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Another reason why the news has been a little slow comming is because I'm in exam block at uni. Only one left to go, but it's a big one.
There is an article over on a German site that I previously linked to believing it was a bug with VIA chipsets. A reader pointed out to me that this might not be so, and after reading the article I'm inclined to agree. What the author has found is a configuration that results in poor performance of GF3's on VIA chipsets. In fact, I am not even sure that it is specifically VIA chipsets as all the boards they tested this on featured an Award BIOS, so it may be a BIOS issue. Therefore what they have found is probably nothing out of the ordinary - a configuration that sucks - so what? Appears to me that the only bug is a PEBKAC issue. Brings to light another important issue.. if you have a query with anything you read on OCAU that is written by me, email me, if it's written by Agg email him, we are most definitely inclined to listen.
OC'd cafe are giving away a modded Antec case with all the goodies.
Comdex is happening. SoundCard Central have their info posted.
If you're lucky enough to be running a swanky new P3 Tualatin based notebook you might want to check out this MS KB article Stephen sent along. WindowsXP does not support power management out-of-the-box with these new CPU's, so you'll notice poor battery life and it'll run a little warm too. As a side effect of owning one of these laptops you may also experience a thinner wallet and jealous glares from all that surround you.
Chainbolt has posted in the forums that PC2700, or DDR333 RAM has now started selling in Japan. At the moment the only chipset to officially support this standard is the B0 stepping of the ALi MAGiK, but a lot of chipsets unofficially support it through overclocked bus speeds, and no doubt official versions are in the pipes.
LivePC has a quick 'n easy guide to build a temperature probe. Just the thing for keeping an eye on your toasty video card or overheating clockgen chip.
3DChipset has some new Radeon 7500/8500 drivers. Apparently ATi uploaded them to their own site, realised that they wern't meant to be realised just yet and yanked them 5 mins later. HotHardware have gone one better and tested the drivers as well.
HardwareAccelerated is looking at where OpenGL 2.0 will go. Hopefully far.
VR-Zone is looking at the Road Map for P4 chipsets. Most notable is DDR-II support for the P4. Die RAMBUS!
Apparently Intel's new flagship Itanium processor has flunked Compaq's internal quality assurance program. Yowch, another 1.13GHz P3 maybe?
Armalyte wrote in to say that apparently new BIOS revisions of the KT7A support the XP/Palomino processor. He only sent the BIOS exe URL tho, so I can't totally confirm if this is only limited to certain revisions of the board as previously thought. Abit's BIOS page for the KT7A is here, their main BIOS page here. If you can figure it out, head over to the AMD Hardware forum and let everyone know!
Klif-e points out this trekkies dream on EBay. He dosn't seem to think that it's for everyone, and I tend to agree with him. No disrespect to all the trekkies out there, but I think that the only thing it's missing is padded walls.
Dan has checked out a Sony micro-cam with the lot. Originally I made a typo and referred to it as a "micro-cram", and I reckon that's the best word for it. In their haste to cram everything in, Sony forgot to add usability.
Finally, tonight marks the official start of schoolies week for all the kids (and people who'd like to think they're still kids) in Queensland.. I hope everyone who graduated this year is heading down the Gold Coast, it's awesome fun.. have a big one guys, I know that I sure did :)
Reviews:
Arkura 7228 hs/f on 8Balls Hardware.
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