Tech News
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Maxtor D740X-6L Review @ I am Not a Geek dot com
Published: Thursday, March 28, 2002 | By: DennisThe IBM replacement drive of the future is at a computer store near you but be careful.
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I tried to pick one of these up from a local computer store that also sells on the web. According to their website they had a few of these drives in stock so on my lunch hour I drove down there with the intention of making a purchase. I walked in and said "I need a Maxtor D740X 40gig drive" the counter guy said sure and walked back to the storeroom. He came back a short time later with a Maxtor D540X and said, "I don't know what the difference is but this is what we have." Buying a hard drive is kind of confusing at times but when you sell the stuff you should at least know what the numbers mean. Needless to say the store didn't stock the D740X so I walked out.
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Soltek SL-8DRV3 Review @ VIAHardware
Published: Thursday, March 28, 2002 | By: DennisVIAHardware take a look at the SL-85RDV3 from Soltek. This board contains the RedStorm Overclocking feature that Soltek is famous for along with chipset tweaking in typical VIA fashion, together they make a very impressive combination. VIA appears to be still going strong in the P4 chipset market despite the hounding from Intel that we don't hear much of anymore.
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DDR400 Might Not Become a Standard
Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 | By: DennisEE Times has the scoop directly from the JEDEX conference in California. Here is a snip "a representative from JEDEC outlined the future roadmap for the "mainstream" DRAM market, disclosing that the organization "may or may not" ratify the 400-MHz version of the double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM technology as a standard." They go on to say the disclosure could upset memory manufactures, I'm thinking it will most likely upset Intel since it was them that originally pushed to have DDR400 available.
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Modified Dreamcast games for Xbox
Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 | By: DennisA Taiwan software company has been contracted by Sega to convert 12 of its games to the xbox platform. When I read this headline I was expecting to see news of an emulator, I guess Sega has opted to relive the days of the Dreamcast instead. /keys dream sequence music.
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A Day of No News
Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 | By: DennisSorry for the lack of news day yesterday but it was pretty busy here in the lab then towards evening time I guess my webhost decided I had enough traffic for one night and killed the server for about 12 hours.
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P4 Voltage Mod
Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: DennisVR-Zone has a voltage mod posted for your P4 system. This is the second mod of this nature that we have seen in recent months so it must work.
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Kingmax TinyBGA DDR400 PC3200 Review @ HardwarePub
Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: DennisBelly up to the bar and have a listen to a review on DDR400.
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Soltek 75DRV5 KT333 Review @ TweakTown
Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: DennisWe can use these guys as a compairson once our sample shows up. The current rumor is that they will be here sometime today.
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If you are looking for a US distro for Soltek stuff head on over to misrcorps.com
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Wireless Info and Utilz @ wi2600.org
Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: DennisSimply put if you have wireless and want to start tweaking, HaxX0r'n, or just plain become a guru. This site might help you out.
For instance here is a text file that talks about having fun with a Linksys WAP11 -
VIA and SiS in a P4 Chipset Price War
Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: DennisThis bit of news sounds a little silly but is interesting since it would appear that motherboard mfgs. have started opening up to VIA's P4 chipset.
