Big discounts if you're using AMD or Intel dual-cores, but the biggest discount if you're using UltraSparc T1. Oracle Favors Sun in Licensing Change http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3572056 Yousuf Khan

Intel Yonah is auto-overclocking http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28431 Here's a description: Lets take the auto-overclocking in Yonah for example. If you buy a CPU at 2.16GHz, you expect it to act like the rest of the 2.16GHz CPUs. If that CPU can ramp up to 2.33 when circumstances permit...

Australian IT - Intel touts new laptop chip (Scott Hillis in San Francisco, DECEMBER 14, 2005) http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17565420%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Albeit, the article is not perfect: Napa comes as Intel's chief rival, AMD, makes inroads in laptop computers with...

AMD unwraps notebook reference platform | Channel Register http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/12/15/amd_yamato_centrino/

I've got an IBM eServer xseries 225 8649 type running XP Pro with SP2. This system comes with a 7505 Intel Chipset with an on-board video mini-pci ATI Rage XL PCI card. I would like to upgrade it to a Nvidia G-Force 6200 graphics card that I have fitted into the AGP Pro slot on the board but I only...

Got a refund today on my faulty graphics card, and now looking at getting a new one. Faulty card was a Geforce 6800 GT 256MB Ram I haven't been keeping up much with the latest developments since buying this so am a bit out of touch. I got a budget of around £200 and am a bit confused over...

Just a random question that came to my mind reading about the FB-DIMM thing. With the added chip, it allows subsequent ram tech to use the same interface and suppose to allow greater number of DIMM modules to be used. Some time ago, I remember reading here that having pieces of plug-in ram is...

Quoted from PCWorld's latest Reliability & Service survey: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,123409,pg,1,00.asp. I hadn't realized how far things had gone he e.g. on its low-end systems, they have a 90-day warranty and for ~$25. you can get it extended to 1-year.... is that nuts or...

Leading by design: Q&A with Dr. Raghuram Tupuri, AMD http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20051212PR200.html

"AMD jumps amid signs of gaining share on Intel" http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=technology&storyID=nN09149445&imageid=&cap= But looks like some of these securities anal...ysts just don't know what they are writing. --begin quote-- Cody Acree, an analyst with Stifel...

Hi, Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question but my understanding is that the smaller you can make the devices the faster potentially they can perform. However there is a limit. Considering the speed of processors in PC's has increased from 100MHz or so to 3GHz, what is the fastest speed that...

Does anybody know how to change the IRQ's associated with the different PCI slots on the Intel 945GNT motherboards? We have used Intel motherboards in the past (the last ones were 915 chipset based) with the iRMX OS and some PCI cards (network, Digi CX concentrator cards and our own custom board)...

High, I am about to buy my first PC, and hope this forum can help me with some advice. I was looking in the shops, and some PC cary a warning 'Intel inside'. I asked the salesman what the warning was about, and he explained that the 'DMA' (I think it was) PC has a fast processor, and those with the...

Something strange observed with one of my old boxes after WinXP reinstalled (clean install - partition deleted and recreated). Harddisk activities (files copied from drive to drive, or over the network) causes CPU load up to 100% sustained for the duration of activity(as per task mgr). Most of the...

Hi... Maybe someone has experience with this board... I inherited this motherboard (FIC KA-6100) from a friend and I want to make it work. It used to work before it started gathering dust when the HDD went... Anyway, from what I can determine, the CPU is a 233 MHZ Pentium II (deschutes) overclocked...

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2627 Looks like a winner in thin-n-light and possibly other cases when low power usage warrants some (noticeable but not much) compromise in performance.

Hello, a good IT resource, with information on history of computing, computer Hardware and how things do work http://www.it-pedia.com Simon

Now for something completely different. Rambus sued over patent violation http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28036 Yousuf Khan

Has anyone seen any benchmark comparisons out there which compare the Intel dual core processors against the same clock speed XEON x 2? It's like there's a conspiracy by Intel to not allow the two to be compared. I suspect that the Pentium D 820 (2.8GHz) would be quite close to the XEON parts. Or...

Microsoft has been successfully able to turn around the Massachusetts policy about document formats. EETimes.com - Massachusetts flips, sides with Microsoft http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174402121