Helsinki Hammer pix hit the mix

FOLLOWING OUR STORY yesterday about the projected clock speed of the early AMD Hammer here, some of the guys who were at the Helsinki gig have been posting more stuff gathered from the knees-up. I think this: Sampsa Kurri, is the name of the guy who's posted his pix of the talk by AMDer Joakim Stenberg over here.

Sampsa says he personally asked Joakim, at what clock speeds Hammer CPUs would be released. "Joakim answered first '3400', he says, "but when I asked about clock frequency he answered: "Two Gigahertz and over". That's it."

And we know AMD will introduce tweaked PR ratings with which to label its Hammers. We also know they know that the real clock speed will be what matters. Some notional number plucked out of the air to represent how fast the chip would be running if it were really a 286 in disguise is, as we've mentioned on occasion before, pure marketing baloney. That's it.

Anyhow, back to the Wibble.

DFI has released some details of its new KT400 motherboard line, the DFI AD77 Infinity and AD77 Pro. "DFI is the first motherboard vendor to launch the KT400 chipset based motherboards, offering DDR400 support for both current and future AMD K7 CPU platforms," they say. Have a squint over here.

There's more Corsair memory flooding the webwaves. Tech-PC have a look at a stick of XMS3200 CAS-2 DDR Memory and they like it. DDRibble this way..

Right. Just a word about the Naked Reviewers. We've pointed at them before but, just in case you've missed it, these guys aim to combine hardware and semi-naked babes, presumably under the misconception that the techie audience is made up of flesh-starved males requiring something to peer at between chipsets.

Anyhow, they've posted a review of Chip-con's Prometeia phase change cooling unit over here. As for the paid-for matter on the site, we have no idea, so can't recommend it. Happy wibbling…

For further cooling off, Amdmb.com continues its guide to Water Cooling Equipment and Performance… How much flow do you use? If a CPU produces in the "order of 75 watts and one gallon of water has a mass of about 3.8 kilograms. A typical CPU would raise the temperature of a gallon of water at the rate of 0.00472°C per second or about 0.3°C per minute."

Got that? There's more over here.

The 2CPU guys enjoy fiddling with MSI's K7D Master L dual Athlon mobo over here. "Something eye catching in a sea of also-rans", they say.

Down in the DDRZone appear pictures straight from a brochure of a Via-based dual Xeon from AOpen You'll find that over here.

Quadract has a Linksys WAP11 Wireless Access Point review here. And a Linksys BEFSR41 Router review here.

There's an attempt to summarise the nascent battle for the graphics chip highground over at Tech report here.

And here's Bjorn 3D's look at Hercules Muse Lt & XPS210 that pairs up Hercules budget soundcard, the Gamesuround Muse Lt, with some speakers. Coo! µ