Tech News
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4GHz Pentium 4 by 2003
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisThis announcement comes directly from Intel during their Intel Developers Forum. Prescott is the name, remember it.
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Denied A Computer By Dell
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisThe owner of Weigand Combat Handguns Inc. went online and ordered a new Dell laptop. A few days later he received an email from Dell saying the order was canceled without a reason given. "They told me they were afraid I would use the computer for illegal purposes. Somehow I was singled out". In a way this sux but I also commend Dell on paying attention to who orders their products.
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Internet History Lession
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisThis link was sent in via email my the second string newsman Breakdown, as to why he didn't post it himself is beyond me
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Case Building at its Best
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | By: DennisInstead of modding a case this guy actually built one. Now we have all seen homebuilt cases before made from steel, acrylic, and even wood and that is where this case is a little different.
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ACorp 4D845A Review @ PC Stats
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | By: DennisACorp has jumped on the iMAC syndrome bandwagon and is making colored products this time an i845-D based P4 board with a blue PCB. Actually this board is very blue in more ways than 2.
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Largest PDA Manufacturer Goes Public
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | By: Dennis"Hey did you hear about Chanco Wireless?" Man that commercial is annoying (for those not in the US you might not understand). Anyhow High Tech Computer the largest contract PDA Manufacturer has announced that they will going public with shares trading at NT$163.5 (Taiwan currency) which is about $5.10 here in the US (fyi, I could be wrong on the conversion).
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ABIT BD7-RAID Review @ OCTools
Published: Monday, February 25, 2002 | By: DennisOCTools takes a look at the BD7-Raid P4 board from ABIT. Knowing how ABIT caters to the enthusiast you can expect a wide variety of overclocking and tweaking features. For instance they overclocked a 1.6GHz Northwood to 2.28GHz
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Willamette P4 Core Due to Die
Published: Friday, February 22, 2002 | By: DennisAccording to x-bit labs by 3Q of this year the .18 micron P4 core will cease to be manufactured as a Pentium 4. This doesn?t mean we won't ever see the core again considering it may become the next "Celeron" or similar inexpensive processor.
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Mini Lian-Li Case
Published: Friday, February 22, 2002 | By: DennisMicroATX form factor all wrapped in Aluminum, this case isn?t much for show but would make a great LAN or mini server case.
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New Chipsets From VIA and SiS
Published: Friday, February 22, 2002 | By: DennisAccording to the chart SiS will be slightly ahead of VIA in the P4 arena in March. Here are some things we can expect, DDR400, AGP 8x and 533MHz FSB all on the Pentium 4. DDR400 for the AMD series of processors won't be until the end of 2Q.
Here is something I noticed of interest, could VIA be skipping the KT333A?? "KT400" - "Greatly updated version of KT333"
