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May
25 - 31,
2000: Archive
Wednesday
- May 31st
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3dfx has issued a press
release stating that it has resumed shipping of the Voodoo5's and
they should be available in stores everywhere on June 9th.
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Active Hardware has posted a review
of DFI's AK70 VIA KX133 based Athlon motherboard. Doesn't look
like this board has a lot of features, but does have good stability and
performance.
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BrokenPixel has written up an
interesting article
on Virtual Network Computing (VNC). VNC allows you to run a server
without having a keyboard, mouse and monitor hooked up to it, but still
be able control via a full GUI.
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3DChipset has gotten hold of the
latest NVIDIA Beta drivers for Windows 2000. Apparently, Diablo II
doesn't work with this version, so those of you running the Beta may
want to hold off:
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I noticed over at HardOCP that VIA's
4-in-1 version 4.21 drivers are available on their FTP site. This
new version has the new 4.02 AGP driver, so hopefully performance is at
least the same, if not better than the 4.17. Grab it below:
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G3D has posted a review
of the PelTEC 55 Watt Peltier kit. If you just can't get enough of
that overclocking fix, then grab one of these kits and it should occupy
you for a while.
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Not hardware related, but so many people (including myself) use it, so I
thought I'd mention it. A new
build of ICQ 2000a Beta has been released. Grab it below:
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NFS Xtreme has posted a review
of the Olympus C-920 Zoom Digital Camera. Looks like a mighty good
piece of equipment, head over and check it out if you're in the market
for a good digital camera.
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Dan's Data has posted a review
of ASUS' V7700 GeForce 2 GTS card. Dan seems to like the Leadtek
Winfast GeForce 2 better.
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Planet Hardware has posted a
review
of 3DCool.com's Tornado 1000 Mid Tower ATX case. It has lots of
cooling options and is very easy to work with, and it doesn't look all
that bad either. All in all, a very good case for overclockers.
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Evil3D has posted a review
of a pre-production beta board of VisionTek's GeForce2 64MB DDR
card. That extra memory seems to make quite a difference at high
resolutions.
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Tech Extreme has updated their
Hubs vs. Switches article
with a lot more info, check it out:
Due to popular demand, we have updated the hub versus
switch article to include every single bit of information you could
ever possibly want to know about hubs and switches. Which one
is faster under certain circumstances? How do they perform
under heavy and light network traffic? How does cost play a
factor? What is the plain and simple difference between the
two and how does it affect the end user? Interested in putting
some closure on this battle?
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3DSpotlight has posted a review
of Abit's VT6X4 VIA Apollo Pro 133A based Slot-1 motherboard. A very
decent board indeed, especially for overclocking those Slot-1
Coppermines.
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The Tech Zone has posted a review
of Guillemot/Hercules' 3DProphet II GeForce II GTS card. This is
my personal favorite of the bunch.
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PCExtremes has posted a review
of AMK Services' $10 38CFM CPU fan. They seemed to like it very
much.
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Anand Tech has posted a review
of Leadtek's Winfast GeForce 2 GTS 32MB DDR card. This card does
have TV-Out and an extra large heatsink/fan, head over and see how it
performs on Anand's tests.
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Electric.com sent over the latest
news in the computer industry. Here they are, if any of them
interest you:
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Jason over at Siliconews has
sent word that he's posted up an article
which details his personal experience trying to get DSL installed in his
home. I really feel sorry for all the frustration he went through,
but the way he wrote it, is actually quite amusing. In Toronto, we
have no problems with the installation of both ADSL and Cable, almost
every area now has access and the companies are pretty reliable (at
least in my experiences).
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ASUS has released a new set of drivers
for the V7700/V6800/V6600/V3800 cards. Here is the info and a link
to download:
1. Support new ASV2 file capture format.
2. Support Overscan/Underscan for TV mode.
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The Tech Report has written up
an interesting article
on the Athlon's multiplier settings and bus speeds. Here is an
except:
The Tech Report has put together an interesting little article on
Athlon overclocking. We've been toying with
various Athlon bus speeds and CPU multipliers,
and it's produced some eye-opening results. Could it be that 702MHz
is really better than 728MHz?
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3DAccelerated has posted an article
which goes through the strengths and weaknesses of Intel's Pentium III
and AMD's Athlon processors to help you decide which one suits your
needs better.
