Via JC kwam ik bij deze posting op het message board van Lost Circuits, met een samenvatting van de presentatie die de JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) gisteren heeft gegeven over de toekomst van DDR SDRAM:

Here are a few of the take-home messages:

DDR will be generally available and used by Q3 2000.

DDR manufacturing costs are about 1.03 x those of current SDRAM, because

the same fabs and burn-in tools can be used.

it is directly evolving from SDRAM and only needs the addition of a few minor components like DLL and I/O controller

needs no initial testing because the parts are there already and have been tested on SDRAM

Same power requirements as SDRAM (actually DDR chips are running at 2.5 V as opposed to the 3.3V of SDRAM but they need a terminating resistor on the mainboard which makes up for the difference in power.

backed by all major memory manufacturers

45 ns initial latency (after idle) as opposed to 65-70 ns in RAMBUS

Projected market share for 2001: 35-40%

RAMBUS will still continue but be restricted to the high end server market with a projected market share of about 8% or less because of

High initial latency >65ns

high production costs (current pricing >$900 for 128 MB)

specific frequency matching required for each CPU speed grade requires new RIMMs for each CPU upgrade (overclock)

SDRAM will prevail in the lower end market

Transition to DDR2: Q1-2 2001 with over 6 GByte/sec transfer capability utilizing 4-channel VCM or ESDRAM technology.

AMD lijkt nu ook succes te krijgen in de workstation markt. Niet alleen is er een samenwerkingsverband met 3DLabs, Athlon processors worden inmiddels ook gebruikt in high-end workstations van Pionex Elite. Geen lullige config zoals het Athlon systeem van Athlon, maar een serieuze machine waar de 3D Modellende tweaker trots op kan zijn: een 800MHz Athlon met 512Meg ECC SDRAM, 18Gb 10.000rpm SCSI LVD drive en 3DLabs Oxygen GVX1 videokaart. The Register heeft een nieuwsartikel over deze ontwikkelingen:

A release from AMD said that US manufacturer Pionex will use the 800MHz Athlon in a range of commercial desktops and workstations it is selling.

At the same time, 3D Labs said it was optimising its drivers for the Athlon platform. The Pionex systems use the Oxygen GVXI graphics boards, themselves based on 3D technology.

The background to this push is interesting. When we visited AMD's Dresden fab last year, AMD European marketing director Robert Stead made it clear to us that his company's strategy was to position its processors to challenge Intel at every level, including the workstation and server market.

[...] Most of the running since early August has been with the gaming sites, most of which have enthusiastically endorsed the Athlon as their choice for running the fun stuff.

That's been aided by clever marketing from AMD, which has quite cheerfully exploited the game and hardware sites' views. But AMD is a corporation, has shareholders, and has bigger ambitions than just the game market, which its marketeers have leveraged. The Pionex announcement is, we anticipate, the first of many such wins in the workstation/commercial arena.

And in the lucrative workstation end of the x86 market, Intel has had it all of its own way to date.

Vipertje schrijft: "Dit 1 GHz systeem is een overgeklokte Athlon 750 waarvan ook een beetje gekloot is met de L2-cache. Hij is gruwelijk snel, maar weet in een aantal tests maar net de concurrentie te verslaan. Het is wel duidelijk het snelste wat er nu te verkijgen is."

Dit rap systeempie wordt overigens compleet geleverd met een 19" ViewSonic Professional Series PT795 monitor, een GeForce DDR videokaart (SDR versie of een G400 Max kan ook) en een Aureal Vortex2 SuperQuad PCI geluidskaart waar je de Altec Lansing ACS54 speakerset op aan mag sluiten. Meer info bij Sharky Extreme.

So is this refrigerated contrivance worth the four and a half grand price tag? Is 1GHz 'all that' important? No… but it's the flashiest PC we've ever seen and it's also the ultimate Quake III: Arena and/or Unreal Tournament gaming system. It will likely remain that way for a few months to come. And despite the price, we couldn't resist dishing out an SE Extreme Hardware Award for sheer technological excellence before shipping it back off to SYS.

