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Tuesday, 26-June-2001 11:27:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Hogging the spotlight today is the Digital/Compaq Alpha processor. Mike from TheInquirer confirmed that Intel have acquired the technology from Compaq. There's more info here on CNet. The first alarm bell ringing involves AMD's licensed use of the Alpha's EV6 bus in the K7 range of chips (Athlon, Duron), but Mike has pre-empted our fears and has info here saying it's not a big issue with AMD moving to a NUMA bus soon. Given that AMD has a shortage of engineers and you can guarantee some percentage of the Alpha team won't want to work for Intel, it may even help AMD overall. Next interesting thing will be if Intel actually USE the technology or just inhale it to bury it as we've seen many companies do to competitive technology in other markets.
Interesting watercooled machine in the PCDB from shepete2.
RedStar notes that people are a bunch of slackers.. surely not?
Simon points out a page on heatpipe design..
Digit-Life have a roundup of western digital hdd's.
HP are bringing out laptops based on 1GHz Athlon4 chips.
Guru3D have released a program called SoftQuadro which lets you turn on the Quadro features of GF/MX/GF2 cards without soldering. DrKildare pointed out an alternative download site but I think this one's safer.
FireStone says that Tualatin is on sale in Japan.
We've already linked to this but I get sent it a few times a day so here we go again. Some people are trying to raise money for a newspaper advertisement about/against Telstra for the whole 3GB cap on broadband thing. If you want to contribute, go there.
OCrCafe are BBQ'ing a video card..
Some notes from Les: I not only agree that it is bad to use the 5v from the tacho pin, I have seen the results on a FIC (the owner plugged the floppy connector onto it , the two centre earth pins actually shorting the tacho and ground together, very inexperienced user decided to do own u/g) and it burned two tracks for about 6 inches and detroyed one of the fan controller chips. Amazing this mother board still ran (no monitoring), finally being donated to me for the cpu socket to lap with (socket 7 board). Even though this board still ran the consequences are obvious. A fan shorting would provide an equally exciting result :-(Also some generic advice if you ever do an another article on watercooling, and is with regards to the type of hose used inside cases. Everyone (including myself) seems to be using the clear PVC style hose for there watercooling experiments. I use clear PVC externally but have been exclusively using high pressure fuel hose inside my case since about may '99. You can see the black hose in my original k6 2/450 watercooled article back in oct 99. You can buy this hose at any auto shop, it is expensive ($4-$8 a metre), but is a very cheap investment for your computers internal safety. It is not the high pressure capability of this hose that makes it ideal for internall use, but rather that it is rubber, an therefore seals very well and with relatively little effort. Also because it it reinforced it maintains its roundness when you bend it. The only drawback besides the cost of this hose is its stiffness, which is why I always have reasonably extravegant clamping systems for my water block.
Reviews:
Abit TH7 Pentium4 motherboard on OCOnline.
Senfu DIY House on Bit-Tech, our review here.
TDK CyClone 24x10x40 IDE CDRW on CDRInfo.
ColorCases 303 stainless case on Max3D.
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