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• P4 Heatsinks Debut

  Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Akiba is once again showing us some new and exciting stuff for the P4. First the ThermalTake P4 Dragon, a while ago I posted some info about this heatsink and I still say it looks like an AVC Sunflower. Next we have an Alpha cooler for the P4, finally . I downloaded the install sheet to see how it mounted. The heatsink uses a spring and pin combo similar to the Athlon version, not sure I like that much.

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• Antex SX635 Case Review

  Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  We have another exciting review this time of the Antec SX635. This case has an amazing set of features all tucked into a tiny little case.

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• Gainward Ultra/750XP Review @ t-break.

  Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I have no idea how much this card will cost but looking at the line of accessories the card comes with the $399 Ti4600 price tag seems a little low. One thing is for sure the Ultra/750XP will eventually make it into a computer near me.

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• Intel Prestonia Xeon 2.2GHz Review @ GamePC

  Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  When you first see a Xeon processor you almost think old school P4 though in fact it is far from that. The Xeon line is aimed at the highest of high-end has more pins (603), a larger pin footprint, and supports SMP. Actually from a spec standpoint the Xeon P$ (<- spendy P4) is quite similar to the Northwood.

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• SiS645DX Reference Board Review @ OCworkbench

  Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

  DDR333 and DDR400 in the same SiS645 package as before. If you remember I reported that the Soltek SL-85DRS2 had documented provisions for DDR400 along with 133FSB but where disabled in the bios. I can see a future revision to the Soltek 85DRS motherboard in the near future.

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• Pentium 4 2.4GHz News @ The Inquirer

  Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

  They say its 'not bad' and its not but found something funny towards the bottom.
  "On Sandra 2002 tests, the 2.5GHz part returned 4677Mips, 1250 FPU Mflops and 2897 SSE2 Mflops."
  Chalk one up for Andrew

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• Teddy Bear Switch

  Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Isn't that sweet! Stuff like this would make perfect camouflage for a super secret network. Agent "ClydeFrog" handles packet filtering. Agent "Freedom" high atop of the bookcase stretches his wings on the Wi-Fi. Agent "Shadow", the panther, handles intrusion detection and packet sniffing. Lastly we have agent "Teddy" who is in charge of connections.

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• Gainward Ti4600 Photos Posted

  Published: Monday, March 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is the first time I've seen actually 3rd party photos of this card so retail sales should be right around the corner.

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• Pentium 4 2.2GHz Review @ 3D Velocity

  Published: Monday, March 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This may seem like old news but 3D Velocity has posted a review/article on the 2.2GHz Northwood processor.

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• Build Your Own Rail Gun

  Published: Monday, March 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Now you to can be a space marine with your very own rail gun.

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