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    NVidia NV40 NDA ends tomorrow? Will Anand have an article tomorrow ?

    topic says it all! rms
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    Stores selling Athlon64/Opteron heatsinks ?

    What online stores sell A64/Opt heatsinks? thx much rms
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    Thermalright SP-97 SocketA heatpipe heatsink released !!

    http://www.thermalright.com/a_news/main_news_sp97.htm I wish I hadn't invested in watercooling already. This thing looks fantastic. www.2cooltek.com says they are in stock now, btw. rms
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    Athlon64 3000+ benchmarks: Looks like a great CPU !!

    Well, the AMD Athlon64 3000+ looks like the best thing since sliced bread, based on its un-overclocked results: Athlon64 3000+ article (translated) (thx to Derek Baker for the link) The real question to me now is the overclocking situation, which seems very confused. If you could get this...
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    Athlon 64 Vs. Pentium 4 article: On the Justification for Quake3 as a CPU Benchmark

    Hi, this is about your Athlon 64 Vs. Pentium 4 article, specifically the use of Quake3 as a CPU benchmark when comparing AMD vs. Intel cpus, as shown on this page http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1884&p=13 http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTI0LDU=...
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    QUAKE3 IS A WORTHLESS BENCHMARK. WHY IS IT STILL BEING USED

    Its now almost 2004, and sites are *still* using this 3-year old game to benchmark. FACT: Both 3DNOW and SSE are non-functional in Quake3 on AthlonXP cpus (and probably disabled as well on the Athlon64, no data there as yet), but SSE is *enabled* on all Intel cpus. Not a big surprise there...
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    Quake3 biased Against AthlonXP cpus ! Large speedups possible!

    http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/opt/ I think this guy is worth talking to. He argues that Quake3 is very biased toward Intel chips and if it simply detected the athlon as SSE-enabled rather than 3dnow-enabled you would see huge speedups. He apparently worked with AMD trying to incorporate this...
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    Hard Drive enclosures / quiet harddrive suggestions?

    Hi, after installing a watercooling setup (love it!) the high-pitched whine of my harddrives is very noticeable and quite annoying! Anyone have suggestions on quieting these down? rms rsquires@flash.net