[H]ardNews 11th Edition

Albatron Ti4200 Reviewage:

I am in a bit of a quandary here. If it is "Beyond3D", ain't that 4D or maybe 5D even?

Nature has the most impact here. But as we see games being developed which are focusing on more and more nature in games (Halo, Unreal II, Doom III?), the nature benchmark of 3Dmark is an very important one. However not all upcoming games will use the vertex or pixel shader for these kind of effects, a number of them will. And the nature demo of 3dMark is a perfect example on what you can do with these new features.

AMD World On Rambus:

I am not trying to be funny, it's the truth. They are looking into PC4200 RDRam that is better know as 32-bit RDRam. I think it is almost gone even though it has not really even shown up yet.

The need for overclocking this type of RDRAM may not be totally necessary but with increasing popularity of processors like the Intel Pentium 4B 2.26GHz which have shown a tendency to be incredibly stable at a frequency of 3GHz.With this obviously you ram is going to see some substantial increase in frequency , however has we touched on earlier the Intel i850E chipset has the ability to control the RDRAM multiplier automatically. So what you may see at frequencies above 150 times your cpu multiplier is the RDRAM multiplier will be reduced to a 3x multiplier i.e. the operational frequency of the RDRAM will be reduced to e.g.: 3 x 154 = 462MHz x 2 = 924MHz.

Purty Radiator:

I am being serious again, really. Look for yourself, it is all chromed out just waiting for a modded case to call home. Thanks Black_Baron.

Pentium 4 Postage:

A very interesting read over at AcesHardware forum for you guys that like to get neck deep into this stuff.

I noticed the difference in the amount of L1-cache Instruction TLB entries already in the last week and I also noticed that in the Wcpuid Feature Flags that there is feature called "RESERVED". This feature is Supported by P4 2,8GHz.