensions of the board, I still feel that the absolute minimum should be three."
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GeForce4 "All-in-Wonder"?
Published: Friday, June 21, 2002 | By: DennisNo this isn't some strange ATI/nVidia hybrid but rather Msi getting creative. From the photos I gather we have all the standard GeForce4 offerings with Video In/Out and a TV tuner. Pretty much all you need to bring your entertainment center to the PC.
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Intel Roadmap Though 2Q of 2k3
Published: Friday, June 21, 2002 | By: DennisRoadmaps are fun to read and usually give a very accurate account as to what is to come.
"Although executives at the firm have repeatedly said that it will have a 3GHz processor by the end of the year, the latest roadmaps still peg the chip at 2.80GHz." -
Win One for Intel
Published: Friday, June 21, 2002 | By: DennisLooks like VIA's case was kicked out saying there was no market abuse on Intel's side. Though I discovered something new, it would appear that Intel refused to sell a P4 technology license to VIA. I thought it was the other way around, maybe they didn't offer Intel enough money.
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Net IPO's resume
Published: Thursday, June 20, 2002 | By: DennisFortune is reporting that internet IPO's are starting up again, it would seem that the Internet market isn't completely dead.
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Slackware 8.1
Published: Thursday, June 20, 2002 | By: DennisThe newest version of Slackware has been released today and is ready for download. If you have the bandwidth and a CD burner I'd suggest getting the ISO. Of course if you don't have the bandwidth for 40bux US you can get the Slackware box set that includes everything on 4 CD's.
" Highlights of this release include KDE 3.0.1, GNOME 1.4.1 (with new additions like Evolution), the long-awaited Mozilla 1.0 browser, support for many new filesystems like ext3, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS, and support for several new SCSI and ATA RAID controllers. " -
News From the Weird
Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 | By: DennisIt would appear that fast food is causing schoolgirls to become nymphomaniacs, but there is hope from this gynecologist that runs a free sex consultation clinic. Sounds fishy to me but whatever it takes to help the kids.
" A tendency for getting their lips around a Whopper has turned Japanese schoolgirls into Nippon's naughtiest nymphomaniacs, according to Shukan Gendai (6/29)." -
Soltek P4 Motherboard Overclocked to 800MHz!
Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 | By: DennisAccording to the news I just received using an engineering sample Pentium 4 1.7GHz processor the R&D team at Soltek was able to overclock the chipset to from 133MHz to 200MHz for a final FSB of 800MHz. Disclaimer: engineering sample processors are normally unlocked for multiplier adjustments.
It would appear they have come up with a bios version that will lock the PCI and AGP clocks to their respective speeds allowing just the CPU clock to be elevated and is available for the SL-85MIR series boards now. -
Matrox Parhelia Board Specs.
Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 | By: DennisRiva Station has posted details on the new Parhelia video cards from Matrox and they are rumored to be available by the end of the month.
"Bulk:
128MB DDR,
Chipclock: 200 MHz,
Memoryclock 250 MHz (DDR),
Price: about $349"
Retail:
128MB DDR,
Chipclock: 220 MHz,
Memoryclock 275 MHz (DDR),
Price: $399
So it looks like we could buy bulk and overclock or spend the extra fiddy and know it works.
