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News archives from November, 2003
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Comdex sucked! |
November 28th, 2003 - "Let''s get this out of the way before I get into anything else. COMDEX was a snorefest. Any by all indications, it''s going to stay that way (if it survives another year that is).
This being my first Comdex, I was expecting more. We''ve all heard the stories of the mile long taxi lines, the 200,000+ people that rampaged through the Las Vegas Convention Center, the elaborate displays that many top tier manufacturers construct to compete for our attention, and of course, the wild night life of COMDEX after dark. It is Vegas, after all."
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ATI Technologies to Introduce AMD64 Chipset in H2 2004? |
November 28th, 2003 - "David Orton the President and Chief Operating Officer for Markham, Ontario-based ATI Technologies said on Wednesday that his company will not launch its chipset for the ramping family of AMD64 processors in the next six month. In late 2002 sources close to ATI indicated the company s strong efforts in AMD Athlon 64 direction."
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ABIT KV7 Mainboard on VIA KT600 Chipset |
November 28th, 2003 - "The VIA KT600 chipset was released quite a long time ago. Since its announcement we have already reviewed two KT600-based mainboards: ASUS A7V600 and MSI KT6 Delta (see our ASUS A7V600 Mainboard on VIA KT600 Chipset Review and MSI KT6 Delta-FIS2R Mainboard on VIA KT600 Chipset Review for more details)."
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Asetek WaterChill™ CPU Cooling kit |
November 27th, 2003 - "When I approached Asetek about doing a review about water cooling I told them I wanted to do it as someone that had never had any first hand experience with water cooling before. Well that would be me, now I need to explain something before we go any further. For almost 35 years I have been working with Communication Electronics and have fought tooth and nail to keep water out of electronics. Over three decades I have seen the damage that water can cause to electronic circuits and it''s not a pretty site. So I will try to set aside my fears of water and electricity long enough to do write this review and perhaps learn something about water cooling while I''m at it."
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Asus K8V-Deluxe |
November 27th, 2003 - The ASUS K8V-Deluxe motherboard uses the latest Via K8T800 chipset supporting AMD Athlon 64 socket-754 processors and is an ASUS top of the line AMD motherboard.
The ASUS K8V-Deluxe motherboard comes complete with WiFi card and antennae, Serial-ATA 150, Gigabit LAN, 6-channel audio and more.
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Nforce3 Opteron dual board revealed |
November 27th, 2003 - "AT COMDEX, there was an interesting little beastie on display. In April an unnamed person strongly hinted that you would be seeing dual Nforce3 Opteron boards out near the end of the year. They are cutting it really close, but here is an Nforece3 250 based board with not one, but two sockets. Even if you ask me nicely, Iwill not tell you who makes it."
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OCZ Technology Looking Forward 566MHz DDR SDRAM Modules? |
November 27th, 2003 - "AMD revamps its roadmaps, Intel delays its Prescott chips, memory makers continue to innovate the DDR memory for extreme overclockers. One of world s most-recognized memory module maker OCZ showcased its DDR556 sticks at Comdex, but only behind the closed doors."
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Cooler Master AAB-L81 Aero Blower |
November 26th, 2003 - Hot-Mods.com has a new review of the Cooler Master AAB-L81 Aero Blower for us, check it out.
I''ve been toying with the idea of getting a Cooler Master Aero CPU cooler for a while but I am pretty happy with my Thermaltake so I have been putting it off but when I saw this Aero style blower I thought it would be a good time to dip a toe in and see what the Aero series has to offer.
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Futuremark Debuts PCMark™04 |
November 26th, 2003 - Saratoga, California USA November 25th, 2003 Futuremark Corporation, the leading provider of computer performance analysis software and services, today unveiled PCMark 04, the latest version in the popular PCMark benchmark series. PCMark04 is a state-of-the-art benchmarking tool designed to be easy to use and widely accessible.
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Aluminum LCD Mobile Rack ATN-999 |
November 26th, 2003 - Hey I''ve got a new one for ya guys, it''s the Mobile Rack I''m giving away this month. Enjoy!