For those of you that, like us, spends hours a day playing these games, you will be getting your money's worth and the likelihood of being outpaced by another gamer on a faster PC is highly unlikely over the next 3-4 months. Kryotech has really hit the mark this time in terms of spending the effort, money and resources to chill an Athlon 750Mhz down to a temperature that allows them to overclock it by 33% up to that 'magic' 1Ghz milestone. Just don't tell your computer widow where that four and half grand went and you'll be fine…

djAzEtE schrijft: "Nadat de Gelrevision mailserver weer draaide, haalde ik mijn mail op en zag daar een mailtje van ome Bill liggen. Waar het op neer kwam is dat het betaprogramma voor Windows 2000 NL (Professional & Server) afgelopen is. De producten zullen vanaf 14 januari in productie gaan. Het zal echter tot begin maart duren voordat de produkten in de winkel liggen. ":

Met het in productie gaan van de Nederlandstalige versie van Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional en Microsoft Windows 2000 Server op 14 januari aanstaande komt er een einde aan het Microsoft Windows 2000 Marketing Betaprogramma waaraan u deelneemt.

De wereldwijde introductie van Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, (Server en Advanced Server) zal op 17 februari aanstaande plaatsvinden. Hierbij zal, ook in Nederland, niet alleen de Engelstalige versie worden geïntroduceerd maar hoogstwaarschijnlijk ook de Nederlandstalige versie. Het zal echter tot begin maart duren voordat de Nederlandstalige versie ook daadwerkelijk in de winkel te koop zal zijn. Voor alle duidelijkheid: er verschijnt géén Nederlandstalige versie van Windows 2000 Advanced Server en Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, uitsluitend van Windows 2000 Professional en Windows 2000 Server.

Tech Zone schreef een review van de Tennmax Detonator cooler. De heatsink werd uitgeprobeerd op een Matrox G400 en bleek de temperatuur met 5C te verlagen:

As you can see from the chart the cooler does an amazing job to cool the chipset down. With an 8500 RPM fan, and more surface area then the factory heatsink, this fan brought the chipset down 5 degrees Celsius, which shows good performance, and insurance. It only costs 19 dollars, a small price to pay for cooling. I highly value this product and highly recommend it even if your retail heatsink has a fan.

T-Break heeft een review gepost rond Abit's über-BX plank, de BE6-II. Naast een ingebakken ATA66 controller kent de BE6-II een totaal van 120 busspeed settings, waarmee vrijwel iedere CPU op de meest optimale kloksnelheid ingesteld kan worden:

Before the BE6-II, I had the Dual-Celeron BP6 that was able to overclock my 400 Mhz Celeron to a never-before 556MHz. The BE6-II went one step further pushing my 400Mhz to an incredible 570MHz without any lock-ups. Those 1 MHz increments sure make an overclockers dream into a reality. My Pentium III 500 however, was only able to go upto 560, just like it did from my previous board, so overclocking results will depend more on your particular chip.

Sander Sassen van Hardware Central heeft een review gepost van de Plexwriter 8/4/32X, met wederom positieve kritieken voor Plextor's eerste ATAPI fikker:

Overall we were impressed by the speed and ease of operation of this new Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32X; we've found nothing that would indicate that it is troubled by its IDE/ATAPI interface--it even performed without problems on lower-end machines.

To summarize; Plextor has once again proven to be a manufacturer of high-quality, high-performance CD-related equipment. The performance and stability of the PlexWriter 8/4/32X was as good as we've come to expect from their SCSI line of CD-writers; and so, combined with the excellent software package, the PlexWriter 8/4/32X deserves a warm recommendation.

insane schrijft: "Thresh's FiringSquad heeft een leuke review van de Athlon 800 gepost. In deze test word hij vergeleken met de Athlon 750 en de P3 Coppermine 600@750(FC-PGA). Verrassend genoeg is de P3 600@750 regelmatig sneller dan de Athlon. Hierdoor krijg het een magere 3,5 van de 5 sterren".

Zoals dus al eigenlijk bekend was heeft de Athlon 800 ook zwaar te lijden onder de trage off-die cache op 320MHz (2/5). Voor de review met de benchmark scores, klik hier.

The Athlon 800 is a terrific CPU held back by one thing: its 2/5 core speed L2 cache. With the upcoming availability of Athlon's with integrated L2 cache (rumored to be 512K in size) running at the same speed as the processor coupled with the upcoming availability of motherboards based on the KX133 chipset, we have a hard time suggesting anyone spend $900 on a brand new Athlon 800 processor and another $130-$160 on an Athlon motherboard.

After all, in a matter of months just think of the performance you can buy with that $1060. With the release of the Athlon 800, the low-end Athlon CPU's are ripe for the picking. Now that the Athlon 500's are no longer being produced, 550's and 600's will probably become the CPU's of choice for Athlon overclockers. Simply strap on your Golden Fingers card and you're ready for some overclocking!

