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• Anisotropic Filtering

  Published: Sunday, May 20, 2001 | By: Dennis

  One of the new features of the GeForce 3 is Anisotropic Filtering. So what is Anisotropic Filtering? And what can it do for you?
  
  The Reverend at the 3D Pulpit has the answer in two parts. Part 1 Part 2

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• Info on WinXP Copy Protection - Can it be done?

  Published: Friday, May 18, 2001 | By: Dennis

  According to the register it would seem that the WindowsXP Copy Protection might be harder to crack that was originally though. Read more about it at The Register. Then again most of these stories are just rumors.

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• Kyro 3 Details

  Published: Thursday, May 17, 2001 | By: Dennis

  The Inquirer has gotten some details on the Kyro 3 and some of the technology behind it.

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• Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

  Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 was released late last week (not sure if it was an offical release) and as some of you know the 103meg download would take forever over the modem.
  So, in the flavor of IE installs and Windows update there is an express version that you can download. This program will do an "active patch" and only download the files that you need.
  
  If you have a fast connection I might suggest just getting the entire Service Pack here

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• Dual Xeon DP Preview @ Hardware Analysis

  Published: Sunday, May 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

  With the release of the Foster chip on the horizon some of us are curious to know more about it. HardwareAnalysis.com gives us a peek into this new processor line.
  
  I can see it now, "Intern cracks under the pressure of counting the pins on Xeon DP processors, after rumors circulate that they might not have 603 pins"

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• Interesting Case Mod

  Published: Sunday, May 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Somebody from cpuFailure.com sent me a link today to their newest case mod project. Their project is on the extreme side of case moddin' and I think they pulled it off quite nicely. Check it out.
  cpuFailure.com
  

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• Micron to Partner with KTI Semiconductor

  Published: Saturday, May 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It would seem that the local memory chip maker has acquired/partnered with one of my favorite memory chip mfg. KTI.
  
  I didn't pay much attention until finding that KTI Brand memory wasn't listed on Pricewatch anymore. Now the only company that produces Tiny BGA chips is Kingmax in PC150 flavors.

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• More red PCB action this time from MSI

  Published: Thursday, May 10, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It would seem that more and more companies are seeing the benefits of what I like to call the "iMac effect" where you offer products in different colors in hopes to sell more of them. MSI has announced a Limited edition K7T Turbo full of features and a Red PCB to boot.
  
  For the curious here is an article on how a motherboard is built.

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• GeForce3 Stepping Info

  Published: Wednesday, May 9, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It would appear that in the interest of getting the GeForce3 to market there were two versions of the chip released. A3 and A5, the offical statement is that the A3 chip is less stable than the A5.
  It is unknown at this time how this will effect performance, but I gather it has something to do with overclocking. Just a FYI to all of you that are planning on getting one of these cards.

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• VisionTek GeForce3 Cards Seen @ CompUSA

  Published: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Sources close to Ninjalane have confirmed seeing GeForce 3 cards at CompUSA. These are the VisionTek models that the Hard|OCP likes so much so if you have the cash and an itch for something new here is your ticket.

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