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Earlier news here ======================================= 01/02/03 - Good reads of the day CNET reports here about the good Holiday PC sales, more about Barebones and SFF success at ZDNet UK here, and the AMD-HP partnership in India with a 30900Rs package willing to kill the 39900Rs' one from rival Intel! It's at Hoovers Online here and it's good... ======================================= 01/02/03 - Moore's Law remains alive and well After declaring that Moore's Law was dying, specialists are now announcing the good health of the CPUs' growth perennial rule. Read this at EETimes UK here and check for more diagnosis at our Moore's Law Special here ======================================= 01/02/03 - Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas 2.5 review Tested at Nexus Hardware with EPoX EP-8K3A the Corsair XMS stick shown impressive results and stability at DDR 435 CAS2-3-3-7-2T with only 2.7vdimm. Read the whole review here and check for more DDR 400 here ======================================= 01/02/03 - VIA, SiS sales plunged by over 20% Digitimes reports very depressing results in December 02 for chipset makers SIS and Via. According to the same source, slow demand explains the drop of 20.2% for Via and 29% for SiS. Read the numbers here ======================================= 01/02/03 - Athlon XP 1800 under microscope Hardware-Mag from Germany, just put the XP 2800+ under microscope and the result is very interesting. Benchmarks of every Athlon from XP 2100+ core A to XP 2800 core B and detailed specifications of every core since Palomino makes this review a absolute must read. Enjoy it, in English, here and check the German version, here, if you have problems getting the benchmarks in the translated version. For more XP 2800+ click here ======================================= 01/02/03 - Albatron KX400-8X KT400 board review 5 pages of pure KT400 heaven at EX Hardware where the Albatron's star (BTW Albatron hasn't announced any nForce2 yet, right?) is, once more, showing very good qualities: "The Albatron KX400-8X is a very good board for the money, performance is good and stability is top notch". Read the rest here and check for more links here ======================================= 01/02/03 - Chaintech 7NJS nForce2 mainboard review Yes! Humberto Male at ExtremeMHz is right about nForce2 and Athlon XP: "By all accounts the nForce2 is the read deal. Many are calling the nForce2, the best performing Athlon solution ever devised". To prove his assertion, he's offering us a very interesting review about the Chaintech solution: the 7NJS. It's here and if you don't have enough, visit our 7NJS Special page here ======================================= 01/02/03 - Yes! There is SSE 2 in Athlon 64! Even though it happened last year, we still remember the Athlon 64 benchmarks c't provided. They shown a clear advantage of Athlon 64 over Pentium 4 and this could have been worst if the benchmarks programmes were optimized for SSE2 (Streaming SIMD2 Extensions) implemented in Athlon 64 thanks to the licence AMD got from Intel. Read more here and about Athlon 64 here ======================================= 01/02/03 - MSI K7N2-L nForce2 mainboard review ClubOC has done their latest review article on MSI nForce2 K7N2-L version and it's as good as usual. BIOS information, OC tips and benchmarks make the reading worthwhile: "The BIOS allows full control of memory timings which should allow you to fine tune any RAM modules you choose to use". And remember, the board cost only around 100$! Read the report here and enjoy many more K7N2-L links right here ======================================= 01/02/03 - HyperTransport Technology Tutorial Mindshare has released a HyperTransport Technology tutorial loaded with precious details like: HyperTransport Scope, IO Interconnects, What HyperTransport Brings, Devices Types And Topologies, Signals, Scalability: Link Width And Clock Speed, Packet Basics, Packets As Transaction Building Blocks, Managing Links: Channels And Streams, Managing The Links: Flow Control, Managing The Links: PCI Configuration and Error Handling. The 57 pages Acrobat Reader document can be seen here and more useful HTT links can be found here ======================================= 01/02/03 - Intel not guilty of damaging Via balloons Ouch! the main news for 2003 has arrived already and it's coming from the inquirer: "Four staff of the Intel Corp. have been cleared of claims that they damaged Via balloons at the Computex show in June 2001". Read this here and stay tuned for appeal's verdict soon ;) ======================================= 01/02/03 - AMD on holiday till 6th of January AMD's PR service informs us that most of AMD will be closed for holidays until 6th of January 03. So, don't expect much news from the company until then... ======================================= 01/02/03 - XP 2700+ at 3133MHz with Prometeia! Our good friend PSY is greating us with some amazing link that shows the AMD 13µm potential. This time, Oppainter a.k.a. OC guru succeeded in pushing a XP2700+ to 3133MHz with Prometeia Cooling System and the screen shot to prove it is here! ======================================= 01/02/03 - MSI KT3 Ultra KT333 mainboard review Our wunderbar friends at K7Jo have done five reviews in a row among which we have the MSI KT3 Ultra with KT333 chipset. As usual it's loaded with good photos and benchmarks against competitors. So don't delay, start the year like a king, visit K7Jo here and check our KT3 Special page here for more wunderbar links... ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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