| | 97%> Here's the big one. In our original review, I mentioned that it was unfortunate that the BM6 only supported the standard 112/133Mhz multipliers for FSB, which makes it hard to attempt to overclock 300As past 450Mhz, or 366/400Mhz CPUs. The rekease BIOS (which is included with the currently shipping versions of the BM6)for the board will allow for FSB settings for the following speeds:
66Mhz
68Mhz
75Mhz
83Mhz
100Mhz
103Mhz
105Mhz
110Mhz
112Mhz
115Mhz
120Mhz
124Mhz
133Mhz Vooral de settings tussen 103 en 112Mhz zijn errug handig. Way to go Abit!
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:59
• 0 reacties, bron: AGNhardware
Na VIA heeft nu ook SiS een licentie genomen op het P6 chip design van Intel. Moederplanken met de VIA BX kloon zijn tot nu toe niet bepaald succesvol, het matige design van die chipsets heeft vergeleken met de BX chipset van Intel een performance daling van 11% tot gevolg. We mogen hopen dat SiS met iets beters op de proppen komt. Genoeg gebla, hier het nieuwsartikel van News.com: Silicon Integrated Systems has landed a licensing deal with Intel that will further open up the PC component market as well as potentially weaken the case being prepared by the Federal Trade Commission.
The deal itself is fairly straightforward, but could have fairly far-reaching implications, as previously reported.
Under the terms of the agreement, Taiwan-based SiS obtains the right to make chipsets that are compatible with the Intel "P6" architecture, a core element of Celeron, Pentium II and Pentium III-based PCs. The chipset is one of the crucial components of a PC and server computers, as the communications conduit for data between the processor and other PC components.
Until recently, Intel held a monopoly in the P6 chipset market. In December, however, the company signed a P6 licensing agreement with Via Technologies and was negotiating with SiS. Both companies pay an undisclosed royalty to Intel. Sources, however, estimate that the royalty exceeds $2 on each chipset, a product which ordinarily sells in the $20 to $30 range.
With three companies manufacturing chipsets, the cost of making P6-based computers could go down, say analysts, because there will be a wider variety of components. In turn, this will increase pressure on AMD. AMD-based computers use a different, and less expensive, system bus architecture, which has been one of the company's selling points. Intel will still likely hold a financial edge on its competitors. Both Via and SiS, after all, will be paying royalties. Still, these deals could expand the market at the expense of the other processor vendors.
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:52
• 0 reacties, bron: AGNhardware
Graig van BXBoards heeft zijn bevindingen met de SL2YK PII-300 tot een review verknutseld. Hier wat info uit de intro: One of the immutable laws of the Galaxy, along with birth, death and taxation, is that no hardware exists until Tomshardware has reviewed it :) In June 1998 BXBoards first posted on the new 0.25 Micron P2-300 with a marking of SL2W8. This event made merely a ripple in the space-time continum of the hardware world, with the Celeron 300a still being the overclocking CPU of choice. Once Tom "discovered" this CPU in December 1998, prices went sky-high, as vendors sought to cash in on the overclocking qualities of this CPU. Now hunted to almost distinction, however, the 0.25 Micron P2-300 still lives on in the form of the boxed SL2YK. Craig got a couple and put them through their paces.. ...en het ding haalde net zoals de SL2W8 de 450Mhz, lees hier verder...
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:46
• 0 reacties, bron: AGNhardware
AGN Hardware heeft een regeltje info over AMD betreffende bus-locking en CPU ID's (beide twee onzinnige plannen van Intel): We have no plan to implement either serial number tracking or bus-locking of our chips. Hope this clears things up a bit. Lang leve AMD...
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:42
• 0 reacties, bron: webmagix
Jeremy van AGN 3D heeft een review van de Asus V3400TNT in elkaar geknutseld. In Tom's TNT comparison kwam deze kaart er als winnaar vanaf. De V3400TNT heeft zowel een video-in als video-out en is daarmee een tamelijk opvallende kaart vergeleken met de standaard reference designs van Diamond, STB en kornuiten: Now those of us looking to integrate video-in and a powerful 2D/3D graphics accelerator must look elsewhere. The only choice left is Matrox’s Marvel G200, a card with great capture abilities but weak 3D and an expensive price. ASUS has given us another choice, with their V3400 TNT card. The 3400 is a 16MB TNT card that has both video-in and video-out capabilities for a price of under $150! Considering that the competition sells their cards for that much without video-in, you are basically getting this feature for free.
