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To: Goutam who wrote (114138)	6/4/2000 8:53:00 PM
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4500 T-Birds Sold All Ready Down Under theregister.co.uk Posted 04/06/2000 10:08pm by Team Register Hardware Roundup: Thunderbird Pics from Australia And a big hello to Aussie site Tweaktown.com which has obtained the first AMD Thunderbird pics "through certain sources". Editor Cameron Wilmot writes: "We have confirmed that the picture sample we have is genuine and we can also confirm that the Thunderbird will be running on a Socket A 0.18 micron (although not for certain)". Tweaktown's scoop has a limited shelf-life - the AMD Thunderbird launches in a few hours - but it's a scoop nonetheless. Well done. And while we're on the subject of AMD Thunderbirds, here's our very first namecheck for the Home Shopping Network. Reader Ryan Reddell reports from the battlefront: "Just thought I would let you know that HSN.. (Home Shopping Network) is selling the TBird right this second... they claim they have already sold more then 4,500 in the past hour during there live on air broadcast..... I have a url that shows the item they are selling.... Check out the 200w Power Supply... OUCH!!! lol.. also it's a 700Mhz... I was thinking at first (that) they made a mistake when they claimed it was a 256K on board cache... but they are really talking about the cache and how it's "very Important"... they all claim its the "Newest Chip from AMD on the market"..... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 June 2000 Wouldn't you just know it? You wait ages for a decent Mac site to come along and then two arrive together. Joining MacSlash which we mentioned here yesterday, comes MacTechUK, an Apple site aimed at UK Macintosh users. If you are tired of Apple concentrating on the USA or generalising the UK as "Europe" then this is site is worth a peek. Our chums over at AnandTech have a pretty neat overview of Intel's venerable BX chipset and show you how to run a selection of BX mobos at 133MHz FSB ? who needs Rambus? And staying with mobos, BXBoards have what is almost certainly the worlds first review of a motherboard based on Intel's "Solano" i815 chipset, the Abit SE6. Solano supports DIMMs rather than RAMBUS, while still retaining the AGP 4x of Camino. Is this the chipset BX owners have been waiting for? We should have known better when we said this was the first i815 review - a reader from La Belle France points us to an English language review on the excellent French site ActuMicro which appeared on 29 May. Meanwhile, at ArsTechnica, you should check out the review of the new 15,000 RPM Seagate Cheetah X15 hard disk ? it's certainly fast. And Aces Hardware discovers what's happened to all those AMD K6-2 and 3 mobiles ? they've all apparently gone into notebooks aimed at the Japanese market. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 June, 2000 Storage looms large today, as StorageReview has a comprehensive ATAPI CD-ROM Roundup, while over at ArsTechnica there's an updated look at RAID. Not all Mac users are technical dumbasses, and a new site for those who know how to get the cover off their iMacs can be found here. Ben Stanfield tells us he's been pouring a lot of sweat and hard work into MacSlash.com. Check it out. Finally, Hardware HQ features Dow Huckleberry's complete guide to The Darkside of Building Your Own System. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31 May, 2000 Not a whole shedload of stuff to point you good folks at today. Over at Chip (OK now, Daniel?) there's a look at a prototype of ATI's Radeon chip, While Anandtech checks out Leadtek's WinFast GeForce 2 GTS graphics card. Kyle at Hardocp has tracked down a complete loon who's running an ABIT BP6 with dual Coppermines running at different FSB speeds. Pictures, soldering irons, blue screens of death, it's all here ? don't try this at home, folks. And if you haven't seen it yet, check out Tom's Hardware for Van Smith's hatchet job on Rambus ? and Intel thought The Register had a down on them... ©