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Early (almost criminally so) Monday morning...
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Monday, 26-November-2001 07:22:04 (GMT +10) - by Manaz
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It's not often I'm awake at 6:30am on a Monday morning - but I woke up about an hour ago, and couldn't get back to sleep, so I figured I'd do something worth-while with my time. When that failed, I figured I'd do a news post. :) (Just kidding, I know you guys appreciate the work we do posting news here).
Have you visited the OCAU Forums yet? If not, you would have missed out in seeing us rack up our first 250,000 posts. Yes, that's right, there are now one quarter of a million posts on the OCAU forums. Thanks to Iroquois for pointing out that we'd reached this milestone. And thanks to everyone who HAS visited the forums for getting us this far!
EB News are reporting that Nanya, one of the bigger memory manufacturers, have released DDR 333 (PC2700 or equivalent I believe) RAM into the market, apparently becoming the first company to do so. So far, SiS are the only chipset manufacturer to have released a DDR 333 motherboard chipset (SiS645), but Via apparently believe that DDR 333 is also "the future of DDR technology", and will, I would guess from that statement, be releasing a DDR 333 motherboard chipset in the not-to-distant future. Iroquois again pointed this one out for us.
Clarification/Update: Several people pointed out that you can already purchase PC2700/DDR 333 memory modules. The way I understand it, what Nanya have released are the first SDRAM chips which are officially certified to 333MHz by the chip manufacturer (Nanya) themselves. Also, take note that the story claims that Nanya have been shipping such parts since 1st November - almost a month ago now. It appears, however, that I was incorrect when I said that the SiS645 chipset was the only one to support a 333MHz FSB - ALi's MAGiK 1 (C-revision) also supports 333MHz FSBs, and Iwill have already released a motherboard based on it.
And just when you thought it was safe to read another news item, Iroquois strikes again! This time with a link to a heatsink database, located, strangely enough, at http://www.heatsinkdatabase.com.
Any of you who were found Wolfy's LCD article of interest may also find this interesting - an alternative application for sending data to your LCD screen - and it's written for LCDs attached to serial ports rather than to a parallel port. Thanks to Brad for pointing this one out.
Jayden pointed out this site promoting an (Australian written) application which allows you to customise the look/feel of your Windows installation.
Dave sent news that THG have published a video detailing how to unlock an AthlonXP processor. You can get to the video from this page on the THG website.
Dr Kildare pointed out this article - which says that Intel may be taking out a license on HyperTransport. That's quite amusing, since HyperTransport is one of AMD's (Intel's main competitor in the PC CPU market, but you all knew that already) technologies which competes directly with Intel's own technologies.
Dan (of Dan's Data fame) has reviewed the rather pleasingly (in Australia at least) cheap Gravis Stinger Gamepad. Pleasingly cheap because, well, it's cheap (to buy) but not too cheaply (and nastily) made. Go have a read, it's another review done as only Dan can do them.
ProCooling have published a quick and simple water cooling setup purchasing guide. While the prices are (I assume) in USD$, most if not all of the stuff they mention is available anywhere in the world anyway (you can always import it from the US if you need to).
OCA have attempted to find out which is faster - Windows 98SE or Windows XP.
Ah, time suckage. You'll figure it out, I'm sure. And then you can blame pace282 for wasting your day :)
Reviews:
Mesh Rounded IDE/FDD Cables Review on Mikhailtech.
Tyan Tomcat i815T Motherboard review on TargetPC.
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