by Grigoriy Gubankov
06/18/2003 | 04:57 PM
In reaction to our news-story about earlier-than-expected availability of the GeForce FX5900 Ultra graphics cards, AlienWare, quite well-know maker of high-end personal computers for gamers, sent us a note that it already has systems equipped with NVIDIA GeForce FX5900 Ultra graphics cards in its store. If you want to buy one or just want to know the mind-blowing price, click here.
AnandTech has posted a review of highly-anticipated 19” LCD monitor from Samsung, the 192T that is the successor for the good-old 191T, which was out about a year ago. Samsung is one of the leading manufacturers of LCD monitors and matrixes and it seems that 192T proves it once again. AnandTech notes excellent intensity range check, black level and no image distortions. There are some difficulties with red colors, thought they can be corrected with the OSD menu. Overall, AnandTech says that the monitor left very good impressions. Read the review here.
It is not a secret that there are still a lot of AMD processors that are based on old Palomino cores. But since all AMD CPUs use the same Socket A interface, even Palomino processors can theoretically function with the new chipsets providing 200MHz FSB support. Of course, to utilise 200MHz bus you need to unlock a multiplier. Since multiplier unlocking on Palominos is not a trivial task, here raises a question: will the efforts, needed for unlocking, bring significant performance boost? Ace's Hardware decided to check this point and ran some gaming benchmarks on Palomino with 1.60GHz frequency on 200MHz bus. Read them here.
Overclockers.com has posted an article about a very unusuak self-made water-cooling solution. The radiator of this system was probably built using “bigger-the-better” philosophy, thus the final product measures 4.6 metres (14.6 feet) long and 31.5 cm (1.4 feet) wide and, because of such size, is located in a garage. The cooler definitely does not require any fans, so, it should really be a quiet one. The article with photographs is available over here.