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Release AMD Thunderbird op 5 juni

Door Hielko van der Hoorn, 1 juni 2000 23:2130 reacties, bron: CNET News.com

Schrijf maar deze datum alvast maar in je agenda, cancel de afspraak met je vriendin en blijf bij je computer . Deze datum wordt nu al voor de zoveelste keer genoemd als lauch datum van de AMD Thunderbird, daarnaast zal AMD die dag de fabriek in Dresden officieel openen:

A high-performance version of Advanced Micro Device's Athlon processor dubbed Thunderbird will make its debut Monday, according to sources close to the company.

The Thunderbird is essentially an enhanced version of the Athlon, a line of processors that has been credited with turning the company's fortunes around. Its release is expected to spark a new round of competitive battles with Intel.

To be incorporated into high-end consumer systems and business desktops, Thunderbird will run at speeds ranging from 750-MHz to 1-GHz and higher, according to sources.

AMD also will formally open its fabrication facility in Dresden, Germany on Monday.

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Seagate Cheetah X15 review

Door Tweakers , 1 juni 2000 20:3222 reacties, bron: Storage Review

Storage Review brengt ons een review van de erg dikke 15.000rpm Seagate Cheetah X15 SCSI harddisk. Er mag geconcludeerd worden dat deze drive inderdaad vet snel is alhoewel de WinBench 99 scores wel wat tegenvielen. Hier meer uit de conclusie:

In conclusion, the Cheetah X15 is a groundbreaking product that allows industry-giant Seagate to show the market who's truly in charge. The drive will deliver performance that's light-years ahead of the competition. We have only two small caveats. The first is the high-pitch idle whine that the drive exhibits. Since the drive is targeted towards servers that won't have individual users sitting close to the drive, however, this is a minor weakness at worst. Our second is with the drive's 18 gig capacity. There may be those that desire the X15's blazing speed with state of the art capacities… unfortunately, no mix of the two will be available. Complaints aside, the X15 is the drive to get for those who can live with a max of 18 gigs of storage on one drive who need the utmost in speed. There's no other drive like it.

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Acer F51 15" LCD monitor review

Door Tweakers , 1 juni 2000 20:227 reacties, bron: Overclockers Australia

Overclockers Australia heeft een review klaar van de Acer F51 15" LCD monitor. Uiteraard zijn LCD monitoren erg stoer maar vanwege onderstaande nadelen en natuurlijk de hoge prijs zal de gemiddelde tweaker niet snel zo'n ding op zijn desk planten.

There are some drawbacks to this type of display, however. Firstly is that they look best from straight ahead. Anyone who's owned an old laptop can tell you how moving your head a few inches in any direction from dead-centre will make the colours fade, the brightness dip and the text hard to read on an LCD screen. This effect is present on this monitor too - not incredibly badly, but it's noticeable. This would be irritating to a hardcore graphics professional. In fact, in my last few reviews, I found myself having to compensate for the brightness of the monitor when editing images. If I made them appear ok on the LCD, they would be incredibly dark on the CRT (and, presumably, reader systems as well). I did try to use Photoshop's monitor calibration, I fiddled with the various settings on the monitor, but I couldn't make it acceptable. Maybe a hardcore graphics professional knows a solution to this, but I couldn't find it.

The sharpness of the monitor at it's native resolution is also very impressive, text and window edges etc are very clearly defined. Native resolution? Ahh, another LCD peculiarity. Basically, this LCD monitor is designed around 1024x768. In fact, it quite literally has 1024x768 physical pixels on it, so no matter what resolution signal you send to it, it will display 1024x768. This means that if your video card is set up to display 800x600, the monitor scales it up and you lose a little definition - it's not quite as sharp. You cannot display higher than 1024x768 - I can't imagine you wanting to on a 15" monitor anyway. It quite happily accepts a range of resolutions from 640x350 up, and a range of refresh rates up to 75Hz in all resolutions. 75Hz is enough for anyone, but when it comes to actually drawing the image on the screen, the input refresh rate becomes irrelevant next to the physical time it takes for each pixel to refresh. In fact, I'd say the pixel refresh rate was quite low indeed on this unit, running a Q3 timedemo or even just playing a fast-paced game leaves a faint ghostly trail behind any moving object - in the case of a first-person shooter, the whole screen is often moving so it becomes quite hard to see small objects accurately. If you're a hardcore railgun freak in Q3, your accuracy will go out the window. This was perhaps the most dissapointing aspect for me, and the reason this unit was moved off the games box.

