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This news is actually by Alchemy, but NewsPro is having a tizzy fit so I'm having to spoonfeed it. No idea what's going on. Bloody computers. :)
AtlantaOC have a rather beastie raid-0 review happening.. they compare the performance of a pair of Maxtor DX540 80gig 5,400rpm drives to that of a pair of Maxtor DMP45 46gig 7,200rpm drives. Either way, it's one huge speedy array of drive space they have there.
OCWorkbench has a small blurb up on their news page about Socket-A DDR chipsets. They reckon that there is a new B0 stepping of the ALi MAGiK1 chipset due out soon that will crown it the performance king.. even above the upcomming SiS735. They've posted a heap of marketing material scans from a MSI K735 SiS735 board in their forums. They also reckon there is a rev2 of the Via KT266 chipset due out, but I've been well informed that there is no such thing, so who know's what to think? Apparently the new "revision" of the Via chipset involved changing the resistor/trace layout design on the boards, rather than an update to the chipset itself.
Meanwhile LegionHardware are trying to sort out the title holder for the current crop of chipsets with a SiS735 vs VIA KT266 showdown.
BeachsideTech is covering the story of Dave McOwen - the guy who is getting sued for running the distributed.net client on computers without proper permission. Bit of an American extreme story there - but a good point to be learnt: always make sure you have permission to use PC's.
>From the ever-growing PCDB comes this extreme purple dome case thing - the best way to find out what I mean is to view the pics. Quite unique isn't it? There is more info here (in Finnish) - nice work cape :)
CaseJunkiez have been busy whipping up new content for their readers: Lombers has checked out some CoolPC rounded IDE cables (while we reviewed a similar product here) and Junkz has looked into a PCCaseGear Dual Neon Light setup.
Digit-Life has a small article up regarding nVidia's release of the Quadro2 Go graphics chipset for portable PC's. It's really just an evolution of the existing GeForce2 Go chipset, but for users of graphics intensive programs in the field it's probably a quite crucial release. For us gamers tho, it means diddly squat.
DrClaw reminds us all of the IBM Drive Fitness Test, a tool for checking the health of your drive - it's also useful for repairing some minor damage and diagnosing errors. There is also an option to exercise your drive.. good for bringing errors to the surface I suppose. If you don't have an IBM drive there is no need to stress - WD have a similar tool here, Maxtor/Quantum has one here.
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