Athlons for the chop as Palomino exits

They say the new Thoroughbred core will appear in not all Athlon XP CPUs. The "two slowest models rated as 1500+ and 1600+ will never get it," they say. Which is why, "Athlon XP 1500+ and 1600+ will leave the stage as soon as the Palomino core dies out, which should happen some time in the end of this quarter or in the beginning of the next quarter. This is the reason why the slowest Athlon XP models will stop shipping very soon." There's more here.

Our story AMD will produce 333MHz front side bus here, points to this story here that let that particular cat out of its bag. It may have miffed the guys at Tech-report whho have a piece that they say explores the possible hurdles that a move to a 333MHz bus would present for AMD, as well as "what the Athlon XP might stand to gain from such a move". That's still worth a read and you'll find it over here.

Japanese site Watch Impress has some tests of various reference boards sporting chipsets from Intel, VIA and SiS 645DX. Intel 850E was winner by a nose, it seems. Wibble this way.

Monster-Hardware has its third and final installment of a series that aims to build a dedicated SETI box You'll find that over here.

Bubba writes from SimHQ to plug his look at how the Matrox Paraphernalia might look like with the "right games". That's over here.

VR-Zone has posted the latest SiS Xabre GPU roadmap of VINIX which shows that Xabre 600 will be scheduled for end of this year and comes with 128MB of DDR SDRAM while Xabre II should tip up early next year, based on 0.13 micron and supporting DirectX 9.0. Wibble this way.

Dan reckons the memory effect -- the supposed loss of capacity from which rechargeable batteries suffer, if you don't discharge them completely before recharging -- is a bunch of hooey. That's what he says over here here.

3DVelocity has a look at VideoLogic (Pure)'s SonicFury sound card over here.

The folk over at Lostcircuits have posted comparative reviews of three Asus GeForce 4 cards They put the Asus V8420 Pure and the V8460 Ultra Deluxe up against ATI's Radeon 8500 and a GeForce 3 TI 500, which also happens to be from Asus -- the V8200 T5. Wibble over here.

Quadract brings our attention to a bunch of stuff they've looked at. There's a Visiontek Geforce 4 Ti4400 review over here, a look at Sony's VAIO PCV-RX752 over here, Pioneer's DVR-104 DVD burner over here. And here's a look at Linksys WAP11 Wireless Access Point.

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