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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 28-December-2001 15:17:12 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Email seems to have sorted itself out.
Apparently there is a huge security problem with WinXP, thanks Manaz. This one is so serious that the FBI have become involved and issued a warning. The good news? There's a patch available that apparently works well.
Xbit-Labs claim to have a lot of info about NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce4 video chipsets.
A few people have sent their feelings about Acer Communications & Multimedia's recent name change to "Benq". The main emotion seems to be confusion tinged with a hint of "are they kidding?" disbelief. Apparently Benq stands for "Bringing Enjoyment 'N Quality (to life)". The main Acer corporation will still be called Acer. Anyway, more info in an interesting article here, thanks Hans. I tried looking for more info on AcerCM.com.au (and benq.com.au) but there seem to be a lot of 404's and references to the old name, so I guess they're still in transition.
TheInquirer have posted "year in review" articles for the two CPU giants, Intel and AMD. Interesting stuff.
There's a LAN in Perth soonish.
AkibaPC have pics of a 4-way P4 Xeon system and the new 2.2GHz P4 chip.
A quick roundup of roundups: P4X266 P4 DDR motherboards and IDE HDD's on Digit-Life, 32x CD-RW drives and 16X DVD-ROM drives on CDRInfo.
There's a RAID tutorial on VyW.
We now have an NVIDIA Hardware Forum, for discussion of that company's motherboard and video chipsets.
Speaking of which, MSI have released a new BIOS for their K7N420 Pro (nForce 420D-based) motherboard I reviewed last month here. One cool thing is that it now apparently supports multiplier changing in the BIOS. Immy notes: Remember that you have to now use memory banks 1+2, not the old 1+3. I did check it and 1+3 is now compatibility mode (slower sandra scores). I got slightly faster memory benchmarks with the new bios:
| Bios (Ram slots) | 2.0 (1+3) | 2.1 (1+3) | 2.1 (1+2) | | Int ALU | 898 | 712 | 904 | | Float FPU | 953 | 743 | 962 |
I'll be looking at this new bios tonight hopefully.
Reviews:
CoolerMaster HHC-001 heatpipe socket cooler on IPKonfig.
Ramsinks on BurnOutPC.
Visiontek Xtasy 6964 GF3 Ti500 video card on SourceMagazine.
Abit KR7A-RAID socketA DDR motherboard on PCHardware, our review here.
AMD PCNET network cards on RizeNet.
Dragon silver case on BurnOutPC.
Shuttle SV24 mini-PC on AnandTech.
ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV video card on HotHardware.
WindowsXP Pro operating system on EXHardware, our review here.
ATI Radeon 8500 and 7500 video cards on SourceMagazine.
Crucial PC2100 DDR memory (video review) on 3DGameMan.
Fuji Finepix 2300 digital camera on NewsForge.
OCZ Goliath socket cooler on TweakTown.
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