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More KT266A Motherboards

Published: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - By: Dennis
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PCPOP is an amazing site though the only drawback is that the site is in Chinese, of which I cannot read. I am in the process of getting a translation, though until then I would suggest that you check it out. The direct link goes to what looks to be (based on size and layout) a pre-production motherboard based on the KT266A chipset. Down at the bottom of the page is links to other KT266A motherboards.

Jedi Knights in the UK

Published: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 - By: Dennis
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The national Statistics office in the UK, the office responsible for the Census there, has recieved a lot of entries for Jedi Knight in the religion portion of the survey.

MSI K7T266 Pro2 RU Review @ BlorgOC Another Red Motherboard?

Published: Monday, October 08, 2001 - By: Dennis
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MSI has gone gun ho with the red PCB's after the release of the limited edition K7T, they now seem to have 4 motherboards using the red resist along with a MX400 video card.

All things aside it would appear that we are on to something with this KT266A chipset, DDR memory scores are going though the roof.

Removal of Floppy Bogus?

Published: Monday, October 08, 2001 - By: Dennis
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A couple of days ago we posted that on a leaked document from Intel they had requested the removal of floppy drives and PS/2 ports. Today they respond by saying that the document was interpreted incorrectly. Instead Intel claims that they are giving mfg's and OEM's the option of not including the floppy drive and other legacy connections in their products in their new chipsets.

Copper Core "ThermoEngine"

Published: Monday, October 08, 2001 - By: Dennis
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We have seen some of these before though I don't believe anyone was brave enough to try them out. The 2FastCPU gang was, and from their report the heatsink does quite well.

333 MHz DDR @ LostCircuts

Published: Monday, October 08, 2001 - By: Dennis
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I'm not a big fan of SIS chipsets but it is good to see an alternative to the Intel offering for the Pentium 4, and with a performance boost to boot. Kyle at [H]ard|OCP spoke of this chipset when he was on The Screen Savers and if SIS can get this chip to market it should do well.

Encryption laws not expected to change

Published: Monday, October 08, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Several key people are of the opinion that basic encryption laws are not going to change. As a result of the status quo remaining, we'll all feel good about making secure on-line transactions. Check out the details here