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• 75GXP Failure Rate Sparks Lawsuit

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Heat can damage electronics, and hard drives are not immune. The super fast 75GXP drives from IBM have been plagued with a high failure rate since their introduction and these failures can be attributed to heat and low tolerances, together they spell disaster. It would appear that with this lawsuit the 75GXP drives are being pulled from production.

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• PGP to be sold by NAI

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Well, as expected (by me), it's happening. Shortly after Phil Zimmerman, the creator of PGP, leaves NAI for personal reasons, Pretty Good Privacy goes on the auction block. I guess they didn't realize the immensity of the task that Mr. Zimmerman was managing.

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• VisionTek Xtasy Review @ Evil3d

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Another VisionTek review has been posted, this time by the Evil Smokers at Evil3d. I wonder if VisionTek will be the big seller this year in the video card market.

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• Motorola G5 CPU news

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Though still plagued with problems, the soon-to-be G5 PowerPC processor will indeed be a 64-bit chip, and current yields are stable at 1.6 Ghz.

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• Via Starts up Motherboard Division

  Published: Saturday, October 20, 2001 | By: Dennis

  ZDnet reports that Via will start building high-end motherboards for their P4 DDR chipset. This news isn't really new to us but is worth a mention.
  
  The way I understand it Via isn't really going to be producing the boards but will instead outsource the task to other companies that have the resources to build them. Soltek is rumored to be one of those companies.

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• P4 DDR roundup @ DDRZone

  Published: Thursday, October 18, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Steve is being silly over at the OXP today which isn't really anything new. You will also notice the OXP reference, it would seem they think that adding an XP to their name will make them better. who am I to judge.
  
  While I was there I noticed a P4 DDR 4-way at The DDRZone, check it out. It should be known that the site isn't Netscape 6 friendly

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• Playboy Cuts 90 Jobs

  Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 | By: Dennis

  In an attempt to remain profitable Playboy is cutting 90 jobs. It would seem that the economic downturn is affecting pr0n as well.

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• Radeon 8500 Review @ AnandTech

  Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Reviews of the Radeon 8500 will be popping up all over the net this week now that ATI has released their review samples. There will of course be some who will simply go out and buy one.

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• K7V Dragon Review Posted

  Published: Monday, October 15, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Well the Dragon review has been posted and you can see all of the shiny bits in the reviews section. I really wasn't very impressed with the Dragon's performance over a regular SDRAM system; hopefully the KT266a version will be better.

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• 7200rpm IDE Round-up @ x-bit labs

  Published: Monday, October 15, 2001 | By: Dennis

  x-bit always has some good stuff this time its a 7200rpm IDE harddrive roundup.

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