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Well, the big news tonight is the release of the 2.0GHz P4.. and along with it comes a new interface, socket 478. That's right, all four of you that bought a socket 423 P4 mobo will need a new one to run Intel's latest and greatest. Most interesting thing about the new interface is probably the fact that even tho it has more pins, it is significantly smaller than the old design. Small packages now pack a big punch :) The 2 Gigahertz figure really rolls off the lips well tho.. Harvey Norman is running radio adds I've been told.. "you think your 200MHz machine is slow.. IT IS.. THIS IS 2000MHz". Indeed. The P4 platform will have a die shrink down to the 0.13um Northwood process soon, and that's when things will get exciting. For now it's just the same old P4 at an even bigger clock speed (and price). Incidently, I've noticed a few Aus retailers have new P4 S478 pricing out.. and it is rather competitive with the Athlon.
SourceMag have a review here, HardOCP here, AcidHardware here, HotHardware here, AnandTech here, ExtremeTech here, Tech Report here, Hardware Unlimited here, and CPU review here.
I'm sure a few of you would remember BladeRunner's quest for stealth cooling, which he took to the extreme by cooling the water thermally underground. Quite extreme indeed, and very well done, especially the waterblock on the video card. It was so well done, in fact, that the CEO of nVidia, Jensen Huang emailed BladeRunner asking for a sample or plans. For Real. Being the nice bloke he is, BladeRunner agreed, and received a fair swag of nVidia goodies for his trouble. Thanks to RaD and BladeRunner himself for pointing this out :)
Accelenation have reviewed some rather fancy looking Mushkin EMS High Performance DDR Memory.. so high performance it needs heatspreaders, apparently (?). Of course, if you've read this dansdata review you'd probably know what good heatspreaders are..
The latest issue of ZZZ is out as usual for Monday, with all sorts of small and wireless stuff from the world of science for you to read (and laugh) about..
RojakPot have updated their Win2K hints and tips guide, now at rev 3.7
VyW have a watercooling guide up, something we havn't seen for a while. Not so much a review of a specific kit, as a review of the import aspects you need to pay attention to when building your own system.
Paul pointed out this article on The Age which talks about the first Australian to be jailed under music copyright violation laws.. lucky for some of us, it wasn't for mp3-type violations, rather for CD's and Videos.. and he was selling them, not just using them for personal use.. Still, that's the first. No doubt there will be a second.
It appears the issues between the Sound Blaster Live and the 686B south bridge are still lurking around.. but ViaHardware reckon they have a fix for it, that should work.. and with a lot of people about to buy a SBLive! to use with their dirt-cheap Gateway BA7500G speakers it's just as well :)
Finally, on come.to/kewn I noticed this news.com article which talks about a US company allowing people to.. get this.. copyright their DNA. Because they made it, right? So cloning them now becomes a breach of copyright law..
Reviews:
PC133 Showdown on GamingIn3D.
Neng Tyi SN05 Copper-Based Heatsink on FrostyTech.
Epox 4T2A i850-based socket-423 mobo on OConline.
SkyHawk Media Ports on OCIA.
Nanocomposite Thermal Compound review on FrostyTech.
Matrox G550 on NeoSeeker.
ECS K75SA SiS735 DDR/SDR socket-a mobo on TweakMax.
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