Month: March 2003

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Radeon 9800 Pro

March 6, 2003 admin 0

The Radeon 9800 Pro is a nice-sized tweak over the Radeon 9700 Pro. Figure a 15-20% improvement over the old card. Overclocked, the gap is probably somewhat less since it looks like you can’t overclock the 9800 Pro quite as

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Oh, Really?

March 5, 2003 admin 0

Business Week has an article about AMD which has one rather amazing revelation, and some perspective on what AMD can expect from Opteron. SOI: A $46 Million Non-Problem Did you know that AMD had to pay IBM 46 million dollars

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Another Bit On 64-Bit

March 2, 2003 admin 0

Got some feedback on yesterday’s article about 64-bit, and as expected, it was generally negative. The comments generally could be summarized as “well, it will benefit “us”, so why not?” and this illustrates the problem. The computer industry isn’t “you”

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Down We Go Again

March 2, 2003 admin 0

Memory prices continue to drop and new products emerge which at least claim to run faster. For instance, TwinMOS announced its PC3700 module, saying that it was using 4.3ns modules. While this looks a little dodgy (the modules require 2.7V