Tech News
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P4 Socket 478 Heatsink Roundup @ Void your Warranty
Published: Saturday, April 6, 2002 | By: DennisI am somewhat disappointed that they don't have the AVC Sunflower on the list but wadda gona do??
Check out their new site design, I think it might still need some refinement but looks pretty cool.
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Slow News Day
Published: Friday, April 5, 2002 | By: Dennisphj34r my l4c|< 0f n3w5! Actually it would seem that due to the holiday in Taiwan many news sites have nothing to post, or maybe all the geeks are playing in the sun. Either way I can't find anything decent to post so go outside and get a tan, it is springtime after all.
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Arkua 868S-7G Socket 478 Cooler Review @ Tweakers Australia
Published: Friday, April 5, 2002 | By: DennisI don't care what anyone says I like this style of heatsink and adding the copper slug to the center only makes it better.
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Intel & AMD Benchmark War
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2002 | By: DennisI can remember how some hardware sites claimed that the "True Performance Initiative" rating system compared the new AMD processor to the Pentium 4 at similar clock speed, i.e. an Athlon XP1700+ was faster than an Intel P4 1.7GHz, for the most part this was true despite the Athlon processor only running at 1.47GHz. I guess everyone stopped reading after the intro since this isn't quite the case. Here is a snip: "Athlon XP chips come with a model number that indicates their performance relative to older Athlon chips, so that the Athlon XP 2000+ (at 1.67GHz) would offer roughly the same performance as an earlier Athlon clocking 2,000MHz (2GHz)."
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GeForce 4 Ti4200 Previews
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2002 | By: DennisSo far I have found 2 previews of the latest and slowest of the GeForce4 Ti series, the Ti4200. The general feeling around the new GPU is good and Kyle of [H]ard|OCP had this to say. "about made me giggle like a little girl"
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Shuttle vs. Soyo Using the SiS645 @ Aware Magazine
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2002 | By: DennisAware Magazine has posted a roundup between the Shuttle AS40GTR and The Soyo SY-P4S DRAGON Ultra, both are P4 boards based on the SiS645 chipset. It is not surprising that they received the same score; though take a look for yourself.
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Soltek SL-75DRV5 Review Posted
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 | By: DennisThis is the latest VIA offering to the Athlon line of processors that enables DDR333 memory support. The board layout is based on the previous motherboard version, the SL-75DRV4 and all of the original 75DRV features including the cool purple PCB.
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DDR Comes to the nVidia MX
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 | By: DennisAccording to DigiTimes nVidia will be adding DDR support to the GF4MX line of video chips, this is some pretty good news for people on a budget. We can only hope they will include a full DDR memory bus similar to the GeForce2 and GeForce3 Ti chips.
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Supa Small Motherboard from VIA
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 | By: DennisAwww isn't it cute.
Actually for the OEM and Internet appliance market this little guy fits right in. I especially like how you are given one PCI expansion slot. I would have rallied for a PCMCIA or Card Bus slot myself. -
Laugh all the way to the Bank
Published: Tuesday, April 2, 2002 | By: DennisThis was sent in by our Network and Security guy Breakdown and as usual he is pretty pissed off when companies decide that they have a right to use YOUR stuff as part of downloading THEIR stuff for FREE.
According to this News.com story, since February every download of the Kazaa file-swapping client has included some dormant components. When activated, these components can make every machine with the Kazaa client (and there are tens of millions of them) a node in a distributed computing network.
" The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in as soon as four weeks. It plans to use the machines--with their owners' permission--to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks."
