Tech News
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Ninjalane starts hardware reviews
Published: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 | By: DennisThe nice guys at the Freeway Designs home office in Taipei. Where nice enough to send me a sample of one of their latest products the FWD-P3C4XD for review.
This board features dual socket 370 processors, AGP Pro, onboard sound, and a sexy red PCB. That is to not mention a variety of core voltages and FSB to 166 MHz.
I see quite a potential with this board. -
AGP 8X
Published: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 | By: DennisDue in 2003 with a Bandwidth of 2gb/sec... I am all aquiver. Hopefully, by that time they will have figured out a way to turn your old computer into a Free Standing Video Card. "Yeah, I got a Dual P4 3ghz machine with 1024 mbs of RAM running Linux Geforce4 emulator for my new computer."
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More P4 carnage
Published: Monday, November 20, 2000 | By: DennisThis time its the cool guys at Penny Arcade. Not sure what their stand is on the new chip but if there is a cartoon about it, it has to be good.
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The buzz about the P4
Published: Monday, November 20, 2000 | By: DennisThe infamous non-NS6 compatible website [H]ardocp got their hands on a P4 fitted with the works. Other sites out there have also posted P4 goodness. They are..
Anandtech
Toms Hardware (with a crappy logo on the front page.
Firingsquad
Dan's Data
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4-way internal fanbus
Published: Sunday, November 19, 2000 | By: DennisHere is something cool that Saltire Systems sent to me.
Saltire Systems is proud to announce that our 4-way internal fanbus solution is to be stocked by The Overclocking Store here in the UK. This is a big moment for us to have one of our own products stocked by a major PC hardware player in the UK Overclocking market. The fanbus unit can be found in the "overclocking hardware" section in the store, priced at £17.62 including VAT. Free 1-3 day delivery is available on all their products.
Follow the link and check it out. -
Game tweak guide
Published: Friday, November 17, 2000 | By: DennisNT Compatible posted a game tweak guide for Windows NT/2K on their site. Some of the things that they talk about are pretty simple solutions to increase performance but some of the others I didn't even know about. Take a look.
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Tyan Tiger 230
Published: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 | By: DennisIt would seem that Tyan has been busy. In checking out their site today I found this link. Another dual processor board from Tyan and this one looks alot like the rest. A couple of key points.
Onboard Audio
ATA 100 support
The design seems to follow what I call the "reference" design. So far all of the dual socket 370 boards have the same layout, brings back memories of the GeForce 256 of days gone by. -
Quake 3 on ABC News
Published: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 | By: DennisNever thought I would see it but ABC news as conservative as they are have posted a article about the new Quake 3 for the Dreamcast. Personally I'm not much for console gaming but heck with a title like Quake 3 and the ability to frag on the net from a 52 inch big screen. I might just go and buy it.
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Pricecombat
Published: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 | By: DennisI suspect that many of you have already seen this site but I'm going to share it anyway. In my email today (most of which is usually junk) I found this. PriceCombat. It seems that Pricewatch now has some competition. Curious I checked out the prices for a 128 megs of RDRAM and the lowest price was 109 bucks!!. Makes me think.. I might be able to afford that i840 dually board.
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Tyan Tiger 200
Published: Sunday, November 12, 2000 | By: DennisI am really quite fond of Tyan products every motherboard that I have personally owned has been a Tyan. I was looking at the product matrix tonight and noticed a new dual based on the Via 133A chipset will be hitting the market sometime soon.
From the small picture on their site the layout seems very promising. The sockets are inline with each other (not like the VIA reference design) and is without an ISA slot. So far I have only seen one other motherboard similar to this, and is produced by a small company in Taiwan called Freeway Designs. From what I can tell the only difference is that the Tyan board is a nice rich green whereas the Freeway Designs board is a sexy red.
We can only hope that the Tiger 200 is nothing like the Tiger 133.
