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I think this is a bit premature, but 800MHz bus Pentium 4 parts are showing up on distributor lists with pricing (which is odd as well). Of course no stock is shown. This does seem to reconfirm everything we have heard about 800MHz parts back down to 2.4GHz.
As many know, ATI has been gearing up to bring the once NV-centered VisionTek on board to sell ATI VPU based cards in North America. Let's see what VisionTek has to say about their new ATI driven Xtasy 9500 Pro.
Freak’n KICK ASS performance - Xtasy 9500 Pro, powered by ATI’s RADEON™ 9500 PRO VPU with 128MB DDR memory WILL BLOW YOU… AWAY! ATI’s TRUFORM™ technology makes heaving orbs more ample and well-endowed… while HYPER Z™ II saves bandwidth for mo’ righteous performance in your more demanding sit-e’ations… ATI’s SMOOTHVISION, anti-aliasing, KICKS THE CRAP out of ‘visual distortion,’ and sends that BI-A-TCH crying home to mama! That means better, smoother looking images. HI-RES 32-bit, 3D gaming up to 2048x1536 means that when ‘intense applications’ leaves his house… THE 9500 SLAPS THAT PIG DOWN, SAYS "GIMME MY’ MONEY BI-A-TCH!"
I had no idea that Eminem was working in VisionTek marketing.
Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.
A good read for all you Bio-inclined. Thanks Jeremy Jack.
Tweaktown has a really nice 9700 Review on line. Good work guys!
We've been seeing the Radeon 9700 Pro boards for a while, but when someone comes up saying they have one called "Ultimate Edition", it makes you ask why.
HighPoint Rocket RAID @ ClubOC - Belkin Wireless Keyboard and Mouse @ LANAddict - LiteOn 52/24/52 CDRW @ CDRLabs - Seagate Barracuda SATA RAID Review @ ClubOC - USB Mini-Flash Drive @ VNRoundup
60m to 80mm Fan Adapter @ ExtensionTech - Antec PlusView Review @ InsideProject - Enermax PSU @ WorldOCers - Acoustic Matting @ PCArena - CoolerMaster Case Review @ 3DXtreme
XAqua Water Block @ PCAbusers - Tweak Your Fan Voltage @ ViperLair - ComputerExhaust System @ TwistedMods - AVC HSF @ Comp Shop
Either Moore's Law is meaning less or I am confused. Likely the latter. Thanks Blair.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Moore's Law has taken a new meaning in today's IC industry, in which the axiom now represents the rate of “die shrinks” rather than transistor scaling, according to the keynote speaker at the SPIE Microlithography conference here today.
We signed a contract last week with DealTime. We will be doing an online pricing engine that utilizes ResellerRatings rating scheme to hopefully save you some time while trying to find a good price from a good retailer.
DealTime officially announced their partnership today.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2003-- DealTime Ltd., the leading shopping search engine, today announced an agreement with ResellerRatings.com, (www.resellerratings.com), the premier retailer ratings specialist, to integrate ResellerRatings merchant reviews into DealTime's existing merchant rating content.
Clueless computer users can cause harm to people besides themselves, after all, by accidentally running open mail relays and unpatched IIS servers and such. Or just by driving Bitter Tech Support Persons past the point where coming to work with a faraway look, and a really heavy gym bag starts to look like a marvellously good idea.
Gotta love Dan's editorial. Really looking forward to having a beer with this guy one day.
I have to say that the MX700 Cordless feedback has been overwhelming. I use mine for everything...well almost. 3DGameMan has the 411 on the 700.
The Logitech MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse is by far the best cordless mouse currently on the market. With it stylish looks, great performance and excellent feel it's a product that really stands out. If you are in the market for a cordless mouse, stop looking because this is it.
It is pretty apparent that SiS loves the kinder, gentler RAMBUS of 2003. I guess the real question is, does anyone else really care?
Taipei, Taiwan - February 24, 2003 - Industry leaders Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.(Samsung), ASUSTeK Computer Inc.(ASUS) and Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS) announce the cooperative development of the next-generation RDRAM-based chipset, the SiSR659, which is targeted at the performance computing and multimedia gaming markets.
Read the whole release here.
