Kyle van HardOCP heeft een review geschreven over de Copper Orb. Deze Orb wordt _niet_ geproduceerd door Thermaltake, en is gewoon een imitatie. Deze koeler beloofd het beste van twee werelden te combineren: de prijs van de Golden Orb's en de performance van de Alpha's (dmv. een koperen onderkant). Dit blijkt een jammerlijke mislukking te zijn: volgens Kyle is dit het type koeler wat je zelfs gratis niet wilt hebben: de kans is groot dat je, je CPU beschadigd en daarnaast presteert hij ook nog voor geen meter
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What do you say? The Copper Orb pretty much sucked. Is it meant to be used only on CPUs that produce much less heat than a screaming TBird? Dunno. Is the clamp meant only to be used CPUs with a support or spacer of some kind? Dunno. It about rendered a $500 CPU useless and then did NOT cool it worth a damn.
I am usually pretty open minded about negative results and look for explanations in places where WE could have gone wrong in our testing. We always give the benefit of the doubt. In this case, the Copper Orb shows to be pretty much trash for any [H]ard|OCPer or performance buff out there. I have my doubts whether or not it would even make a good doorstop, but we will find out soon.
I think it is nothing more than a poser HSF trying to rip off the good press surrounding the Golden Orb and the Alpha line of coolers. If you even think about getting one of these at this point you might as well go ahead, because if you don't heed this warning, you will most likely do something stoopid enough to tear up your box anyway!Now the retailer that we got it from reports that it performs better than the Golden Orb and equal to an Alpha, but we did not get even close to the same results. Did we simply get a bad unit? I dunno that either, but you would think they would pick out a "good one" to send to us.
Is it cheap? Yes it is and rightly so. But even if you could buy this thing for $1.00 and it cooled much better than the competition, the damage factor that it might inflict on your CPU scares the hell out of me. From my short experience, stay FAR FAR AWAY from the Copper Orb.
Links de Golden Orb, rechts het prul:
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ABIT has made a strong first effort with their entrance into the computer sound market. They set the basis for many promising ideas—the integrated amplifier with large heat sinks, the remote control for DVDs, and the metal casing for the speakers. However, some of their compromises on quality in the audio chip on the AU10 card and the extensive dependence on software based features serve to limit the performance of the system. With a retail price around $279, it presents a certain financial commitment to the sound system. The speaker set seems to fall short of these expectations in that it could not fully replace a home theatre system, nor serve as the strongest gaming system because of the CPU utilization issues.

Handspring's first PDA with a color screen is the $449 Visor Prism. Palm released its color IIIc earlier this year, but the display was limited to 256 colors. The Prism will have 16-bit color screen generating 65,536 colors and will be pushed as a game player. It will be bundled with at least one game.


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The purpose of this web site is to let Apple know that OS X on Intel is a path worth pursuing. Most
either cannot or will not buy the Apple hardware necessary to run this operating system. Some would
like to use OS X on additional computers, not just Macintosh machines. We know that this OS will run
on Intel platforms, there are even early beta copies of Mac OS X for Intel. Although this operating
system is Apple's property to do with as they wish, the Intel platform has dominated the PC industry.
Ignoring this platform will be a mistake on Apple's part. With the rising popularity of alternative operating
systems for Intel such as linux, the time may be ripe for Apple to introduce it's first Intel operating
system.
De resultaten van de huidige flat fee test laten een zeer gevarieerd gebruikers patroon zien. Een aantal testers gebruiken de huidige test als een 24/7 verbinding. Dit heeft tot gevolg dat we de kwaliteit van het WISH netwerk niet kunnen garanderen en dat we niet iedere tester een internet connectie kunnen bieden voor een redelijke prijs.
(...)"De voorbereidingen zijn in volle gang. Binnenkort kunnen de eerste zaken tegen de makers van Napster-achtige programma's worden verwacht", aldus Kuik.
All DIMMs included in this roundup by far exceeded not only the performance standards set by the industry but also our
own expectations since there is no doubt that the Corsair PC133 CL2, the HSDRAM 150 and the Mushkin PC-133
Rev 2 DIMMs all woulc qualify as PC150 CAS-2 DIMMs if such category were to exist in industry standards.
De pakketfout betreft een klein gedeelte van de Win ME lading. In een van de 'productieruns' is een verkeerde cd terechtgekomen in
de dozen die waren bedoeld voor de Nederlandse markt. Voor de Nederlandse markt is een promoactie bedacht die upgrades van
zowel Win 95, 98 als 98 SE mogelijk maakt. De rest van de wereld heeft alleen upgrade cd's voor Win 98 en Win 98 SE. Een klein
gedeelte van deze cd's uit de betreffende productierun is in de Nederlandse dozen terechtgekomen.


Remaining tight-lipped as ever over forthcoming products, Intel today
refused to confirm or deny that three new mobile chips are to launch
on Monday.

Intel today confirmed that October 30th would be the big day for
Intel's new baby. Pricing and clock speeds remain the only details
yet to be revealed, our estimates being around $990 for the 1.5GHz
part and $840 for the lesser 1.4GHz. Pentium III prices should also
drop at the same time, with current top banana, the 1GHz, dipping
below $500 for the first time.

When you take your first look at the Strategic Commander, you will immediately think it was ripped off from the set of a high-tech sci-fi action movie. In fact, the Strategic Commander closely resembles a throttle straight out of the Air Force’s high-tech fighter craft. The unit itself is not that heavy, but thanks to its four rubber feet and wide base, it won’t slide around at all during heavy use.