This is the course we recommend for gamers interested in purchasing an Athlon CPU. Not shelling out nearly $1K for a product that is beginning to show signs of age.

Goede maandagflush gisteren, met als resultaat: ZESDE!

Marcel, Jeroen en Rino gefliciteerd met jullie 7de plaats in de daily stats!

We beginnen trouwens aardig in te lopen op die Texas Longhorns, nog maar 151.761 blokjes meer kraken dan zij, en dan zijn we die ook weer voorbij

De DPC Hitparade Top 10 van 10 januari 2000

1. Marcel, Jeroen en Rino(8, Gisteren:56,956, Totaal:491,994)
2. Andy(1, Gisteren:26,891, Totaal:1,381,786)
3. blimmel(10, Gisteren:17,919, Totaal:400,519)
4. katsov(28, Gisteren:9,490, Totaal:176,567)
5. [eNeRGy](43, Gisteren:9,347, Totaal:145,954)
6. Peter & Toon & Andre(47, Gisteren:8,301, Totaal:136,134)
7. s.rakhorst(180, Gisteren:6,046, Totaal:34,852)
8. Jorma(5, Gisteren:5,426, Totaal:688,232)
9. Robert Reuser(216, Gisteren:5,280, Totaal:24,557)
10. erikv(11, Gisteren:4,182, Totaal:346,819)

En de kanshebbers:

11. dennis.vanveen(235, Gisteren:3,906, Totaal:20,681)
12. Chainsaw(23, Gisteren:3,817, Totaal:200,835)
13. web(33, Gisteren:3,732, Totaal:166,177)
14. Ruwe Bit RC5 Sub-Team (rc5(26, Gisteren:3,708, Totaal:178,979)
15. RubZie!(45, Gisteren:3,562, Totaal:139,015)
16. Richard Zuidhof(37, Gisteren:3,156, Totaal:159,814)
17. Zeegser-Cows(32, Gisteren:2,820, Totaal:169,281)
18. sienema(2, Gisteren:2,808, Totaal:856,169)
19. mick(357, Gisteren:2,799, Totaal:9,882)
20. femme(9, Gisteren:2,662, Totaal:446,107)

De Top 5 teams van 10 januari 2000

1.( ) AnandTech (513,599)
2.( 2) HackZone Team -- Combined power of Russia and exUSSR countries (474,913)
3.( 4) Team Warped (OS/2) (436,248)
4.( 2) Slashdot.org (416,494)
5.( ) Russian Team (381,981)
6.( 9) Dutch power cows (302,596)
51.( 7) HIT2000 Linux, Hack & Crack event of 1999, the Netherlands (56,041)
52.( 4) The #koffie Team (55,875)

Teams om ons heen(total stats):
36.( ) Michigan State University (MSU Spartans) (Tot:31,016,371, Gis:77,962)
37.( ) Team HP (Tot:29,689,482)
38.( ) Japan Celeron Users Group (Tot:29,045,293, Gis:51,950)
39.( ) Texas Longhorns (Tot:28,004,256, Gis:46,317)
40.( ) Dutch power cows (Tot:27,852,495, Gis:302,596)
41.( ) Wonder Monkeys (Tot:26,623,957)
42.( ) Singapore RC5 Effort (Tot:25,932,824, Gis:81,820)
43.( ) Quakenet RC5 Team (Tot:25,776,937, Gis:72,928)
44.( ) Egham Hills (Tot:24,470,860, Gis:36,009)
(Teams waarvan de score van gisteren ontbreekt, hadden geen score in de top 100!)

Dutch power cows is vandaag 6de en heeft een kans van een op 81 om de sleutel te vinden!

In navolging van de Klipsch komt ook Altec Lansing met THX gecertificeerde multimedia speakers op de markt. Het setje bestaat uit een subwoofer met 4 satellites en heeft een vormogen van 120Watt. Hier de soep van AGN Hardware:

Mile Ballard was kind enough to pass along the news of the new Adaptec ADA885 Speakers that were in the Dell Catalog. These new speakers look to be exactly the same as the ADA880R that I just reviewed, with the exception of THX support rather than AC-3 support. Considering that the speakers only include 4 satellites, THX support sounds like a better move in my book anyway. After all it is kind of hard to give up the center channel speaker when watching a DVD movie in AC-3 format. THX on the other hand will work independently with all 4 speakers and the subwoofer, to deliver a true movie like experience to your PC.

