October 2000 - Overclockers

AMD 760

October 30, 2000 admin 0

I’ve looked at the early-bird reviews so you don’t have to. Strictly from an overclocker’s standpoint, two get a good grade, the Tech-Report and the Firing Squad reviews. We found out the following from the first article: 1) The 133Mhz/266Mhz

The Computing Scene in Ushuaia, Argentina

October 30, 2000 admin 0

SUMMARY: Imagine living a stone’s throw from Antarctica. Imagine an average summer temperature of 10C/50F and 0C/32F for winter, with weather so changeable that you might see rain, snow, sun, howling winds and dead calm on the same day. This

The Code War?

October 28, 2000 admin 0

You Know You’re Unpopular When . . . . . . the Russians steal something from you, and even your fellow Americans are rooting for them. (I don’t for a moment think the Russian government has anything to do with

What You Need To Know About AMD Reviews Next Week

October 28, 2000 admin 0

AMD is supposed to announce two items on Monday. Its DDR chipset, the 760 and its 133Mhz/266Mhz CPUs I don’t doubt you’ll see a ton of reviews very shortly on this. What I do have some doubts about is getting

Pentium III cC0 Stepping Sspecs

October 27, 2000 admin 0

What You Can Reasonably Expect From These Chips I’m estimating based partly on theory, partly on some preliminary results, that one can probably expect something like 1.0Ghz-1.05Ghz fairly consistently from these chips with high-end air cooling. By high-end air cooling,

Celeron cC0 Stepping Sspecs

October 27, 2000 admin 0

S-specs for Celerons with the new cC0 stepping: FC-PGA Processors S Spec Speed Retail/OEM SL4PC 566 Retail SL4NW 566 Retail SL4PB 600 Retail SL4NX 600 Retail SL4PA 633 Retail SL4NY 633 Retail SL4P9 667 Retail SL4NZ 667 Retail

Intel Inside

October 26, 2000 admin 0

First, the article itself. The two points of most interest in the article was the description of the management/engineer relationship at Intel, and some speculation on the real relationship between Intel and Rambus: First, early this year, a person who

Month: October 2000