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Hmm, still pretty quiet.. nothing that exciting it seems this morning.
AMDmb have compared three hs/f's, the hedgehog, GW cak-38 and the OCZ Gladiator.. all pretty small when compared to wolfy's massive cooler roundup.
HardOCP really want to give away that VisionTek GF3 they saw get made.. it's a signature edition, so, um, yeah. Signatures make it go faster. You've got until Saturday in the US to enter.
Apparently sales of the Intel Pentium4 chip are falling well below expected levels, a wall street analyst has said. The answer why is pretty obvious when you pull up a price list for CPU's.. the Athlons are much much cheaper.
8Balls have reviewed a stick of Apacer PC150 SD-RAM. The sticks use the BGA packaging, similar to Kingmax RAM, and I've seen them around on a few shop pricelists.. while I'm unsure of the performance ('spose the article will answer that), for under $100 it seems alright.
Frostytech has reviewed a massive all-copper heatsink, the Neng Tyi SN03.. it looks a bit like a PEP66 on steroids. At a listed weight of 666g tho, best watch your socket tabs before it eats them.
Icrontic have taken a look at the Tt Mini Copper Orb.. and they like it.
Well, afaik there arn't Dell AMD desktop systems, but there are now going to be Dell AMD laptops.. can't really argue with the performance. It's basically a KT133A system with clock throttling and a rather.. limited.. video card.
A few people emailed in and informed me that the Palomino launch was just of the Laptop chip, not the desktop variety.. however, I've had a bit of a search around and can't find much difference between the two, except that the Laptop chips are lower clocked and use lower voltages.. they do, however, all use socket462.. so ~theoretically~ it would be possible to crack open the laptop and remove the palomino processor, and put it in a desktop computer and run a few benchies. It dosn't need any new chipsets to function, works fine on KT133A. Sooo.. who do you reckon will do it first?
Dual Athlon boards are now on sale in Germany, according to The Inq, so that means that we will be seeing them ~sometime~ soon.. no idea how soon, but soon. Can't wait to see the benchies!! :)
According to this little bit of scoopage on AMDmb, Athlon4 is only the name for the mobile version of the chip.. apparently the server version will be named Athlon Pro, and for the desktop version? They don't know.. Thanks to furfle for the last two links.
Hexus have all the info about the Athlon4 launch in the UK.. they reckon a 15% performance over a similary clocked Thunderbird core.. and thats a pretty decent performance increase.
This comes as a total suprise to me.. ATi is the number one supplier of retail video cards in the US. Fwoar.. go the raedon. Must be making much more of a splash over there than it is here..
It seems VIA may of been hiding some info about an upcomming video chipset that might take it to ATi and nVidia.. cheers to Micheal for the last two links.
Finally today, not a news link but a question. I'm trying to hunt down a cheap laser printer for printing out assignments, course notes and things like that for uni.. I'm on a bit of a budget, so I'm probably looking for something that's been reco-ed.. if anyone knows of some really decent places to buy reco printers, or even if you've got an old-ish laser printer in decent condition that you'd like to sell me, please mail me and let me know.. I live around Milton in Brisbane, so somewhere local ~would~ be a bonus, but is not nessesary.
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