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:31
• 0 reacties, bron: Voodooextreme
Biznizzy.com heeft een review van de mini-Lasagna, een handig nieuw koelgevalletje van Tennmax om op je videokaart te plakken, vooral als je weinig ruimte hebt om een grotere fan te plaatsen One company thats done nothing but impress (at least they've impressed me...), and held up every claim they've made so far, is Tennmax. Makers of some of the best cpu coolers, and by far the best Voodoo2 cooler on the market, they've recently started marketing their innovative "Lasagna" cooler as an ideal video card cooler. As the Lasagna is designed to cool even socket 7 cpus from AMD, Cyrix, and Intel, it is more then adequate as a video card cooler. However, due to its size, some video cards just can't accept the Lasagna without a "step up" plate to clear capacitors, transistors, or memory. And, in some cases, such as with my A-Trend S3 Savage, there is no way the Lasagna will fit. This is something TennMax was aware of, as video cards progress to the .25 micron design, fewer, and fewer video cards would be capable of accepting the full size Lasagna. Verder zittern er ook nog wat ultra wazige foto's in de review.
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:22
• 0 reacties, bron: Voodooextreme
Nog wat driver stuff vandaag: nieuw spul voor de Savage3D. Hier wat versie info: 3 Savage3D Win95/Win98 Driver With ICD, Version 4.10.02.4004-6.12.01
S3 Savage3D TVOUT Utility Version : 1.00.05 En hier kun je 'm halen.
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 20:22
• 0 reacties, bron: Coolinfo
Turok 2 komt op 9 februari 1999 in de winkels. Bestellen kan alvast via http://www.acclaim.net/store/index.html. Volgens Coolinfo: "Turok 2 is a 3D first-person shooter based on the Turok: Dinosaur Hunter character popularized by GoldKey comics in the early 70's, and later in the Valiant comics remake of the same name."
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:18
• 0 reacties, bron: Voodooextreme
VoodooExtreme heeft wat spul van Planet Unreal, die met Mark Rein hebben zitten babbelen over de Unreal patch 221 die de trotste bezitters onder ons van een TNT kaart blij zal gaan maken: Maybe it has been answered somewhere already. My question about the 221 drivers. Mark claimed he saw Unreal on a Creative TNT running at 1280x1024x32bit at 25fps on it. What system was that? P2-450Mhz with 256 Mbyte RAM?
Mark Rein's Response: I think Tim's system is a dual PII-400 with about 1Gb of RAM. I know he runs Windows NT Workstation version 4.0.
It really doesn't matter. If Unreal can run THAT fast at such a high resolution underl OpenGL on TNT on that system it can still run more than fast enough on an average system at a reasonable resolution. No one in their right mind would run at 1280x1024 - it just doesn't make sense to play at that resolution at 25fps when you can play at 800x600 with a way, way faster framerate
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:14
• 0 reacties, bron: Voodooextreme
Ik zag op VE wat info over nieuwe drivers voor de Banshee plaat van Creative: "We have a new driver release for the 3D Blaster Banshee. It's based on the 1.0 release from 3Dfx and has the following improvements, among others:
- Allows users to disable DirectX 6.0 support when running DirectX 5.0 applications for faster performance
- Solves mouse scrolling problems in virtual desktop mode
- Allows DirectX 6.0 users to select from texture stages=1 for accelerated performance or texture stages=2 for enhanced visual quality with slower performance.
The file's called 3DBB9XUP.EXE and it includes the drivers, the latest BIOS, GlideSwitcher, and BlasterControl. Customers in the Americas can find it at:
http://support.soundblaster.com/files/newfiles.asp
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 20:10
• 0 reacties, bron: webmagix
JC heeft een heel klein pietsie nieuws over de Cyrix Japaleno (die bij verschijning waarschijnlijk de extreem duffe naam 'M3' gaat krijgen): Ooooh, this is an interesting bit: I have learned that Cyrix's M3, based on the Jalapeno core, will indeed (with almost absolute certainty) be available in a non integrated fashion. Hmm...this means I'll have to make a change in the Jalapeno Preview. I scoffed at their claims of low die size on account of it not being all that small, but a stand-alone version would change that, making it small enough to be ... to be ... well, to be nicely priced, for one thing! Da's fijn om te weten, want ik zie weinig heil in de low budget integreer-alles-in-één strategie van Cyrix.
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 14:47
• 0 reacties, bron: Slashdot
Eindelijk is ie er! Volgens Slashdot: "Ladies and Gentleman its that time again. Grab the shot glasses, or the champagne or a beer or a can of jolt and drink to Linux v2.2. Take that drink when you type 'make zImage' (or bzImage if you are so moved) and remember all the hackers that made it happen."
