Tech News
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New heat dissipation methods unveiled by Intel
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisIn a way this sounds like a AVC "Sunflower" design with a fan shroud. Without seeing a photo it?s hard to tell. If anyone happens across one please send it in.
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Anand Impressed wth the "Hammer"
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisWhen I saw the processor package the first thing I thought of was the P4. AMD is using a similar heat spreader on the "Hammers" to help dissipate heat and reduce the chance of cracked cores. They also have quite a few more pins, 754 on the ClawHammer and 940 pins on the SledgeHammer.
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Rambus Finally Kicked to the Curb
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisIMO Rambus was introduced to early at a premium cost with poor performance. The Pentium 4 was released, performance increased, the price came down slightly but DDR was still better in some regards. Now that I think about it there was really no significant technology increased in the Rambus platform since its release back in the early P3 days, what a way to stay on top of things.
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4GHz Pentium 4 by 2003
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisThis announcement comes directly from Intel during their Intel Developers Forum. Prescott is the name, remember it.
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Denied A Computer By Dell
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisThe owner of Weigand Combat Handguns Inc. went online and ordered a new Dell laptop. A few days later he received an email from Dell saying the order was canceled without a reason given. "They told me they were afraid I would use the computer for illegal purposes. Somehow I was singled out". In a way this sux but I also commend Dell on paying attention to who orders their products.
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Internet History Lession
Published: Thursday, February 28, 2002 | By: DennisThis link was sent in via email my the second string newsman Breakdown, as to why he didn't post it himself is beyond me
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Case Building at its Best
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | By: DennisInstead of modding a case this guy actually built one. Now we have all seen homebuilt cases before made from steel, acrylic, and even wood and that is where this case is a little different.
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ACorp 4D845A Review @ PC Stats
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | By: DennisACorp has jumped on the iMAC syndrome bandwagon and is making colored products this time an i845-D based P4 board with a blue PCB. Actually this board is very blue in more ways than 2.
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Largest PDA Manufacturer Goes Public
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 | By: Dennis"Hey did you hear about Chanco Wireless?" Man that commercial is annoying (for those not in the US you might not understand). Anyhow High Tech Computer the largest contract PDA Manufacturer has announced that they will going public with shares trading at NT$163.5 (Taiwan currency) which is about $5.10 here in the US (fyi, I could be wrong on the conversion).
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ABIT BD7-RAID Review @ OCTools
Published: Monday, February 25, 2002 | By: DennisOCTools takes a look at the BD7-Raid P4 board from ABIT. Knowing how ABIT caters to the enthusiast you can expect a wide variety of overclocking and tweaking features. For instance they overclocked a 1.6GHz Northwood to 2.28GHz
and you can imagine what this kind of OC did to the memory scores.
