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  • Soltek SL-8DRV3 Review @ VIAHardware

    Published: Thursday, March 28, 2002 | By: Dennis

    VIAHardware take a look at the SL-85RDV3 from Soltek. This board contains the RedStorm Overclocking feature that Soltek is famous for along with chipset tweaking in typical VIA fashion, together they make a very impressive combination. VIA appears to be still going strong in the P4 chipset market despite the hounding from Intel that we don't hear much of anymore.

  • DDR400 Might Not Become a Standard

    Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 | By: Dennis

    EE Times has the scoop directly from the JEDEX conference in California. Here is a snip "a representative from JEDEC outlined the future roadmap for the "mainstream" DRAM market, disclosing that the organization "may or may not" ratify the 400-MHz version of the double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM technology as a standard." They go on to say the disclosure could upset memory manufactures, I'm thinking it will most likely upset Intel since it was them that originally pushed to have DDR400 available.

  • Modified Dreamcast games for Xbox

    Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 | By: Dennis

    A Taiwan software company has been contracted by Sega to convert 12 of its games to the xbox platform. When I read this headline I was expecting to see news of an emulator, I guess Sega has opted to relive the days of the Dreamcast instead. /keys dream sequence music.

  • A Day of No News

    Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Sorry for the lack of news day yesterday but it was pretty busy here in the lab then towards evening time I guess my webhost decided I had enough traffic for one night and killed the server for about 12 hours. angry smile fsck3r5!!

  • P4 Voltage Mod

    Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: Dennis

    VR-Zone has a voltage mod posted for your P4 system. This is the second mod of this nature that we have seen in recent months so it must work. tongue smile

  • Kingmax TinyBGA DDR400 PC3200 Review @ HardwarePub

    Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Belly up to the bar and have a listen to a review on DDR400.

  • Soltek 75DRV5 KT333 Review @ TweakTown

    Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: Dennis

    We can use these guys as a compairson once our sample shows up. The current rumor is that they will be here sometime today.

    [plug]
    If you are looking for a US distro for Soltek stuff head on over to misrcorps.com
    [/plug]. big grin smile

  • Wireless Info and Utilz @ wi2600.org

    Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Simply put if you have wireless and want to start tweaking, HaxX0r'n, or just plain become a guru. This site might help you out.

    For instance here is a text file that talks about having fun with a Linksys WAP11

  • VIA and SiS in a P4 Chipset Price War

    Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: Dennis

    This bit of news sounds a little silly but is interesting since it would appear that motherboard mfgs. have started opening up to VIA's P4 chipset.

  • Asus to Build P4 Laptops

    Published: Monday, March 25, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Quanta will soon have some competition in the notebook world now that Asus will start building them. If the notebooks are anything like their motherboards we can expect stable and fugly yellow. big grin smile