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for Saturday 09.09.2000 |
About
the RivaTNT2 Motherboard
All my apologies. I have succeeded in getting a PC Chips M754LMR motherboard
from 1 friend. This is selling for Rs 2,700. This motherboard has
the famous TNT2 Videocard onboard. The MEMORY is shared. I repeat
the memory is shared. There is the option for having additional 32
Mb for video buffer. The good thing is that you can change the amount
of RAM allocated and move it from 8Mb to 16 Mb to 24 Mb and then to
32 Mb. The bad thing being that it still sucks your system memory
out.... |
First
Pentium 4 Mobo out
Gigabyte can be credited with delivering the first Pentium 4 motherboard
to meet my eyes, meaning that the official launch scheduled for the
18th October 2000 should not be missed. The GA-8TX is a fairly large
ATX model consisting of 5 PCI slots, 1 AGP Pro, 4 Rimm Sockets (1
Gb Support with 256MB DRDRAM), supports 4 ATA100 devices, 4 USB devices
and should come rather relatively cheap. Am I right when I say that
CPU will be the limiting factor? |
New
boards from MSI and Abit
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Name
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Platform
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E.T.A
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Features
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| MSI
MS6336 |
Intel
P3 |
01/01 |
Via
Apollo 266 Chipset, FCPGA, Slot 1, 66-133Mhz, 2DDR and 3DIMM,
1 AGP Pro and 5 PCI, ATA 100 support and optional Firewire and
6 USB |
| MSI
MS6341 |
Athlon |
01/01 |
NorthBridge
AMD760 - SouthBridge VIA 686b, 200-266MHz FSB (compatible with
Forthcoming Mustang??), 4 DDR slots, Adaptec 7892 Ultra 160
SCSI Firewire (optional) |
| Abit SA6 |
Intel |
Now |
Intel i815E, ATA100 controller (raid capable?),
FCPGA. |
| Abit SH6 |
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Slot 1, Intel i815E, ATA100 controller (raid capable?) |
| Abit VH-6 Raid |
Intel P3 |
10/00 |
Via Apollo 133A, Raid capable, FCPGA |
| Abit VP-6 |
Intel P3 |
10/00 |
Dual CPU, Via Chipset, Raid Capable, 5PCI ??,
AGP Pro ??, 4 Dimm??, ATA 100 |
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First
image of Slot/SocketA Converter
Soon to come to you!!! I don't know if it is going to be compatible
with ALL motherboards out there but if it is then we'll try some of
them with the newest TB. Hope they support overclocking. |
16X
CD-R Coming!!!
A Korean company named SKC (Never heard of them before) is planning
to ship a 16x CD-R effectively making it possible to write a 650Mb
CD-ROM in 4m38s. The next logical increment, the 20x CD-R will make
it possible to write full CD-ROM in less than 4 mins. SKC is very
keen to get into the domains of DVD and other storage media. Competition
is always welcome :). |
Laser
Printer for Rs 5,000
Samsung has launch what seems to be the latest SRP laser Printer.
The ML-4500 laser printer has a retail price of US$ 199. It may have
only 2 Mb RAM and be a GDI printer but it chunks out 8PPM at 600 Dpi
which is impressive by all means. |
8x12x10x32
=
The newest DVD-CDR Combo (MP9120A) from Ricoh. The specs are VERY
impressive - 32x read, 12x Write and 10x Rewrite as well as 8x DVD.
When will I get my 16x72x12x16... Note that the model is available
in IDE and SCSI versions though the latter should be much better. |
Roxfield
Showroom Soon
Roxfield, our dear Sponsor, will open its door somewhere in Port-Louis
very very soon. Hope to bring you more news about that as well as
photos of the showroom as soon as possible. |
Myeldo
summoned to change Election site
Apparently , from what I read from L'express of Saturday 09.09.00,
Myeldo has been asked by the Election Commissionner to change the
configuration of the Election Web Site. I haven't really understood
why, it seems to deal to a legal matter. During the past 2 weeks,
Myeldo has heavily marketed its website with ads and with a contest
with a BookPC as gift. |
E-Commerce
in Mauritius
An interesting article in L'express, last Thursday - Commerce electronique
mode d'emploi. It depicts the present etat des lieux of E-commerce
in Mauritius. M. Nicolas Le Maire of FRCI talks about the pertinence
of Business to Consumer sites and acknowledges that Market size is
the main obstacle to E-commerce dev. in Mauritius. |
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