Earlier news here
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12/09/02 - Falcon NW goes nForce2 for Mach V PCs
NVIDIA, today announced that Falcon NW, one of the industry’s preeminent manufacturers of customizable, high-performing desktop PCs, has selected nForce2 as the recommended platform for its line of award-winning Mach V gaming PCs. Gamers and hard core PC enthusiasts who place a premium on performance and speed can immediately order Mach V desktop PCs that take advantage of the leading performance and advanced features offered by the nForce2-based Leadtek WinFast K7NCR18D-Pro motherboard and XP 2800+ with 333MHz frontside bus memory technology. Read here
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12/09/02 - Processing the changes in chips
BusinessWeek Online's Olga Kharif is touring the major chipmakers and draws up an artistic pictures where she tries to depict the complexity of this tumultuous sector. The fight AMD vs. Intel is, of course, in the landscape with some poisonous comments about the AMD's killer Intel's Rio Rancho Fab coming soon: "From a cost and price standpoint, Intel could make life hell for AMD. Since Intel's costs are lower, it can cut prices and still make money at levels that less-efficient AMD can't match without slipping into the red". Visit the rest of this impressionist work here and enjoy more Intel/AMD here
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12/09/02 - DDR PC3200 & PC3500 roundup
OcPrices has invited many DDR stars for a big shootout and the result shows that not all DDR are born equal. Among Corsair, OCZ, GEiL, Mushkin or Samsung, some are stuck at 400MHz while some can reach an amazing 490MHz! Discover which one did it here and check for more DDR400 reviews here and DDR433 here
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12/09/02 - All Athlon XP using B0 Tbred revision
All Athlon newly manufactured will be based on B0 core, Xbitlabs reports. Many changes are going along with this new core like CPU ID, die size, new clock multipliers, chip OPN, and more as you will discover in full here
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12/09/02 - AMD details groundbreaking research
Demonstrating its leadership in semiconductor research and development (R&D), AMD will present several new technical achievements critical to the creation of next-generation transistors and memory cells at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco, December 8-11. Aspects of the research may be used in products as early as 2005. Read here
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12/09/02 - BIOS Optimization Guide
This is probably the best source for BIOS' information on the whole Web. This huge piece of work has come a long way (see update history here) before reaching the apex of BIOS knowledge. We're happy to give you here this fantastic link we just found on OCAU: another great site!
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12/09/02 - Albatron KX400 Pro KT333 board review
3DVelocity is spoiling its readers with a very good review of this excellent KT333 board: "For the price the KX400+ Pro is an excellent choice for everyone but those chasing the absolute pinnacle of performance as what it lacks in bells and whistles it compensates for in grit and stamina". Reach the goodness here and look for some more KX400 reviews at our Special page here
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12/09/02 - Shuttle AK37GT/R KT400 board review
With lot of negative comments, Shuttle KT400 board still managed to get an 8/10 at TweakTown, thanks to Tio Chaharbaghi's generosity: "Cons: Lacks a few 'Extras' (extra USB ports, bundled software etc.), performance worse then other Kt400 motherboards and No active Northbridge cooling". Read the review here and enjoy more Shuttle AK37GT/R links to reviews here
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