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PC Stats has posted a review
of Evergreen's Performa 500 upgrade. This thing will upgrade your
old Slot-1 based motherboard (LX or old BX motherboards) to a Celeron
500. The price is a tad high, so if you don't mind the extra work,
you should look into upgrading your motherboard and processor instead of
getting one of these.
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Tuesday
- May 30th
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Beyond3D has posted an excellent
technical article
on how NVIDIA's FSAA works. Some people claim that it's a software
solution, well it looks like that's not entirely true. Check it out:
NVIDIA has implemented an Ordered Grid Super-sampling (OGSS)
Technique. This is a technique that can be implemented on almost all
3D accelerators, given that they support rendering to an off-screen
buffer. An off-screen buffer has room to store the frame's pixel
colors, as well as the Z and Stencil values. However, it differs from
a conventional front- or back-buffer in that it is never displayed
directly on screen.
The OGSS method uses a regularly-patterned ordered grid of sub-samples
for each pixel. Sub-samples arranged in a column and row-like way
around the original pixel are used to create what is in essence a more
detailed collection of adjacent texture samples for the original
pixel. Below, I provide a step-by-step account of how NVIDIA appears
to use hardware-based OGSS anti-aliasing. Although some people call
this a software implementation, this is incorrect. This specific
technique uses existing "hardware" features to create an
anti-aliased result, as we'll explain.
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GamePC has posted a review
of NEC's FE1250 22" Flat CRT monitor. I remember a day when
NEC used to be the king of monitors, then their popularity died down and
Viewsonic and some others took the spotlight. Maybe they are
making a comback?
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Tweak3D has posted a review
of Guillemot/Hercules' 3D Prophet II GeForce 2 GTS card. I think
we all know how fast these damn cards are, so if you have the mula to
spend on one, you should definitely read the reviews and see which one
you like best.
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Electric.com has sent over another
interesting piece
of news. NEC has developed a new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplying
system (DWDM) which can transmit a maximum of 1.6 Terrabytes!!
Considering how much bandwidth we are eating up on the Internet already,
we're going to need it very soon!
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PC NewsCenter has posted a review
of Gigabyte's GA-GF2560 GeForce 256 review. A very decent card indeed,
especially now since you can get it for a lot cheaper because of the
GeForce 2's being on the market.
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Chip Online has managed to score a prototype
ATI Radeon 256 card. They even has some benchmarks and photo's of
the board. Head over and check it out.
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Hardware-One has notified us
that MSI has issued a press
release about their upcoming VIA KT133 based Athlon motherboard, the
K7T Pro. Here is a bit from the PR:
Continuing the momentum of one of the most popular and awarded
Athlon(tm) motherboard in the market, Micro-Star's K7 Pro, K7T Pro is
the first motherboard supporting new AMD® Athlon (tm) (Thunderbird)
and Duron(tm) processors.
K7T Pro motherboard is of ATX form factor, applying the highly
integrated chipset of KT133 from VIA® Technologies. In providing the
highest expandability, the motherboard equips with 1 AGP slot that
supports the fastest 4X speed, 1 CNR (Communication and Networking
Riser) slot that offers a single and more economical interface of
modem and network, and 6 PCI slots. An optional combination could be
with 5 PCI slots and 1 ISA slot supporting legacy devices. 3 DIMM
memory sockets support up to 1.5GB of PC133 SDRAM.
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The Reverend has
taken the Voodoo5 5500 AGP out for another
spin using the new 1.1 revision of the drivers. Head over and
check out those numbers.
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Electric.com sent over this
interesting piece
of news. It looks like Transmeta may actually be going
somewhere. Here is a bit to explain it:
SAN DIEGO, May 30
(Reuters) - Gateway Inc. (GTW),
the No. 2 U.S. direct seller of personal computers, said on Tuesday it
would use a processor and an operating system from Transmeta Corp. in
the Internet-access appliances it is developing with Web service
provider America Online Inc. (AOL).
The announcement
is the latest example of how computer makers are breaking away from
the standard PC setup of chips supplied by Intel Corp. (INTC)
and Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT)
Windows operating system.
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Overclockin.com has posted a review
of MemoryMan's Mosel Vitalic CAS2 PC133 SDRAM. Despite it's
strange and tacky name, it looks like some pretty good stuff.
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AMDZone has updated their Athlon
FAQ to version 3. This FAQ answers 48 common questions, so if
you have any, you should check this out first.