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3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP review

Door Tweakers , 1 juni 2000 19:4815 reacties, bron: C|NET Gamecenter

C|NET Gamecenter heeft een review online gekicked van de 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP, (final version). Zoals uit eerdere reviews bleek is de performance vaak niet veel beter dan de van de al 6 maanden oude GeForce DDR. Om die reden kan de reviewer je de Voodoo5 5500 niet echt aanraden behalve als je FSAA héél erg belangrijk vindt. Hier wat gedeeltes:

Last year, we were worried about the Voodoo3's longevity. Its lack of 32-bit-color rendering and its low-resolution texture support will hurt its longevity, we thought. We were right: dozens of games are using 32-bit color and high-res textures, and Voodoo3 owners are either complaining or looking for an upgrade. We're similarly worried about the new Voodoo5 5500's long-term outlook: its lack of T&L support and the lukewarm response from game developers to its biggest feature, the mighty T-buffer, has us wondering if this otherwise decent card will be a liability at this time next year.

[...] In raw performance benchmarks, the Voodoo5 5500 proved to be a competent Direct3D board, although the numbers paled in comparison to GeForce2 GTS benchmarks. The Voodoo5 5500 is actually more competitive with the GeForce 256 DDR, which it trounced in nearly every D3D benchmark we ran. It wasn't quite as consistent as an OpenGL performer, but its Quake III Arena numbers were still respectable.

Here's where the longevity question arises, however: We know our benchmarks consist of established games, and that all of the cards in the performance chart run them reasonably well. Think of the future, however, and know that it's likely that the card that runs current games the fastest will deal best with games that push the envelope, adding more polygons, more detailed textures, and more features. The fastest card today will probably outlast the others, and the Voodoo5 5500 is not the fastest card.

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SiS730S Athlon chipset press release

Door Tweakers , 1 juni 2000 19:3413 reacties, bron: SiS

SiS heeft een press release losgelaten over hun nieuwe single chip Athlon chipset met geïntegreerde 128-bit 3D graphics accelerator. De SiS730S heeft verder ondersteuning voor ATA100, 100Mbit ethernet, Home PNA en PC133 SDRAM. Verwacht wordt dat de eerste plankjes met deze chipset ergens in augustus gereleased worden.

Taipei, Taiwan, June 1, 2000 - SiS, a leading core logic and graphics supplier, today announced the SiS730S, the industry's first highly integrated single chip for AMD platform PCs with extensive features targeted at high performance PC market segment. With the introduction of SiS730S, SiS continues to extend its integration portfolio and strengthen its leadership in the market.

Built on the successful SiS630, the SiS730S integrates the north bridge chip, the south bridge chip, and an enhanced 128-bit 3D graphics accelerator (SiS300) into a single chip. It delivers high quality data transferring capabilities including 56K Modem, Fast Ethernet, 1/10Mb Home PNA and IDE ATA100. It provides hardware DVD playback, flexible dual view display and 3D positional audio. With PC133 SDRAM support, the SiS730S delivers the memory bandwidth necessary to obtain ultimate system level performance. In addition, a stand-alone AGP 4x slot is specially designed for upgrades to easily accommodate future advances. Being a single chip solution, the SiS730S allows smaller logic board design with full functional capabilities.

The SiS730S consists of the following key features:
- Support all AMD Athlon™ SlotA / SocketA processors synchronous and asynchronous front side bus frequency
- Support PC133, 3 DIMM slots and up to 1.5 GB main memory
- Stand alone AGP 4x graphic card slot
- ATA100 IDE
- Support 6 OpenHCI USB ports
- Built-in 128 bit 2D/3D graphic chip with SFB(Shared Frame Buffer) architecture and display memory size up to 64MB with 1920*1200 resolution supported
- Flexible dual view application such as TV-Out, digital flat panel and secondary CRT with the SiS301 chip
- Support 3D VR (Virtual Reality) with 3D stereoscopic glasses
- Built-in H/W DVD accelerator engine
- Built-in 3D positional audio
- Flexible connectivity including 56K Modem, 10/100 Mb Fast Ethernet, and 1/10Mb Home PNA
- Microsoft PC99A, ACPI compliant

All major OEMs and motheroard makers are expecting to introduce SiS730S-based solutions in Q3 2000.

