Limited Quantities: Rambus Boards From Asus, Gigabyte, Intel And QDI
It's already an established fact that when Intel launches the 850E chipset in May, only a very few board makers will be offering the corresponding motherboards. The manufacturers estimate that this niche market is not as lucrative, so they are concentrating on the DDR platform. Only Asus, Gigabyte and QDI will have boards available, and MSI will monitor the market demand first before making a decision. For this underlying reason, mostly boards with the Intel 845D chipset will be produced for the mass market. It remains to be seen if the SiS 645DX chipset, which is of good quality and costs less, will be accepted.
Athlon XP 2400: High Speed At 184 MHz Memory Clock
An Athlon XP overclocked to 1918 MHz.
With the help of hand-picked memory modules from Infineon, we were able to overclock the AMD Athlon XP to 1918 MHz for the first time. In addition, the memory module ran at the most aggressive settings while in CL2.0 mode (timing 2-2-2), and during the test phase it showed no stability problems. The benchmark results speak for themselves and show what kind of performance the Athlon XP 2400+ (using the Thoroughbred core above all) will bring. After some slight delays, AMD will introduce the new CPU in April 2002.
Test phase: core voltage of up to 2.05 Volt with P4, with the help of extra resistance.
Nothing works without watercooling: the kit from Innovatek.
