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To: wily who wrote (10657)	3/24/2000 2:51:00 AM
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from ars: ars-technica.com Intel is preparing to unveil a pair of new Celerons, according to News.com. But there's more than higher clock speeds to these puppies. For one thing, they include the SSE instructions which, while they may or may not help you personally, definitely can't hurt to have. More importantly, they will be fabbed at 0.18 micron and include 256k of L2 cache. Now before anybody gets too excited, they plan to cripple them down to the standard 128k cache size. But if the BP6 showed us anything, it's that disabling can be undone... could be some exciting times ahead for overclockers... Ken Collins was the first one with this tip. -Ator news.cnet.com (CNET article) 300GB HDD: Seagate Breaks Storage Record ? 45 Gigabits Per Square Inch Seagate has demonstrated the world?s highest data storage capacity of 45 billion bits of data (45Gb/in2) stored in one square inch of hard drive recording media. This achievement almost doubles Seagate?s previous density record and beats out IBM?s record set on October 4, 1999 by almost 10Gb/in2 (it was for 35.3Gb/in2). If Seagate could utilize this storage potential in mass production drives today, it would mean that 60GB (gigabytes) of data could be stored on a single 3.5? disc (60GB per platter). And since most drives are comprised of 4-5 discs, it would make for hard drives ranging in sizes up to 300GB! [more] pcextremist.com