Saturday August 31, 2002

[H]ardNews 4th Edition

Shuttle AS45 v1.2:

TBreak is hard at it today cranking out a review of the Shuttle AS45 SiS648 mainboard....let's see how this board performs for the TBreak gang.

We had a few problems with stability when we initially received the board. Sometimes, we could not get the board to POST while other times, Windows would randomly crash. We reported this to Shuttle and they sent us a new BIOS a few days later. Ever since we’ve flashed the board with the new BIOS, we have had no problems with stability whatsoever as far as DDR333 is concerned.

Intel Interview:

UKGamer had a chance to sit down with Intel and ask them a handful of questions. Here is my favorite comment:

This time last year you mentioned that 3 Ghz+ CPUs were already in testing, what speeds are you testing now?

At IDF {Intel Developer Forum} we showed a 4 GhZ part which was several months ago. With the fall IDF coming up in a couple of weeks you can expect to see something even faster - possibly a 5 Ghz part. With the Terahertz announcement a few months ago, it showed that we have proven a path in the labs to a billion transistors and 20 Ghz in 5-6 years.