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  1. Buy Cryotek share now! by Howie · · Score: 2 · on Dual Athlon Motherboards Creep Closer

    What they don't mention is what was in a news post last week at viahardware.com (which I can't find again now, drat!) - AMD recommends at least a 450W power supply to run the two Athlons. Cooling the system containing these things must be a whole lot of fun too.

  2. Re:Assign resources (IRQs/ports/DMAs) to SLOTS!!!! by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 2 · on When The PCI Bus Departs

    > At the very least, add a feature to the BIOS to let the user choose plug'n'play or manually assign resources to SPECIFIC SLOTS so that from the card's point of view, it has ONLY those resources to choose from.

    The PCI spec sort of follows that:

    Take a look at this diagram hardware PCI interrupts

    And this section Called Interrupt Pin Assignment

  3. Re:Assign resources (IRQs/ports/DMAs) to SLOTS!!!! by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 2 · on When The PCI Bus Departs

    > At the very least, add a feature to the BIOS to let the user choose plug'n'play or manually assign resources to SPECIFIC SLOTS so that from the card's point of view, it has ONLY those resources to choose from.

    The PCI spec sort of follows that:

    Take a look at this diagram hardware PCI interrupts

    And this section Called Interrupt Pin Assignment

  4. Voodoo4 PCI vs. GeForce MX PCI article by Guppy · · Score: 2 · on 3dfx Drops Video Card Division
    Via Hardware has a V4 PCI vs. MX PCI article which compares the two PCI boards. Performance of the two cards was similar, with the V4 faster in some cases (including, interestingly enough, 3DMark2000's Hardware D3D T&L benchmark), and the MX faster in others. Although not covered in this article, the V4 has faster 2x FSAA.

    "At a roughly even retail price, it's a total toss up based on your own particular needs as to which card is for you. Chances are that you'll want to upgrade your video in either case if you plan on upgrading your system. Either way the GeForce2 MX will most likely afford you better low-resolution performance on a faster machine. For the low enders of the world, either card would be a pleasing addition to your system."


  5. Voodoo4 PCI vs. GeForce MX PCI article by Guppy · · Score: 2 · on 3dfx Drops Video Card Division
    Via Hardware has a V4 PCI vs. MX PCI article which compares the two PCI boards. Performance of the two cards was similar, with the V4 faster in some cases (including, interestingly enough, 3DMark2000's Hardware D3D T&L benchmark), and the MX faster in others. Although not covered in this article, the V4 has faster 2x FSAA.

    "At a roughly even retail price, it's a total toss up based on your own particular needs as to which card is for you. Chances are that you'll want to upgrade your video in either case if you plan on upgrading your system. Either way the GeForce2 MX will most likely afford you better low-resolution performance on a faster machine. For the low enders of the world, either card would be a pleasing addition to your system."


  6. VIA /is/ planning an SMP Socket A chipset by LionMan · · Score: 1 · on What Happened To SMP For AMD processors?

    After a little bit of digging around, I found that VIA is planning to introduce a Socket A chipset which includes SMP support (but only two-way). This chipset will be called the Apollo Pro KX266, and their roadmap has a little schpeil about it. That takes care of the processor (AMD) the chipset (VIA) and I really hope that somebody makes a motherboard to work with this chipset. Also, VIA says that the motherboards which will be based on this should support FireWire - sweet! I'm betting on Asus, Biostar, or Abit to come out with a mobo for the KX266, they currently make mobos for VIA's KX133. I expect to see this!