Thanks electronized voor de tip.

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nVidia GeForce2 64MB preview

Door Hielko van der Hoorn, 1 juni 2000 17:1641 reacties, bron: Gamers Depot

Gamers Depot heeft als tweede een preview geschreven over de GeForce2 64MB. De performance verschillen zijn niet echt groot vergeleken met de 32 MB versie, alleen met de MDK 2 demo op 1600x1200 @ 32 bit is er een flink verschil: 27 FPS vs. 18 FPS . Hun conclusie is dan ook dat je deze kaart, die ongeveer 100 dollar duurder gaat worden dan zijn kleine broertje, beter niet kan kopen tenzij je genoeg (te veel) geld hebt:

We should start seeing retail cards with 64MB of memory hitting in June, and have a price tag of about $75.00 - $100.00 more than their 32MB cousins. With prices already around $350.00 for the 32MB cards, this will put the 64MB version out of reach for most. This is fine as you'll see in the benchmarks the main reason for getting one of these cards is for bragging rights, and for the person who absolutely just has to have the best.

[...] If nVIDIA and the add-in card makers can get this technology to market in the next week or so, then I know that most of our readers will be all over it. However, if you don't need the extra muscle at those high resolutions because your monitor can't handle them, then the 32MB version makes for an excellent gaming solution as well. Plus with prices topping over $400.00, the 64MB GeForce 2 cards place themselves in a whole new price point.

nVidia GeForce II 64MB

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Abit SE6 i815 mobo review

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 14:5621 reacties, bron: BXBoards

BXBoards heeft een review gepost van de vroege Abit SE6 sample die zij in handen wisten te krijgen. Dit nieuwe plankje met de binnenkort te introduceren i815 chipset heeft een redelijk relaxte layout met 6 PCI sleufjes en 3 DIMM slots. Verder is het bord in goede Abit traditie weer van de nodige overclocking settings voorzien. Wat betreft performance brengt de review helaas minder positief nieuws over de SE6 en de i815 chipset. De geheugen performance blijkt extreem triest te zijn, in vergelijking met de goede oude 440BX soms meer dan de helft lager .

*Update* BXBoards heeft nieuwe benchmark resultaten toegevoegd met de In Order Depth Queue setting op 4. Hierdoor ziet de memory performance er aanmerkelijk vrolijker uit:

Abit SE6 (klein) This is a disappointing product through no fault at all of Abit. The Solano chipset has been generating a lot of interest and for those of you waiting for an Intel based upgrade path from BX, then I'm afraid to report that the performance of i815 is not even in the same ball park. I must state again that this review is based on an early board, with an Intel "Secret" chipset. However although I expect late changes to the SouthBridge of Solano, I can't see any massive increases in performance at this late stage.

Abit have held up their end of the bargain, with all the support for the overclocked you'd expect. The product is commendably stable, and we took our P3-866 up to 1 Gigahertz with ease, something we've not managed to do on many boards. Its a great overclocking board, with all the overclocked stability expected of Abit.

Benchmarki820+SDRAM 5,5x100i815 5,5x100440BX 5,5x100
Assignment200MB/s333MB/s307MB/s
Scaling171MB/s249MB/s289MB/s
Addition171MB/s285MB/s307MB/s
Triad172MB/s282MB/s302MB/s
Current Memory System178,213MB/s283,303MB/s301,322MB/s

Thanks downtime voor de tip.

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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 preview

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 12:3133 reacties, bron: Apple Insider

BikkelZ stuurde ons een linkje naar deze Photoshop 6.0 preview van Apple Insider. Het artikel (gebaseerd op de MacOS versie van de 6.0 beta) geeft een rondleiding in de nieuwe Photoshop features, zoals de nieuwe tool bar en verbeterd layer management:

Layer management under Photoshop 6 has been greatly improved and will make any avid user feel warm and fuzzy inside. For starters, Adobe has removed the 99 layer limit, now allowing users to add hundreds of layers, and has introduced 'Layer sets.' Layers can now also be locked or color-coded. Furthermore, users can now delete linked layers from the Layers palette trash icon and add layer effects between layers via drag-and-drop.