Don't be puttin' no boobies in dat dar "snowman". You could get in a heap of trouble. There must be some pretty bored folks in Ohio....who need to go out and get laid.
This one is only for the hardcore, or those who want to think they are.
As you get into more and more complex computer modifications or electronics projects, you will find the need to etch a custom circuit board. While there are lots of ways to do this, most are either expensive or time consuming. There IS an easy and inexpensive alternative though...often called "the copier toner method'.
This is certainly not a new subject, but it is one that is likely to not go away for a long time as well. If you have capacitors on your mainboard, and you do, you might consider giving them a look every once in a while. PCStats has the whole story.
The gas causes the hermetically sealed aluminum cans to burst, or partially blow out the rubber end cap. If electrolytic capacitors "dry out" they won't work properly, and that can cause problems with the computer which can be very difficult to figure out.
NVIDIA finally spoke up today about the dual CPU Socket A board we showed off. Our PR contact expressed that he has never heard of the board we showed or has seen one such as it on a roadmap. Statements such as this make it seem reasonable that it may be an idea that we never see. It has also not been uncommon for us to have more information that is factual than NVIDIA PR as well. As for the legitimacy of the drawing, it came from inside the Asus organization recently...very recently. So maybe we can hope this is something that our contact is not aware of.
The Barton 3000+s are in the channel now, if you want to pay for one. If you don't want to pay for one, you can head over to HardwareAccelerated and read about it.
While it isn't AMD's promised Hammer core, it does perform well nonetheless. Was it enough to keep Intel at bay? Well, that remains to be seen.
What happens when you get the mini-ITX and a Lian Li together? A box that you would most likely be proud to have on top of your TV case.
It can easily presume most of the roles of a desktop PC. The hardware DVD decoder (courtesy of the Castlerock) and the 5.1 audio (courtesy of the AC97 codec) provides for a rich multimedia experience. The USB2.0 and IEEE1394 ports also make the platform compatible with a lot of other devices, including DV cameras and external USB2.0 drives. Also, there are three video output ports: one is the normal monitor output, the second is a composite output (RCA) and the third is an s-video output. It also only has one PCI slot and one slot for DDR-SDRAM.
For some reason their, "Are You Ready For More" tag line seems to be a bit familiar. Blame Chefboy.
REDMOND, Wash. (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) on Friday said it will release software this summer allowing corporations to control access to sensitive internal documents, such as financial statements and e-mail.
I think MS really deserves some kudos for finally getting around to security...
Retailers have been reporting the impending Intel CPU price drop and Monday is the day it is supposed to happen. Apparently is might be a very hefty one, but we do not have prices yet. Anyway, if you are looking to buy a Pentium 4, you had best wait a day or two.
Personally, they will not be missed by me. Maybe somebody will inject some sense into their flawed business or maybe some Hollywood Star will pay their bills.....na.
But considering its dire financial problems -- Salon has lost $81 million since its inception -- a headline in Wednesday's Globe and Mail seems accurate: "It looks like curtains for Web's Salon."
The Canterwood cometh, and you had best believe the Ram guys are going to be there with bells on. Too bad the DDR400 JEDEC spec is CAS2.5. We will have a good bit of time before the 875 Pentium 4 chipset from Intel lands sporting a 800MHz FSB and official DDR400 support, so if your fave module maker is not on the list yet, odds are they will be.
Memory suppliers have provided data to demonstrate the following DDR400 DRAM components comply with the Intel® specifications for DDR400. Listed below are the DDR400 DRAMs that have passed characterization data review and their respective unbuffered DDR400 modules have passed desktop/workstation system-level validation testing at multiple platform corner conditions.
There are also some interesting links on that page that fully describe the Intel DDR400 Validation Process as well as their own Addendum for the JEDEC DDR400 Spec.
Just found out I will most likely be dead when the world comes to end. At least I can get some sleep now.
Sir Isaac Newton predicted the world would end in the year 2060, scribbling the date on a piece of paper, according to theories uncovered by academics in Jerusalem.
It is a damn shame that Benny Hill did not make the list.
Springdale Sisoft Sandra numbers are posted over at ComputerBase, in German. The DDR400 scores show around 4300MB/s across the memory bus. Comparing to our dual channel experiences here, I would say these numbers are dead on.
