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A small fraction past midday, making it Friday afternoon...
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(link) Friday, 31-August-2001 12:55:08 (GMT +10) - by Manaz
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Lots of news today - I'll get straight into it....
KngtRider pointed this out in the #overclockers IRC channel - a motherboard Northbridge controller with integrated RV200 graphics from ATi. It seem that nVidia weren't the only people with plans for motherboard chipsets with better than average integrated graphics - either that or everyone's just copied nVidia's idea. I'm still pretty keen to see what nVidia's nFORCE chipset can do though, especially with it's dual-bank DDR-RAM...
Andrew sent in some links to some photos that you may find interesting - this is a photo of the 0.13micron Northwood Pentium 4 (with and without heatspreader), and this is a photo of Intel's second generationa IA-64 CPU, currently codenamed McKinley. It's interesting to see that Intel appear to be moving back towards CPU packaging which includes a PCB with surface mounted components.
Cain spotted a new (dated 27/8/2001) BIOS for the EPoX 8K7A/+ motherboards (the link is for the EPoX FTP site, so you'd assume it's safe). Some of the fixes/inclusions include support for Athlon 4 SSE instructions, PCI Latency Timer setting, and a fix for problems with Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller cards.
DarkWing wrote in about a small (4000-user) LAN party he is involved in running. Yes, I said the word "small" sarcastically - 4000 users is seriously HUGE!
Freaek found a job that just about anyone could do. Gotta love it when people enter test data into a live database, and then forget to remove it...
MisterGrister found this error message on the MSI website rather, well, interesting - bad spelling and all...
Submariner sent us this link, featuring information (including a supposed nVidia internal memo in PDF format) about the next generation of nVidia graphic processor chips...
After reading the news the other night, in which alchemy mentioned a "PC on a PCI card" product, Tigger went and found this - a PC on a PCI card, but specific to Sun's PCI-based workgroup servers and workstations - allowing you to run PC software alongside native Solaris applications. I guess the Sun hardware needed for one of these is probably a bit out of the reach of most of us, but it doesn't hurt to dream, does it? :)
Now, I know quite a few of you contribute to the various distributed computing projects that exist today, and most of you are probably aware that Overclockers Australia has several distributed computing teams. These projects require that some client software is downloaded, installed and configured to obtain packets of information, process them, and then send them back to the server run by the project organisers. However, some researches at the University of Notre Dame have come up with a way do do distributed computing without any specific client software at all - don't worry though, this isn't as scary as it could be, or so the article says...
3DSpotlight felt the need to put together this page - it lists all the relevant updates that you need to apply to your PC to have it running completely stable, and as bug-free as possible. From OS updates, to vendor patches, I have to say, this is a VERY useful page - I know I'll be bookmarking it...
RatedPC, in conjunction with OpusWare, have put together a system stability testing application - it tests various aspects of your system, and also includes a benchmarking facility. RatedPC claim that it's "very popular", but I hadn't heard of it until now - then again, I'm not the be-all-and-end-all of computer system stability testing knowledge. You can read more about it here, on RatedPC's website.
Wokket, as only Wokket knows how, sent in the following links for our amusement: Firstly, a recipe for cooking rice (it may not be what you think), and some instructions on how to bet on English sport and still actually win money.
Reviews: Philips MMS305 flat panel speakers on VyW. Fujitsu DynaMO 1300SF Magneto-Optical drive review on Radeonic. EPoX 8KTA-3 motherboard on AtlantaOC. Swiftech MCX-370 heatsink review on Mikhailtech. Samsung SD616 DVD drive review on PCStats. Netgear RT314 cable/DSL sharing router review on Overclocker Cafe. Purple anodised CPU/heatsink shim review on OCIA. Hercules Game Theatre XP review on 3DSpotlight. Fortis A102 HSF review on Overclocked Cafe. Battlelamp review on Taconuts. Philips 107P10 flatscreen CRT monitor review on OCMelbourne. SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum review on Hexus.net.
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