Month: December 2001

For some time now, I’ve been futzing with four Via KT266A boards: the Shuttle AK31, the Epox 8KHA+, the Asus A7V266-E and the Abit KR7A. You’ll see facts and figures during Christmas week, but for those of you a trifle

Though my OEM Radeon was fairly cool running with the stock ATI heatsink, I added my trademark Silversinks. Copper ramsinks to the left; copper/silver ramsinks to the right. I then made a SLORB (SiLver-based Blue Orb) (Send a note if

While I’ve heard and seen one or two variants from AGKFA, AGKGA and AGNGAs, they’ve been made fairly early on, and no one’s reported anything great from them. Christopher sent me a new one today, though: AX1600MT3C ARKGA0148FPMW YXXXXX… Is

The Bottom Line I have spent many hours and sent numerous e-mails to many people trying to unlock the mysteries of OEM and retail Radeons. People have been trying to use a BIOS flash to get their OEM Radeons with

There’s a review of various PIV boards, including the DDR contenders, here. While this sort of test really needs to be done with Northwoods, it does demonstrate a few valuable points: There’s no real reason why the average person should

An extended tale on debugging a PC problem. – Dale