Tech News

  • 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. tongue smile 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • P4X266 Motherboard Series

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

    Here is an interesting tidbit, with the legal battle on between Via and Intel many motherboard companies are shying away from Via's P4X266 chipset until a decision has been reached. So what better way to get your product to market than to finish it yourself.

    I get a kick out of the 6 different P4-478 boards using 3 different PCB colors.

  • Mozilla 0.9.5 released

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

    The code for which most well respected browsers are based on gets an update :)

  • Prototype Wearable WatchPad Running Linux

    Published: Friday, October 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

    "Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and IBM Japan Ltd. demonstrated a prototype of their wearable WatchPad 1.5 computer on Oct. 11.

    Slightly larger than an ordinary wristwatch, the device has a monochrome LCD display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The device doubles as a wristwatch and as a computer running the Linux operating system."

  • Intel's BBUL Package

    Published: Friday, October 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

    To some this is old news but AnandTech has an article up on Intel's BBUL processor package. Just imagine a processor that is thinner than a credit card running 10GHz+.

  • Visiontek Xtasy 6964 Review @ 3DGPU

    Published: Thursday, October 11, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The latest offering from VisionTek comes armed with blue heatsinks and fan and looks to be quite a performer. Too bad they didn't finish by coloring the PCB; it would have completed the ensemble.