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 06:16
• 0 reacties, bron: Techweb
This brief article over at TechWeb talks a bit about Friday's debut of tech IPOs. Even though the day itself was a rather slow day for the rest of the high tech market, the three new contenders: NVIDIA, Allaire, and Covad, were able to post some pretty impressive gains. Here's a clip from it if you don't feel like reading:
Despite not being a direct Internet play, Nvidia rose 64 percent on its first day. Although the graphics chip-set industry has seen some rough times recently, investors bought into Nvidia because 3-D graphics accelerators are becoming part of the standard PC set up, Menlow said. "Nvidia is doing business with all the established big names," he said. hier meer
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 06:11
• 0 reacties, bron: JC'n'Links
Oooh....Intel regained some ground in the notebook market with the release of new mobile chips.... At the lower end, the Celeron-266 and Celeron-300 take over, while the Pentium IIs increase their high end to 333MHz and 366MHz. For those of you who haven't been following, the new mobile PIIs are of the Dixon variety, meaning they pack 256K of L2 cache onto the processor silicon, instead of the off-chip 512k. Anyway, the critical bit here is that Intel has officially reclaimed the "highest MHz mobile chip" crown, after being offset by the 333MHz mobile K6-2 a couple weeks ago. I should mention, though, that the K6-2's socket nature has allowed for even the 400MHz desktop version to be placed into a notebook. This gets me wondering...now that some of Intel's chips are socketed, will we see notebook versions of their socket desktop 400MHz chips popping up any time soon?
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 06:03
• 0 reacties, bron: ZD Net.
Creative Labs' MP3 speler.... Creative Labs' MP3 player
Bob "CalBear" Colayco 11:15 AM
According to ZDNet UK, Creative Labs is prepared to make a portable audio player that will play a variety of audio formats including MP3. They also speculate that the player may find its way into car audio systems. Read the article.
With this announcement following the announcement of the Adaptec-Goodnoise plan to make MP3 ready CD players, we can really see a big push by the computer industry into the home appliance realm. hier staat het
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 05:57
• 0 reacties, bron: Email
K6-3 Q1 Officieel.... Thanks to the always informative Jurjen van Geenen for letting me know about this German article on heise, that says that a quarter 1 release of the K6-3 is definite. Here it is in German, since I really can't translate it. If anyone can, let me know:
Dana Krelle, AMD Vice President of Marketing, trat in einem Gespräch mit cŽt Gerüchten entgegen, der Konkurrenz-Prozessor zu Intels Katmai werde erst im Sommer auf den Markt kommen. Er versicherte, es bleibe auf jedem Fall bei dem ersten Quartal. Allerdings könne er Pressemeldungen nicht bestätigen, daß AMD sogar vorhabe, Intel zuvorzukommen und den K6-3 (Sharptooth) noch vor dem für den 27. Februar geplanten Katmai-Termin einzuführen.
Auf Seriennummer und Zufallszahlgenerator angesprochen, sagte Krelle, daß AMD diese Erweiterungen derzeit ernsthaft prüfe. Neben technischen und Marketing-Aspekten seien auch rechtliche Fragen zu klären. Er könne aber nicht ausschließen, daß bereits der als Prototyp fertige K7-Prozessor noch entsprechend modifiziert wird.
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 05:54
• 0 reacties, bron: TheRegister
AMD serie nummers.... This Register article talks of AMD's reluctance to put serial numbers in its chips. Intel and now Cyrix think it's a great idea. What do I think? No way jose. Here's a chunk:
AMD is showing marked reluctance to follow Intel's lead in putting serial numbers in its chips.
(Previous story today with links to more previous stories: OEMs can switch off PIII serial numbers)
That emerged after Cyrix spokespersons in the US said they would follow Intel's lead with the Pentium !!! (Katmai). hier staat meer
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 05:49
• 0 reacties, bron: TheRegister
Komt er nog wat van K7 .... Thanks to Avatar for letting me know about this article on The Register about the K7 Dresden fab production. Here's the whole shebang:
AMD confirmed it is in the final stages of producing silicon at its Fab 30 plant in Dresden, Germany.
According to a senior PR officer at the fab, Dresden started production of K7 silicon on the first of November. He said: "We are now in the final testing stages."
He confirmed: "The products we will produce in Dresden are the K7s. Sharptooth and other K6 products will be produced in Austin, Texas."
That means that K7s are likely to arise in volume earlier than anyone had anticipated. hier staat meer
Door Tweakers.net Nieuwsposter,
26 januari 1999 05:44
• 0 reacties, bron: TheRegister
AMD, MS, Intel en 3DNow!.... AMD, MS, Intel and 3DNow!
