Many Abit motherboard users didn't have a quite so merry christmas this year. Seems to be a little problem with the new Abit AV8 motherboard for the socket 939 Athlon64. From what I've read in the numerous forum posts it appears to work fine with the old 130nm Newcastle core Athlon64, but if you put in a new 90nm Winchester core Athlon64....
The first thing you’ll immediately notice about the Nitrus is it's incredibly small, even smaller than most the flash-based MP3 players, and much smaller than any hard drive based MP3 player currently on the market even the iPod Mini. I compared it side-by-side to a iPod the other day and the iPod looked like a giant brick next to the Nitrus. It also weighs next to nothing, about the same as 2 AA batteries, which is very important if you're going to exercise with this device strapped to your waist or arm.
It has come to our attention that RAID 0 has recently come under fire
by some of the major PC enthusiast publications. StorageReview.com and
Anandtech.com have both published articles purporting that RAID 0 is
unnecessary for the desktop computer. Fastsilicon.com begs to differ,
to some extent. Read on for our interpretation of RAID 0 and our humble
attempt to set the record straight.
My last system was a dual AMD Athlon XP 1700+ modified for MP use and
clocked to 2600+ (2100MHz) on an MSI K7D Master mainboard. This served
me well for roughly a year until the K7D decided to blow some caps out
of warranty. Despite the cost savings on a used motherboard such as
this, I decided this was a mistake and rather than making it again I
unloaded on a shiny new Supermicro X5DA8.
What will the NV40 (NVIDIA) and the R420 (ATI) bring us? Will the
NV40 Finally close the gap between the two companies, and possibly
pull NVIDIA back ahead of the game? Will the R420 finally vanquish
the only real competition it has in one clean stroke? Only time and
message board rumors will tell.