Continuing on with Photoshop layers, the new version will sport Layer Styles with new compositing and effects capabilities. Some of these advancements include the addition of a Styles palette with thumbnails (and various views), a new Overlay layer effect, a new Stroke layer effect, Knockout blending, channel-restricted blending, separate fill opacity controls, and a “Blend as group” option.

Layers can now also obscure their effects, for example, a layer's drop shadow will not show through a semitransparent layer. All shadow and glow effects can now have a noise value, and glows now can be single-color or multicolor, using a gradient. Spread and Choke controls will also be available for shadows and glows.

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 beta screenshot

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Rambus ietsie goedkoper met nieuwe testapparatuur

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 11:0419 reacties, bron: Electic Tech

Avantest heeft nieuwe Rambus testapparatuur geïntroduceert waarmee een dubbel aantal Rambus chips in parallel getest kan worden. De kosten voor het testen van Rambus chips kunnen hierdoor aanzienlijk gereduceerd worden, wat hopelijk een positieve uitwerking heeft op de nog steeds asociaal hoge RIMM prijzen:

Introduced at Semicon-Japan in December 1999, Advantest's T5592 doubles the current number of devices that can be tested in parallel while offering the highest performance available of any memory tester. The T5592 increases throughput by testing 64 devices simultaneously, which greatly reduces the cost of testing RDRAMs. The 1.066GHz performance of the T5592 will provide headroom for testing future RDRAMs.

By the end of May 2000, Advantest will have shipped four T5592 test systems to Japan, the United States, and Europe. Advantest plans to ship 30 units during the first half of the fiscal year and continues to work toward aggressively increasing future shipments.

"The fact that Advantest, a memory tester market leader, is ramping their shipments of 64 site RDRAM testers is significant because it will help further drive down the cost of manufacturing RDRAMs," said Avo Kanadjian, Vice President Worldwide Marketing at Rambus Inc.

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Micron introduceert 2-2-2 PC133 DIMMs

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 10:3619 reacties, bron: Micron Technology

Micron heeft aangekondigd dat het begint met de levering van snelle low-latency 133MHz CAS2 registered en unbuffered DIMMs. De modules zijn beschikbaar in smaken van 32 tot 512MB:

Micron wafer saw Micron Technology, Inc., today announced samples of industry standard 133MHz 2-2-2 synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) registered and unbuffered DIMM modules in densities ranging from 32MB to 512MB. Micron is also accepting orders for production volumes of 133MHz 2-2-2 SDRAM components and associated modules.

[...] The most noticeable improvement with 133MHz 2-2-2 SDRAMs over 133MHz 3-3-3 SDRAMs is the lead-off latency. "Although both speed options provide the same peak burst rate, PC133 2-2-2 offers a lead-off latency of only 30 nanoseconds," said Chris Johnson, Micron SDRAM Applications Engineer. "This is a 34 percent improvement over the 45 nanosecond lead-off latency available from PC133 3-3-3 SDRAM and is the fastest lead-off latency in high-volume DRAMs available today." In various benchmarking suites, performance improvement is readily seen when converting from PC133 3-3-3 to PC133 2-2-2 SDRAMs. WinStone 99 shows a 1 to 2 percent improvement, SiSoft Sandra shows a 10 to 20 percent improvement, and 3DMark 2000 shows a 3 to 6.5 percent improvement.

Micron is the first DRAM manufacturer to meet the Intel 133MHz SDRAM device specification target goal of 2-2-2. The 2-2-2 reference refers to the following timing specifications, in clock cycles: CAS latency (CL), which is the time from read command to data out; RAS to CAS delay (tRCD), which is the time from the active command to the read command; and the RAS precharge (tRP), which is the time from precharge command to active command. 133MHz SDRAM parts meeting the 2-2-2 specification provide data faster than parts meeting the 3-3-3 specification, which is the slowest option supported by the Intel 133MHz SDRAM device specification.

