Even though it's the Reg, but still... http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/21/intel_trademark_filings/ Kinda goes together with the "inside" logo change. As if they at INTC have nothing else to take care of. NNN

The SuperComputing 2005 shindig in Seattle is over - with no news about the Horus demo that was supposed to have happened there. Google/Yahoo doesn't find anything other than pre-conference speculation. Anybody got solid news about what did or didn't happen ?

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm "With both SQL Server and Citrix Terminal Server installations, HT-enabled motherboards show markedly degraded performance under heavy load. Disabling HT restores expected levels, according to reports from within the IT industry." For those who...

I am experiencing odd behavior during power off. The first symptom I noticed was at the point during the power off sequence when normally the power would go completely off, the speakers made a noise like dit-dit-dit-dit in a slowing sequence that finally stopped. The dits started about 3/sec and...

"Top 10 Reasons Intel will not Participate in the Dual-Core Duel" http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27781 10. Tried to follow their own roadmap to get to the duel 9. Decided to take the "front-side bus" to the duel; got stuck in a bottleneck 8. The "Intel Inside" stickers they used to...

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:49:39 -0600, EdG wrote: Charles Chou, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DigiTimes.com Sampling Intel’s 65nm dual-core Presler processors has revealed some stability problems, according to unspecified motherboard makers, adding that the problematic CPUs include...

Hi, I have a Sony Vaio laptop model PCG-FX501. I can't find any information anywhere for an upgrade CPU for it. Has anyone any ideas? Thanks, Peter. -- pollys13

Geek.com Geek News - AMD's quad-core CPUs will also sport L3 cache http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Nov/bch20051116033332.htm Looks like the L3 cache is more like the buffer in a network switch. It will keep data localized as much as possible to prevent too much cache coherency traffic from...

"As planned the Tokyo Tech system will be the world's largest and fastest cluster as measured by core CPU count and peak performance, respectively. It will include more than 21 terabytes of memory and 1.1 petabytes of hard disk storage, again exceeding all competing systems within the Asia-Pacific...

I'm not entirely sure what VIA is going to stop using of Intel's, from this article. Are they referring to it's not going to renew its x86 license? I can't see how VIA can possibly get around that one. Or are they saying that VIA is not going to renew its bus license with Intel? This one is an...

Itanium was (recently) supposed to be a specialist in the HPC market, was it not? It's gone from 84 systems down to 46. So it doesn't look like it's very good for the HPC market either. What's left in niches? Itanium loses out in supercomputing rankings - ZDNet UK...

Someone gave me an old PC with an ASUSTeK MB, a P2B-LS, apparently it's a SLOT1. I'm I want to get a new processor, something new and fast maybe Athlon, around 2.5 G. So I'm wondering what chips are compatible...I don't understand all the slot and socket types. Can it be done or do I need to get a...

EdG wrote: Sieving was done on 80 2.2-GHz Opteron CPUs and took 3 months. The matrix step was performed on a cluster of 80 2.2-GHz Opterons connected via a Gigabit network and took about 1.5 months. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-11-08/rsa-640/ So does this mean that now RSA is...

Well it looks like bad capacitors are in the news again, this time even making the popular press: http://news.com.com/PCs+plagued+by+bad+capacitors/2100-1041_3-5942647.html?tag=nefd.pop As someone who has experienced this exact issue on my home PC (using an MSI K7N420 motherboard) as well as...

Very detailed and technical play-by-play of somebody discovering a rootkit installed on their system by Sony Corp.! You gotta wonder what somebody could do if they weren't familiar with the low-level details of a Windows system, like this guy was? Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and...

i've got an old duron (morgan) 1.3GHz cpu, with an arctic cooling 3 sink, its idle temp is 50C, load about 60C - is this normal for a duron ...? (this is with medium fan speed but high doesn't really help). its quite a small case with 1 6cm exhaust fan, no sff psu very close to cpu.

A blurb at the inquirer takes you to this: http://www.tecchannel.de/server/hardware/432957/ "Dempsey" = 3.2 GHz dual-core, with 533 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMMs Opty 280 = 2.2 GHz dual-core, with PC3200 DDR ECC Reg Paxville = 2.8 GHz dual-core, with PC3200 DDR ECC Reg The article is in German, but as...

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:58:23 -0600, EdG wrote: http://www.2cpu.com/review.php?id=110&page=1 No surprise - 2 year old single core 130nm Opty246 beaten by not yet released latest and greatest Intel 65nm dual core (though 246 still managed to win a few benchmarks). Should've been...

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Intel restarts production of entry-level chipset in response to AMD's succes- Softpedia http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-restarts-production-of-entry-level-chipset-in-response-to-AMD-s-succes-11998.shtml