Eric van Fastgraphics heeft een review van de ATI Rage Fury met Rage 128 chip in elkaar gezet. Op een of andere reden heb ik een pest hekel aan ATI. Vorige ATI kaarten waren nogal klote qua performance (en ze zitten ook in Macs ), maar de Rage 128 is redelijk snel, in de buurt van de TNT:

As you see the Rage 128 chipset is in all games slower than TNT when running at 640x480. When the resolutions are cranked up the differences get smaller, or Rage 128 is even faster than TNT. An other point of notice is the 32 bit performance. Rage 128 rulez tha scene over here. Riva TNT takes a beating of about 40% when you switch to 32 bit color depth while Rage 128 keeps smiling and drops only some 5% which is extremely little. This makes playing games in the superior 32 bit quality finally a real option.

C|Net News.com heeft een url;http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31236,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh target=new>nieuwsartikel over de plannen van Intel met Slot1 en toekomstige processors:

Intel will graduate to a more advanced processor technology by the middle of the year, a shift that will boost performance, cut costs, integrate more functions onto the processor, and let the company get rid of the "Slot 1" package.

The chipmaker today will provide more details on its shift to the 0.18-micron manufacturing process. The micron measurement refers to the dimension of the circuits on a microprocessor.

Current Intel processors are made on the 0.25-micron manufacturing process. Smaller circuits mean a smaller overall chip is needed, which means lower costs. In addition, electrons have to cover less ground on smaller chips, which boosts speeds.

A shift from 0.35 microns to 0.25 microns in 1997 yielded gains in performance and cost. A shift to 0.18 will result in Pentium III chips running at around 700 MHz before the end of the year that will likely cost less than the historical equivalents in the Pentium II line.

Cyrix gaat de stap maken naar Socket370 (en blijft low-end) JC heeft wat info:

Daiki tells me of this news story, which says that Cyrix has finally decided to make the jump to the inexpensive PGA370 platform with their MXs, which we previously knew as Jedi. The MXs, as we've known (for, well, a really long time), is an M2 with the Cayenne floating point enhancement. This means that it has an x87 unit (fpu) at about the level of the Pentium!!! (some parts of it better, some not as good, but mostly the same in latency and throughput, if the numbers I've seen are correct). The estimate of the article is that the MXs will exceed the performance of the PII by 30% at like clock speeds (which is probably using 3DNow!, implying a lesser implementation compared to AMD's). The story goes on to say that the MXs will start at 400MHz and eventually ramp to 600MHz. Personally, I think those are PR values, we won't see those go away until the Jalapeno in early 1999. So, the MXs will be very fetching at same-MHz comparisons, but we'll still likely see it lagging in x87 performance with the PR rating, but it will still be worth looking at -- finally! The MXs will be sampling in April and is expected to come out by July.

Er waren wat twijfels of de dual Celeron trick ook mogelijk zou zijn met Socket370 Celerons. Een paar Japanners op www.kikamaru.com hebben het voor elkaar gekregen. De tekst is onleesbaar (Japans), mara ze hebben wel wat plaatjes:

Oh well, it was after quite some time before I could settle down to write this review. It wasn't simple as I'd originally thought it'll be because they were merely active heatsinks to write about. No ordinary heatsinks no doubt.

Mr Vincent Tzeng of TennMax had kindly arranged to send this parcel to me after he read my review on the Creative Banshee card where I cursed the tremendous heat produced. He'd really read my mind by sending, along with the LasagnaX, the StealthV2 also. So here, we let you know what we think of them. TennMax LasagnaX Cooler So much for the crap, I'll begin with the LasagnaX cooler which we tested on our scorching hot Creative Banshee AGP card. On the packaging of the fan, it is stated that the fan performs at 6500 rpm at 2.0V and 5500 rpm at 1.5V, suggesting that it is quite a sports car of a fan.Test System Abit BH6 Motherboard Intel Celeron 300A o/c 450Mhz 192Mb SDRAM Creative 3D Blaster Banshee AGP. Installation

Coming with a slip of "instruction sheet" that easily explained the installation procedure, it must surely be a dreamed PnP device - Paste & Play. The first thing to do is to ensure that there is no visible trace of dust on the chips, then remove the plastic layer off the thermal conducting adhesive, and paste!!!