For years, modders have blended software savvy with creativity, breathing new life into aging games. Now, their skills are being sought for new PC games.
Of course, the 64-megabit question is: How do you tell exactly which bottleneck is bugging a user of a particular computer system? There are few good comparisons of overall computing performance. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, or SPEC, based in Warranton, Virginia, has for years provided what has come to be regarded as the standard measure of basic chip performance, by running a variety of sample algorithms against each new processor. But just about everyone in the semiconductor industry knows the tests do not really model what a user might want to do.
THE TEAM WAS THERE to study soldiers in the field—and particularly their uniforms. Just what happens to a Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) “when an 18-year-old gets his hands on it?” asks Thomas, director of MIT’s new Army-funded Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN). It was all well and good for the Ph.D.s to use computer models up at MIT, but live data from the rainy woods where troops train were invaluable.
I know many people who simply do not buy music anymore. They download the songs they like off of the internet. They burn mixed CDs. Are they stealing money from the pockets of artists and the RIAA? They surely can't afford all the music they download.
Computeruser.com is down for me at the moment, but you might be able to direct access the article. If not, there is a cached copy at Google.
Mario Mariani, senior vice-president for access and media at Tiscali, says the group's services would help to create momentum for legitimate downloading of music and draw them away from peer-to-peer services that have flourished on the net. We want to show our customers that there is a legal alternative and allow them to experience a service that is faster, better and more secure, he says.
Smoother even surfaces lend themselves to much better cooling when it comes to mating metal parts. SystemCooling has a great guide on the DIY aspects of getting your cooling working better.
Lapping is an abrasive process used to dress the base of a heatsink or waterblock until the bottom surface is flat and smooth. It is used to promote better heat transfer. The metal base may look smooth but it is actually filled with microscopic peaks, valleys, scratches and pits. Few surfaces are perfectly flat.
Free pr0n comes to those who wait. Blame Blair.
The guys at ExtremeMHz finish up yesterday's article on their water cooling project.
Stability would not be sacrificed; and the only results published are those where the systems were stress tested and have run continuously in a 24/7 environment for a period of at least 2 weeks.
Uh, yeah.
A close relative recently showed us number of products (Ambrotose being the most common apparently). These claim to cure all the bodies ills using 8 different sugars, or something along those lines.
You may have heard the name "Redwood" thrown around this last week in relation to everyone's favorite technology company, RAMBUS. Faster than HyperTransport and available for your licensing now. This page will get you up to speed faster than the sentencing phase of the next trial gets here.
The Rambus Redwood family of parallel bus interface products represents a significant breakthrough in logic chip-to-chip interface technology. Offering data rates of 400 MHz to 6.4 GHz, Redwood interface products run up to ten times faster than today's best-of-class processor busses, while reducing overall package, board, and system costs.
Our super-top-ultra-secret contacts as Best Buy have this to say:
...the presells for the r350 will be arriving around 03/03/03...
Just remember, you did not hear that here.
If you are one of the lucky folks that has a dead XBOX, which I am sure many of you do, then take those controls and do what they did over at BlaggedHardware and put them to good use. Thanks Tallgeese!
The Xbox is essentially a stripped down pc, and uses USB for its controllers, so all you have to do is change the Xbox plug end to a regular USB plug end, and viola, Xbox controller goodness on your PC.
Are you going to be in New Orleans for Mardi Gras? If so, you might want to swing by the BLT (Black tie Lingerie or Toga / Or any combination) in Metairie. Head over to the BLT site for information on how to get an invite. Yeah, these are [H]'ers getting drunk in their underwear with scantily clad women. Whodathunkit?
SAN JOSE -- Intel Corp. is covering all bets on its upcoming Springdale and Canterwood core-logic chipsets by ensuring the devices support three memory speed grades--DDR400, DDR333, and the workhorse of the bunch, DDR266.
The lack of RAMBUS' RDRam leaves me heartbroken.
Using a combination of trade tricks and clever programming, hackers have thoroughly compromised security at America Online, potentially exposing the personal information of AOL's 35 million users.
Feb. 20, 2003 – Don't call it a stampede, but the first generation of machine tools for molding tiny devices with nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is on its way to market.
