Friday reviews
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on December 27, 2002 at 4:28:31 PM
Well, my Radeon 9500 Pro overclocking review is up for your reading pleasure. Be sure to spread the word on it as well 
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Vantec Aeroflows @ OCA.
The concern I had with the socket 478 Aeroflow was that it did not give complete contact with the Intel heat spreader. Although it did not harm performance, I believe that having a complete contact would give much better results.
OTES @ digital-daily.
Unfortunately, nothing is to be excited about in here. In our test system we failed to overclock the memory, which was no surprise since the cooling is still missing. The maximum speed the specimen was running stably is 575MHz, which is merely 25MHz greater than the nominal frequency.
Asus nForce 2 @ AMDmb.
Overall, I would have no problem recommending the Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard to anyone looking to build a system based on the Athlon XP 333 MHz FSB processors. The nForce2 chipset has all the power you could want and hope for to draw all the performance out of the processor.
TwinMOS PC3200 @ theDDRzone.
The TwinMOS memory was able to perform the full range of tests, plus extra looping tests at up to 202Mhz with aggressive memory timings ie. 2-2-2-8. At 203Mhz Prime95 failed, although the other tests still completed successfully - anything higher resulted in everything crashing. Reducing these timing settings (2.5-4-4-10 in the BIOS) allowed speeds of at least 217Mhz, the maximum obtainable out of the A7V8X without having a CPU capable of a 220Mhz FSB.
The yea in review @ AMDWorld.
Dedicated video card manufacturers must have had a mixed time during 2002 and one large American outfit did suffer that was Visiontek who were a number one supplier in North America up until they went bankrupt so to speak and this is no doubt was a classic example of a manufacturer like Nvidia saturating the market at every cost and not targeting the third party suppliers with caution.
pcToys DDR heat spreaders @ WinHQ.
Way back in October 2001, we reviewed the Thermaltake Active Cooling Kit when heat spreaders weren't a very big issue with memory overclocking. This was a time of 150MHz ram running at stock voltage. A year later, much is different.
.Vantec Aeroflows @ OCA.
The concern I had with the socket 478 Aeroflow was that it did not give complete contact with the Intel heat spreader. Although it did not harm performance, I believe that having a complete contact would give much better results.
OTES @ digital-daily.
Unfortunately, nothing is to be excited about in here. In our test system we failed to overclock the memory, which was no surprise since the cooling is still missing. The maximum speed the specimen was running stably is 575MHz, which is merely 25MHz greater than the nominal frequency.
Asus nForce 2 @ AMDmb.
Overall, I would have no problem recommending the Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard to anyone looking to build a system based on the Athlon XP 333 MHz FSB processors. The nForce2 chipset has all the power you could want and hope for to draw all the performance out of the processor.
TwinMOS PC3200 @ theDDRzone.
The TwinMOS memory was able to perform the full range of tests, plus extra looping tests at up to 202Mhz with aggressive memory timings ie. 2-2-2-8. At 203Mhz Prime95 failed, although the other tests still completed successfully - anything higher resulted in everything crashing. Reducing these timing settings (2.5-4-4-10 in the BIOS) allowed speeds of at least 217Mhz, the maximum obtainable out of the A7V8X without having a CPU capable of a 220Mhz FSB.
The yea in review @ AMDWorld.
Dedicated video card manufacturers must have had a mixed time during 2002 and one large American outfit did suffer that was Visiontek who were a number one supplier in North America up until they went bankrupt so to speak and this is no doubt was a classic example of a manufacturer like Nvidia saturating the market at every cost and not targeting the third party suppliers with caution.
pcToys DDR heat spreaders @ WinHQ.
Way back in October 2001, we reviewed the Thermaltake Active Cooling Kit when heat spreaders weren't a very big issue with memory overclocking. This was a time of 150MHz ram running at stock voltage. A year later, much is different.