Tech News
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nForce2 vs. KT400: Gaming Performance
Published: Thursday, November 7, 2002 | By: DennisInstead of going a complete comparison between the two chipsets the amdmb guys opted to concentrate on gaming performance between two unknown motherboards using these chipsets.
The whole article just to say this.
"we discovered that the problem was restricted to only OpenGL or Quake III engine-based games and that the bottleneck was in the way those software components interacted with the 8x AGP bus. " -
DevEdge Interview With Douglas Bowman
Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: Dennis"One of the Web's oldest news sites, Wired News draws between 20 and 25 million page views every month. On October 11, 2002, Wired launched a brand-new site design that uses validating XHTML for its structure and a small collection of CSS files for its layout. The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we've come to expect from Web pages. "
The new layout uses 13 stylesheets and not a single formatting table.
I considered building Ninjalane v2.0 as a standards compliant website but to many of the visitors here still use non-standards compliant browsers.
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Good Comics Today
Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: DennisToday is a great day for online comics. The "Tube" saga continues at Penny Arcade, and looks to be in vain for Tycho.
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AMD Could Extend 333MHz FSB to Athlon XP 2600+
Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: DennisCould this be a gift from AMD or just a feeble attempt to keep an aging processor line alive for just a few months more? I think the jury will be out on this one for a while.
"Despite its launch of the new 333MHz FSB Athlon XP 2700+ and 2800+ on October 1 and continuing production transfer to the 0.13-micron process, AMD has been facing tough sales, as its latest processors attract mainly top-end users with their relatively higher prices and its progress in transferring processes has still been slower than that of archrival Intel." -
Albatron PX845E Silver Edition Review @ accelenation
Published: Tuesday, November 5, 2002 | By: DennisI always get a kick out of accelenation reviews since there is usually something pretty wacky contained within.
"Like always, before I get to the benchmarks I like to check the FSB to make sure the manufacturer isn’t cheating in benchmarks, which some manufacturers are known to do. Here the PX845E’s FSB is clocked only a tad higher then the Intel Desktop boards, which shouldn’t make that much of a difference in benchmarks."
I think this is pretty much standard practice.
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Nvidia Mania's Day
Published: Tuesday, November 5, 2002 | By: DennisNot much to report here since the page is really just a bunch of pictures. Check out the NV30 fun facts.
"More floating point power than a Cray SV-1 Supercomputer"
Thats alot
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CP-100 Pentium 4 Liquid Heatsink
Published: Monday, November 4, 2002 | By: DennisThis is actually a pretty neat idea, phj34r the babblephish.
" As for the mechanism of the cooling " CP-100 ", those which heat are sent to the fin top from the heat sink by the fact that it circulates the liquid of the tank which is attached to both sides. The tank of the liquid entering is utilized in place of the heat pipe, perhaps it is easy to understand, you say. Furthermore, this liquid being the water, or being special ones, details are unclear. "
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Doom ]|[ Leaked Over the Weekend
Published: Monday, November 4, 2002 | By: DennisAs you can guess John Carmak is pissed and after further investigation it would appear that ATI is to blame (or someone at ATI).I have also heard reports that the Alpha of Doom ]|[ is only playable on an ATI 9700 and pretty much runs like cr4p on the Ti4600, go figure.
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Be Sure to Load Everything
Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: DennisI have gotten some reports of the new site looking funny with links being green and some text being black.
The reason for that can be attributed to the new stylesheet not being loaded properly. To solve the problem do the following.
press [shift] + your browsers reload/refresh button. This should reload everything from the site instead of the browser cache. -
VIA Will Request a Retrial
Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: DennisThis lawsuit between VIA and Intel has been going on for quite some time now and VIA seems to be unwavered by it. I think this quote sums it all up.
Other board makers said that even if VIA loses the case, which targets the P4X266 chipset only, the result would not affect VIA’s sales much, as the chipset is close to being phased out of the market now.
To little to late??
