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Earlier news here ======================================= 10/25/02 - Athlon XP 2600+ and 2700+ in Japan PC Watch reports that some stores in Akihabara are now demonstrating Athlon XP 2600+ running on KT400 motherboards and has some XP 2700+ to show also. The report and the photos that prove it are right here ======================================= 10/25/02 - People's notebook after People's desktop We reported on the 29th of Sept. here about the Volks-PC 4MBO at 999€ (999$) and after the big success generated, 4MBO decided to strike again with another hit. Today we're please to introduce the Volks-Notebook at 1299€ with no less than Athlon XP 1800+, 256MB RAM, 14.1 TFT display, 20GB HD, DVD, LAN, 56kB modem, Firewire, etc. Simply INCREDIBLE here ======================================= 10/25/02 - Microprocessor Forum report (I) MPF 2002 just ended on the 17th of this month and many wonderful things were shown there. The inquirer is offering us a several part report that starts today with "general purpose stuff" where Intel, IBM and AMD presentations are discussed and it's here ======================================= 10/25/02 - Intel Price cut... Yes, no or maybe? Round 1 inquirer here states "Intel has committed itself to keeping the price of its other Pentium 4s stable well into Q1 of next year". Round 2 from eWeek few hours later here: "Intel Corp. next month will initiate a new round of price cuts on its top-selling Pentium 4 line as well as its Celeron and Xeon processors, according to sources"... Pretty tough huh! Crystal ball maybe? ======================================= 10/25/02 - nVidia nForce2 chipset review After waiting for working motherboards, TT-Hardware had finally posted a long review about nForce2 chipset where this one is taking a clear lead when facing Via KT400 chipset. The motherboards used were Asus A7V8X, A7N8X and Leadtek K7NCR18D. Read the review here and visit our nForce2 Special page here ======================================= 10/25/02 - AMD to support DDR-II in next Hammer ebnews from Beijing reports that Fred Weber, AMD VP and chief technology officer is clarifying the situation about Hammer and Barton support of the future DDR II memory: "new processor core with on-die memory controller will be developed to support DDR-II". Here ======================================= 10/25/02 - SiS Hammer & Athlon chipsets update According to the inquirer, SiS is already sampling 755 K8 800 chipset for Hammer with mass production for December. On the socket A front, the 746FX dealing with AGP 8X should be released in November. Here ======================================= 10/25/02 - BAPCo answers reader questions! Richard received an long answer from BAPCo to many questions he asked in the mail situated here and some points still need more light to clear up the remaining doubts coming from the first salvo. Read the second mail with BAPCo's answer here and check for more information about the BAPCo-AMD controversy here ======================================= 10/25/02 - Abit AT7 Max2 KT400 review Reviewer Gavin Froude from UK Hexus is testing the Max2 version of the AT7 and the conclusion does not leave any doubt about the writer's feeling: "This board is without a doubt the best KT400 board i've used. The number of features is overwhelming, and the fact it all works the way it should is impressive" Read the whole review here and check more more review here ======================================= 10/25/02 - AMD and corporate (Part 3) According to Mario Rodrigues in the part 3 of the grand saga, AMD is more than capable to conquer entreprises' heart, and Opteron is probably the fittest for this task: "Recalling Bill Gates' comments on the original Athlon - "Jerry, we think Athlon is a home run" - Sanders went on to say, "If that's the case, Hammer Opteron is a grand slam". Read on Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 ======================================= 10/25/02 - Asus to miss notebook shipment target DigiTimes is reporting about Asustek notebook shipment of 400.000 units lower that the 1.5 million units estimation for this year. Read the report here ======================================= 10/25/02 - Watercooling and electrochemistry Thanks to Steven Bazzell at Overclockers, we now have to deal with electrochemistry to make sure the redox reaction is not going to (h)eat the radiator, the block and the whole machine! Read the chemistry lesson with lots of Cu(+) + e(-) --> Cu(s) E(red) here and check for more wartercooling good links at our OC page here ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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