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• Interesting Case Mod

  Published: Sunday, May 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Somebody from cpuFailure.com sent me a link today to their newest case mod project. Their project is on the extreme side of case moddin' and I think they pulled it off quite nicely. Check it out.
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• Micron to Partner with KTI Semiconductor

  Published: Saturday, May 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It would seem that the local memory chip maker has acquired/partnered with one of my favorite memory chip mfg. KTI.
  
  I didn't pay much attention until finding that KTI Brand memory wasn't listed on Pricewatch anymore. Now the only company that produces Tiny BGA chips is Kingmax in PC150 flavors.

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• More red PCB action this time from MSI

  Published: Thursday, May 10, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It would seem that more and more companies are seeing the benefits of what I like to call the "iMac effect" where you offer products in different colors in hopes to sell more of them. MSI has announced a Limited edition K7T Turbo full of features and a Red PCB to boot.
  
  For the curious here is an article on how a motherboard is built.

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• GeForce3 Stepping Info

  Published: Wednesday, May 9, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It would appear that in the interest of getting the GeForce3 to market there were two versions of the chip released. A3 and A5, the offical statement is that the A3 chip is less stable than the A5.
  It is unknown at this time how this will effect performance, but I gather it has something to do with overclocking. Just a FYI to all of you that are planning on getting one of these cards.

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• VisionTek GeForce3 Cards Seen @ CompUSA

  Published: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Sources close to Ninjalane have confirmed seeing GeForce 3 cards at CompUSA. These are the VisionTek models that the Hard|OCP likes so much so if you have the cash and an itch for something new here is your ticket.

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• Inno GeForce2 MX Review @ EXhardware

  Published: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 | By: Dennis

  This card is actually old news considering that Inno was one of the first companies to have GeForce2 cards on the market. I should know I have a PCI version of this very card.

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• Dust, and why it sux

  Published: Monday, May 7, 2001 | By: Dennis

  The CaseJunkiez have an interesting article up on Dust, Computers, and You. They suggest the best way to keep dust out of your case is to place filters on your intake fans. I actually went down that road once with my original case mod, I found the filter to be restrictive and ineffective.
  Then again I was using the foam style filter which was a bad choice on my part, pantyhose tend to work much better.

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• More pictures of GeForce 3 cards

  Published: Friday, May 4, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Riva Station has some photos up showing the popular Hercules 3D Prophet III and the new "sexy" red PCB on the CARDEXpert GeForce 3.

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• Gainward CARDEXpert GeForce 3

  Published: Friday, May 4, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Now here is a GeForce 3 card after my own heart. The Red PCB is just to hard to resist, plus it would be the perfect match to the FWD-P3C4XD motherboard that is in my system currently. Don't know how well it performs though I'd expect a par rating to the other offering.
  
  Now where to get one.. hummm

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• ThermoEngine Comparo

  Published: Friday, May 4, 2001 | By: Dennis

  The hot new heatsink from Thermosonic called the "ThermoEngine" has been redesigned. The new design now has a solid core instead of being hollow like it was previously. FrostyTech takes a look at how the redesign effects the performance.

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