AGP8X takes on 4X, as Granite Bay resurfaces

"There's really no point in having kickass technology like HyperTransport if the AGP is limiting data transfers at 266MHz (4 x 66MHz)," they say. "Now that AGP bandwidth is doubled to 8X, the clock frequency will increase to 533MHz which means that it will transfer at about 2.1GB/s. This increase in bandwidth will directly help to improve the overall performance of the graphics subsystem. By how much?" They try and find out over here.

They've also got a review of ABIT's SILURO GeForce4 Ti 4200 64MB graphics card. That's here.

Spencer writes to say he's posted a piece on VansHardware relating the need for improvements in OS architecture for the pending AMD Opteron series. "It focuses," he says, "on the problems and limits of SMP and proposes that some recent OS advances be applied to n-way Opteron systems. That's over here.

Mikhailtech has a bang about in a DesignComp DCi CM 42-BL acrylic case kit over here.

Beyond3D tries out Hercules' version of the Radeon 8500LE, the Hercules 3D Prophet 8500 LE 128MB. That's over here.

New site Techwarelabs tries out an EPoX 4G4A+ Intel 845G motherboard over here.

Dan's still fiddling about with LED lights, a torch and six plastic ice cubes that light up in different colours. Coo! Wibble this way.

VR-Zone has a news post on how to turn your Dual Thoroughbred into Athlon MP by closing the last bridge of L5. After which, the BIOS and Windows 2000 is able to detect Dual Athlon MP running. There's not much to it check this out.

The Deviants have a play with a Kiiro Muze MP3 Player over here.

And finally, French site X86-Secret has posted what it has managed to find out about Intel's Granite Bay chipset. It'll be called the Intel E7205, they say, and will be the first to support dual DDR channels. We revealed back here (Oops, was that an InquirerInside link?) that the E7205 would replace Granite Bay. But, anyhow, our friends across the Channel have posted some detail on the chipset which you'll find here. To save on all that clicking, note support for 400 and 533 front-side bus speeds and support for "l'HyperThreading" kicking in on P4s of 3GHz and above. Expect it at the end of October, they say.

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