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From: "Sharky Extreme" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Sharky Extreme Newsletter #45
Date: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:28 AM

The Sharky Extreme Newsletter #45
Your weekly update for all the latest news and reviews from the SE team!!
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This newsletter sponsored by: Hewlett Packard
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H A R D W A R E   N E W S:
1. Iwill KA266-R DDR Mainboard Benchmark Preview
2. CPU Installation Guide
3. Itanium Technology Guide
4. Value Biz PC Buyer's Guide


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1. Iwill KA266-R DDR Mainboard Benchmark Preview
Back in October, we took an early look at an early version of Iwill's
KA266-R, a motherboard using the ALi MAGiK 1 DDR chipset. At that point in
time, we were not able to publish benchmarks. Today, things are different.
We now have a full suite of benchmarks previewing this new DDR
motherboard. Our version is not a final board, there is still a revision
or two to go, but according to Iwill, the board and chipset should ship in
late December.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/articles/iwill_ka266r_benchmarks/


2. CPU Installation Guide
The CPU is the heart of any computer system, and is one of the primary
contributors to overall system performance. Thankfully, the cost of a new
processor is very low in relation to its potential benefits and best of
all, you do not need an advanced degree to perform a CPU installation. Our
CPU Installation Guide gives you the detailed steps to follow, plus tips
towards making the install process that much smoother.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/guides/cpu_install_guide/


3. Itanium Technology Guide
The Itanium is a new processor family and architecture, designed by Intel
and Hewlett Packard, with the future of high-end server and workstation
computing in mind. The Itanium is big, expensive, complex, and will come
with massive internal resources. The Itanium is cutting-edge processor
design. The Itanium will use an entirely new form of instruction set
called EPIC, which has the potential of bringing unseen levels of
parallelism inside a processor. Today, we are going to look at the
technical side of the EPIC architecture and the Itanium processor.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/guides/itanium/


4. Value Biz PC Buyer's Guide
In our Value Business PC Buyer's Guide we give you our recommendations for
what hardware to use if you build a value-oriented PC for business use.
Our definition of "value business use" includes general computing tasks
where performance is important but the budget is also an important
consideration.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/theguide/biz/value_biz_pc/

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WEEKLY ATTRACTIONS:

Sharky's Weekly CPU Prices
Prices are flat except the Pentium 4, which is still falling. We expect
most prices to remain flat through the holidays, though we would not be
surprised if the Pentium 4 falls even more. Get out those checkbooks, its
time to buy your holiday system!
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/weekly_cpu/

Sharky Forums Spotlight #9
This week's selected topics: The Future of the Mobile Market, RDRAM, HSR
in Recent Voodoo5 Beta Driver, ADSL-DSL-SDSL-Cable, 3dfx's "Phantom"
Details Leaked?
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/forums_spotlight/9/

Weekly Memory Prices
This week marks our first week listing PC150 memory. PC150 memory is
essentially PC133 memory tested at an overclocked 150MHz. Overall, memory
prices are dropping slightly, but we expect they won't go much lower and
may jump up sharply any day now. It's a darn good time to buy RAM.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/prices/weekly_memory/



We hope you've found this newsletter useful. Please feel free to email
comments and suggestions  mailto:[e-mail]
See you next week and thanks for reading!

Cheers,
The Sharky Extreme Staff



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