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TecChannel has the details of the new VIA PCI patch. It is recommended to download if you have a VIA chipset.

Yes, this one is from ATI. You can get the drivers by this link. This is for all cards and has all OSes updated.

The Inquirer has some details of Intel's McKinley CPU. 5Ghz at room temp, that will be something to talk about...

There is a review up on the VIA C3 933 over at Hardware Extreme. You might find the pop-ups irritating though.

DMIAD, the resident game reviewer has finished the review of SSam:SE. You can read the full review here: SSam:SE

Well, everyone that was on the AMD platform was already using DDR for a long time already. The Inquirer reports that since Intel is pushing DDR, Tier 1 companies are now buying DDR in huge quantities.

I guess it would seem like a good idea to have a computer/videogame/dvdplayer all in one, right? Well, Sony thinks so. The Inquirer has all the details of the PS2 linux kit. The kit includes an ethernet card, an internal 40GB Hard Drive and two installation DVDs. This thing costs $199, and the PS2 costs $299, that's $500 for a 350Mhz PC with no monitor!! Stick with the gaming Sony.

Tom's Hardware Guide has an article on overclocked Athlon's and P4's. Catch it here.

The Inquirer has a Press Release of the Asus Geforce 4. Looks like they released it a bit early.

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Since every site is being taken down, I decided to host these. Originals are from hexus.net

The Inquirer has an article up about the estimated chip speed of the Clawhammer.

If you read a bit into that Sanders quote, you can see that the Hammer has a 33 per cent gain in IPC/Power. That means, a 3400 PR in Hammer speak is the same as a 2550 Palomino.
That makes it 633MHz faster than a Palomino 1400-1600PR (2550-1600 / 100 *66 = 633), or 2033MHz. If you again make an assumption that it will have a faster 100MHz multiple bus, that puts it at 2GHz.

Akiba has some pics of the MSI KT333 board. The KT333 is just a KT266a that runs at 333 DDR.

AA has made an editorial on the Radeon 8500. I also reviewed it and I agreed with most things AA said...

The Inquirer is reporting that Nvidia is having problems with supply as well...

This Inquirer news story details that Intel will likely drop the Itanium CPU in favor of an x86-64 one.

According to a story up there, and based on an engineer, who quite sensibly declines to be named, the "Yamhill Technology" which is essentially based on X86-64 features, will be built into allegedly 32-bit chip Prescott with the option to turn the code on or off, depending on how well the Intel folk think sales of Itanic are still crap, and sales of Hammer are very good.

There seems to be a bit of a fight between Intel and the Inquirer. Can't any tech news site get a break these days?

AMDZone has reviewed both the AIWs based on the 8500DV and the 7500 chipsets.

Overall the performance of these cards is exactly what I've come to expect from the ATI All-In-Wonder line. Amazing performance and top notch manufacturing. ATI maintains their throne as having the best 'all-in-one' computer/TV/entertainment solution.

The Inquirer has yet another story about the clawhammer.

He asked whether Clawhammer was sampling and the Web owner said he believed it was sampling in both silicon on insulator (SOI) and on a .13 micron process, with AMD set to show off samples of the chip at the up and coming CeBIT 2002 trade fair.
He also thinks that Clawhammer will be up for sale before December of this year and that it will integrate Hypertransport, and memory in its north bridge, with only the AGP controller being off the core.

The Inquirer also has the story about the short supply of ATI 8500s and they also spot some trouble with DDR memory. At least they say that the DDR prices should be at a plateau for now.

Thw Inquirer is reporting that AMD is driving Intel insane with their PR rating on their CPUs. The Inquirer also says that it makes it hard to compare the two CPUs to each other.

VIA Launches ProSavageDDR PN266T, The First DDR266 Memory Based Mobile Chipset For Intel Pentium III Processor-M based systems. Get the details here.

Well, here we go with another round of lawsuits with Netscape filing suit again against MS. Story can be found here at Anandtech. Gee, it wouldn't have anything to do with AOL/Netscape putting out a lousy, buggy, slow-loading, bloated, needing to 2 big updates to fix, browser that nobody wanted would it? I wonder if Netscape is hoping to get Judge Penfield Jackson on this one.....

Gamers Depot has posted a review of the ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder 7500.

3DChipset has posted new 27.10 nVidia drivers.

This Inquirer News Article details that AMD and Intel are neck and neck for this year, until the hammer line for AMD comes out at least.

VR-zone has a mound of information on upcoming technologies including DDR333,DDRII,P4 and Athlon.

Here are the current reviews for the Duron 1.3 GHZAMDZone The Tech-Report

I finally got around to updating the flasher. It has the new version inside. Have fun, and remember, I can't be held responsible for any damage . Download

Yep, the boys at MadOnion are getting ready to release an updated version of thier popular benchmarking program. Here are the details at MadOnion.