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Two news posts in a single day - in fact, in less than half a day! Having said that, this post will be rather short (there's not a lot happened since my last post).
There's been a lot of noise about nVidia's upcoming nFORCE motherboard chipset lately - on one hand, people are hailing it as the best thing (yet to come) since sliced bread, while others say it's just a lot of hype. There's been rumours that nVidia are having problems with yield, that there will be missing components compared to the original published specifications, and that it is being delayed - and then there have been the denials by nVidia that there have been such problems. Then there's been the discussion (and arguments) about how the integrated Twinbank memory architecture works, and how many DIMMs you need to take advantage of it. The chipset is apparently slated for a September (this coming month) release, though naturally, motherboards featuring it won't be available for a short while after that while motherboard manufacturers start production runs and distribution takes place. Having said all that, FiringSquad have published an article on nFORCE, and what is known about it thus far. I for one am quite interested in what nFORCE *may* bring to the computer industry, and so I have read their article myself - if you'd like to know more about the nFORCE chipset, then it's worth a read. Thanks to Robert for the link.
Jekias from BFGLan, a LAN party run monthly down in Tasmania (nice cool climate down there, must be good for overclocking), sent in this link, featuring photos from their most recent LAN party. Their main page is here if you're interesting in finding out more about them.
Anyone who's looking for a commercially produced clear computer case should probably check these guys out. They don't have an Australian distributor (yet, it *could* happen), but if you check their page, they list their current distributors - one of them may be able to get one of their cases to you.
Vergs, V8R and Nigel all emailed me in response to my post earlier about 1GHz Celeron processors - there are at least two other Australian retailers (other than the one I mentioned in my previous post) who are also listing 1GHz (and 1.1GHz) Celerons, with pricing, on their websites. Considering the trouble Intel had getting the P3 much past 1GHz, it'll be interesting to see how the Celeron goes - it's smaller ondie L2 cache may actually help it reach higher clock speeds...
Azrael sent us this link. Yes, it's a flower. What's a picture of a flower doing on a computer hardware website you ask? Well, when you consider that it's actually *not* a photo, but is the result of some serious time with a graphics rendering program - it's pretty damned spectacular. He also thinks that if you're into MP3s at all, you should check this out. I tend to agree - it's definitely cool...
There's a couple of new & exciting PCs in the PCDB - Jekias' rig is here, featuring at least two windows and a modified keyboard, and waxling's rather green entry.
ChillBlast have a world exclusive first-look at the new Epox Aluminium PC case. It looks pretty good, I have to say - front ports, solid aluminium construction - for the rest, go read the review. Oh, and stay off whatever the guys at ChillBlast are on - seriously, I don't think the Surgeon General recommends it...
Hexus have grabbed a bunch of sticks of PC-150 SDRAM, and done some testing on them. Why's this important you ask? Well, not everyone is running DDR RAM yet, and RD-RAM (Rambus) is still expensive (and may have a limited product lifetime), so there are plenty of SDRAM setups still in existance. They've also had a look at the Gainward Golden Sample GeForce3 video card, which is yet another GF3 card based on nVidia's reference design - I'm sure that's not a bad thing, but I remember the days when Canopus designed their own cards, and generally got better performance out of them than reference based cards by other manufacturers. Though that does mean that reference drivers (ie Detonators) don't necessarily work...
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