Tech News
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Samsung to Announce DDR-II
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisThe Inquirer is reporting that Samsung will soon announce that they are the first with a JEDEC DDR-II 512Meg compliant memory chip, with a little help from IBM.
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Intel Price Slashes Ease Inventory Pressure
Published: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | By: DennisDigitimes is reporting that the recent price slashes for a Pentium 4 will mean more motherboard sales, ... you think?..
Here is a quote.
"For chipset suppliers, the speed at which 845D product inventory is cleared would be proportional to the pace of market recovery."
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"Motherboard and chipset makers indicate that the market is currently bogged in a “wait and see” state as demand remains sluggish, awaiting Intel’s price cuts and the arrival of new product launches at the Computex exhibition in Taipei from June 3-7." -
Hercules FDX 8500LE Review @ Techseekers
Published: Monday, May 27, 2002 | By: DennisHercules has been out of the spotlight lately since dropping nVidia's processors to help out a fellow Canadian brethren, namely ATI. I am glad to see Hercules is still sporting the cool blue PCB and matching cooling gear.
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DDR333 Memory Review @ MBReview
Published: Monday, May 27, 2002 | By: DennisThe two "C"'s in the memory market (Crucial, and Corsair) go head to head in this review and as you guessed it they perform just about exactly the same. The sticks they review include the Crucial's PC2700, and Corsair's XMS3000v1.1.
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Soltek Graphics Cards
Published: Friday, May 24, 2002 | By: DennisSoltek has just announced that they will be adding video cards to their product portfolio. All are based on nVidia chipsets and focus on the low to middle market segment. The new cards include...
Soltek GeForce 4 Ti4400 128meg
Soltek GeForce 4 MX 440 64meg
Soltek GeForce 4 MX 420 64meg
Soltek GeForce 2 MX 400 64meg
Soltek GeForce 2 MX 400 64meg
Soltek GeForce 2 MX 200 32meg
Soltek TNT2 M64 32meg
and much to my suprise they all are sporting silver PCB's
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More Netscape 7 News
Published: Friday, May 24, 2002 | By: DennisI've been using the RC1 for a couple of days now and I must say it is a vast improvement over 6.2. Security features are easier to find, browsing is faster, and the tabbed browsing is awesome.
I am currently working on a sidebar page for Netscape 6+ so all of the latest News, Reviews, and Forum posts will be at your fingertips. The trick is you will have to run Netscape to use it.
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Netscape 7 Preview Release 1
Published: Friday, May 24, 2002 | By: DennisMuch like how Netscape 6 was just an altered version of the mozilla 0.9 browser I suspect Netscape 7 will follow suit being based on Mozilla's 1.0 release, I can't wait.
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Interview with John Carmack on Doom III @ Gamers
Published: Thursday, May 23, 2002 | By: DennisThis is a pretty short interview but does give a few details on the new Doom III game and what it will have to offer.
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Preview of Win4Lin 4.0
Published: Thursday, May 23, 2002 | By: DennisA usable Linux desktop for the Windows user might not be that far away. Personally I would have already jumped at the chance of ridding Microsoft from my desktop but many of the apps that I use on a daily basis won't run under Linux.
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SQL Worm Getting Press
Published: Thursday, May 23, 2002 | By: DennisWhat a suprise another Microsoft product under attack but this time not on a consumer level. "A new worm that targets Microsoft SQL Server software has inundated networks with thousands of scans for vulnerable database servers".
