I will write this, because it is a sort of funny conclusion I came to yesterday. It affects this groups subject, no I am not a gamer, do not have a ps2 or xbox no. This is the 'train of thought': Many people in Europe use an old PC (say K6 or Duron) as video recorder for digital satellite TV,...

I've been moving disk drives (DVD and HDD) around and upgrading OS (SuSE 9.0 to 10.0) over the past couple of days. In the process I've been playing with BIOS to get the drives ordered the way I wanted (and figure out who listens to BIOS drive ordering ;). While trying to figure out some...

Today is the day that Intel officially introduces Woodcrest to the public. http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/06/26/xeon_woodcrest_preys_on_opteron_uk/index.html

I've always been curious about this because these devices have to bridge multiple types of buses. -- Doug

Hi Everyone: I have a neurological disability called Asperger's Syndrome. I would like to give you some information about my disability. The reason I am posting this message about Asperger's is to help avoid any potential misunderstandings . I have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (AS)....

A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/technology/07chip.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

Hello, I've been asked to build a system capable of reading and writing "raw" high-definition video, namely HD-SDI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Digital_Interface AFAIK no single HDD can handle 1.485 Gbit/s (186 MB/s). I suppose one way around this problem is RAID 0 (striping).

There seems to be some interest in this group about Dell. Here is a URL for their Q3 results: http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,87110,00.html Some highlights: "Revenue was $10.6 billion, 16% higher than the $9.1 billion reported in the same quarter of 2002 and up more than...

See he http://www.e-insite.net/electronicnews/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA310195&stt=000&industryid=21368&industry=Memory Seems like our friends have invented point to point differential signalling for data, combined with a single-ended bus for addresses. Get ready to be held up! ...

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34021

Do the Athlon 64's feature a shared memory bus? Can the north bridge in Athlon 64 systems directly read/write system memory (without utilizing the A64's built-in memory controller)? I'm guessing the north bridge can, but I'm not sure. -- Doug

I have a AMD Pro 3100A+ Processor running on a PC Chips M825G MainBoard. ( http://tinyurl.com/47fus ) with 1GB of DDR. Windows reports it as a AMD Athlon XP 2000+ Does anyone know why? BTW, its running at 1.67GHz and its not clocked. --

Interesting the AMD 45nm technology does not yet include High-K & Metal Gates (HKMG), yet it uses 15-30% less power. Of course AMD does use SOI, which Intel doesn't. So it looks like currently SOI utilizes power better than HKMG, but AMD also plans to use HKMG in later 45nm revision. Yousuf...

Pentium M has all the right ingredients for total world domination: low power consumption, short pipeline stages, hi-performance. Pentium M will kill its brother Pentium 4 and its ******* cousin Athlon. PowerPC is a Neanderthal that's nearing its end (Jobs figured that out). But ARM will survive...

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel Confirms New CPU Architecture to Launch in Late 2006. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20050512111032.html One interesting thing they mentioned is that they're going to attempt to retain Hyperthreading even with the new less-pipelined core. Hyperthreading...

Intel is introducing a type of DRAM called FB-DIMMs (fully buffered). Apparently the idea is to be able to put any kind of DRAM technology (e.g. DDR1 vs. DDR2) behind a buffer without having to worry about redesigning your memory controller. Of course this intermediate step will add some latency to...

The following story contains some very tantalizing combinations of things that have never been associated with each other befo http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39116947,00.htm It's a demo of the shoot'em'up game America's Army, running on a 64-bit Linux kernel, running on...

At some point in time, some of the folks here doubted that DDR2 would present a capacity problem. I would like to instruct those individuals to read the following PDF, in particular, page 37. http://www-5.ibm.com/ch/events/fachtagung/pdf/system_x_performance.pdf Just so you don't miss the...

AMD introduced 4 new Athlon 64 and FX models. However each one seems to be designed for three different types of sockets. Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ are designed for the Socket 939, while Athlon 64 3700+ is designed for Socket 754. Meanwhile are now two FX-53 models, the older one designed for...

Jim Carlson and Jerry Huck's "Itanium Rising" book as described in the following article: http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/stories.php?story=04/06/14/7665801 Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)