VTec vertelde ons dat er bij Tom's Hardware Guide een review is verschenen van de GeForce2 MX400 kaart van Gainward. Deze is voorzien van zeer snel 3,5ns SDRAM geheugen. De MX400 chip kan in principe ook met DDR werken, maar dan is de bus de helft minder breed, waardoor het qua bandbreedte niets uitmaakt. Verder bestaat het bord uit zes lagen, iets dat vrij uniek is voor een MX kaart, maar wel degelijk werkt; het geheugen bleek zelfs tot 260MHz op te schroeven. Om te zien of de kaart daarmee qua performance op het niveau van de GeForce2 GTS komt te zitten worden onder andere AquaMark, MBTR en Quake III getest. Helaas gaat die vlieger bij een resolutie van 1024x768 of hoger al niet meer op. Wel heeft de kaart een betere prijs dan de GTS en bovendien mist de duurdere kaart ViVo en TwinView features:
The benchmarks show that the latest Golden Sample fails in its mission to reach GeForce2 GTS performance in resolutions higher than 800x600. Still, GTS boards have two disadvantages to speak of: they are much more expensive than MX cards, and they cannot support two monitors. The GeForce2 MX 400 Twin VIVO might not live up to our expectation that it would be the non plus ultra among graphics cards, but it is still the fastest MX card that we have ever tested. Of course, you also get the added bonus of the TwinView feature, plus TV input and output for composite and S-Video. The main attraction is the option of running the chip and memory safely at 250 and 260 MHz respectively. Other graphics cards can be overclocked as well, but only a few companies offer a setting that lets you run the card with stability at the fastest speed possible.
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Ahh, the beloved laptop. The gadget that lets you work on your own schedule—as long as you put your 50+ hours of work in first. And the gadget that lets you work wherever you want—as long as you stay inside. Taking work home might not seem like such a drag if you could work out on the back porch (margaritas are optional) and that’s really the main consumer appeal of NEC’s new Versa DayLite. As an added bonus for anti-Intel pundits, it also uses Transmeta’s Crusoe processor.
Connie Wong, director of special services at Semico Research Corp., Phoenix, AZ, said, "The strong consumer electronics market continues to demand higher capacity storage cards. The availability of higher capacity cards makes them much more feasible for applications such as digital video camcorders which require considerable storage. This high capacity also allows consumers to buy fewer cards, making it more convenient for consumers to use the cards. At the same time, the cards are becoming so much more cost effective that eventually consumers will be able to store as many audio, video and data files they want at a very reasonable price."
"On average, we hit a capacity barrier every six years," said Dave Reinsel, senior research analyst, IDC. "At the current rate of storage, reaching 144PB will take care of the industry's capacity issues for the next 20 years."
