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nVidia? pffft.. what about AMD DDR for a change..
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Friday, 16-March-2001 22:37:07 (GMT +10) - by alchemy
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Having a weekend up the coast, so I figured I better do a post before I go - keep you all busy :)
Now this is the type of stuff I like to see in the newsbox. ViaHW have a preview up on the upcoming KT266 chipset.. thats Via's DDR Athlon solution for all you poor kids living in the dark. The board they previewed featured both DDR and SDR RAM slots in a 2+2 config, meaning you can buy the board now (or, when it comes out, rather) and wait (hopefully not too long) for DDR prices to drop. You obviously can't use both memory types at once, but even so. Be a *very* interesting platform to test the true performance gains of DDR memory on. If anyone from a company with a KT266 solution in the works is reading this, I'd love to tell everyone about it. From my own experience. Please :)
Checking out what the competition have to offer, OCworkbench has a series of photos of ASUSTeK's upcoming board based on the ALiMaGiK (I feel like im a 12yo on IRC again typing that..) chipset, the A7A266. Looks pretty tastey. My A7V133 is feeling jealous now. 3 168pin SDR-RAM slots on this baby too..
If you just *cannot* get enough DDR into you, TomsHardware has a roundup of three AMD 760-based DDR boards. AMD DDR seems to be today's nVidia of the news. At least we can afford DDR. Well.. Almost.
Remember that article I posted yesterday about that turbine death fan thingy on Akiba? Well.. a reader called Chester with a long memory sent me in this link to something very similar from the Celeron 300A days. Looks like Akiba has been playing catch up. For once. If it ever happens again.. I'll be amazed.
Just on the subject of hardcore air cooling, you might want to check out this beast over on overclockers.com. Not a turbine death fan, but shiny copper.. and lots of it.
Now that Napster is pretty much over as a "backup seeking device", you might want to check out Aimster, if only for the comedy value of their Slogan "cant touch this". The joke behind it is that they're using RSA standard encryption to send their data.. so if the RASA tries to sniff their data, like they did with Napster.. they will be breaking their own laws if they attempt decryption.
Quick Stuff..
Spode said to say that the comp he's running for a Mid-Tower case ends soon.. just under 500 entries so you may just win it.
Halflife 1.1.0.6 update has been officially released.. and you're going to need it to play on most servers now. If you got the leaked version last night that corrupts your hl.exe.. well, that'll learn you to tree and be elite.
mofos.org are back from the dead, posting an interview with MadOnion 2001. Yes, with the onion. It's mildly funny.
The Ctrl-Alt-Del has posted a guide on how to share your internet connection.. in case you didn't already know.
Finally, Tony sent in this link to the "True Internet Color(r) Page". oohhhhh k.. internet color, what next? internet toothpaste? oh.. we've already done that. S'pose you could always just Blow The Dot Out Your Ass (.com)
Anyway, I'm off up the coast for the weekend... seeya Monday :)
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