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  1. THE source. by Red+Leader. · · Score: 1 · on Linux Q3Atest Released


    which, of course is Tom's Hardware

    I honestly can't remember which Voodoo2 he liked, though. They don't compare in all-round performance to a TNT (or TNT2)...

    also, important.
    never forget PriceWatch

  2. Re:Hey, Intel.... by Hedonistic+BOFH · · Score: 1 · on AMD Demos 1Gigahertz cooled K7

    Check out www.pricewatch.com, It's not just one retailer, it's everyone.

    AMD's yield's are just too low, and they have to mark chips they do produce with almost no safety margin on the MHz rating. (unlike Intel's chips, the majority of which you can overclock to 1.5x to 2x their rating.)

  3. Pricewatch by Nate+Fox · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: ORB Drives, Anyone?

    They have a few vendors that carry them at www.pricewatch.com (go to Storage: Removable | ORB). My friend ordered one a little bit ago, yet I havent talked to him since, so maybe I'll get him to reply to this thread if the shipment has come in and he's had a chance to play with it.

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    If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...

  4. Whops, I am wrong here... by BadlandZ · · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: Finding Quad Pentium II Motherboards?
    He DID say PII, and although I don't know if it's technically possable, a Quad Celeron overclocked would probably give a pretty good bang for the $, IF you can find a board that will do it for under $400.

    I have seen articals about a few tricks that are needed to make Celerons into Dual'able. So, that may be a bit of bang. But I don't know if it's possable HERE Pricewatch shows it's dual boards, and they ain't cheap, and it seems only Xeon boards are listed.

    I would tend to say, go with the dual Celeron tricks if your very technically inclined, go with dual PII's if your not, and if you want more, look at non-Intel options.

    VA Research is definately going to be the place to go to see just how much you can get an Intel box to do. They are running at the commercial limits of possabilities with Intel systems. If they don't have it, I would be doubtfull of it's existance. But if you notice the prices (*Which are reasonable considering the quality of componants*), they start playing into the SUN/SGI price range with thier bigger systems.

  5. No Subject Given by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The $299 PC

    Without a monitor is easy to build, just go to someplace like www.pricewatch.com and try to configure a computer comperably. It can be done quite easily.

    Especially if you set yourself up as a vendor.

    This is not news. I've been building PCs for under $300 with a monitor for about 3 months now.

  6. What are you smokin? by Zebulun · · Score: 1 · on PIII - dead end technology?
    best price?
    prices from Pricewatch's PC proccessor price listings

    PIII 500Mhz = $747
    PII 450 = $469
    PII 400 = $303
    AMD K6-2 400Mhz = $139
    AMD K6-2 450Mhz (preorder, due out this month) = $279

    disregarding the fact that AMD uses super 7 (allowing for cheaper prices at equal speeds to intel brand PII motherboards),

    • 400/139 = 2.877 Mhz per $1 for AMD
    • 400/303 = 1.320 Mhz per $1 for intel

    So AMDs are less than half the cost and only slightly less powerful at equal Mhz. (not to mention the fact they're smaller and not run as hot. better design, imho).