The Klipsch Promedia V2-400 were the first PC speakers to offer THX support, bringing a new level of audio to the PC. Now it looks like Altec Lansing has managed to go through all of the approval that the THX group requires for you to have certified speakers. We are going to have Altec Lansing on the All Games Hardware show on the 19th of this month, so I plan on asking them for more information on the ADA885 speakers. As it stands now the only place to get these speakers is from the Dell catalog, but I am sure that will change given time. Let's just hope Pricewatch based online stores pick up these speakers and offer them for near cost, giving the folks at Klipsch some competition for THX sound.

Gamespot heeft een review van het Guillemot Ferrari Force Feedback stuurtje online gezet. Het stuurwiel bleek prima te werken, maar de pedalen waren wat minder:

I set up the wheel, plugged it into a power outlet, and fired up several racing games, including Need for Speed III, NASCAR 3, and Dirt Track Racing. The Guillemot is capable of generating pretty strong forces, but it seemed well mannered and smoother than most other wheels. About the only force feedback wheel I prefer - and it's only by a smidgen - is the ACT Labs force feedback wheel. It's far better than the notchy Microsoft force feedback wheel. The only real weak point of the Guillemot is the pedals. The pedals are actually fairly decent when it comes to feel, and they don't slide all over the carpet. But they looked a little fragile, and I was afraid that one hard stomp might break the plastic. However, in the actual driving I did, the pedals worked, even during very hot NFS races. The pedals are hinged, so they flex with your foot movement.

Wonderboy Anand deed onderzoek naar de overklokbaarheid van de 500 en 550MHz FC-PGA PIII's. Beide processors bleken met een maximale kloksnelheid van respectievelijk 750 en 825MHz bijzonder welwillend te zijn:

At the default core voltage of 1.60v, all of the 500E and 550E CPUs we tried worked perfectly at 750MHz and 825MHz respectively. And since these tests were run on a platform with official support for the 133MHz FSB, the œ AGP clock divider allowed the 150MHz FSB to be used without any noticeable sacrifice of stability. At 825MHz, the 550E instantly becomes the fastest performer from Intel since the Slot-1 Pentium III line currently “only” goes up to 800MHz.

Even if you’re set on the i820 platform you can expect a similar overclocking potential out of the 500E/550E CPUs. And if you happen to get a poor yield and it won’t work at 750/825MHz, then the 140MHz and 133MHz FSB settings are always there, and once again, courtesy of the œ AGP divider, they’ll both be stable regardless of what applications/games you’re running.

CGO heeft een review van de ATI Rage Fury MAXX gepost. De benchmarks in deze bespreking schetsen een vergelijkbaar beeld als ervaringen uit eerdere reviews: de Fury MAXX levert ongeveer gelijke framerates als de GeForce SDR, maar kan de GeForce DDR niet bijhouden:

On our 600MHz Athlon test system, the MAXX delivered frame rates a little bit faster than a regular GeForce-based card at high resolutions and color depths, and this gap may widen a little if used in an even faster machine. When pitted against a GeForce card with DDR RAM, however, the ATI offering just couldn't keep up. Despite having a higher theoretical peak fill rate (by 4%), the MAXX was slower than the GeForce DDR in just about every benchmark, especially those that support hardware Transformation and Lighting.

Extreme Hardware vroeg Peter Wicher, product manager van 3dfx, waarom de Voodoo4 en Voodoo5 de wereld gaan verbeteren. Hier een stukje over de VSA100 architectuur:

Extreme Hardware: The various Voodoo4/5 cards specs look great, but could you state the full performance specifications and 3D features for a single VSA-100 chip?

Peter Wicher: Sure. VSA-100 is a major step beyond the Voodoo3. It renders two pixels per clock with a single texture per pixel or one pixel per clock with two textures per pixel. At the minimum 166MHz this provides 333Mpixels per second or twice the fill rate of Voodoo3. We improved the raster efficiency by about 20%, we increased the texture cache size, we added new texture combines and alpha blends, and we added guardband clipping, with a –4k, 4k range, which significantly offloads the CPU from doing 2D clip operations to speed up applications.