With the increased demand for high-capacity mobile storage, we are seeing more and more solutions hit the market these days. Thumb drives dominate on the convenience factor, but their data capacity is laughable compared to what we can fit on a single 700MB CD-R. With DVD-R getting very cheap, even a 512MB thumb drive is puny in comparison. A lot of us are finding a compromise between convenience and capacity with mobile rack mounts though, and today we are here to explore a solution that should meet everyone''s budget: the Aluminum LCD Mobile Rack ATN-999.
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Intel SRCS14L Four-Channel SerialATA RAID Controller Review |
November 26th, 2003 - The closer the winter, the bigger gets the presence of the SerialATA interface in the market. I get the impression that almost any mainboard comes out equipped with a SATA-RAID controller, which is integrated into the chipset South Bridge in more than half of all cases. However, the hard disk drives supporting SATA interface are still less widely spread than those with the traditional ATA one. This way, I dare suppose that most users still prefer regular hard disk drives to the new SATA ones. In other words, it doesn t yet make much sense to the users to shift to SATA interface, especially taking into account the price they will have to pay in this case.
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Prescott to Be the Fastest Ramping Processor in Intel’s History? |
November 26th, 2003 - Although Intel Corporation is likely to miss its initial time-to-market by about three quarters with its new Pentium 4 processors code-named Prescott, the company is still quite optimistic about its next-generation chip. Sources close to the company said on Saturday that Intel is confident its Prescott processor will be the fastest ramping CPU in the company s history because of thinner 90nm manufacturing process as well as 300mm wafers.
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ING Group Deploys Intel® Itanium® 2-Based Systems |
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November 26th, 2003 - Off the Intel newswire yesterday...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 25, 2003 - ING Mexico, a global financial institution and part of the ING Group, has deployed Intel Itanium 2 processor-based HP Integrity servers to better analyze customer data and develop more accurate risk selection and pricing. The company is replacing legacy RISC-based equipment and moving to an Itanium 2-based solution in order to achieve greater performance at lower cost.
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Where going, Intel? |
November 26th, 2003 - X-bit labs has a good look at Intel''s possible future. With Prescott issues and AMD actually holding their own, they have some decision-making to do.
"Humankind has been deeply involved into one game for the last few thousand of years. We are all trying to guess the future. Games like chess, cards or even pinball are all less exciting than an attempt at forecast of this or that situation. We, at X-bit Labs, are also trying to keep up with the general trend by exposing to you our ideas and opinions about what we are going to see in the computer market, particularly, in the CPU market. Let me make a small reservation from the start, though. I am not into divination or any shaman practices and I have nothing to do with any corporative classified documents and I do not pretend to be absolutely right in all I m going to say. This article originated from our examination of the current market situation, from various rumors and info garnered around the Internet as well as from my personal experience in the field. The task I set to myself is unrewarding: an attempt to foresee where to and how Intel s processors are going to evolve. I ll also cover some related matters. I m not sure what s going to become of this attempt. Anyway, it s worth trying. After all the ballyhoo from the marketing departments of both the processor-making giants, it s time I put my own thoughts in order."
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Modular PSUs |
November 26th, 2003 - I was browsing around today and happened to notice that FrozenCPU is selling modular PSUs now. The price tag is, well, a bit painful. But, if your too pansy to mod it yourself, you''re gonna have to pay the price.  
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Overclocking Your P4 800FSB |
November 25th, 2003 - DMOS has another sweet article for us over at DevHardware/OCAddiction. This time he explores the world of OC''ing with his P4 800FSB.
"With air or normal water cooling, heat is going to likely be the limiting factor in your overclock. Even if you had a 3.2GHz CPU to start with, you are likely going to be limited to the same 3.6GHz that a 2.4C can potentially get to. Now, when at equal clock speeds, the processor with the higher FSB will be the better performer, when you look at applications that involve more than just the CPU (ie most real apps). This is because there is more transactions with the memory, and therefore more theoretical bandwidth available. For example, lets think of that potential 3.6 GHz on both a 2.4 and 3.0 CPU. With the 12x multiplier of the 2.4C, that equates to 300MHz for the FSB at 3.6GHz. By comparison, the 3.0 is only turning 240MHz. I''m not going to get into memory selection right here (read below), but lets just leave it at the fact that the 2.4C, even with use of the 5:4 memory divider, will perform better than the 3.0 with 1:1 in most cases. "
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Hydro-Québec to test internet over power lines |
November 25th, 2003 - We''ve heard about Internet over power lines before, and now we have people putting it to the test. Hydro-Qu bec will begin testing in January and hopes to be offering the service within two years.
