Tech News
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120GXP Comments @ Storage Review
Published: Friday, March 8, 2002 | By: DennisHere is some more information about the 8-hour run time recommendation for GXP IBM drives.
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8-Hour Limits on IBM Hard Drives
Published: Friday, March 8, 2002 | By: DennisThe once cool GXP drives from IBM should not be run for more than 8 hours at a time. I'm not exactly sure the reason behind this but the limit puts a major dent in the usability of the super fast drive.
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Price on Blue LED's Falling?
Published: Thursday, March 7, 2002 | By: DennisThe price on Blue LED's is falling but only due to an oversupply. I suspect this will be the case for some time, other than in case mods the blue color isn't much accepted as an "action" color. For instance Green = good, Red = bad, Blue = sky?
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Acer Desktop With Via P4 Chipset
Published: Thursday, March 7, 2002 | By: DennisDigiTimes reports a win for Via in the chipset acceptance race when Acer announced that their new desktop computer will feature the Via P4X series of chipsets. I think Intel had better put some pressure on the legal battle if they wish to win else it might be too little too late.
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P4 Heatsinks Debut
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: DennisAkiba is once again showing us some new and exciting stuff for the P4. First the ThermalTake P4 Dragon, a while ago I posted some info about this heatsink and I still say it looks like an AVC Sunflower. Next we have an Alpha cooler for the P4, finally
. I downloaded the install sheet to see how it mounted. The heatsink uses a spring and pin combo similar to the Athlon version, not sure I like that much. -
Antex SX635 Case Review
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: DennisWe have another exciting review this time of the Antec SX635. This case has an amazing set of features all tucked into a tiny little case.
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Gainward Ultra/750XP Review @ t-break.
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: DennisI have no idea how much this card will cost but looking at the line of accessories the card comes with the $399 Ti4600 price tag seems a little low. One thing is for sure the Ultra/750XP will eventually make it into a computer near me.
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Intel Prestonia Xeon 2.2GHz Review @ GamePC
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: DennisWhen you first see a Xeon processor you almost think old school P4 though in fact it is far from that. The Xeon line is aimed at the highest of high-end has more pins (603), a larger pin footprint, and supports SMP. Actually from a spec standpoint the Xeon P$ (<- spendy P4) is quite similar to the Northwood.
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SiS645DX Reference Board Review @ OCworkbench
Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2002 | By: DennisDDR333 and DDR400 in the same SiS645 package as before. If you remember I reported that the Soltek SL-85DRS2 had documented provisions for DDR400 along with 133FSB but where disabled in the bios. I can see a future revision to the Soltek 85DRS motherboard in the near future.
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Pentium 4 2.4GHz News @ The Inquirer
Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2002 | By: DennisThey say its 'not bad' and its not but found something funny towards the bottom.
"On Sandra 2002 tests, the 2.5GHz part returned 4677Mips, 1250 FPU Mflops and 2897 SSE2 Mflops."
Chalk one up for Andrew