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3dfx Voodoo5 6000 pers foto

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 09:5774 reacties, bron: HardOCP

Ik zie bij HardOCP dat 3dfx een nieuwe pers shotje heeft vrijgegeven van de Voodoo5 6000 en bijgeleverd stroomaggregaat. Eerder hebben we al kunnen zien dat het ontwerp van de final Voodoo5 6000 afwijkt van het bord dat is te zien op de Comdex persfoto's. De nieuwe 6000 is dankzij z'n extra lengte multifunctioneel inzetbaar als broodplank en baseball bat :

* Final Voodoo5 6000

3dfx Voodoo5-6000 pers foto

* Comdex Voodoo5 6000

3dfx Voodoo5-6000 Comdex pers foto

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De dagelijkse lading GeForce2 reviews

Door Hielko van der Hoorn, 1 juni 2000 09:513 reacties, bron: Anandtech

Voor alle mensen die echt teveel tijd hebben en gewoon elke review willen lezen die ze tegenkomen op het web zijn hier een paar reviews van een stapel kaarten gebaseerd op de overbekende GeForce II.

* The Techzone heeft een review van de Hercules 3D Prophet II. Het overclocken van deze kaart ging niet erg goed, 219 / 360 Mhz was de maximale snelheid die gehaald kon worden:

Seeing how well the Elsa Gladiac overclocked, I was really looking forward to overclocking the 3D Prophet II GTS. With what appears to be a better heatsink fan on the GTS chip and heatsinks on the RAM, I thought for sure it'll be able to overclock higher than the Elsa Gladiac.
What I got was a big disappointment. The 3D Prophet II locked up on me if I tried to run the core higher than 219Mhz. If the memory was pushed higher than 360Mhz, ugly artifacts start appearing on Quake 3. After a few minutes the game would lock up, requiring a hard reboot.[break]* Tweak3D heeft ook een review gemaakt van deze kaart. Hun conclusie is niet anders dan die van The Techzone: mooie kaart, maar het overclocken gaat bagger:[/break]Here we have our last significant tab, the overclocking tab. This part gets really interesting and ironic at the same time. Remember those heatsinks on the memory modules? They didn’t help at all. In fact, the Prophet couldn’t overclock as high as the Gladiac. The Gladiac reached 230/360MHz without problems and played fine. With the Prophet, we experienced graphical corruption inside Windows itself while going that high. Any higher and you get massive tearing and snow -- and this wasn’t even heavy 3D acceleration.[break]* Dan's Data heeft ook nog een review liggen van een GeForce2 kaart, de V7700 pure van Asus. Dit kaartje heeft een punt wat hem apart zet van alle andere GeForce2 kaarten op deze aardkloot: er zit hardware monitoring op, iets wat voor ons tweakers toch erg leuk is :[/break]If the hardware monitor and related features of the V7700 turn your crank, then by all means get it. It's a perfectly decent performer if you use the leaked drivers, it's not much worse with its stock drivers, it's stable and well made, and it's not painfully expensive. Well, not by GeForce2 standards, anyway.[break]* Als laatste heeft Speedy 3D ook nog een review liggen van de Leadtek GeForce2 GTS 32MB, het standaard GeForce2 kaartje zonder echte nuttige en / of bijzondere features.

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Adobe Photoshop 6.0 details

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 09:4928 reacties, bron: Betanews

Betanews meldt dat Adobe vorige week de eerste beta's van Photoshop 6.0 de deur uit heeft gedaan. Versie 6 belooft vooral voor web designers een aantal interessante nieuwe features, zoals volautomatisch gegenereerde HTML code:

Adobe last week shipped the first beta of the next-generation of its flagship program Adobe Photoshop. Version 6.0 is quite a bit beefier than its predecessors, with new features and enhancements which include the ability to create a Web layout, cut it into parts, assign alt tags, create text, then choose "Save for Web" and have Photoshop create the HTML automatically. Other improvements include more layer features and tools to create more advanced graphics.

