Intellectual property company Eolas has won a patent lawsuit against Microsoft's Internet Explorer which might cost MS over $500mln: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11963 At issue is whether the ability to run "active content" directly through standard HTML tags like object, embed, or...

Couple of announcements over the past week for Itanium. (1) Itanium goes 90nm. Itanium makes it to 90nm, lowers power requirements http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060128-6071.html (2) Intel, HP, others throw $10B into Itanium promotion. Itanium Chips Attract $10 Billion Investment -...

I'm running an old Athlon 1200 CPU in a fairly new (1yr old) SiS748 chipset socket A board (an ASRock K7S8XE+, to be precise). It's been OCd to 1300 (200x6.5) for a year without probs. 1 256Mb stick of DDR400 RAM, one 120Gb SATA HD, one CDRW. About a month ago it started shutting down randomly -...

Niether Microsoft, AMD, nor Intel are coming clean out to the public about what the conversion to 64bit architecture really entails for backward compatibility and performance degredation of existing applications. Backward compatibility has been the bane of CPU designers for the last 20 years. In...

Hello I have a potential problem and I don't know where else to post it. Anyway I recieved a graphics card (a radeon 9800 xt) yesterday after buying it from ebay (intending to install it myself after hearing from a friend what a peasy task it is). I proceeded to rip open a bag of chips as I was...

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel Discontinues Own-Brand i925X Mainboards http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20041217100730.html Yousuf Khan

Wonder if this is going eliminate the aged capacitors problem? TechBrief: Gigabyte Adopts Solid Polymer Capacitors For Motherboards - PCSTATS.com Address : http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2113

Hello I'm a part time IT student (studying to be a programmer) and I'm trying to start up an IT business (as well as working full time). I'm currently using a Pentium 2-350 with 448 mb PC-100 SDRAM and an ATI Radeon 64mb video card with a SoundBlaster 64 card. I'm using ColdFusion MX to develop a...

Hi, I've got a self-built PC that had an Intel P4 2.00GHz 400FSB 256k cache processor in a Gigabyte GA-PE667 Ultra 2 motherboard, that works really well, but the processor belogs to another computer and needs to go back. To replace it, I purchased an Intel P4 2.66GHz 533FSB 512k cache processor,...

Hi I have an old IBM ThinkPad 2621-427 that where I can't get into this computer Bios. In my manuel and on the net it says that I have to push F1 when I see the Thinkpad logo on startup. I don't get the startup logo, but I only get the menu where i can choose between windows xp and 2000. I can't...

Robert Myers wrote: My (ahem) Dell 8100 has no CPU fan as such. The rear case fan connects to a shroud which surrounds the CPU heat sink and allows air in only through a gap between the shroud and the motherboard. That means not only no CPU fan, but the airflow around the heatsink is...

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:14:07 -0500, EdG wrote: The world's largest chipmaker now plans to begin volume production of the next version of the Itanium chip, code-named Montecito, in mid-2006, pushing it back from its initial plans for volume production in the first quarter of...

More European govts are getting on the bandwagon to ban Microsoft from ever selling anything to them again. This time the EC is offering an extensive guideline to member govts about how to migrate away from Microsoft software, even on the desktop, were Linux isn't quite ready yet to fill the...

For the longest time Intel was the world's largest flashram producer, followed by the Fujitsu & AMD joint venture. Now it looks like Samsung and Toshiba have bypassed both groups and are now #1 & #2. http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031121.gtflashnov21/BNStory/Technology/ They...

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Hi, I just had some quick questions about overheating in my computer. First, I recently brought a brand new cooler (http://www.xoxide.com/xraider.html) which I hooked up to my AMD Athlon 1.2 ghz processor. I did this because I thought my cpu temperature was much too high. However, after installing...

March 29th, 2005 Tested: 64-Bit P4 PC World Contributor Jon L. Jacobi Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition desktop processors launched in February, giving the 64-bit computing future that started with Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon 64 chips even more traction.

Hello all. I need to find out what the L2 cache size and FSB frequency of the AMD Athlon 2500+ are... Are there different makes of this cpu? How are they to be identified? Many thanks in advance, -arifi

Hey, i am new to this forum and wasnt sure which category to place this inquiry but if anyone can help i'd appreciate it...I have a an (April, 2004) Compaq Presario PC. I was wondering if anyone knows how much i might be able to get for it or if there is a website that can assist me in finding this...