In their tireless 6 month upgrade cycle NVIDIA has announced their latest monster, the GeForce2 Ultra, bringing us 1billion pixels and 31 million triangles per second. Simultaneously they have posted their Detonator 3 drivers. Running a memory clock that runs …
AMD To Ship 1.1GHz Athlon Processors
One year after the fist Athlons were introduced, a press release from AMD announces the release, and shipment of the 1.1GHz AMD Athlon processor. The first customers, of course, will be the big system builders, but should be hitting the …
Tyan Announces The Trinity KT
Tyan , a company with a reputation for stability and performance, has added the Trinity KT , their first Socket A motherboard, to their lineup. Supporting both the Athlon and Duron processors, a 200MHz FSB, 6 PCI slots, and support …
Rumor Mill: AMD-Transmeta Collaboration?
AMD , and Transmeta are expected to announce a collaborative association soon, according to AMD chairman and CEO Jerry Sanders. Though details are currently sketchy, the most probable course of action would be AMD and Transmeta will share patents much …
Seagate Serial ATA Demo AT IDF
Seagate Technology , APT Technologies, Inc. and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation demonstrated the first Serial ATA disk at the Intel Developers Forum today. The demo was run using a Seagate disk drive with its Serial ATA board, APTs Serial ATA Link …
Low-Cost Alternative?
As Intel makes the transition from the Slot 1 to the socket 370 motherboard, combined with the disappointment with the whole costly RAMBUS issue and the flaws of the I820 chipset when combined with conventional SDRAM, computer users are looking …
Sony Announces New Drive Lineup
While most of the new drives from Sony arent exactly what wed call Extreme News, there are a few things wed like to bring to your attention.
Lets start with the CRX 75A. Slated at an October 1 ship date …
Intel Unleashes PIII XEON At 1GHz On The Enterprise Market
Intel announced today the shipment of the industrys first 1GHz processors for servers, and high-end workstations. OEMs are reported as starting shipment of 1GHz Xeons this quarter. The new Xeons use Intels 0.18-micron fabrication process, a 133MHz FSB, and have …
Ricoh Releases High Speed CDRW/DVD Combo Drive
The latest product from Ricohs Media Master line is the new CDRW+DVD Player Combo 12x10x32x8 MP9120A. This drive supports 12x CDR, 10x High Speed CDRW, a 32x CDROM read speed, Plus 8x DVD read speed. Ricoh is one of three …
My Weekend In VIA HELL
Or: How to prevent spending two days pulling your hair out.
The Beginning:
Its been a busy weekend at the lab, weve got some new 815 and KT133 boards to review, and with the release of Windows Me we decided …