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Slashdot over Athlon mobo's en chipsets onder Linux

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 09:467 reacties, bron: Slashdot.org

Slashdot heeft een interessant artikeltje over Athlon moederplanken onder Linux. Afgaande op de reakties lijkt het erop dat de Athlon - afgezien van de welbekende power supply, GeForce+Irongate en exemplarisch-brakke-mobo problemen - redelijk probleemloos werkt onder Linux. LhD heeft een overzicht met Athlon moederplanken samengesteld, waarop je je rating los kunt laten:

Athlon powered Tux Despite SuSE's Athlon workaround and RedHat's (in)compatibility note, etc.) and rumors, we have not seen many reports of problems by LhD users. Are Linux users actually experiencing problems with Athlon motherboards? Given that the outstanding price/performance value of the Athlon, the question is how well do Athlon motherboards work under Linux?"

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3dfx hervat Voodoo5 5500 leveringen

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 09:3621 reacties, bron: Yahoo Finance

3dfx heeft bekend gemaakt dat de leveringen van Voodoo5 5500 videoplanken worden hervat. Vorige week werden uit voorzorg alle tot dan toe geleverde V5-5500's teruggeroepen vanwege 'field failure rates' (kaarten die in bepaalde configuraties aan het muiten slaan). Afgelopen zaterdag liet 3dfx al weten dat zij erin waren geslaagd om het probleem te isoleren. Nu de oorzaak+fix is gevonden, kunnen resellers de kaart vanaf 9 juni eindelijk in voorraad hebben:

What: 3dfx Interactive® Inc. (Nasdaq: TDFX - news) today announced that it has resumed shipping the Voodoo5 5500 AGP to distributors worldwide. The expected date for retailers to have the Voodoo5 5500 on their shelves is June 9, 2000.

3dfx had temporarily suspended shipments of the Voodoo5 5500 AGP and had asked distributors to return initial shipments after a problem was discovered in a small number of configurations. The company has expanded its diagnostic tests to ensure that all boards released to consumers are trouble-free.

"In hindsight, perhaps our course of action was overly cautious, but it is better to address these types of issues before a product is released," said Richard Burns, senior vice president of worldwide sales for 3dfx Interactive. "I am proud that 3dfx took the proper precautions to insure the quality of our product and protect our brand and our reputation for having the highest quality products."

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 boxshot

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ICQ 2000a Beta v4.31 Build #3143

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 09:2248 reacties, bron: EFront FileForum

Betanews laat ons weten dat Mirabilis een nieuwe beta versie van ICQ 2000a heeft gereleased. De installer kun je hier neerhalen van EFront's FileForum:

ICQ 2000 screenshot ICQ ("I Seek You") is a program that lets you find your friends and associates online in real time. You can create a Contact List containing only people you want to have there, you can send them messages, chat with them, send files, configure ICQ to work with external applications and more.

Changes in Current Version:

  • Improved connection
  • Added more firewall settings

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PowerPC G4e en Apple UMA-2 mobo's in september

Door Femme Taken, 1 juni 2000 09:2010 reacties, bron: MacOS Rumors

MacOS Rumors bericht dat het nog minimaal tot september gaat duren alvorens er nieuwe Macs met de verse UMA-2 chipset op de markt komen. Eind dit jaar wordt tevens de langverwachte PowerPC G4e processor gereleased. De G4e heeft 256KB on-die L2 cache, een langere pipeline en meer executions units. De kloksnelheid bedraagt 733MHz bij introductie:

Until Macworld New York in late July, Rumors' body of evidence strongly suggests there will be no major hardware announcements. There is still room for surprises at New York, but widespread word at WWDC earlier this month was that the full-blown MP G4 -- believed to be one of the first Macs to be based on the new, simpler Unified Motherboard Architecture mark II (UMA-2) chipset -- won't be seen until at least September. The cause is reportedly in part the delayed second-generation G4 code-name "V'Ger" -- and often referred to as the G4e -- as well as availability of high-performance 133MHz DDR SDRAM memory.

Until confirmable evidence speaks to the contrary, the next two months' changes in the G4 arena will likely be limited to modest speed and specification bumps. Nothing beyond 600MHz single CPUs is likely. The real spice gets tossed in later this year when the UMA-2 G4 really begins to flex the processing platform's muscles with speeds up to 733MHz immediately, up to four processors with a total of 1MB of shared full-speed (1:1) backside cache and numerous new units added along with an improved on-chip memory bus.

On top of UMA-2's impressive new performance and simplicity features (133MHz DDR SDRAM, 4X/266MHz AGP graphics bus, four USB ports on two independent channels, et al), this should put Apple in a good position if Motorola and IBM can execute the strategic plays they're staging presently without the severe "slide" of the past year.