The TV display supplied by Sharp Corp. measures just 1.5 inches. It hooks up to a video-game machine for eye-straining gaming fun.
Most of us could use a faster golf swing. But most of us haven't considered using jet propulsion to bang our ball faster and further down the fairway. As the inventor explains, the Jet Propulsion Club is; "a golf club for impelling a golf ball further with thrust force assist."
The next time American armed forces go to war -- if they're not already fighting in Iraq as you read this -- the nature of the battle will be unlike anything the world has ever known. Afghanistan provided a glimpse of the latest generation of high-tech weaponry, but it was only a glimpse. A major assault by combined American forces will provide a full demonstration of the military's new doctrine of faster, lighter, smarter warfare -- combat in which cutting-edge technology becomes U.S. troops' deadliest weapon. The Pentagon calls this new doctrine RMA, for "revolution in military affairs," and it's made possible not just by fresh thinking in the Pentagon but also by a subtle shift in the ranks of U.S. defense contractors. In building its new high-tech arsenal, the United States has also created a new military-industrial complex.
Hexus has day #3 coverage of IDF posted today. A wide variety of things were covered today like Intel’s plans for the Xeon, CPU cards, PCI Express, WiFi and TCA and more.
The third day of IDF was opened with a Keynote which was aimed at the Enterprise and communication market. This was held with 2 core spokes persons, Mike Fister (Senior VP), and Sean Maloney (Exec VP). There was a strong present for promotion of WiFi, PCI-Express, Itanium, Hyper Threading and AdvancedTCA.
Xabre Gamers has a little SiS roadmap info that shows the Xabre II using 500MHz DDR2. Not really news unless you are a big fan of the Xabre, but it is still interesting to see a budget card going down the DDR2 trail. Thanks to blopa mapa…if that is your real name.
While we are all still waiting on SATA hard drives, they have announced SATA DVD drives. This of course seems logical, it is just a matter of when we will see them hit the market. Thanks Blair.
Intel, and Silicon Image today demonstrated the world's first DVD+R/RW data drive with integrated Serial ATA interface onboard at the Intel booth. The demonstration utilizes Intel's next-generation performance desktop chipset with integrated Serial ATA and a Philips DVD+R/RW drive using a Silicon Image SATALink(TM) SiI 3611 device bridge chip. Serial ATA will replace Parallel ATA in the very near future.
ABIT SP50 Speakers @ Romulus2 - Spire Cooling Products @ 3DGameman - Speeze HSF @ FuriousTech - SanDisk's ImageMate 6 @ Bjorn3D - Zalman VGA Cooler @ ClubOC
A notorious e-mail scam has resulted in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic. Fifty-year-old Michael Lekara Wayid, Nigeria's consul in the Czech Republic, was shot dead by an unidentified 72-year-old Czech at the Nigerian Embassy in Prague on Wednesday. According to police reports, the suspect was a victim of the 419 scam, a thriving industry that employs thousands of people around the world. The scammers successfully manage to extort money from thousands of victims by promising them compensation for assistance in moving funds from foreign countries to banks in the United States.
New regulations phasing out lead and other hazardous materials from electronics equipment have awakened industry executives to the fact that they will have to make major adjustments to their business practices. And that means more than revamping manufacturing lines. With Europe's lead-free deadline approaching in 2006, companies locked into new product designs will have to begin scrubbing their bills of materials harder and develop inventory management practices that account for both leaded and lead-free parts.
Military environmental health risk experts were unprepared in 1991 when Saddam Hussein ordered engineers to blow up hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells. Over the next seven months, more than 1 billion barrels of oil went up in flames, some creating huge, dark soot plumes. Kuwait and much of the Persian Gulf was shrouded in poisonous smoke, creating a large-scale environmental disaster and possible medical problems for U.S. troops breathing the contaminated air.
The nation's largest group of defense lawyers on Wednesday published a position paper arguing that people convicted of computer-related crimes tend to get stiffer sentences than comparable non-computer-related offenses. The paper--signed by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit group that focuses on perceived injustices in penalties--criticized today's sentences for computer crimes because they frequently exceed the seriousness of the crime and rely on damage figures that can be easily inflated.
