| Source: www.tech-report.com |
by crossbow on Mon Oct 21 2002 |
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8x AGP...Slow?
Before buying one of Nvidia's new 8X AGP versions of their geforce 4's...take a look at this article. Looks like specviewperf scores DROP in 8X AGP mode.
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| Source: www.hardocp.com |
by crossbow on Mon Oct 21 2002 |
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Need Some Extra Shine?
Custom case bezels for Antec and Chieftech cases. Mad cool. Now if they only had a teapot version.
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| Source: www.hardocp.com |
by crossbow on Mon Oct 21 2002 |
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More Oem Ati Cards
Another non ATI Radeon 9700 pro. Pretty spiffy that the normal video card manufacturers are starting to produce their own cards. Only time will tell if this is a good thing.
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| Source: www.storagereview.com |
by crossbow on Mon Oct 21 2002 |
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Barracuda V, First retail Serial-ATA Drive
Here's a nice review on the new segate barracuda V, which will be (supposedly) the first retail Serial-ATA drive on the market. Though the reviewed model is NOT Serial-ATA the performance #'s will be EXACT, as serial-ata gives no performance benefit over current IDE technology. (The drives are not fast enough to fill up the bandwidth).
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| Source: ExtremeTech |
by maximum3d on Sat Oct 19 2002 |
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Don't Bother with AGP 8X?
Based on our initial testing, AGP 8X on today's architectures and with current applications doesn't appear to deliver any appreciable performance improvement for nVidia boards. The Radeon 9700's potential benefit from AGP 8X is still something of a question mark. This story may change down the road, it will take some time for game developers to architect game engines that use AGP 8X to produce significant performance improvements.
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| Source: ZDNET |
by maximum3d on Sat Oct 19 2002 |
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WiFi software tracks you down
Ekahau has released an updated version of its software, which allows devices to be physically tracked when they are connected to an 802.11 WLAN network.
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| Source: www.overclockers.com |
by crossbow on Fri Oct 18 2002 |
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Looking for a new Socket A heatsink?
Vantec is pairing up one of their new heatsinks with a YS-TECH TMD fan. Decent performance at a decent noise level, and looks like a decent price to boot. Check out the review as well as the overall heatsink rankings over at overclockers.com.
http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/
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| Source: www.overclockers.com |
by crossbow on Fri Oct 18 2002 |
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External H20...
Ed hit the pool with a big splash with one of the first retail "external" watercooling setups. Pretty innovative if you want alternatives to air cooling, but don't like the idea of a pump and resevoir inside your case.
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| Source: www.maximum3d.com |
by crossbow on Fri Oct 18 2002 |
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Got heat?
Another maximum3d (Not 3dluvr's), takes a look at p4 cooling, in this old style texas roundup of heatsinks.
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| Source: www.ars-techinca.com |
by crossbow on Fri Oct 18 2002 |
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More PowerPC Lovin from Ars
Here's a bit more info on the new 64 bit processor from IBM, which should give a nice ramp up to apple's hardware lineup, giving mac users something to brag about other then their damn os for once.
Though it looks like by the time this chip is released, everything else will be running about 3x faster. Heh
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