Thanks BikkelZ voor de tip.

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Athlon performance met verschillende busspeeds

Door Hielko van der Hoorn, 1 juni 2000 09:0611 reacties, bron: The Tech Report

Vrieskist schrijft dat The Tech Report report een klein experimentje heeft gedaan. Ze hebben de snelheid van een athlon op 702 MHz en een FSB van 108 vergeleken met een Athlon op 728 MHz en een FSB van 104 MHz. De hogere busspeed blijkt belangrijker te zijn om de performance te verhogen dan wat extra MHz uit je Athlon te persen (open deur):

The first thing you'll notice here is that we're not talking about monstrous differences. Nonetheless, there are some significant gains to be made. The most important comparison, in my opinion, is between the 700/100 score and the 702/108 score. The higher bus speed manages a gain of 3.5% on demo001 and 3% on demo002, despite nearly identical CPU speeds. Not bad for 5 minutes messing with your GF card and BIOS.

The next thing to look at is how far we have to push the bus speed on the 7.0 multiplier before it surpasses the 6.5/108 combination. The 702/108 combo somewhat surprisingly pulls out a victory over the 728/104 combo. If you're one of those people who set the GFD's multiplier as high as the CPU would go, then pumped the bus speed up a few notches to really push the limits, take note here. You could very well be better off backing that multiplier off a notch and cranking the bus speed as high as it will go.

Finally, examining the scores from 700/100 through 756/108 is interesting, since it shows the overall effect the higher bus speeds have on performance. The results tend toward diminishing returns; the jump from 103 to 104 on demo002, for example, gives a .83 frame increase, while the jump from 107 to 108 only yields a .3 frame increase.

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De dagelijkse lading GeForce drivers & bios updates

Door Hielko van der Hoorn, 1 juni 2000 08:3811 reacties

* Vandaag is het weer en goede dag voor alle bezitters van de Asus GeForce V6600 & V6800 deluxe, Asus heeft drivers gebaseerd op 5.16 drivers van nVidia en daarnaast is het nu eindelijk mogelijk om je beeldscherm op hogere en lagere resoluties te gebruiken als je TV-out gebruikt .

Je kan deze drivers hier neerhalen (ook geschikt voor V7700).

* Naast de Asus drivers heeft nVidia ook een unicum, ze hebben de officiële 5.22 drivers op hun eigen site gezet .

Je kan deze drivers hiero downloaden.

* Als laatste heeft Herculus nog een bios gebaseerd op het 3.00 reference-bios van nVidia voor de 3DProphet en de 3DProphetDDR klaargezet.

En deze bios versie kan je hier downloaden.

Thanks HellRaiser, Kokkor Hekkus en OverFlow voor het submitten van dit 'nieuws'.

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Dutch Power Cows hitparade van 31 mei

Door Redactie Tweakers, 1 juni 2000 07:5034 reacties, bron: Moi / GoT

Gisteren zijn we voor de vierde dag op rij #1 geworden in de daily stats, wat zeker niet slecht is

Laten we nu alleen maar hopen dat we deze positie vast kunnen houden aangezien er de laaste dagen dumps van verschillende personen en teams waren.

We zijn gisteren overigens ook de grens van 2000 leden gepasseert en hebben nu 2006 leden, 14 meer dan eergisteren.

De DPC Hitparade Top 30 van 31 mei 2000

1. 104,303 [Dutch Power Cows] BRILSMURF(49, Totaal:408,713)
2. 96,523 [ DPC Koetje ] Andy(3, Totaal:2,403,701)
3. 58,400 [Dutch Power Cows] Burnin' Cows(32, Totaal:612,125)
4. 58,146 [Dutch Power Cows] Interior Lulu(2, Totaal:4,776,589)
5. 53,841 [Dutch Power Cows] HellRailers(97, Totaal:214,530)
6. 43,330 [Dutch Power Cows]Sang-Drax of Xanadu(227, Totaal:97,555)
7. 35,962 [Dutch Power Cows] wiho(1, Totaal:9,500,262)
8. 27,238 [Dutch Power Cows] HarryB(9, Totaal:966,324)
9. 21,346 [Dutch Power Cows] Tuur(81, Totaal:253,789)
10. 18,241 [Dutch Power Cows]\-Killemall eats cows for lunch-(92, Totaal:222,123)