I suspect that if you have poor dexterity, you WILL have difficulty slamming the fan square center of the slightly smaller Banshee chip, but the instruction sheet warned that you shouldn't repeatedly paste and remove the fan or it will reduce the adhesiveness of the "sticky tape". And that will lead to poor thermal conductivity and yadda yadda...

So do it right THE FIRST TIME! I'm pleased to say that I achieved it with little trouble. =)So the next step was to hold down the fan on the chip for 10 secs (as instructed) to give it that very first push off for great tackiness. I gave it an extra minute just to be sure.

After which I proceeded to connect the power cable/splitter and slotted my Banshee card back in. With a low profile of 1cm, the LasagnaX fitted snugly between the AGP Banshee and Adaptec 2940W SCSI card. Did you just heave a sigh of relief?

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Millennium PC Kingdom heeft een er een klein artikeltje aan gewijd hoe ze het voor elkaar hebben gekregen om een Celeron 300A op 600 MHZ te laten lopen!
voor ehh.... 10 minuten.
Ze hebben de 300A een paar uur in de vriezer gelegd, en daarna de test uitgevoerd.

The reason that we do not recommend freezing your cpu is that once you take it out of the freezer and place it in your computer the coldness of the processor will create condensation by sucking water molecules out of the air and condensing them.

This can make the cpu and surrounding material moist which is obviously not a good thing. So what are we saying? Try this at your own peril! We currently have somebody working on making a liquid super cooler and we'll keep you posted on our news page once he has made any suitable progress.

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Het Operating System VRIJ voor allen !!!!

Linux is a free Unix-like operating system originally created back in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. With the assistance of programmers and developers around the world, Linux has become an independent POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for Unix) implementation which includes true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, memory management, TCP/IP networking, and numerous other features that are consistent with Unix-like systems. Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone. To the uninitiated, the "Unix-like" tag may sound suspiciously like a complicated. drab, business networking monster, offering little more than screen after screen of indecipherable code. Linux, while probably not for the faint of heart, can offer a graphically exciting, highly configurable means of getting the things you want done, done.

A deeper and richer multitasking environment than Windows, it does require learning command line computing to a degree, and much like early forms of Windows, it requires coded configuration for devices and drivers, but this means you can have a great deal more control over everything your computer does.

Linux and Super7 Architecture Because Linux was designed around the 386 processor, all 386, 486, 586 etc, processors will support the OS, (Cryix processors require some special configuration) and both VIA's MVP3 and ALI's Aladdin V core logic chipsets I have tried seem to support the OS without any problems at all. Linux, unfortunately does not recognize Plug-n-Play hardware which necessitates either disabling PnP or using a utility called isapnp to properly configure it.

All memory, most HDDs and Soundblaster compatible ISA soundcards are all supported, as well as all but a few modems. Video cards seem to create the most headaches. Most nexgen card have no acceleration support or require special 3rd party drivers although Voodoo2 can, with a little effort, find support. Some SCSI Host adapters don't get along well with Linux but fixes are constantly in the works and more and more hardware is finding support within the OS. For the most part, hardware, unless it is brand new, works very well once properly configured.

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Installing Red Hat Linux 5.2

While Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system, it is purportedly a major undertaking to install and configure. When I began to delve into the possibility of dealing with super7 hardware issues and Linux, I followed a few Linux newsgroups for a few weeks and was not at all suprised to observe that seven out of ten postings were pleas for assistance either with installing the OS or configuring hardware works correctly with the system. After perusing several of the postings I was nearly ready to bag the idea, concluding that it would just be too time consuming and difficult to contend with, but I reluctantly forged ahead, posting to a few of the newsgroups as a total incompetent in need of assistance determining which of the many distributions of Linux I should obtain to meet my needs.

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