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Tweak3D has updated their excellent
Windows 2000 tweak guide.
If you are running 2000 and want to squeeze some extra performance out
of it or customized it, head over and read this article.
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ATI has released a bunch of new
drivers and utilities for their Rage 128/Rage 128 Pro cards .
Grab them below:
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Neoseeker has posted part
4 of their Socket 7/370 cooler roundup. In this part they take
a look at RDJD's K601 cooler.
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3DAccelerated has posted a review
of HP's Jornada 545 Color PocketPC. If you're into small,
carry-around computers, head over and check it out.
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Trainwrecker has posted a
Guillemot 3D Prophet II GeForce 2 upgrade
guide (review). They show you what kind of gains you can
expect upgrading from a TNT2 or GeForce DDR.
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Monday
- May 29th
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Digital Web 3D has posted a roundup
of five popular VIA KX133 based Athlon motherboards. If you don't
know which one to get, this article should help you out.
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Game Forces has posted a review
of Intel's Pentium III 866MHz CPU (133MHz FSB). Obviously, this
one is not meant for people who want to overclock. If you want to
overclock, you'll need one that has it's multiplier set to the 100MHz
FSB.
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PCStats has posted a review
of Samsung's Yepp Portable MP3 player. As with most MP3 players
around, this one could have used a few tweaks and improvements.
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Tweak3D has posted a very
informative and detailed article
which explains how CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitors work. Head over
and give it a read.
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CPU Burn has posted a review
of Aten's K/V/M (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) switch. This lets you hook
up 2 computers to a single keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Bigger switches allow for more connections. I find no use for
these devices, but you may.
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Dan over at Dan's Data has posted
his review of Intel's
Celeron II 600MHz CPU. Dan sees no reason why anyone on a budget
shouldn't get one of these puppies.
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SystemLogic has launched their
new Ultimate CPU Price
Watch. You'll be able to find the lowest CPU prices on the net
and it has a few features which make it easier to sort things out.
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got apex? has posted a review of
Guillemot's 3D Prophet II GeForce 2 GTS card. This is one of my
favorites out there. If you haven't seen the performance numbers
of the 64MB version, you should definitely check them
out.
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BrokenPixel has posted a review
of AMK's 3333-300 (great model numbers they have huh?) Mid Tower ATX
case which has some extra fans built-in for more airflow.
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We haven't heard much from this company in A LONG TIME, ever since
Micron bought them out. Chick's
Hardware has posted a interview
with Jay Eisenlohr, Director of Business Development for Rendition
.Don't get too excited, they are not releasing a superchip that is twice
as fast as anything on the market.
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Here is something juicy for all ASUS P3V4X owners. I'll just cut
and paste the email I was sent from Agg of Overclocker
Australia:
Something interesting has cropped up in the P3V4X forum on OcAust.
A long-standing gripe with that Slot1 board is
how there seems to be a dead spot in the FSB
range, you can use high FSB's and low FSB's, but not a few in
the middle which is frustrating for people who's chip's sweet spot is
in that range. Well, a few forum-goers have
found that strapping a small heatsink/fan combo
onto the ICS clock-generator chip (near ram slot 4) seems to
fix that problem, and this has been confirmed by a few more readers.
The main thread is here:
http://www.nightmachines.net/oc/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000183.html
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Riva3D has posted a review
of 3dfx's Voodoo5 5500 AGP card. Head over and see the card
through the perspective of a NVIDIA fan site.
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The Tech Zone has posted a review
of Abit's VT6X4 VIA Apollo Pro 133A based Slot-1 motherboard.
Looks like a good alternative to the ASUS P3V4X.
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G3D is holding another contest.
This time you can win the Artic Circle cooler (SECC2). Head over
and read the details if you're interested.
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3DHardware has posted a review
of 3DfxCOOL's AlphaC-MHO-FAN FC-PGA Cooler. The price is a bit
high, but like the author says, you get what you pay for.
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Chick's Hardware has posted
a review
of iPlayMP3's Moveman SSP-80HCF portable MP3 player. Looks like a
very good player, especially from a new company.
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Sunday
- May 28th
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Riva Station has posted some benchmarks
using Guillemot's 3D Prophet II 64 MB card. They've compared it to
the 32MB version as well as the Voodoo5 5500. People, these
numbers are astounding!
