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I'm sorry about the news not being done of the weekend.. with my exam and mother's day sucking up commitments, there just wasn't time. Anyway.. mother's day is over, and so is my exam, so there shouldn't be any more distractions..
First big news tonight is the lifting of the NDA surrounding the Palomino core revision, or Athlon4 if you're big on marketing names. Unfortunatley it's just the desktop version for now, and Anandtech has the scoop here and HardOCP has the Press Release.. hmm, seems a few of the other über-sites are yet to update.
IRC regulars Sacrafice and Matex have put together a guide and automated installer for the Moo.DLL status script for mIRC. Well and good.. but *please* refrain from using it in the main #overclockers channel.. with around 100 regulars it is highly annoying when one person sets off a chain of 25 my-processor-is-this-fast-and-i-have-this-much-ram-free multi-line messages. If you want to do it make another channel like #moodll and do it there.. alot of channel admin's patience has run dry with moo.dll scripts.
Hexus have reviewed the Swiftech 462A hs/f unit.. and it's finally good to see a hs/f with a numbered-name that means something (462 is the same amount of pins as on a socket-a processor)
Maximum3D have taken a look at the HiSpeedPC 60->80mm fan adaptor. I've got one of these sitting on my desk right now, so expect a review to pop up after Agg returns from his well-deserved break.
OCWorkbench has made a custom BIOS for the MSI KT266 Via DDR board.. alot of go-fast options in it, but I'd be very careful around non-factory BIOS-es. It's up to you.. or, at least, up to the small number of people who have privatley imported this not-available-in-aus-yet board. Or our overseas readers, it's up to you as well.
More rants on the Asus drivers that allow you to remove surface textures.. this time from PCMonkey.. Also, a reader nicknamed Crash Dummy emailed me saying he tried to use the 11.01 drivers on his herc prophet II MX, and there was no option in the control panel to enable this "features".. maybe it's a for-asus-boards-only feature? Hrrm..
As an update to what was posted in a previous, ah, post.. PC Case Gear will no longer be importing the Koolance cases from the US for domestic sale.. they advise you import the cases yourself. Maybe an omen, as HardOCP are reporting on their news page that there have been product recalls of certain Koolance systems due to coolant reacting with metals in the system.
Now this looks pretty neat.. a do-it-all optical media drive from Pioneer.. writes to CD-R media at 8x, CD-RW media at 4x, DVD-R media at 2x and DVD-RW media at 1x. And naturally reads DVD and CD based formats. I've got a question tho.. what's the difference between DVD-RW and DVD-RAM? They seem to be (theoretically) the same to me.. thanks to Mort for the link. UPDATE: Difference basically boils down to.. DVD-RW works like a CD-RW (you need to format to regain free space), DVD-RAM works like a Hard Drive (you don't need to format to regain free space). Also, certain DVD-RAM formats are large than DVD-RW. And DVD-RAM has a cooler name.
If you wonder why RAM prices vary so much, well.. heres one reason.. you can't really make RAM when your offices have been burnt out. Acer is the tech business to suffer in that article..
John Apps of IANAG reckon it won't be long until TFT flat-panel screens become the standard monitor type, as apposed to today's CRT's. I reckon it'll be a while yet, but if you want to be a super-early adopter, they have a review of a cheap-ISH 15" model, the AOC LM-500.
ClubOC have reviewed some Thermaltake PC2100 DDR RAM. They remark that it's odd Tt have moved into RAM, and I must admit to being suprised about it as well.. they're not exactly Micron yet tho.. they're buying Samsung chips to put on the PCB's.
When the P4 came out half of the criticism of it revolved around "what good is SMD if it's not used".. which was fair at the time. Well, now according to Tech-Report there are P4-optimised versions of Adobe Photoshop.. Tom's Hardware also has a look at the possible increased performance on offer from the new 12.xx dets.
Wolfy, the genius or madman behind the massive socket-a cooler roundup has found after trying to obtain a Diamond/Rio MP3 player that there is no longer a distribution network for the units in Australia.. or at least the present network is changing. Bit of a shame, the Rio players where one of the first AND one of the best.
Reviews:
GlobalWin CAK38 hs/f on FrostyTech.
AMK33336t Custom Mid-Tower Case on PCStats.
Mushkin Rev3 PC133 SD-RAM on KT133A at OCAddiction.
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