We focused on image quality more than anything else: 32-bit ARGB rendering, 24-bit depth buffer, 8-bit stencil buffer, 32-bit textures, 2Kx2K texture size, up to 64MB of frame buffer, 4X AGP, and both FXT1 and DXTC texture compression, and new alpha blends (Alpha subtract, src*src, dst*dst) are the key features. It’s important to note that our texture cache can store textures in compressed format thereby greatly increasing the effective cache size, increasing performance. As far as full-scene AA goes, a single VSA-100 is able to create two jittered sub-samples per pixel. We don’t think that’s enough to do high-quality full-scene AA or digital cinematic effects therefore those features are only being enabled when two or four VSA-100’s are linked together in SLI.

Check het interview voor meer info.

Beweringen van Creative Labs dat er EAX in Quake III zit mogen we van 3D Soundsurge vergeten, want volgens hen kent Q3 helemaal geen EAX. Wat er wel in zit is DirectSound3D (thanks Mark S> (alias VTec) voor deze tip):

We were ignoring these stories but I see that they are cropping up all over the place and feel the need to clarify. There is NO EAX in Q3A at this point in time. All of these people are confusing 3D sound with EAX and in looking at the post given as the source the blame is not with tbreak but with their source which is referenced as their "friends from Creative Labs". Well their friends from Creative Labs must not work in the sound division as I know those people would know better than to send an email to anyone that says "QUAKE 3 can support EAX now" as what it can support by using the A2D files (that Aureal designed for just this purpose btw) is DS3D. It works great with the Live but its not EAX. EAX support in Q3A will come thanks to Aureal when the A3D 3.0 patch comes out for Q3A. A3D 3.0 in addtion to using its native geometry based reverb engine on Vortex 2 hardware will select the EAX preset that comes closest to matching its geometrical reverb when it detects EAX capable non-Vortex 2 cards like the Live.

Anway, if you have a Live or any other DS3D based card you can grab the A2D files and get 3d sound. Aureal's readme file says they have tested with the Live but not other DS3D cards at this time. If you have a Vortex 2 board you can already get 3D sound via A3D 2.0 and you also get wavetracing support.

hjs stuurde een link naar deze Viper II review van GamePC. Zelfde verhaaltje als bij vorige reviews: leuke hardware, manke drivers:

All in all, we're pleasantly surprised with the hardware capabilities of the Savage2000 chipset, but there is still work to be done. While OpenGL games ran smoothly and without problems, Direct3D needs some serious fixing before we can consider this a viable gaming card. Not only were there visual problems, it was just plain slow in D3D, and since about 50% of the games out there are D3D only, some people are going to get upset with their cards. It's greatest strength seems to be in 32-bit OpenGL, where it was amazingly close to a GeForce DDR, and considering the price comparison (DDR GeForce for $300+, Savage2000 for 175+), for most people it will end up being a great deal. Now if we could only get some good drivers for it…

abraxas schrijft: "Broadcast 2000 is een gratis te gebruiken videobewerker voor Linux. Ziet er super uit! Zoiets vind je niet voor Windows (tenminste, niet voor deze prijs)":

Introducing Broadcast 2000, the first realtime, non linear audio and video editor for Linux in the entire world for no cost. All development costs have been shielded from the user and the software licensed under the GPL. You can now integrate audio with video, capture, render, edit, and play back your dream movies and mp3s faster than the fastest service bureau, with complete individual freedom!

Betanews meldt dat NullSoft bijna klaar is met beta 1.3 van de Shoutcast plugin voor WinAMP, waarmee je live streaming audio kunt beluisteren. Ook is het mogelijk om zelf streams te broadcasten, via die fiets kun je dus leuk zelf radiootje spelen (thanks Abraxas voor de tip):

Nullsoft is set to release a beta of Shoutcast 1.3 next week, with a final release set for the 20th. According to Shoutcast head honcho Tom Pepper, "What's really significant about 1.3 is a whole new model of how streams and threads are managed. It's about 10 times as stable as it was before."

A Y2K bug has also been corrected within the admin section. Depending on how the beta performs, a new feature or two may slip into 1.3 before final release.

Hardwarelab.de heeft drie screenshots gepost van het Athlon L2 Speed Control proggie dat onze japanse held H. Oda momenteel in ontwikkeling heeft. Het programma is inmiddels aangekomen bij beta 3, maar is voorlopig nog niet downloadbaar (thanks vsmb@superweb.nl" rel="external">ovs voor de tip):

Sony heeft op de Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas een nieuwe videorecorder met ingebouwde harddisk aangekondigd. De speler is gebaseerd op de technologie van TiVo Inc. en beschikt over 30Gig storage, wat space geeft voor 30 uur video. Het apparaat zal nog dit jaar op de markt komen, voor een prijs van 399 dollar (thanks denhis voor de tip):

The device, which resembles a VCR, is expected to hit stores in the first quarter of this year, and holds 30 gigabytes of data, enough for 30 hours of video, said Fujio Nishida, presdient of Sony's consumer electronics marketing group.

