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Tweakers Australia has posted a detailed look at the Intel 850E Rambus chipset for the P4, incorporating support for the 533MHz QDR bus.

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Mikhailtech has posted a Kingston 64mb SmartMedia Card review

A big attraction with Smart Media is its physical dimensions; this thing is four times thinner than CompactFlash which automatically makes it an ideal solution for extremely small devices. On the console level, think of it this way: going from a cartridge (N64) to a CD (Playstation). With 1,000,000 program/erase cycles, SM has over three times the endurance of CF. The operating temperature is slightly less, but no one really uses it in a 60°C environment anyway. But the main point (in my opinion) is power consumption. Although somewhat against the specs, in real life SM can use approximately 5 times less power than CF when reading/writing data and up to 1000 times less when in standby.
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DeviantPC has posted a review on the Asus CRW4012A (40*12*48) CD ReWriter

A point worth noting here is that most modern fast cd-writers use what's known as Zone CLV when writing. As the title of this technology suggests, the media is split into zones at which the drive records at different speeds. In the case of the CRW-4021A the disc is split up into 4 zones. The drive starts writing at 20x from the lead-in until the 8 minute point, then moves up to 24x until 26 minutes, then up to 32x until 52 minutes, and lastly to 40x at 52mins and stays there until the end of the burning process.
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