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DUX COMPUTER DIGEST
Summaries and Links
June 2001
6/29 Memory
prices are falling into THE Abyss...
6/28 nVIDIA
put some of the essence of the Microsoft Xbox game machine in a motherboard
chipset that differs significantly from its predecessors, as will the motherboards
built with it. Read more about it in The
nVIDIA nForce Motherboard Chipset: a different perspective.
6/24 Is there a way to directly
connect a USB cable or DSL MODEM to a broadband router?
6/22 CD-R/DVD
problems and advice on what to look for when buying a DVD player, etc.
6/21 Memory
keeps falling... and where it will stop, no one knows...
6/21 What
are the differences between Category 3, 4, 5, etc. cable ratings?
6/20 What
is the difference between the ANSI/TIA/EIA T568A and T568B color code wiring
standards?
6/18 The fifth issue of the Dux
Computer Newsletter has been sent. It has quite
a bit on the nVIDIA chipset. I hope I didn't overdue it and that
you like it. Click here to
read it. Click here to
subscribe. It's free. Larry
6/17 What
are the maximum and minimum cable lengths allowed for a 100BASE-TX unshielded,
twisted-pair (UTP) Ethernet?
6/15 Straight From the Palomino's Mouth: AMD
News Bits
6/15 Lost Circuits' Coverage of Computex TAIPEI 2001: Up-Close
and Behind the Scenes
6/14 Mitac
6612NU nFORCE Socket A Athlon motherboard specification. I wish
one of these companies would include an Ethernet interface since most of the
capability is built-into the nVIDIA MCP/Southbridge chip.
6/14 List
of items needed to build an AMD two-processor workstation or server
6/13 nVIDIA
nForce Launch Event Replay: See
the NVIDIA nForce motherboard chipset launch at Computex 2001 in Taipei, Taiwan.
I found it quite interesting. There are graphics and sound demos about
1/3 of the way through the presentation.
6/10 How
to Dual-Boot Windows 9X/Me and 2000 Pro provides step-by-step instructions
for installing both Windows 9X/Me and Windows 2000 Pro on the same hard disk
drive so that either operating system can be selected from a menu when the
computer first boots-up.
6/10 EIA/TIA
568A and 568B UTP Jack Pin Assignment Confusion. Or,
what are the correct color codes used for Ethernet twisted-pair jacks and plugs?
6/7 Review of D-Link DI-701 Residential
Gateway/Broadband Router. An operational review of this spiffy-looking,
semi-transparent product was stopped cold by its inability to communicate
with my cable MODEM. Why? Click
here to find out...
6/6 Manuals
and BIOS for old Intel motherboards.
Mouse
not recognized after Windows 98 install.
Windows
workgroup security.
6/5 More info on Asus's A7N266
Athlon motherboard with the nVIDIA nForce chipset, as
well as other Asus products being featured at Computex, is available at Asus's Online
Showroom.
6/4 You can download the
6/3 How to Build a Computer with a Socket
A Athlon or Duron Processor...
In Part
10 - Install the Expansion Boards, the final part of this series, we
complete and test the computer.
Click
here to go to Part 1 of the article.
6/3 What
is the "specified" maximum length of a parallel printer cable for
a PC?
6/2 ERROR
52 when using the HP LaserJet IIP/IIIP, Apple Personal Laserwriter, QMS PS410,
and other printers with the Canon LX laser engine.
6/1 Wow! MSI is really cranking-up big time for Computex, which
starts next Monday in Taipei, Taiwan. 12
product announcements, including seven new motherboards. The MS-6367
Socket A Athlon/Duron motherboard is the first commercial motherboard
I've seen with the new nVIDIA Crush chipset (now called nForce)... 'When
used with 2 DDR memory modules, the 128-bit TwinBank Architecture is twice
as fast as other DDR platforms. It also implements AMD's HyperTransport...'
6/1 Straight
from the Palomino's mouth: AMD Processor Schedule
Index of Previous Summaries
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