It looks like both Intel and AMD are having a tough time at keeping heat down on the 90nm process. There's already been reports out that Intel may have to lower the clock frequency of the Prescott at introduction. Now, even AMD's famous SOI process doesn't seem to be having the desired effect it...

Hi, If I use a Pentium 3 or above. Is it possible to page whole my physical memory in 4MB pages with the PSE bit set? Thanks a lot! Ivan

The new Athlon 64-3000+ processor with 512K of L2 cache rather than 1024K seems to be a pretty good gaming platform, beats the regular P4-3.2Ghz in 8 out of 9 tests. Yousuf Khan http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13187

Hi, Id like to build an old Itanium 1 system. Ive seen cheap Itanium 1 CPUs floating around, usually from (then) CPQ or HP servers, supplied with what appears to be VRM and heatsinks (no fans). The problem is, of course, sourcing motherboards to put these into. Im looking into perhaps salvaging...

A friend of mine has a D850MV motherboard and is trying to make it Wake on Lan, so far unsuccessful. We have experimented with other machines with great success so we know the general function of WOL. He is using the built in NIC and from the documentation we have read we can't really tell if...

Does anyone know the current status of the Pentium V/Prescott? I've been waiting patiently for a computer to break the upper 2-3GHz barrier, but have heard Intel's been having trouble with heat management so the release of the Prescott and the Tejas (if that's the right name) processor models...

VR-Zone is showing a 775-pin Prescott processor: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=308&s=1 Not sure what all of the pins are for. Yousuf Khan

can someone email me some really nice wallpapers (intel logo related) to thanks...

In a 19" high tower, will the CPU fan, a 90mm front cabinet fan and the PSU fan be enough to keep this puppy cool? Other devices include 2 old 7200 RPM IDEs, to be eventually replaced by SATAs, and a 64MB graphics card, soon to be upgraded to some yet unidentified monster. Or should I consider a...

There's even a rumour that OpenVMS might run on HP SuperDomes. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13284 Yousuf Khan

I really hate reading technical things in business news sources, there is always more questions left unanswered. They are talking about a technology that Microsoft is going to introduce with an upcoming Windows XP service pack that will eliminate buffer overflows. The feature will only be...

I am looking at new laptops. The ones with built-in WiFi seem to be limited to 1.7 GHz, which seems to be the limit on the Centrino chips. My question is, should I go after a faster processor and use a card for wireless, or accept the slower speed with the convenience of...

I'm thinking of building a thin client linux box. And I was thinking of using a mini-itx motherboard made for a Pentium Mobile chip. What are my options in chips? do they make a Celeron for the Pentium mobile 4? Thanks -Richard

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i hope someone can shed some light on this problem..... my hard drives are still spinning as the system turns off..... i am running win xp pro and have an intel 865perl mb. i would like to get the screen saying " it is now safe to turn off your ...

I read this somewhereon the net (old web pages saved to my harddisk): Pentium II The Pentium II is a glorified Pentium Pro with MMX extensions. The Pentium II has a different package than the Pentium Pro. This new package is called "Slot-1." Officially, Intel claimed technical reasons for...

On December 9, 2003, People Daily published the story "Advanced China-made CPU Commercialized", which is available in http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200312/08/eng20031208_129944.shtml The story mentioned China's MPRC, Microprocessor Research and Development Center under the prestigeous Peking...

Hi, I'm about to dump an Abit IC7-G mainboard in favour of the Intel version. I'm not an overclocker and the Abit was a poor choice for me. I'm hoping that apart from having to re-activate Windows and Office XP I should be able to achieve the change without a new install of the OS. On my present...

My system has intel's d875pbz motherboard with 2 WD Raptor SATA drives and two WD 2500JBs. When I try to install winxp from cd it cannot see the Raptor SATA drives at all. I have tried with and without RAID and WinXP install still only sees the IDE drives. All looks fine in the bios, P18. Any...

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