Intel 875P (Canterwood) chipset is out.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Those high speed CDROM drives are scary... I've never once heard of a HD fragging a disk, but that's not unheard of for higher speed CD drives.

http://www.guru3d.com/tech/aopen-explode/

[Chrono_Wanderer]

saw that few hours ago. I was like OMFG

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
That is Prescott!
It is 1mb 2nd cache, 800MHz and new socket design.
The socket design is really interesting as there are no pins!
Initial launch = 3.4GHz, can scale well up to 5GHz.
Hmm... Q4 2003 iirc...

and 0.09

[The PIT]

Just ordered the MSI neo-fi2sr board. looks nice and seems to be the only one around in the UK at the moment.

[William]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
saw that few hours ago. I was like OMFG

I'll see if I can dig out my pictures of my W2K disc that went the same way.

[Pace|Work]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
okay pace go to a shop and ask for a 15k IDE drive...

Yup, and you will show up their lack of knowledge. It would be nice if we could all stick to calling it ATA though. Referring to these as ATA, DMA and IDE must really confuse more novice harddrive buyers...

[DirtFarmer]

Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
Those high speed CDROM drives are scary... I've never once heard of a HD fragging a disk, but that's not unheard of for higher speed CD drives.

http://www.guru3d.com/tech/aopen-explode/

We have had 2 Samsung 52X CD-ROM's pop cd's into many, many, bits, in our service dept. Also, one customer brought in his Samsung with an imploded cd. One hell of a bang. I'd like to try and duplicate the results on video tape using a slightly off-balance cd label. It is definately not unheard of in CD-ROM drives.

[stevenscott]

I am going for new puter parts in about 4 weeks.

Time to dump the old P3-450 and Matrox Marvel G400. Long long long..overdue!

I have decided on the Canterwood.
Gigabyte:
GA-8KNXP
DDR400 Ram

( I was was about to go for the RDRAM< but backed away when I learned about the DDR400 being on the high performance range), and also computer parts retailers going with the DDR and still not going with Rambus.

P4-2.66 GIGHZ CPU.

and the Radeon 9700 Pro.
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See the tests and benchmarks on www.tomshardware.com , and other performance test sites.
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My daughter and wife can use my Matrox Marvel G400 for a while longer, and wil pul the G200 Mystique I have in their old Celeron 300.
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by the way, stil using Windows 98, still see no reason to move to WinXP pro. Unless I hear a good argument for it.

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I play games, and also was doing some video transfer from video cam.

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Daughter and Wife, games, shcool work, projects.

I any case, this sytem looks just like what I need, the flight sims need the horepower. Drool, drool, (sorry matrox did not keep up with the gaming market, but I tried looking for the proof Matrox could keep up, but the benchmarks only come half-way).

[Wombat]

Originally posted by stevenscott

by the way, stil using Windows 98, still see no reason to move to WinXP pro. Unless I hear a good argument for it.

Umm, it doesn't crash?

[dZeus]

it also has good driver support?

in fact, why aren't you still using Win 3.11 ? or DOS for that matter? give me a good reason!

[az]

ClearType!

AZ

[stevenscott]

If I put WinXP in and it crahses, like Win98 does, it would all be for not. Not to mention a copy of WinXP (pro) for eaach computer ( 2 computer upgrades) That's damned expenisive. Even looked into the so called WinXP Family pak, licensing for 2 home computers. I want to move to WinXP, but if it crashes,...I'll be pissed...




If it runs very good, then no complaints..



I just have not heard any real moving arguements telling me WinXP is wonderful.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Wombat
Umm, it doesn't crash?

Yes it does but not as often.

Main reason for moving to XP is for the driver support. Not much gets written for 9x these days.