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I was supposed to do the news yesterday, but somehow I forgot.. and I've got no idea what happened. Sort of a case of "Dude - wheres my car?" Agg's suggested I lay off the crack pipe for a bit.. but I can't remember smokin' crack. hmm.. Here's today's news.
Props to fad who sent in an email about the Via 686 bug.. Apparently Via Germany has aknowledged the bug in this word doc, and has released a list of KT133A boards affected by it, along with links to relevant BIOS updates.. So far the KK266, KA266 and 8KTA3 boards all have fixes..
Adaptec have released a USB 2.0 card, cashing in at $80US.. so it looks like USB 2.0 is going to be with us soon. The most interesting thing about USB2 that I missed was that it is fully backwards-compatible with the current USB1 format. Up until now I was gunning for firewire as it seemed to be the stronger technology, but backwards-compatability with existing technology is a big feather in USB2's cap.
Many of you I'm sure have been a bit worried about the upcomming WindowsXP copy protection scheme, and how's it going to affect "known misuse" of your Microsoft Software.. easy way out of it seemed to be to stick to existing software like Win2K. Unless of course, Microsoft introduce the copy-protection scheme into the already existing software like Tech-Report is.. *ahem* reporting.
PCHardware.ro have some info on modding heatsinks for better performance.. after having a quick glance at the article it seems they do so by adding a copper coldplate to the bottom. Not sure about performance increases, but you'd be stupid to add one to say, a hedgehog or an Alpha PAL6035 that's already toting a copper construction.
Anandtech has an interview with someone from ATi, of Raedon fame.. not a very interesting interview, they're pretty tersley answered questions. Still, if you're interested in the direction ATi is taking, I 'spose it's interesting enough (How many times can I fit the word interesting into a sentence you ask? Interesting question..)
VR-Zone has a guide to performing a voltage mod on the IWill KK-266R board allowing them to reach a theoritcal maximum of 2.6V! They only get to 2.13 before the Over-Voltage Protection kicks in tho.. this guide uses a variable resistor as well, making it possible to modify the voltage while the computer is running ??? (That is a question)
ExtremeOverclocking also have guide on how to perform this mod to the KT7(A) series of boards as well.. thanks to James.
More voltage mods today! This time it's OCmod with a guide to performing the mod on the EPoX 8KTA3 board.. hope alot of you don't perform these mods and end up with burn-out CPU's tommorrow! *crosses fingers*
IANAG have interviewd Mike Magee of The Inquirer fame.. formally The Register. I can't get to the interview atm tho, even tho I can get to the main IANAG page.. hrrrm.
GlideUnderground has gone open source.. not really sure what they mean by this, but the speak about it like it's the best thing since vapour phase cooling. Something about a site FOR the people, ran BY the people. I wonder, if someone screws up do they get THE people's elbow? hehe
DSLweb has an article up talking about USB network cards. They seem to be good in theory, but once you use them they're not really.. or maybe the o@h one is just screwy, I don't know. Anyway, moving from the o@h usb nic to a PCI Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ dropped my pings down about 30-45ms. You decide.
ChillBlast has done a Thermal Paste shootout providing yet more ammo for those campaiging against guns. There was a thing on the TV news few days ago about anti-gun campaigners putting up a screen in shopping malls featuring a gun-site that locks onto visions of passer-by's in an effort to ban semi-automatic handguns. Creepy.. can't seem to find a URL about it tho.
MikhailTech has a thing, but they're not sure what to name it. Is it an article? review? comparison? shoot-out? I don't know. They look at the WBK series of Global-Win Heatsinks.
James Brown sent in this article talking about new developments in memory technology allowing Japanese scientists to pack 1TB (thats 1,000 Gigabytes kids) of memory into a cubic centimeter. Don't expect sugar-cube sized hard drives any time soon, but do expect storage technology to change from it's current magnetic-blips-on-a-peice-of-glass form to something like what they mention in the article in the future sometime.
X-Bit labs has a preview of three upcomming KT266-based boards from EPoX, Gigabyte and Shuttle.. and they don't think the boards seem to promising, even for pre-production samples. I'm personally waiting for another review of the A7V266 to confirm it's a good board, because it looks to be the one to get for now.. havn't seen anything from ABIT yet tho..
Speaking of Asus' boards, AmdMB have updated their A7V(133) FAQ again.. incidently Paul's KT7-FAQ moved to ViaHardware from Icrontic a while back if you've missed it.. even tho it's written specifically for the KT7 series of boards, alot of the issues/solutions apply to a wide range of KT133(A) situations as well.
Digit-Life have reviewed the Asus CUEP2-M, a mATX i815EP-based socket370 board. Now there's a mouthfull of geek anacronyms for ya.
If you're computer is pissing you off royally, maybe it might make for good therapy to go and have a poke around this site which features different computers getting fired up from a range of different firearms.
AMDuk have a guide to tweaking KT7A memory settings in your BIOS. It seems to be a little misguided tho, because they talk about OEM machines from Dell and Compaq.. and I've never even heard RUMORS about an OEM using a KT7-based board. Hmmm.
HiSpeed PC are giving away a range of free stuff including your choice of DDR or normal SDRAM Mushkin memory, a Claw and some rounded cables.. only 3 days left to enter, and all you have to do is email them. Toooo easyyy!
FutureLooks have a guide up to using eBay! It's written fairly simply, they actually say it's for dummies, so, um, yeah. If you're a dummie, this is for you.
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