En de nummers 11 tot en met 30

11. 18,102 [Dutch Power Cows] The LawnMooh'er Men(5, Totaal:1,483,877)
12. 15,036 [Dutch Power Cows] ChUcKiE(160, Totaal:135,976)
13. 13,590 [Dutch Power Cows] Graasland(119, Totaal:174,054)
14. 13,033 bjonkhart(89, Totaal:235,862)
15. 12,672 [Dutch Power Cows] Den6(68, Totaal:307,393)
16. 11,573 2fast4u [Dutch Power Cows](12, Totaal:897,934)
17. 11,184 [Dutch Power Cows] BaDMaN(29, Totaal:630,602)
18. 10,579 [DPC] Quakers United | Cewle Coown' Cadavers(35, Totaal:585,099)
19. 9,674 [Dutch Power Cows]Hilgo(447, Totaal:37,883)
20. 8,996 [Dutch Power Cows] BeeSmart(90, Totaal:227,978)
21. 8,393 [Dutch Power Cows] Team Ferion(85, Totaal:242,162)
22. 7,996 [Dutch Power Cows] Arjan(414, Totaal:42,078)
23. 7,954 [Dutch Power Cows] Enthroned(203, Totaal:110,769)
24. 7,921 [Dutch Power Cows] Insomniacs(36, Totaal:568,498)
25. 7,445 [Dutch Power Cows] AmgS(48, Totaal:414,252)
26. 7,274 [Dutch Power Cows] Team SVM(149, Totaal:142,438)
27. 7,188 [Dutch Power Cows] Sub-Team Hack BV(26, Totaal:657,788)
28. 6,439 [Dutch Power Cows] Collin de Grazer!(504, Totaal:31,985)
29. 6,376 ruben(154, Totaal:139,241)
30. 6,100 [Dutch Power Cows] Jobe(17, Totaal:752,011)

De Top 15 teams van 31 mei 2000

1.( 0) 1,210,801 Dutch Power Cows
2.( 2) 879,410 Russian Team
3.( 1) 866,805 AnandTech
4.( 1) 848,429 HackZone Team -- Combined power of Russia and exUSSR countries
5.( 0) 785,428 Slashdot.org
6.( 1) 446,876 Team Warped (OS/2)
7.( 1) 438,477 The Amiga RC5 Team effort
8.( 1) 427,868 Japan Windows NT Users Group
9.( 1) 387,870 Team EvangeLista (Macs Rule! :-)
10.( 1) 335,560 Team Hungary STB+
11.( 1) 319,613 Libertarians for Privacy (1-800-ELECT-US)
12.( 0) 306,767 Japan FreeBSD Users Group
13.( 1) 263,372 Team Slacker
14.( 1) 256,221 @stake L0pht Labs
15.( 1) 231,266 Team Win32 (Windows)

Teams om ons heen (total stats)

10.( ) @stake L0pht Labs (Tot:142,178,334, Gis:256,221)
11.( ) Japan Linux Users Group (Tot:141,292,303, Gis:197,455)
12.( ) Japan Windows NT Users Group (Tot:127,542,487, Gis:427,868)
13.( ) Team Hungary STB+ (Tot:114,139,548, Gis:335,560)
14.( ) Dutch Power Cows (Tot:108,765,834, Gis:1,210,801)
15.( ) Team Win32 (Windows) (Tot:108,028,881, Gis:231,266)
16.( ) Czech RC5 Team (Tot:105,074,813, Gis:213,486)
17.( ) CCC.de (Tot:99,213,463, Gis:221,323)
18.( ) #DeathMatch (Tot:96,623,312, Gis:90,906)
(Teams waarvan de score van gisteren ontbreekt, hadden geen score in de top 100!)

Wanneer halen we ze in

@stake L0pht Labs: 36 dagen
Japan Linux Users Group: 33 dagen
Japan Windows NT Users Group: 24 dagen
Team Hungary STB+: 7 dagen

Dutch Power Cows is vandaag 1e en heeft een kans van één op 36 om de sleutel te vinden!

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