There's some good potshots at Intel for not being able to hit 4Ghz with Pentium 4, but the really funny shot goes against Apple/IBM for not getting G5 out at 3Ghz. Intel's in good company. Nobody hit the chip speeds they promised. In June 2003, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said IBM's G5 chips would be...

I guess it was long assumed anyways. Microsoft nixes Windows XP for Itanium http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0104micronixes.html Yousuf Khan

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel-Microsoft Dominance to Vanish, Says Research Group http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20050110091351.html Gee, it looks like it's been IBM that's been taking on Intel all of this time, just like Linux has been taking on Microsoft all of this time. What...

I exchanged a number of msgs with George and others just a coupla weeks ago. The problematic PC has now been back to the vendor and thoroughly checked/burned etc for about 3 days with NO problems found. They reckoned the difficulty must have been caused by using Win 98 --- so we bit the bullet and...

This is a little off topic, but I have a PVR with Windows XP pro, floppy, harddrive, tv-card, on a Aopen Motherboard. The problem I am having is this motherboard does not support usb2 or even usb booting off an external DVD burner. I have tried every setting in the bios to get this to boot off the...

Several months ago, a port on an NEC-based USB card failed (a section of its LM3526 power controller & overcurrent protection chip blew), and just recently the same happened to an ALI-based USB card. I'm pretty sure I didn't zap either card with high voltage because I always touch the outer metal...

Excuse me if this question has been asked many times before. I have a Toshiba 480cdt laptop that normally takes pc66 memory upgrades. I want to upgrade the memory but have had a hard time finding this type. However, pc100 memory seems to be plentiful. Will the pc100 memory work properly (albeit...

"DRAM Remarking in Taiwan" http://www.aceshardware.com/read_news.jsp?id=80000562 Yousuf Khan

Hi, all ... Yes, my latest quest at addressing the heat issues with my Prescott core 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 chip are going from the sublime to the ridiculous. With the stock fan that came with the unit (a Powerspec 9262), when I do DVD renders the CPU is popping above 75C with the other two sensors in...

This is a little off topic, but I have a PVR with Windows XP pro, floppy, harddrive, tv-card, on a Aopen Motherboard. The problem I am having is this motherboard does not support usb2 or even usb booting off an external DVD burner. I have tried every setting in the bios to get this to boot off the...

This is a little off topic, but I have a PVR with Windows XP pro, floppy, harddrive, tv-card, on a Aopen Motherboard. The problem I am having is this motherboard does not support usb2 or even usb booting off an external DVD burner. I have tried every setting in the bios to get this to boot off the...

This is a little off topic, but I have a PVR with Windows XP pro, floppy, harddrive, tv-card, on a Aopen Motherboard. The problem I am having is this motherboard does not support usb2 or even usb booting off an external DVD burner. I have tried every setting in the bios to get this to boot off the...

Hhhhhello to everybody I need a machine that can do graphics very well (I develop in OpenGL/DirectX and I also play games), but I need to convince my wife of the budget i need for it, so i know i can't spend US$2000 on it. I also wanna get something that won't get outdated too soon, and I...

A week ago my comptuter froze up a couple of times. I have the AM Athlon XP 2500+. I checked for viruses etc... It was none of that. ran a diagnostic program and it said my cpu fan had failed. I change the fan and put in a nice Speeze fan. It is running at 2300rp according to my BIOS. Well...

hi, can anyone tell me please what does it mean (1) Asus AMI "addon rom display mode" "force bios" or "keep current" ? (2) Suspend modes S1(pos) S3 (str) ? (3) "bootup number lock" on/off - when is this useful ? many thanks,

Okay, y'all -- you need to thank me for doing this ... to say nothing of the expense, there is the general PRINCIPAL of having done business with a proprietary (or at least semi-proprietary) PC maker. But I just HAD to see how this BTX design performs. Okay, first, thank goodness, the Intel...

Folks, I'm putting a new disk and adding memory to a friend's Thinkpad T20. I got a 40 Gb disk and two 256-Mb Viking chips (PC-100 compliant). If I put in both chips, I frequently get a BSOD that appears to indicate bad memory. However, if I put in one of these new chips and one of the older...

Trying to decide on a new notebook for work and was wondering if anyone has a good comparisonsite for Intel CPUS, specifically PIII 1.2Ghz vs. Pentium M 1.5 - 1.8Ghz range vs. P4 mobile around the 3Ghz range. No one compares them to older CPUs like the PIII that I currently have. Just trying to...

Well, apparently Intel had a very good quarter, and it hurt AMD. Mostly in the realm of flash memory not processors where the hurting happened, but it does reflect on the whole company. Apparently Intel took back significant marketshare in the flashram realm; and flash is more important to AMD than...

Pretty humourous little article about why 64-bit is finally coming, and why it took so long. :-) http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.view&news=4448 Yousuf Khan