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Thresh's Firing Squad has taken
a new Celeron 533A (FC-PGA) chip out for a spin to see how
well it will overclock. The CPU is a new, so here is a bit to
explain it:
Intel first introduced the new 0.18 micron based Celeron processors
with the 566 and 600MHz chips. There have been rumors of a 533
version, and we are happy to report that those rumors are true. There
are two types of Celeron 533s out there now. You can still find the
original PPGA Celeron 533, but there's also a new FC-PGA Celeron 533A
processor. The "A" designates the new FC-PGA versions.
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You've must of heard all the hype of being able to make long distance
calls over the internet for free. LatestUpdates
has posted a guide
which explains how the technology works, give it a read if you're
interested.
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The Duke of URL has also posted a review
of ELSA's GLADIAC GeForce2 GTS card. Head over and see what the
duke thought of it.
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Next Dimension hardware has
posted their review
of ELSA's GLADIAC GeForce 2 GTS card. Surprisingly, there still
aren't very many other GeForce 2 options out there, that you can
actually buy in stores right now
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ZZZ online has posted an
informative article
on the life expectancy of CD's and how you should properly care for
them.
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Saturday
- May 27th
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PCStats has posted a review
of Rebel's Netwinder OfficeServer system. This tiny little server
surely does have some nice features and is easy to setup.
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The Tech Zone has posted their review
of ELSA's GLADIAC GeForce2 GTS card. A very nice card indeed, but at
$349 USD, it (along with most other GeForce2 and V5's) will be out of
the price range for most people.
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D-Link sent over a press
release stating that they are driving down the price of Internet
security for the home broadband user. Here is a bit from the press
release:
Irvine, CA, May 26, 2000-D-Link, one of the largest True Manufacturers of
Networking, Communications, and digital technology with five manufacturing
plants in the USA, Taiwan, China and India and nearly a half-million square feet
of capacity, today announced that it is adding PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol
over Ethernet) support to it's popular DI-701 Residential Gateway, while
reducing the price to $99 at the same time. Targeted at the general PC user,
the DI-701 protects your computers from hackers or unwanted intruders, and the
new PPPoE support will allow more users to share the broadband connection. The
DI-701 Home DSL/Cable Router/Gateway acts as a Firewall to protect the target
computer, while allowing multiple PC's to share a Cable/DSL Modem. It is the
easiest and safest way to share your high-speed Internet connection.
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Friday
- May 26th
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GamePC has posted a shootout
between Intel's Pentium III 1GHz and AMD's Athlon 1GHz processors.
The Pentium III edges it out by a bit, but I'd be a happy camper if I
had either one of these babies!
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Slot-A.com has posted a review
of ASUS' K7V VIA KX133 based Athlon motherboard. It's undoubtedly
one of the best out there.
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Tom's Hardware Guide has
posted an article
covering the DDR-SDRAM Summit. It seems every important player was
there, except Intel and Rambus. I must agree, I'm very excited to
get some DDR RAM into my system, much more so than I was when I first
heard of RDRAM.
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HardOCP has posted a review
of Asetek's VapoChill cooling system. Here is the description from the
review:
It is a case module made in Denmark
that has a patented Vapor Phase cooling unit mounted in the top of it
that is capable of getting your CPU to BELOW FREEZING temperatures
while under a load depending on your specific conditions. The
difference between this one, and the other one on the market is very
simple when it comes to what is important to us OCers. The
VapoChill unit is packaged for the speed freaks that like to build and
tweak their own systems. You can purchase this unit
"stripped down" and put any board/CPU combination in it you
want. There is certainly more to this, but we will get to that
later.
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3D Rage has posted a review
of the 2CoolPC Plus case cooler. This thing actually works quite
well, and is pretty cheap. Head on over to the CoolerGuys
if you want to buy one.
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Evil Avatar has posted an interview
Loyd Case, Product Manager at NVIDIA. Looks like competition
is as healthy and bloody as ever:
Evil Avatar:
I'm a computer user looking to upgrade my video card within the next
month. With Voodoo 6 6000 on the horizon with a projected fill rate of
1.3 gigapixels for the high end part and FSAA and Tbuffer effects,
what about the GeForce 2 will make me choose it over the competition?