MONTREAL - Hydro-Qu bec is planning to offer high-speed internet service over its power lines to compete with similar services from cable and telephone companies.
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Professional Case Modder Interview - mashie |
November 24th, 2003 - Check it out guys and gals, TwistedMods.com has an interview with the now infamous Johan Grundstrom (a.k.a. Mashie) on his Y2k Bug, modding in general, and Dr. Pepper.
"Johan Grundstrom aka mashie was born in Sweden in the mid seventies. In 1998 he put an angle grinder to a computer case for the first time unknowing that he a few years later should lift his arms as the winner of The Summer 2002 CPL Consummate Computer Competition (C3) taking home the biggest cash prize ever. His cases have been featured in printed media all over the world such as America, Taiwan and United Kingdom. Now the media notices him again after several other mods such as the Anemone and the Intel ''3'' case with his newest work: The Y2K bug."
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Intel Promises Prescott's Speed to Achieve 4.0GHz Next Year |
November 22nd, 2003 - "Intel Corporation held an analyst meeting yesterday in New York to discuss the company s current activities as well as future plans and expectations. The company indicated its consistent intention to provide not only central processing units for personal computers, but to enable the whole IT infrastructure with its silicon technologies."
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AMD Discusses the Fab 36 in Dresden, Germany |
November 22nd, 2003 - "As reported in the morning, the new factory will cost about $2.4 billion in total. AMD got $1.5 billion as help, which is $500 million as subsidies, grants, etc, $700 million is a loan and remaining $300 as an equity from 2 partners - Saxony and some European investors. The rest $900 million are expected to come from AMD itself, but the firm did not elaborate whether this would be cash or other options."
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One Year of Web Hosting and Free Domain Name |
November 21st, 2003 - We''ve got another contest going live today folks! It''s time to get out your typing fingers because this time we''re looking for your articles and reviews in a showdown for a full year of web hosting and domain registration.
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Aluminum HD Rack & Sunbeam CCFL Contest! |
November 21st, 2003 - Well guys and gals, contest #1 is over and it''s time to announce our second contest! We''ve got two new prizes for you this month in our general contest arena - first off an Aluminum Hard Drive Rack, this baby can keep your drive cool and turn it into a portable unit as well. And for the runner-up we''ve got a 12" blue Sunbeam Cold-Cathode light to brighten up our life!
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Contest #1 is over! And the winner is... |
November 21st, 2003 - Well guys, it''s Friday, the contest for the fUnc is officially over today (aout one hour ago). I was planning on announcing on Monday but I see no reason to wait. Check out the winner of this stylin'' fUnc mousing surface! 
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MSI RADEON 9800 XL Benchmarked |
November 21st, 2003 - "A German web-site has published some benchmarks of a RADEON 9800 XL graphics card that is supplied in Aldi desktop personal computers from Medion this Fall. Graphics cards for Medion are manufactured by MSI and the RADEON 9800 XL series seem to be the company s second RADEON product this year made for the well-known European retailer, in case the suggestion that it is made by MSI is correct."
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Feds' Cybercrime Crackdown Yields 125 |
November 21st, 2003 - "A crackdown on Internet fraud schemes dubbed Operation Cyber Sweep has netted 125 arrests or convictions and more than 70 indictments, federal law-enforcement officials say."
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Meteor Seen as Causing Extinctions on Earth |
November 21st, 2003 - And what exactly do meteors and mass extinction have to do with technology? Who cares, it''s cool as hell.
"About three dozen minuscule shards of rock unearthed in Antarctica may be the fragments of a meteor that killed most life on Earth 250 million years ago, scientists are reporting today.
The shards bolster theories that meteors caused several mass extinctions. Scientists generally agree that the most recent major mass extinction, 65 million years ago, which killed off the dinosaurs, was caused when a meteor struck near the Yucat n Peninsula in Mexico. "
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