Rednecks, lies and hardware fakes

TODAY, IT SEEMS, is another one of those days when the hardware news is overshadowed by those that write it.

But before we come directly to that here's Tom's Hardware's look at a 3.6GHZ Pentium 4. "We can't repeat it often enough," they say. "Only in conjunction with high-speed RDRAM memory (PC1066) is the Pentium 4/3600 able to perform optimally."

They've posted a pic of a Pentium 4 chip which has caused a French site to go bonkers and claim Tom's Pentium piece is a fake. X86-Secret goes into detail about the picture, claiming its obviously not a 3.6GHz Pentium 4.

Here's the site and here's a googled translation.

Joint author of the piece at Tom's, Frank Völkel tells us "We don't have written, that the cpu at the pic is the 3.6 ghz version... this is only a sample for demonstration. " Hope that clears that up…?

Right, now it's our turn. "The Inquirer are frauds, liers and scumbags. I would love to see them go down," says one poster at one merry site. And we've seen that spelling of liars before. Hmmm. There's more. Another old friend writes: "I'm just waiting to see if Mr. Magee has one of his pet "journalists" write a stupid article again calling NVNews and 3DChipsets Communists or something similiar."

So as a pet "journo", I guess that's my job then.

Some guy called Bob Craig wrote to us to say his Japanese was better than ours. Not hard that one. He objected to the story here and particularly to the phrase "inside information". The information we referred to was in a graphic of a roadmap. We replied to his email, entitled, by the way, "If you can't read Japanese, then don't act like you do!" pointing at the sources quoted in the piece. But in the meantime Mr Craig fired off his missive to anyone who'd listen, it seems, and a right handsome gang of fellows lined up to take a pop at us…

A bunch of our biggest fans are there. We'll let you make you own mind up. Nvnews sticks the boot in here and here.

And over here is the highly respectable and hugely talented D. Solomon Jr., who loves us to bits. Keep up the good work Solly… The aptly-named envy news joined in on the subject. Here's what looks more like a proper news story from the guys there.

And should you need more proof of how bad we are, here's 3DPGU.com, where Matt called our stories "filth" but toned his opinions down a bit later, apparently.

Right, back back to the business. Well almost. Here's a review of a Nokia 5510cell phone from the Aussie overclockers. No they haven't overclocked it.

They also cast an eye over an ADSL modem from Billion over here.

HotHardware.Com, has updated its GeForce 4 Ti4200 shoot-out with its take on two more cards, a 128MB MSI G4Ti4200 and a 64MB Best Data Arcade FX Ti4200. Wibble this way.

Tech Report looks at writing to a pair of Samsung optical drives drives from Samsung, "a screaming-fast" 40X CD-RW, and an all-in-one CD-RW/DVD combo. That's over here.

Monster-Hardware takes a look at some sound dampening sheets. Most manufacturers are simply lying about how noise their fans produce, they reckon. Wibble over here.

Rioworks has some details of the new PDPEA, a dual socket-604 Wxeon motherboard dual Xeon board over here.

Gaming in 3D has the "real story" on SiS's Xabre 400 over here.

The Ultra-FISR MSI KT4 (KT400 Full-Options) gets a going over by the loose-lipped Frenchmen over here. Or give this translation a go.

Mikhailtech has a fiddle with an EPoX 8K5A2+ KT333 motherboard over here.

There's a look at an EPOX 8K5A2+ (VIA KT333) mobo over here at AMDWorld..

And finally, a post on rage3d.com says that the Radeon 9700 PRO AGP 8X card has some problems with AGP 8X boards. A BIOS update is what is required, they say. Wibble ye hither.

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