Enhanced Memory Systems and Mushkin hebben in een press release laten weten dat ze beginnen met het leveren van 150MHz HSDRAM DIMM modules. Deze SDRAM chippes kunnen volgens spec op 150MHz draaien in combinatie met een 2:3:2 latency en een 4.5ns clock access time. Echt goedkoop valt dit geheugen niet te noemen, er moet namelijk $195 neergeteld worden voor de 128MB van dit spul:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., August 8, 2000—Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. and Mushkin Inc., subsidiaries of Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), today announced the next generation of the Enhanced high-speed SDRAM (HSDRAM) DIMM modules. The new modules operate at CAS2 latency and enable high-end gaming customers to boost the memory bus speed of the Intel 815E chipset to 150 MHz and beyond resulting in a superior gaming experience.
"Our new modules accelerate the performance of current PC100 and PC133 SDRAM motherboards used in high-performance PC systems," said David Bondurant, vice president of marketing and applications for Enhanced Memory Systems. "Enhanced Memory Systems continues to offer the fastest and lowest-latency DIMM modules for over-clocked PC systems, and we're excited that Intel has embraced the superior performance of PC133 memory in their new 815E chipset."
The Enhanced Memory Systems HSDRAM is a higher-performance version of the industry standard PC133 SDRAM. The new HSDRAM specifies operation at 150 MHz clock rate with 2:3:2 latency and an improved clock access time of 4.5 ns. The first memory module to be specified at 150 MHz with CAS2 latency, the Enhanced HSDRAM DIMM module can push ASUS CUSL2 motherboards using Intel's 815E chipset to memory bus speeds as high as 166 MHz with 2:3:2 latency. The new module is the most recent addition to the company's PC133 HSDRAM product family, which offers both high-speed synchronous DRAM and high-density synchronous DRAM for systems requiring the best memory available.
The Enhanced 150MHz HSDRAM DIMM module is available on www.PC133memory.com and www.Mushkin.com. A 150 MHz 128MB HSDRAM module is currently priced at $195.00. End users can find a demonstration of how to push the memory speed of Pentium systems using the new HSDRAM module in the "Best of the Breed" product review at www.PC133memory.com.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., August 8, 2000—Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. and Mushkin Inc., subsidiaries of Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), today announced the next generation of the Enhanced high-speed SDRAM (HSDRAM) DIMM modules. The new modules operate at CAS2 latency and enable high-end gaming customers to boost the memory bus speed of the Intel 815E chipset to 150 MHz and beyond resulting in a superior gaming experience.

Steve Jobs was back last week with a slick new computer and more
self-dramatization than ever. It's been more than a decade since Jobs, in his early
20s, co founded the Apple Computer Corp. and brought computing to the masses with
the Apple Il. It's been four years since he turned the industry on to user-friendly
displays and software with the Macintosh. Now, at 33, he's billing the NeXT as a
computer that will revolutionize the higher-education market and point the industry
toward the 1990s (next story). Love him or hate him, people in the computer world
couldn't wait to see what Jobs had secretly worked on for three years in his Palo Alto
headquarters. When a NeXT marketer called The Wall Street Journal to buy an ad for
the rollout. the salesman quipped, "Why bother?"



It is fairly clear that for a price of $115, the Nvidia MX chipset will own the budget video card market. If you are a fan of fragging at High Resolutions you will want to go with the GeForce DDR or a GeForce 2 GTS, if your pocket-book allows. But for almost half the price of the DDR video card, you can have one excellent performing card. Also, if you are an overclocker, you can reach near-DDR speeds. With the launch of the MX chipset, Nvidia has a stong bid to dominate the low-end market. As the chipset ages, Nvidia simply has to release an MX with DDR memory to stay with the competition.


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In our staff's opinion the audio quality was merely "ok". It did not strike us as outstanding, but then on the other hand it not strike us as totally crap either.
The boys at Creative Labs have created two cards that run for about $100 each and both share some similar features. The two cards are called Sound Blaster Live! MP3+ and the Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer. These two packages are targeted for different users, one is targeted for the musician, and includes the standard Live! software bundle with programs such as; the Digital Audio Center, Mixman Studio, Cakewalk Express Gold 8.0 and Sound Forge XP 4.0. The other package is for the gamer and it also has the standard Live! Software bundle, full version games of Interplay's Descent 3, Electronic Arts' Need for Speed 4: High Stakes, Eidos' Thief: the Dark Project, and a few other demos. Let's take a look and see how it all adds up.

S3 Inc. has hit a snag in the shutdown of its
PC-graphics operations: Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has
denied S3's application for a joint venture with Via Technologies Inc.

