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Mentor Graphics goes X86-64

Hardware Roundup We wibble, we wobble, we bubble, we bibble
Tue Jul 13 2004, 15:15
A REPORT on AMD Zone notes that Mentor doesn't mention the Itanium but said it is moving to iAMD64.

It's a high speed 256MB USB flash drive. It's called a Crucial Gizmo. It's reviewed. here. Ah, Crucial sent one of these to the INQ and we thought it was for review. So we put it to one side. And when we got round to looking at it, we realised it was just Crucial's way of sending us a press release. Sheesh!

And on the subject of USB, Everything USB lets us know about a TV tuner which only weighs three ounces.

Hardware Zoom looks at the Gigabyte GA-81915G-MF, which as you can probably guess from the numbers embedded in this overlong string, is a 915G based mobo.

Tom's Hardware looks at a staggering 16 different boards made for Intel's latest and greatest Pentium 4, here.

OCW reviews the AV8 mobo - which uses the Via K8T800 Pro chipset, here. Say what you like about Abit, at least its product names are in general mercifully short.

Tech Freaks have got their mitts on a 17-inch LCD monitor from Viewsonic, which generally has people dressed up as colourful parrots parading the Computex floor. That review is here.

Planet3D now had a long conversation with Jan "no you can't have a USB stick" Gutter, and as you'd expect it's in German. here.

Game PC reviews BFG Tech's Geforce 6800 GT OC, and it reviews it here, now all the unpleasantness has come to an end.

Gundeep H at Cool Tech Zone has been assailing his ears by bombarding them with sounds from an Altec Lansing bunch of kit.

Those folk at PimpRig review Vance's Nexstar 350UF 3.5-inch hard drive enclosure, here.

What's the most frequently used Browser for smurfing the web. Ace's Hardware produces its results, here.

Look, we wibble, we wobble, we bibble and we bobble, and if you want your review in this roundup, just flame the old geezer at the email address below. µ

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