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  1. Knights Over Europe Shows Off Dawn Of Flight Combat

    Games · Pcgames · · posted by simoniker · from the no-sign-of-snoopy dept. · 20 comments
    Thanks to SimHQ.com for their interview with the Knights Over Europe development team, quizzing them about the PC-based World War I flight combat title, helping enliven an underappreciated genre in time for a 2004 release. The title plans a complex and accurate 'Historic Mode', so that "...the focus of campaign play is on you and your career, so your goal will be score kills, win medals, get promotions and transfers to hot squadrons, and gain international fame and glory." Intriguing features such as "the ability to 'hot seat' into crew positions during a flight" are promised for both single and multiplayer gameplay, and the interview also shrewdly points out that "...the outcome of the war is secondary. The most famous ace of WWI was Manfred Von Richthofen, and people don't care that his side lost the war."

  2. AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+

    Hardware · Amd · · posted by Hemos · from the roll-out-the-barrels dept. · 281 comments
    Harle writes "Today AMD has introduced a new version of the Athlon, codenamed "Barton," that features twice as much L2 cache as previous chips. Along with the increase in L2 cache comes an increase in the Athlon's performance rating -- specifically the new 2.17 GHz chip is rated at 3000+. The clockrate is actually slighly lower than the Athlon XP 2800+'s 2.25 GHz speed, so the question becomes "Does the cache improve performance enough to counter the loss in clockspeed?" For the most part, the answer seems to be "yes," however, it doesn't unilaterally stand up to the 3.06 GHz Pentium 4. With the recent delay of the Athlon 64 to September, this is AMD's top desktop chip for some time to come. The reviews are starting to pop up at Ace's Hardware and Extremetech." There's also reviews on The Tech Report, SimHQ, HotHardware, EarthV, in Norwegian on Hardware.no, and last but not least AMD's press release. I'm sure there's many many more links, but I'm tired of pasting them all in here, so post 'em below. *grin*

  3. Intel Moves To 533MHz FSB

    Intel · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the what-coincidental-timing dept. · 147 comments
    homerj79 writes: "Intel has launched an upgrade 850 chipset and faster Pentium 4's today. The new chipset, dubbed the 850E, supports a 533MHz (133MHz x 4) front side bus, as do the processors. Supporting processors come in speeds of 2.53, 2.4 and 2.26GHz. The 2.4GHz part is denoted as supporting the new FSB by a 'B' tagged to the end of it. And it appears as if the new chipset gives the P4 a performance boost in most apps over the previous 400MHz FSB chips and the Athlon XP." Meanwhile, back at the other processor ranch, firemoth writes: "Today OCAU has something special - They've gotten their hands on 3 AthlonXP CPU's based on AMD's new "Thoroughbred" core. This is the .13 micron process, of course, with lower voltage. This article compares them to the older Palomino core in both speed and temperature.. and they throw one into a Vapochill supercooling case and see just how fast it can go."

  4. AMD 760MP Reviews Galore

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by michael · from the drop-20-and-fire-for-effect dept. · 78 comments
    Keith Whitsitt writes: "Well the NDA seems to be up on AMD's 760MP chipset, and several hardware sites have a review up. So far Anandtech, 2CPU, SimHQ, and Accelnation all have reviews up of this beast. It sure does look like the 760MP has shaped up to be all we expected it to be and more." Time-on-target hype.