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I've spend the past few days installing WinXP Pro, and now that I've got past a few nagging issues it works like a dream. I had a few issues with ClearType, with the silly Alt-Tab dialog (fix here, thanks Phosphate) and a few other things. The big hang up was my Vortex-2 sound card tho, but thanks to a quick 'n easy fix from Osiris here it now works a treat.. so anyone hanging off an XP upgrade because of their Vortex-2, try that fix.. works great for me. Thanks also to styrenic who suggested the vortex-of-sound method. To anyone still running 9x (I was running ME) I fully recomend the upgrade, with all the silly new interface "features" disabled XP is a much nicer OS.
Still on XP, Lombers has an excellent method for running the FAH2 console as a service on your Win2K/XP box. Just the perfect way to have it always running without interupting you. Seamless, really. I like. Remember, if you're not running folding yet we'd really like you to join the OCAU team.. we're World Number One!
Farrod was the first person to send me in some decent benchies of DirectX 8.1 compared to 8.0a from his Win98SE-based 1.4GHz Athlon w/256Mb PC2100 on an EPoX 8KHA+ using a Herc Prophet III GF3 with the 22.50 dets (in the PCDB here). Using DX8.0a he got an average 3DMark2001 score of 5679 (at 1024, 32bit), then with DX8.1 it dropped to an average of 5662. Not much of a drop, but still. Hrrm. Cheers for sending in the results.
Digit-Life has the roundup thing happening today with a Storage Roundup for October 2k1 as well as a VIA P4X266 Roundup. It's a bit sad to see the P4X266 chipset missing out on top-tier manufacturer support to show us what it is really capable of, but Electic has news that Tyan has a board in the pipes so maybe we'll soon find out.
TomsHardware and Icrontic have guides to unlocking the new AthlonXP processor here and here (thanks Lujuan and Inks). It's a bit trickier with the new organic packaging, and the Doctor seems to think that the new difficulty is of AMD's direct doing. I'm more of the opinion that it is a side-effect of the new packaging than anything else, but then the Doctor may know best.
In a whole swag of other AMD news, Walrek has found info about the upcomming Hammer processor and Dr.Kildare points out that new mobile processor speeds are out in the form of 950MHz Durons and 1.2GHz T'Birds. Quite a bit of power in a laptop. Team it with nVidia's just-released NV17M (another preview here) mobile GeForce3 processor and you'll have yourself one mean laptop.
MegaBaz points out that an updated version of the Dremel, a tool much loved by Case Modders, has been released. It brings with it 15% more RPM, supposedly letting you cut through those cases a little bit quicker and it has a new grippy housing so it's easier to hang on to.
Finally, Monday. ZZZ Online.
Reviews:
MSI K7T266 Pro2 KT266A-board on OCnz.
Promise TX-2 ATA/133 + Matrox D740X IDE Controller + ATA/133 HDD on LWD.
32Mb Disk-On-Key on OCclub.
Herc 3D Prophet 4500 Kyro2 on HardcoreWare.
Enermax Speed Dial Clear Case Fans on MikhailTech.
Samsung 170T LCD on RatedPC.
4Q Full Tower Case on OCcafe.
Antec Jet-Cool P4 Case on IANAG.
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