NForce 2 sightings outdone by DDR400

WE EXPECT NFORCE 2 chipsets for AMD chips to tip up within a week -- finally. Epox is showing off the details of a pair of its offerings on its site over here. Doesn't look like you can buy 'em yet though.

Sticks of DDR400 are about as rare as amoeba's testicles at the moment too. The boys over at Overclockers.com have a slice, though. They test a stick of Xtreme DDR 400 using an ABIT KR7A RAID motherboard. Over here.

The Overclockers Cafe has some too here.

VIA's Richard Brown (who he? Ed.) also has a few words to say on the subject - in French! To save you translating this juicy snippet, the cheeky grenouilles ask why DDR333 is outperfroming DDR400 in some of their tests. Richard blames this on DDR400 samples not being standardised, "and their designs are not yet mature. We saw the same thing, he says, "when Intel launched Rambus [cough!] or when we introduced DDR266," he said.

Brown agrees with Clubic that future révisions du chipset KT400 will have better perfromance. Wibblez over here.

After many hours of benchmarking, linuxhardware.org are ready to begin the discourse on their System of the Year. In one corner they have Dual Intel Xeons clocked at 2.4GHz running with 1GB of RDRAM using an 860 chipset. In the other corner, there's "AMD's new bad boys", they say. "Dual Athlon MP 2200+s (1.8GHz) running with 1GB of registered PC2100 DDR SDRAM on the 760MPX chipset". Wibble this way.

AMDworld casts a beady eye over Gigabyte's GA-7VAXP (KT400) here.

PCStats has a look at ABIT's SR7-8X SiS648 motherboard over here. "It's nice to see that manufacturers are quickly adopting the SiS 648 chipset as an alternative to Intel's i845D/E/G DDR chipsets," they say.

There's a review of Gigabyte's GA-7VAXP KT400 mobo over here.

Ripnet-uk tells us Unreal Tournament 2003 is on its way. They say Mark Rein of Epic Games posted some news on the Infogrames forum earlier today but we can't find that. "The demo is nearly ready to go," he says, apparently. Wibble over to Rip-net for more, here.

Finally, a weasle with an anagram of a name that must originally be Twat, keeps posting exact copies of INQUIRER stories on Hardware Zone's forum. He neither credits us nor links to us. Just seems to post the stories as if he's written them. And the sad little amoeba (see above) has failed thus far to respond to any of our messages. He seems to work for the site however, yet our mail to the moderator also remains mysteriously unanswered.

Here, provided by a kind reader, are some links to the evidence. Beware, the clonky site takes some loading, and my modem (cough) complained all morning.
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=294703
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=294703
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=294696
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=294697
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=294706

What should we do with the scallywag? You decide. µ

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