“ THE NFORCE 5 CHIPSET will be a highly overclockable chipset. Our sources confirmed that the Nvidia Pentium 4 chipset will go up to FSB 1200MHz, using 300MHz rather than 200MHz multiples. “ The Inquirer
“ WE HEARD that Nvidia plans to bring all of the Geforce six series back to AGP. Nvidia wants to make Shader 3.0 available for all of its customers as many of them still have Continue reading “Nvidia’s 6200 AGP to come”.
“ CONSOLIDATION may be on the way for a number of the Taiwanese second and third tier players. Earlier today we reported that Palit is likely to snap up graphics firm Gainward, and now we’ve Continue reading “Albatron could acquire Chaintech”.
There is another Trojan out there called Phel that exploits how help files are called from web pages. There is still no patch for this exploit, originally found a couple months ago by a Chinese Continue reading “Phel Threatens WinXP SP2”.
“ For those of you AMD Athlon FX fans, it does not look that we will see much core speed scaling in the coming year, although we are hearing rumors of a possible 250Mhz FSB Continue reading “More CPU Facts & Fantasy”.
“Some peculiarities of the PlayStation 3 graphics processing unit developed at NVIDIA Corp. showed up on the web. It appears, that the visual processing unit will merge NVIDIA?s present and future generation architectures and will Continue reading “PlayStation 3 GPU: NV40 and NV50 Hybrid with XDR DRAM, Says Report”.
“ CHIP GIANT Intel is briefing the US press about the introduction of its Sonoma microprocessor for notebooks. VP Anand Chandrasekher, VP of Intel’s mobile group, told the Wall St Journal that it will use Continue reading “Intel pre-announces Centrino Sonoma”.
“ THERE’S ONLY one difference between AMD64 processors and EM64T processors, according to Intel documents seen by the INQUIRER. Referring to its competitor – by which Intel means AMD – the chip giant makes the Continue reading “Intel: EM64T and AMD64 the same, practically”.
“ Digit-life ponders on the ins and outs of 3DMark 2005, which together with Sandra is slowly pushing away the Winstone Brothers. DL articles are generally, very documented; and so is this one. Read it Continue reading “3DMark 05 dissected”.
“ DFI, a Taiwan-based motherboard maker, has started delivering its Pentium M motherboard, the 855GME-MGF, for desktops to its channels in the US, Japan and Europe, although not in large volumes, said a spokesperson for Continue reading “Taiwan makers start delivering Pentium M motherboards”.
“ SOURCES SAID Intel is likely to introduce its 6XX family of desktop processors in week nine of 2005. As we’ve revealed before, the first processors will be at speeds of between 3GHz to 3.6GHz. Continue reading “Intel introduces iWindscreenWiper?, iChef? and iFlexyDesktopMobos?”.
“It has come to our attention that RAID 0 has recently come under fire by some of the major PC enthusiast publications. StorageReview.com and Anandtech.com have both published articles purporting that RAID 0 is unnecessary Continue reading “RAID 0 Under Fire”.
“Many Abit motherboard users didn’t have a quite so merry christmas this year according to the Abit support forums. There seems to be a problem with the new Abit AV8 motherboard for the socket 939 Continue reading “ABIT AV8 Under Fire”.
“DDR2 memory tests, which we have performed earlier, showed that its higher latency is exactly the reason why it gets defeated by the regular DDR SDRAM. However, now the situation is changing. The leading memory Continue reading “DDR2 vs. DDR: Revenge Gained”.
“While Intel?s code-named Smithfield microprocessor set to be released in mid-2005 will open the doors to dual-core computing on desktops, the mainstream market will only get chips with two processing engine in 2006, along with Continue reading “Presler ? Intel?s Mainstream Dual-Core Desktop Chip”.