Tech News

  • Arkua 868S-7G Socket 478 Cooler Review @ Tweakers Australia

    Published: Friday, April 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

    I don't care what anyone says I like this style of heatsink and adding the copper slug to the center only makes it better.

  • Intel & AMD Benchmark War

    Published: Thursday, April 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

    I can remember how some hardware sites claimed that the "True Performance Initiative" rating system compared the new AMD processor to the Pentium 4 at similar clock speed, i.e. an Athlon XP1700+ was faster than an Intel P4 1.7GHz, for the most part this was true despite the Athlon processor only running at 1.47GHz. I guess everyone stopped reading after the intro since this isn't quite the case. Here is a snip: "Athlon XP chips come with a model number that indicates their performance relative to older Athlon chips, so that the Athlon XP 2000+ (at 1.67GHz) would offer roughly the same performance as an earlier Athlon clocking 2,000MHz (2GHz)."

  • GeForce 4 Ti4200 Previews

    Published: Thursday, April 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

    So far I have found 2 previews of the latest and slowest of the GeForce4 Ti series, the Ti4200. The general feeling around the new GPU is good and Kyle of [H]ard|OCP had this to say. "about made me giggle like a little girl" tongue smile
    http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/vidcards/nvidia/gf4ti42/index.html

  • Shuttle vs. Soyo Using the SiS645 @ Aware Magazine

    Published: Thursday, April 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Aware Magazine has posted a roundup between the Shuttle AS40GTR and The Soyo SY-P4S DRAGON Ultra, both are P4 boards based on the SiS645 chipset. It is not surprising that they received the same score; though take a look for yourself.

  • Soltek SL-75DRV5 Review Posted

    Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 | By: Dennis

    This is the latest VIA offering to the Athlon line of processors that enables DDR333 memory support. The board layout is based on the previous motherboard version, the SL-75DRV4 and all of the original 75DRV features including the cool purple PCB.

  • DDR Comes to the nVidia MX

    Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 | By: Dennis

    According to DigiTimes nVidia will be adding DDR support to the GF4MX line of video chips, this is some pretty good news for people on a budget. We can only hope they will include a full DDR memory bus similar to the GeForce2 and GeForce3 Ti chips.

  • Supa Small Motherboard from VIA

    Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Awww isn't it cute. tongue smile Actually for the OEM and Internet appliance market this little guy fits right in. I especially like how you are given one PCI expansion slot. I would have rallied for a PCMCIA or Card Bus slot myself.

  • Laugh all the way to the Bank

    Published: Tuesday, April 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

    This was sent in by our Network and Security guy Breakdown and as usual he is pretty pissed off when companies decide that they have a right to use YOUR stuff as part of downloading THEIR stuff for FREE. angry smile
    According to this News.com story, since February every download of the Kazaa file-swapping client has included some dormant components. When activated, these components can make every machine with the Kazaa client (and there are tens of millions of them) a node in a distributed computing network.

    " The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in as soon as four weeks. It plans to use the machines--with their owners' permission--to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks."

  • Pentium 4 2.4GHz Released

    Published: Tuesday, April 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Anandtech has a 10-page review on the new processor from Intel, and since today is release day just about everybody else has a review up too. That is except for me, I still have to buy my processors and at 600 bones a pop a review just isn't in the budget. cool smile

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    Published: Monday, April 1, 2002 | By: Dennis

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