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• NEC unveils DDR-II

  Published: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Not much to be said about this, though it is pretty cool.
  "The first configurations are 18-megabit at 33-MHz. A 36-Mbit version is planned for an unspecified debut in the future.
  
  Samples of both type SRAMs are available at $80 each. Production quantities and pricing are scheduled for Q3 '02."

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• Case Mod Galleries

  Published: Monday, April 15, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I’ve been toying around with the idea of starting a case mod gallery and I still might do it considering the popularity of the new hobby. In the meantime here are a couple to look over.
  http://www.bluesmoke.net/viewGallery.php?id=case

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  DFI NB70-SC Review @ Overclocked(java cup)Cafe

  Published: Monday, April 15, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Another Intel i845D board, with typical results.

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• Antec Mod Painting This Weekend

  Published: Saturday, April 13, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Well the Antec Mod project is about halfway there with the ritual painting of the case marking a major milestone for this weekend. Normally I wouldn't say anything but this time we're not using the tried and true "bomb can" tekniq. I'll have more on that subject later.

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• GeForce4 Ti4400 4-Way @ GamePC

  Published: Saturday, April 13, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Sounds kinky but really its just 4 cards and some benchmarks. I am actually quite surprised as to how bad the Gainward card does when compared to the other cards in the test.

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• Licensing Dispute Over 533MHz FSB?

  Published: Thursday, April 11, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I pose this as a question because we have already seen a few instances of regular Pentium 4 chips running overclocked at 533MHz FSB, so what is to stop SiS, VIA, and others from licensing the 400MHz FSB from Intel, then giving consumers the ability to run 533MHz FSB chips on those chipsets in using an "overclocked" FSB setting??.

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• JEDEC-standard DDR333 Memory From Micron

  Published: Thursday, April 11, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Hometown hero Micron appears to be the first to supply JEDEC-compliant DDR333 memory. I think we can expect silent compliancy upgrades from other DDR333 memory manufactures in the coming weeks.

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• Sunon Fans in Xbox

  Published: Thursday, April 11, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is kind of cool; the all time favorite for case cooling will make a debut in the Xbox. According to the article on April 10th Sunon signed an 18-month deal to supply heat fans for the new game console, orders will be finalized on the following week.

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• Russell Announces Retirement

  Published: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is about as far from tech news as you can get but being a motorcycle enthusiast I figured what the heck. Scott Russell announced his retirement saying that he is going to take it easy. Russell was an AMA and World Superbike champion and even earned the nickname of Mr. Daytona after winning the race 5 times.

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• SiS "Roadmap" Cont.

  Published: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 | By: Dennis

  x-bit labs has some interesting SiS chipset info posted including chipset support for DDR400 which we told you earlier may or may not be approved by the JEDEC. Intel also stated that they decided not to go with DDR400 saying that DDR2 is a more attractive option.

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