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News from me over the next couple of weeks is going to be a bit sporadic (my big word for the day) as I'm in the middle of exam block and I really need to study. Really really need to study, because I spent most of swotvac drinking beer at ReaX's place (cheers for that) and looking at F1-11's (which was awesome). I'd also appreciate it if anyone who has a Vortex2/MX300 sound card, an Asus A7V133 mobo and Windows 2000 all running in harmony to email me and let me know how to do it. I can't. It frustrates me to no end. On with the news.
UPDATE: Response to this request has been overwhelming, thanks everyone for your emails. I'm going to reinstall win2k this evening, and I'll be sure to let you know how it goes. Once again, thanks all :)
TweakTown have a review of the ECS KT133A mobo.. they're fairly easy on the wallet and pretty decent in the performance stakes according to this review. I also noticed on the TweakTown news page that Cam Wilmot, the TT webmaster has been employed by VIA and will no longer be continuing work on TT due to impartiality issues. I'd like to wish Cam all the best in his future endeavours and congratulate him on a lot of hard work that's paid off. Well done mate.
Micheal has reminded us that there is also the open source version of MP3, Ogg Vorbis begging for your attention. It hasn't really caught on yet, and I'm not really sure why. Copyright issues I 'spose. Toooo many codecs these days.
For KyroII users there are also some new reference drivers available for download from electic, v7.111a. Win9X ones here and Win2k here.
LCM Network has a pretty interesting article up comparing the differences between the four Socket-A DDR chipsets (VIA KT266, ALi Magik1, AMD760 and SiS735) including lots of tastey graphs. Problem is it's in German. Oh well.. 'spose you could always put some babelfish in your ears.
AMDmb has a nice guide up explaining the basics of cooling your system. Good if your new to the overclocking world, explains the reason/idea behind most of the cooling systems we use.... And if you want to add more cooling, Rizenet have a blow hole how-to up as well.
Dan from DansData suggested I sleep on burlap sacks of hard currency. HEHEHE. Life of a student. Anyway, he's reviewed some video cards that people might actually be able to afford. Maybe even students. Maybe.
FrostyTech have given a Spire 5E34B3 hs/f unit a going over, and it seems to be a fairly interesting unit. Looks like an ordinary aluminium fop-type heatsink until you notice the 4mm thick copper heatplate on the bottom.
Another Matrox G550 review on neoseeker.. If you havn't read them yet the card isn't terribly exciting, more designed for the OEM market than anything else. It's pretty much the same as a G450 with a die shrink and a T&L engine thats a bit odd. Tech-Report also have a preview.
PCHardware have reviewed the MSI K7T266 Pro-R, a KT266-based DDR board. Now that the dust has settled, the BIOS-es and IDE drivers have been tweaked the board seems to perform quite well.
Overclocking.DK have a quick quide to adding a logo to the System Properties Dialog box. For those that just must customize everything.
It seems all is not well in the networking world. Not only do Cisco have pretty massive inventory problems, 3COM is now selling off it's real estate to get some cash flow. Owch.
The guys over at Tech1.DE are pretty nice.. they send personalised emails to the news box.. awww. They also want to give away 10 Zalman CNPS3100 hs/f units as well. But it's in German, so I'm not sure what the restrictions are.
Finally, ViaHardware has a new site design and some new 4in1 drivers. Apparently the 4.32 drivers are now official, even though it still says Beta on their page. New in 4.32 is a new AGP CART driver, which offers a bit of a performance boost.
Reviews:
Inno3D Tornado GeForce3 on Digit-Life.
Asus V7100 GF2MX on AllTechBox.
VisionTek GeForce3 on Technoyard.
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