The following self-extracting Zip is a Powerpoint presentation: http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/f/1/cf1806ad-5a4f-4f7d-a5b2-07fdb59a7adb/WH03_TPA56.exe or, http://makeashorterlink.com/?H22F42BB5 Interesting Highlights: -native 64-bit apps have no access to legacy x87, MMX, or 3DNow

I have task manager processes running. When my computer completely stops working, system idle and all other process stop incrementing CPU time. Any suggestions as to most likely problem? CPU? MB? PS? intel d865perl, p42.8 1G matched ram. W2K.

Hi all, This was the closest newsgroup I could find so here goes. The current cpu's in an IBM Intelistation Z 6894-1RZ are first gen 800 MYz ones. What is the fastest version of the Itanium can one put in these machines? thanks, charles......

I was out trying to price some components for an upgrade of my desktop system (Athlon XP 1900+ system with AGP) to something with a PCIe connector. Of course that now means I'll have to swap out the processor, RAM and motherboard too. I am open to an Intel Core 2 Duo, it would probably be my...

An interesting viewpoint from an analyst firm about why HP is doing well, Dell is not; and why AMD is doing well, but Intel is not. It was written in Barron's. Technology Tilts to Upscale Caris & Co. 1250 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, N.Y. 10001

If a 3GHz P4 draws 90 watts from the power supply, what percentage of that 90 watts is actually used for processing data and not winding up in the form of heat? Theoretically, if a CPU were superconducting it would have 100% efficiency, dissipating no heat. But I'm guessing that a 3GHz P4 uses...

Hi all, Soon to be getting a new laptop, and I have two options on the Processor: The first is a Pentium 4 with HT Tech. @ 3.2GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB The second is a Pentium M @ 1.6GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 400MHz FSB The rest of the two systems are almost identical:

Looks like Intel decided to reduce the maximum addressable physical memory on Nocona from 40 bits to 36 bits. But it looks like somebody forgot to tell the guy in charge of setting up the CPUID instruction, because Nocona still returns 40 bits when queried. This is apparently what's preventing...

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No retail boxes. Yousuf Khan http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16919 -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

AMD may begin adopting Intel's model numbering scheme for its own Athlon 64's. Strange, AMD adopts model numbers and then Intel follows, and then AMD retweaks to fit Intel. Well, so much for the PR-rating system being an indicator of relative performance from an Athlon Thunderbird....

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/10071/rumour_intel_wants_larrabee_in_xbox_720/ Intel wants Larrabee in Xbox 720 Author: TweakTown Staff Intel is pulling out all the stops to get its Larrabee GPUs inside Microsoft's next-gen Xbox (Xbox 720) or another console, according to The Inquirer citing...

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL8VQ Can a Prescott-compatible S-478 motherboard take this (or any) S-478 core-duo???

Tim Tyler wrote: ``Intel scientists find wall for Moore's Law Moore's Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it today, is coming to an end, according to a recent research paper. Granted, that end likely won't come for about two decades, but Intel researchers have...

Is it unwise for me to bjuy a 3.4 Pentium 4 with Windows 64 XP coming out at the end of the year? Will it be obsolete within a year? Should I just buy 64 bit chips from now on? TIA!

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Please don't let this become a religious debate on external memory controllers vs. built-in, but IBM has done some serious bus contention reduction with their new memory controller. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/wp_X3AppServer_020606.pdf -- bill davidsen SBC/Prodigy Yorktown...

A single Linux image running across a 1024 Itanium processor machine. http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,94564,00.html Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

Just out of interest, how does a hardware bug in a CPU get fixed by a software BIOS update? Isn't the bug a physical misconnection in the circuits? -- I go fishing; I catch nothing. I go to orgies; I catch everything.

Hi, What benchmarking utilities would give me a good overview of my computers performance level and alert me to sub-par operation for the given hardware configuration? My system is as follows: Pentium 4 Processor at 2.8GHz with 800MHz front side bus 1 GB DDR 400MHz SDRAM (2 DIMMs)