Tech News
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RoydRage's Prometeia / Lian-Li Build
Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: DennisThis is one of those case mods where once you have it built you're not going to want to move it, you will have to check out the mod to see what I mean.
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PC Instability Remedies
Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: DennisWe all have troubles with our computers and what fun is it to build the perfect PC if you don't get to troubleshoot issues as their occur? Well WinHQ has a list of 7 things to be sure to check the next time your PC gives you trouble.
" Compressed air is also extremely useful for removing dust and caked in PCBs. Are you a smoker? Smoke is the worst substance for damaging PCs. I spent a whole night at an uncle's house just cleaning the gross tar from the case! "
Word to your mother.
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Single Standard Wi-Fi Losing Ground
Published: Monday, January 6, 2003 | By: DennisThis trend has already started to take place and really makes more sense in the big picture. The only bad part is that 802.11a is the only one of the new standards that operates on a different frequency range from 802.11b/g so despite it being a little more secure and not interfering with your phone it might be on its way out.
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Users Do More Than Surf
Published: Monday, January 6, 2003 | By: DennisAccording to the chart of the people surveyed people spend most of their time chatting with instant message programs and trading files.
I wonder what that will do to people that develop websites for a living, hummm
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SiS655 A0-Version Chipset Info
Published: Monday, January 6, 2003 | By: Dennis"Motherboards based on the dual-channel-DDR333 SiS655 chipset from Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) have recently started hitting the market. For the first batch of products, chipsets used in these boards are the A0-version SiS655, which does not support Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology."
It would appear that the first batch of chips do not support HyperThreading which would explain why it was missing from the AOpen announcement. (see below)
This is kind of fun.
"Although the A0-version SiS655 features dual-channel-DDR333 support, many companies have enhanced their motherboards to support DDR400 through overclocking." -
AOpen Lanuches SiS655 Dual Channel DDR Motherboard
Published: Monday, January 6, 2003 | By: DennisWe don't talk much about SiS enabled motherboards but every once in awhile the company throws us a surprise. AOpen has announced a Pentium 4 board based on the SiS655 chipset called the AX45-4D Max.
"With four DDR DIMM slots, AOpen’s new motherboard can offer a maximum memory capacity of up to 4GB. Designed on the ATX form factor, AOpen’s AX45-4D Max also offers one CNR, five PCI slots, six USB 2.0 ports and two IEEE 1394 ports."
The DigiTimes release doesn't mention anything about HyperThreading support, -
Fortissimo III 7.1 Review @ Bjorn3d
Published: Monday, January 6, 2003 | By: DennisHercules makes some pretty good sound cards though I would have liked to see digital in & out on the card. Though now that I think about it, how many speaker systems do you see with optical connectors?
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Triplex GF4 Ti 4800SE Deluxe Photo @ VR-Zone
Published: Friday, January 3, 2003 | By: DennisThis card is supposed to be 10% faster than the TI4600 while being AGP 8x compatible. I for one will be looking to get a NV30 instead.
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E7205 Motherboard Shootout @ GamePC
Published: Friday, January 3, 2003 | By: DennisSomeone over at GamePC has some bux, they actually tested the 4GB memory limit of the E7205 with 4 1GB sticks of DDR266!
it is sad they didn't benchmark them that way.
"Intel E7205 boards are indeed expensive, and don't expect them to be in the sub-$200 range for quite some time, if ever. The key thing to note though is that while the chipsets, and subsequently, the motherboards are expensive, the memory you use in any of these boards certainly is not. E7205 can use lots of cheap PC-2100 memory and still get superb performance."
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The Singing V-10
Published: Friday, January 3, 2003 | By: DennisThis is kind of fun, an engine that sings.
"the sound of a 10-cylinder, 750 horsepower Asiatech F1 engine warming up. After a few seconds you will notice it sounds a little strange... that's right, it's playing "when the saints go marching in" with its revs. it can do this because in F1 cars these days the accelerator is computer controlled, so they programmed the computer to have a little fun, much to the amusement of the reporters and pit crew."
Hear it for yourself, the file is in mp3 format.
