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| (hx) 03:24 AM CEST - Jul,16 2002 |
- Hard Drive Companies Focus on Everything But GB - IBM is
focusing it's developments on increasing
drive speed from the average max of 10000 RPM's to 15000 RPM's. This will allow for
faster data access and faster transfer speeds. If coupled with the new Serial connections
(as compared to Parallel), they could boost access times to less then half a millisecond,
and data access speeds to 800 MB/sec or more! Seagate has focused it's attention
on the heads of the hard drive, and data corruption...
- AMD AthlonXP 2100+/2000+ Thoroughbred Review - PC Stats
has posted a new review of AMD AthlonXP 2100+/2000+ Thoroughbred.
- Abit NV7m nForce mATX Motherboard Review - When using both
slots, the CPU and GPU can access both controllers simultaneously. And since they're
interleaved, CPU memory requests can be started ahead of time, thus providing nearly
perfect bandwidth usage. Since each controller can provide 2.1Gb/s of throughput,
theoretically the two combined can offer a whopping
4.2Gb/s of bandwidth.
- ATI Radeon 9700 spec revealed -According to The Inquirer, The
Radeon 9700 will be clocked at 315MHz for the high-end, retail version of the GPU and we
expect to see OEM versions that will have a lower clock speed, depending on customers'
demands. Other specs: 8 Pipelines, 107 million transistors, .15u technology, External
power (a-la 3dfx), Four Vertex Shader units, Pixel/Vertex Shader 2.0 Support, VideoShader
(accelerate MPEG video), 16X Anisotropic Filtering, ~15,000 3DMarks, 400 million poly/sec.
throughput. ATI to scheduled to launch their RV250 and R300 graphics chipsets on July 17.
- Samsung SpinPoint P40 SP8004H 80GB - In a day where it's not
uncommon to see desktops equipped with 100GB drives many are left to wonder, what can they
possible enhance next? Well after looking at the SpinPoint P40 SP8004H 80GB Hard Drive from Samsung we have a few
clues.
- DirectX 8.1 Programs May Stop Working on Computers
with AMD - On computers with an AMD processor, programs that use
Microsoft DirectX 8.1 may quit without displaying an error message. The same programs work
correctly on computers with Intel processors.
- Apple launches QuickTime 6 - The final version (download) of Apple's
digital media software sees the light of day, a sign that a spat over MPEG-4 fees are
over. Now there's only Microsoft's Windows Media 9 to worry about.
- AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ - AMD today introduced the
high-performance mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ with QuantiSpeed architecture.
The new mobile AMD Athlon XP processor 1800+ is priced at $335, in 1,000-unit quantities.
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