It will sell for $399, about 20 percent less than current models, Nishida told a briefing before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show, a huge annual exposition of technology companies and their products.

TiVo and rival Replay Networks kicked off the personal video market, drawing tens of millions of dollars in investment from entertainment companies such as Time Warner and The Walt Disney Co.

TiVo has already licensed its hardware design to Philips Electronics. Replay makes its own device but has a deal for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. (Panasonic) to start manufacturing them.

Check dit artikel van ZDNet voor meer info.

AMD en 3DLabs hebben gisteren bekend gemaakt dat beide bedrijven zullen samenwerken bij de ontwikkeling van op Windows NT en Athlon processors gebaseerde graphics workstations (thanks VHware voor de tip):

3Dlabs Inc. and microchip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday said they agreed to work together on high-performance workstation graphics products using AMD's new Athlon processors and 3Dlabs' computer graphic accelerators on systems operating Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Windows NT software.

Under the agreement, 3Dlabs will boost its support for the Athlon processor, including refining characteristics of AMD's 3DNow! instruction set.

AMD will continue to provide technical support and engineering resources to 3Dlabs to enhance these efforts.

``3Dlabs is focused on providing the best possible workstation graphics solutions, so it is of tremendous value to us to be able to work closely with AMD, whose Athlon processor will be at the heart of many new workstation platforms,'' said Neil Trevett, vice president of marketing at 3Dlabs.

3Dlabs is a leading supplier of hardware and software graphics accelerators for computer workstations and design professionals.

biwan@multiweb.nl" rel="external">|Obi_Wan| schrijft: "Onder de noemer "Regional Playback Control · RCP II" kunnen alle DVD-ROM spelers die verkocht zijn na 31 december '99 niet meer regio vrij spelen. De regiocode wordt in de hardware van de DVD drive gebakken. Dat wordt dus oude DVD drives opkopen ":

This notice is intended to stress the importance for all CSS licensees manufacturing DVD Drives and related playback systems to carefully comply with the requirements of the license and specifications, including the requirement that no Phase I implementation be manufactured or sold after December 31, 1999

For reference

Phase I RPC implementations allowed computer-based DVD playback systems to implement RPC functions in the playback system, so long as the RPC functionality was closely coupled with the CSS authentication and decryption functionality. Thus, the host computer was allowed to implement the RPC functions through software or hardware playback systems. During Phase I, only one region was allowed to be set for any given computer DVD playback system.

Phase II, in contrast, allows the region of the computer-based DVD playback system to be reset by the consumer but requires that the manufacturer of the DVD Drive implement the RPC functions in firmware in the drive itself. In general, this means that the consumer may reset the region of his/her DVD Drive 5 times (and may have this 5 times resetting capability re-established by an authorized service center an additional 4 times after purchase).

Note that these requirements relate to computer-based playback systems and do not affect stand-alone DVD Players. Stand-alone DVD Players are also required to implement RPC but may not use the consumer resetting approach that is available for computer-based playback systems.

insane schrijft: "Lost circuits heeft een review van de 500 en 550MHz FC-PGA PIII in elkaar gedraaid, compleet met Winstone, Winbench 3DMark, Truespace en overclocking benchmarks. Hier een hap uit de conclusie":

The new FC-PGA 500 / 550E CPU brings new performance levels to the Socket 370 platform. In a clock for clock comparison with the Katmai-based Pentium III, the FC-PGA takes full advantage of the ATC and advanced system buffering and shows a substantial lead, at least in business applications. The interesting aspect is that the FC-PGA is priced very competitively, albeit substantially higher than Celeron processors. However, it appears fair to claim that most of the FC-PGA processors have excellent overclocking potential and, at least 700 MHz should be achievable without problems, beyond that, it is the luck of the draw. One needs to keep in mind also, that pure clockspeed not always translates into higher performance since, even in a stable running system, we observed decreasing performance above 715 MHz which we interpret as the result of occasional cache misses rather than a limitation of the core itself. Increasing the core voltage to 1.65 - 1.7V did not increase achievable clock speeds, neither did it remedy the falling edge of benchmark scores or the variability thereof at clock frequencies of 730 MHz or beyond.