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Well, the new forum test is going very well, don't forget to go reserve your name..
I thought you guys all knew this but I've been asked it a few times over the last few days: Do we accept reader-submitted articles? The answer is of course, yes! There's quite a few in the archive, in fact. As long as they're relevant, reasonably well-written (I can tidy them up a bit if needed) and don't contain any obvious errors or bias, I'll happily host them and give you full credit. It's good if you can include pics or screenshots. They don't have to be new product reviews, just something you whipped up to cool your video card or some cool case mod or something.. whatever. :)
Anyway, a fair bit of news today..
Electic send word of a new .inf file for VIA chipsets under MS operating systems..
Jim pointed out that 3DChipset have some info and registry entries for enabling 4X AGP on your KX133 boards..
ArsTechnica have a review of the Asus K7V, KX133-based Athlon board - they really like it.
HardOCP have some scoopy stuff on the Intel i820 motherboard swap story.
AMDExtreme have reviewed the TweakDevice2, a teeny-tiny GFD. Hmm, I want one!
YYK send word of Toshiba's new tiny hard drives, 2GB on a PCMCIA card! Info here on ZDNet and here on Toshi's site.
PCCritix have reviewed the Abit KA7, another KX133 Athlon board. I've got one here but it's acting a little flakily at the moment, having some trouble getting it going. Hopefully get some time to check it out on the weekend.
They also claim that the new AGP driver from VIA fixes the slowdown issue with the 4.20 drivers we explored here a couple of months ago. I'm sure the regulars in the P3V4X forum would be interested to try that out.. seems that board gets a free speed increase every week or so. :)
JSI have reviewed the 2CoolPC Plus, a scoopy ducted thing for keeping your system cool..
This is pretty interesting, someone has compared a Katmai P3 and a Coppermine P3 at the same speed to see if there's any performance improvement..
Flashback time.. remember when YOU first took a C400 to 600MHz? Those wild, crazy days.. hexus.com are living up the past again. Not a bad performer, I had one in my games box until recently.. the 1GHz Athlon stomps it bigtime. :)
Dan has a very interesting article on building a box on the fairly cheap, for someone who doesn't have to be on the bleeding edge. A good read as usual.
Ok ok, it's a macintosh article, but it's got links to a few interestingly hacked and upgraded machines.
TechWatch have reviewed a really weird looking keyboard. :) It may be ergonomic, but it looks like it was designed for Species 8372 from Star Trek: Voyager.
Chris "Mr Popup" Jermyn of TerabytePC has put up another article, this time his musings on video cards..
Finally, Alista sent an email bragging about his system, a P3-650E at a blistering 897MHz (138MHz FSB).. on a BX motherboard! He writes:
i am using abit BE-6II
ram 128mb micron pc 133mhz
vga matrox G400 max dual head
Ibm hard disk ATA 66 7200 rpm
diamond monster sound card
heatshink alpha P3 125 M60
cd rom aopen 48x ide
There's life in those old boards yet..
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