The Register has a very interesting article up about how Micro Soft and Intel factored in to almost ruining 3DNow! before it even began. Here's the juice:
Microsoft played an unexpected good fairy role in the adoption of AMD's 3DNow! graphics technology. But then Bill Gates went and spoiled it all by suggesting he'd dump the technology if Intel dumped Java.
AMD had explained what Microsoft was then describing as "3DX" to Microsoft executives in early 1997, against a background of continuing deterioration in the relationship between Intel and Microsoft. Jim Allchin wrote to Bill Gates and Paul Maritz: "During the meeting we discussed some new instructions that AMD wants us to support called AMD 3DX. The instructions (about 24 new opcodes) are very focused to make games fast." Hier staat het
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 05:36
• 0 reacties, bron: webmagix
Anand heeft een nieuw Multiprocessing artikel in elkaar gezet. Hier een stukkie: As you can see, the performance of single processor systems under multitasking
environments is much lower than that of dual processor systems under the same
conditions, which is to be expected. The interesting points to notice are that the difference
between a dual Pentium II 266 and a single Pentium II 400 in general multitasking
performance benchmarks still favors the single Pentium II 400 due to its sheer advantage in
processing power over the dual 266. While that may not apply to high-end applications, it
does apply to this scenario illustrated by AnandTech for the other type of multiprocessor
user.
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 05:33
• 0 reacties, bron: webmagix
Russ heeft de vierde issue van z'n Celery Report klaar liggen. Er zit deze keer ook wat info in over het overklokken van de nieuwere C400. 6x75 en 6x83MHz gingen OK, maar 6x100Mhz was iets te veel van het goed: Okay, now for the real test. With heart pounding, and hands shaking, I set the bus at
100Mhz (6x100), 2v. Fired her up; black screen, not even a video signal. Upped the voltage
to 2.1, same result. Upped the voltage to 2.2, still staring at a blank monitor with no video
signal.
I moved the voltage up to 2.3 and finally, a little action. Very little. I was able to get a
signal to the monitor and a brief glimpse of the video card logo, before she died. No beep,
though. I disabled L2 cache and tried again, same result. Then I also disabled L1 cache,
still same result.
I put the CPU outside for a little while at 35 to 40f. Brought it back in and got a beep this
time, but then blank. It looks like the core, at least on this chip, is simply not of a quality
high enough to run at 600Mhz without overheating very quickly. It is my opinion that this
will be the case with most 400A's. Frankly I'd be surprised if more than 5% will run at
600Mhz without the aid of a Kryotech-type system.
Door Femme Taken,
26 januari 1999 05:26
• 0 reacties, bron: webmagix
Hardware Extreme heeft wat info van iemand die een weigerende C300A op 450 heeft gekregen door 'm een halve minuut zonder heatsink te laten draaien. Dat geeft maar weer eens aan dat een burn-in werkt, ook al zijn er niet direkt wetenschappelijk bewijzen voor te leveren: I am a PC hardware vendor and i had a client
who needs 10 pieces of 300a (not 4 overclocking though) so i had the chance to
test each one of them for their overclocking limits (was hoping to get a
504MHz).Out of the 10 units 4 were boxed, 6 were sl2wm oem 0847 ...when i
fired them up, all 6 oems could never get past starting windows 98...even at 2.3
V w/ L2 cache disabled....so after all the testing i got so frustrated that i
inserted the 300a into the slot minus the heatsink...(well, its supposed to be
some sort of punishment for the chip for being so stuborn.....) and i left it for
about half a min. waiting to fry itself....Turned off the computer, replaced the
heatsink , let it cool for a while, then inserted it back(just to see if there was
damage to the chip after the BURN IN)...but to my surprise the 300a booted to
windows w/out a hitch... i played Quake 2 for about 30 min....still
stable...rebooted the compu...still ok... so i though it must have been the burn
in thing...although it beats the heck out of me.. i tried it with all other 300a
....the result?...3 out of the 6 units were stable at 450 at 2.2V so thats my
story...i hope you get the chance to try it out...and maybe come up w/ an
explanation...i really see no relation at all...as to what happened to my 330a...i
had the chance to test 4 more units 2 were 0847 sl2wm and 2 are 0846 ...all 4
would not work at 450 but after the burn in the 2 0846 made it to 450 @ 2.2
V...and the 2 0847 can now post and reach the starting windows 98 message
but hangs up after that... if u get to try it pls. email me of your results...and
some explanations( PLS ) ..i know u guys are the authority on this matter.
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) wat nieuws opgedaan over de Voodoo3. Een bezoekje aan 3Dfx in Londen bracht verheldering, met zelfs wat exclusieve info over de Voodoo3-4000: