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Gaming News February 2003

NewsFeb 28, 2003June 29, 20140

X-Arcade PC Gaming Controller on the review OCAddiction :: Saturday, February 15, 2003 “While you’re reading the manual for the setup instructions you come upon

AMD Will Stick Around

John-ErikFeb 28, 2003November 28, 20140

AMD will stick around, they’re too big to go under. Most of their money isn’t in CPUs, it’s in flash memory. They’re loosing money hand

3dMark 03 Engine

John-ErikFeb 27, 2003November 28, 20140

The 3DMark03 engine is based on open standards, and nVidia likes to write their own. It will not perform poorly on any card except nVidia

Overclocking will damage your CPU

John-ErikFeb 27, 2003November 28, 20140

Overclocking will damage your CPU in the long run and shorten its life (duh), but turning it back down down’t help anything. The major problem

ATA vs SCSI

John-ErikFeb 10, 2003November 28, 20140

You loose speed in ATA, in SCSI it’s less of an issue because of the agressive use of the disconnect feature which gives each drive

PcToys NB MAXX Chipset Cooler Review

BrandonFeb 7, 2003July 20, 20140

I just reviewed the PcToys VGA MAXX Heatpipe cooler which was basically an anodized blue Zalman HPA-80. Now I look at another PcToys product, the

PcToys MAXX Video Card Heatpipe Cooler Review

BrandonFeb 7, 2003July 20, 20140

I have reviewed a lot of Zalman products because I work pretty close with the company. Zalman as you probably know is a company which

Apache's Granularity

John-ErikFeb 7, 2003June 21, 20140

You can run about 65,000 different webservers (if that many existed), since the most important thing is that they run on different ports. If you

Intel i7205 Chipset

John-ErikFeb 5, 2003November 28, 20140

The Intel i7205 chipset utterly drowns any AMD chipset in raw bandwith … if money’s no object the best performance lies with one of those

SMC Barricade 802.11b Wireless Network Kit Review

BrandonFeb 3, 2003July 20, 20140

Wireless networking is becoming more and more prominent everyday with new technology and products emerging very quickly. Most of America now is ditching their slow

400Mhz DDR on 266 bus

John-ErikFeb 3, 2003November 28, 20140

400 MHz DDR would be very much overkill. Remember, the chipset’s only rated to 266 MHz, albiet dual channel (for 533 MHz of effective bandwith).

Tyan Motherboard Overview

John-ErikFeb 2, 2003November 28, 20140

Onto the Tyan board, Tyan does not usually cater to the consumer crowd, they’re mostly business oriented (CAD draftsmen, OEMs, etc.). That said, most of