Overclockers Australia!
Make us your homepage. Add us to your bookmarks  
Major Sponsors:
News
Current
News Archive

Site
Articles & Reviews
Forums
Wiki
Image Hosting
Search
Contact

Misc
OCAU Sponsors
OCAU IRC
Online Vendors
Motorcycle Club

Hosted by Micron21!
Advertisement:

OCAU News
Wednesday Afternoon (5 Comments) (link)
 Wednesday, 3-March-2004  14:31:12 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Murray noticed a new 3GHz Xeon from Intel. The company said the new processor would also have a 4MB Level 3 cache. The chip would replace the 2.8GHz Xeon, with 2MB of cache, as the top-performing processor in the Xeon lineup.

ARP have a couple of Zalman 400W PSUs compared, while LegionHardware looked at high-end P4 motherboard chipsets. Two mid-range UPSs go head-to-head on G3D, with budget P4 coolers duelling on BigBruin.

Madshrimps have a soldering guide posted.

Virtual-Hideout converted an old SGI case into a PC. SilentPCReview incorporated a cookie jar into theirs.

Turkish hardware site DarkHardware have compared 23 video cards in a variety of benchmarks.

Guy noticed some bizarre interpretation of copyright laws relating to LAN parties in the USA.

PyroPort have an interview with Tim Handley, VIA's CPU platform marketing manager.

Tech-Report say that future Athlon 64 CPUs will support SSE3.

AMD have extended their formula one sponsorship of Ferrari. Don't forget, the Australian round of F1GP, the first round for 2004, is on this weekend.

I think we've seen this before, but it's pretty cool - thetron sent in this model rocket on-board footage site.

The IEEE has approved a 10 Gig Ethernet over copper standard, thanks Lee. Meanwhile, broadband over powerlines has become a reality for one American energy provider.

AnandTech have a database performance shootout between Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron.

Goodlet spotted this article about light-based computing.

Apparently SCO have backed down, in Germany at least. Seems they're still planning to sue Linux users, though.



Return to OCAU's News Page

Advertisement:

All original content copyright James Rolfe. All rights reserved. No reproduction allowed without written permission.