NVIDIA:
While it's not fair to comment on products that are not currently
shipping, I think it is fair to look at what developers are planning
to support in titles coming to market now and in the future. If you
look at E3, all of the most exciting games were running on GeForce and
GeForce2 GTSs. The industry has totally thrown its support behind
T&L while no one is talking about T-Buffer. The option to play
lots of games on hardware that makes them look outstanding and offers
the most support is the obvious choice.
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So you have a Sound Blaster Live! and are amazed at all the things it
can do. Have you ever wondered how it does it all, and how
processing power it actually has? Live!
Center has written up an excellent article
on the background of the EMU10K1, it's definitely worth the read.
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VIAHardware.com has posted the interview
they conducted with Richard Brown, Director of Marketing at VIA
Technologies. Here is a bit from the interview:
1)
Are there chipsets based on DDR SDRAM in VIA's future?If
so, how soon can we expect them?
We
are currently working on the development of DDR chipsets, and will be
outlining our plans at our forthcoming DDR 266: Revving up PC System
Performance seminar on 5 June at Computex 2000 Taiwan.
VIA's
big bet for the high-end lies in DDR-SDRAM, so expect it to be pushed
big by them.
By the way, VIA changed the name of their upcoming KZ133 chipset to
KT133 chipset because of language conflicts. Check out the press
release here.
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Magic Torch Overclocking
has posted a review
of Belinea's 106030 19" monitor. It looks pretty decent, and
got a good rating, but have you ever heard of them before? I
haven't.
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Dan's Data has posted a
shootout between a
couple of affordable webcam's, the D-Link DSB-C300 and Logitech's
QuickCam express. Head over and see which one gives you the best
bang for the buck.
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PCinsight has posted a review
of ATI's Rage Fury MAXX card. Sporting dual ATI Rage 128 Pro chips
and 64MB of SDRAM, it definitely has some horsepower.
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NFS Xtreme has posted an article
(with lots of pictures) of putting together a water cooling peltier
cooling system. They also show what happens to a beutiful FC-PGA Coppermine
P3 after the water pump fails on you!
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Creative Labs has released a new set
of drivers
for their cards which are based on NVIDIA chips:
TNT/TNT2/GeForce/GeForce 2. Here is the info and a link as usual:
- optimized 3D performance
- supports TNT/TNT2/GeForce/GeForce Pro/GeForce2 series graphics
card
- supports Full Scene Anti-aliasing, makes games even at low
res appears more beautiful
Note: - For Full Scene Anti-aliasing,
it requires BlasterControl version 4 and above bcsetup.exe,
and Microsoft DirectX 7.0 (available on Creative 3D Blaster
GeForce/GeForce Pro/GeForce2 cards only).
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G3D has slapped up a quick guide
to buying parts for your PC either to upgrade or build from
scratch. Nothing very detailed, just some general suggestions and
tips.
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Electric.com has notified us that
Soyo has released a whole bunch of motherboard BIOS updates. Here
are the boards in question, and a link to grab them:
- 6VBA+III
- 6VBA 133
- D6IBA BD (7880 A)
- D6IBA BDB - PCB B
- D6IBA BDB - PCB D
- D6IBA-2
- 7VCM
- 5EMA+
- 5EMA+ V1.0
- Download
BIOS Updates
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Hexus.com has posted some pictures of
AMD's new Duron Socket-A CPU. Click here
to see them, and you can find some more pictures and info here.
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Thursday
- May 25th
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got apex? has posted their review
of Tyan's Trinity K7 VIA KX133 based Slot-A motherboard. I don't
know about you, but with the Abit KA7 100, it's hard to consider any
other Athlon motherboard.
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I noticed over at Voodoo Extreme,
that S3/Diamond has released a few new
BIOS updates for the Diamond Stealth III S540 series of cards.
Grab the appropriate one below:
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Storage
Review has posted a review
of Western Digital's new 15GB/platter WD450AA hard drive. It has a
maximum capacity of 45GB's, a 5400 RPM spindle speed, 9.5ms average
access time and a 2MB buffer.
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D-Link just sent us a press release
on their new DSL/Cable router. It has some pretty impressive specs
with a very decent price of $139. Check it out:
· 4 Built-in 100Mb Ethernet Ports
· Share your Cable/DSL Modem
· Acts as a Firewall & Protects Computers from Intruders
· Built-in Crossover Filter
· Supports up to 32 Computers
· PPPoE Support
Irvine, CA, May 24, 2000: D-Link, a market leader for the last 15 years and one
of the largest True Manufacturers of Networking, Communications, and digital
technology with four manufacturing plants in the USA, Taiwan, China and India
and nearly a half-million square feet of capacity, today announced that
it's adding the DI-704 Home DSL/Cable Gateway and Switch to its industry leading
family of Home Internet Gateway and security products. Targeted at the Home
user or the Home Business user, the DI-704 protects connected computers from
hackers or unwanted intruders, while adding the convenience of a built-in 4-port
Switch for local area networking and 1-port for DSL or Cable Modems. It is the
easiest and safest way to share your high-speed Internet connection with a DSL
Modem or Cable Modem.
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Hexus.com has posted a review
of the Coolermaster ATCS 200 Mid Tower ATX case. The front panel
looks quite different and refreshing actually. Head over and give
it a once over.
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Tech Junkie has conducted an interview
with Richard Brown, Director of Marketing at VIA Technologies.
Here is an interesting bit from the interview:
VIA:
At Computex, we will also be demonstrating the PM133, which
combines the Pro133A with the S3 Savage4 to provide the
highest-performance integrated solution for the Value PC market. This
is the first product resulting from our S3 Graphics Joint Venture and
we are very excited about it. It's the first integrated chipset on the
market to deliver advanced 3D graphics performance and also features
an optional AGP slot for additional flexibility.
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H. Oda has released a new version of his popular CPU identification
utility, WCPUID. Here are the new features and a link to download:
- Supported Intel CPU New Multiplier.
- Supported Intel CPU Willamette(internal only).
- Deleted Intel CPU 0.18Mu Display.
- Supported VIA CPU Cyrix III.
- Supported VIA Chipset KX133/KZ133.
- Supported AMD CPU K6-2+ / K6-III+
- Supported Windows Me
- Reflects VIA KZ133 to KT133 name change
- WCPUID
(Win9x/NT/2K - v2.7e Beta 4b - 91 KB)
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Wondering how much a difference a switch really makes? Head over
and read this review
of the Ovislink Ether-GFSH9G 10/100/1000 Switch over at Tech
Extreme and check out the file transfer speeds (at 100Mbps) compared
to when they used regular 10/100 Mbps hubs.
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Gamers Depot has posted a review
of Quantum's Snap Server 2000. This server comes in a small,
nicely designed case with two 20GB hard drives with RAID support and is
ready to run a web/file server very quickly.
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This is the question that most people who give a damn about what they
buy, are asking themselves. The i820 and other integrated chipsets
like SiS crap and the i810e are completely out of the question for most
people. Anyway, The Tech Report
has put together a couple systems based on these two platforms and benchmarked
them a bit to help you decide which one you should get.
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PCExtremes has posted a review
of A4Tech's Wireless 4D Infra Red mouse. The only thing that
bothers me about these cordless things, is that you have to change the
damn batteries!
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Extreme Overclocking
has posted an article
which gives some solutions for people who have been having trouble
getting their FC-PGA heatsink's mounted on with good contact. The
reason why this issue has arisen is because of the small surface area of
the Coppermine core, and certain heatsinks not fitting properly with
certain converter cards.
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G3D has posted an article
which tells you how to add a fan to the front of your case, for
additional cooling.
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Andre pointed us in the direction of this press
release over at 3dfx which states that there will be another small
delay in the shipment of the Voodoo5's because of a problem on a small
number of system. Check it out:
What:
3dfx Interactive® Inc. (NASDAQ: TDFX) today announced that it has
temporarily delayed the release of its Voodoo5™ 5500 AGP. The
company is taking this action to ensure that it meets its own high
standards for product quality.
The
company discovered that the Voodoo5 may be experiencing field failure
rates at very low levels in certain configurations. The company is
conducting further tests to determine whether a problem actually
exists. 3dfx anticipates this action will delay product availability
between seven and 14 days.
"We
believe that this affects only a small number of configurations, but
we feel that this is the safest thing to do," said Randy
Schussler, vice president of operations at 3dfx Interactive.
"We're taking this action to ensure that our customers receive a
high quality product that exceeds their expectations."
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iXBT Hardware has posted a review
of Soyo's SY-7VCA VIA Apollo Pro 133A based Socket-370
motherboard. It's a very decent board, and you should definitely
take a look at it, if you're looking for a new motherboard to run that
FC-PGA Pentium III.
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