Hi, I currently have an P4 2.6Mz overclocked to 2.8Mz running on a ASUS P4S8X-X motherboard ( http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4S8X-X&langs=01 ) with 1GB Memory in two sticks of 512BM. I am running WinXP Professional with SP updated. I want to upgrade my processor without changing the...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25573 x86 VMS, Alpha resurrection, etc., etc. Yousuf Khan

Im working on a computer that just had a dvd burner in stalled, memorex, and when I put a DVD movie in and installed interActual player I recived the following error message; "The DVD naavigator was not detected. If you don't have one installed, you will need to upgrade your system. Otherwise, try...

http://www.electric-chicken.co.uk/itoilet.html Reasonably funny and somewhat relevant. -- Rgds, George Macdonald

Elpida announces DDR3 memory chips http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25621

A note from Electronic News.... UMC to Double 90nm Shipments Online staff -- 8/22/2005 Electronic News Claiming the highest number of wafers shipped in 90nm, Hsinchu, Taiwan-based foundry UMC said today it has shipped more than 100,000 wafers on 90nm process technology.

Any recommendations for a socket 939 motherboard with at least 2 IDE ports and 6 SATA ports ? It's important that it's AGP, not PCI-Express, as all PCI-Express VGA cards appear to have chipsets that require proprietary kernel modules and/or X drivers. -- André Majorel...

On 18 Aug 2005 18:37:54 -0400, purefusion wrote: I’ve got a Sony VAIO Laptop (Desktop Replacement) model PCG-K25. I want to know if the processor is SSE3, and what kind of specs it has, core, number, etc. I couldn’t get very far with the processor...

It seems Intel is running tight on low-end chipset capacity at its older fabs, and is going to concentrate on the high-end Centrino chipsets and stuff. That means all of the Celerons will be left high and dry (can't run a CPU without chipset -- yet). It's not likely that the Taiwanese chipset...

Hi folks, Thinking of getting an X2 4400+ and a Gigabyte N4 SLI board at the same time. I know older 939 boards have the option of a BIOS upgrade to make the X2 chips compatible, but I will be buying a new board with the chip and I won't have the chance to upgrade if it isn't compatible out of...

They're trying to replace the old VGA connector again. They've already tried twice with the DVI and HDMI standards, neither of which are particularly popular compared to VGA. Now those two standards will still be with us, as yet another standard, DisplayPort, tries the same thing against VGA. How...

Hi I recently upgraded my CPU From a Athlon 1333 to Sempron 3000+. Now when I watch a Movie (avi,mpeg,etc with every codec) I have many spot moving in the movie like distortion. If I watch a DVD it does the same thing and the sound too have distortion. All images (gif and jpg)have some...

They're trying to replace the old VGA connector again. They've already tried twice with the DVI and HDMI standards, neither of which are particularly popular compared to VGA. Now those two standards will still be with us, as yet another standard, DisplayPort, tries the same thing against VGA. How...

I remeber way back, on another computer I had tried Intel's application accelerator, which was supposed to replace Microsoft's drivers for disk access and so on. I ran into a number of problems and other things, I kind of regretted doing it. I haven't looked at it since. However, I have a somewhat...

Hello everyone! Recently i've bought IBM ThinkPad R31: Celeron Mobile 1200mhz, 256ram. First thing i did was bios update to newest version, then i've cleaned hdd and installed win xp pro from scratch. Also i've downloaded drivers from ibm website and installed them - including power management...

I've just received a slot 1 PIII 650 CPU. Before i replace the PIII 450, i want to know whether PIII 650 will put more stress on the motherboard. I know PIII 650 is obsolete now , but i only use my PC for surfing the net. Question: which one consume more power?PIII 450 or...

I found this article to be pretty good at explaining the current developments among chipset makers in both the Intel and AMD camps. Explains what the most current models are and what their latest features are. I found it a little difficult to keep track of all of the latest product developments of...

Hello everyone, Has anyone ever seen a Socket-939 Sempron in the wild? They are not (yet?) mentioned on AMD's site. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html But, according to AnandTech, two S939 Semprons should be available now, a 1.8GHz+128KB part and a 1.8...

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:00:41 -0500, Ed wrote: Awhile back I posted that Cool n Quite didn't work on my Chaintech VNF3-250 with a Newcastle 3200+. A post on /forums.pcper.com/ suggested it works but only using one stick of ram, hmmmmm interesting, never tried one stick in...

Any idea when P5+ is really coming out? I've heard that yield issues continue. I'd also like to know for sure if I can upgrade my existing P5 servers or not. Thanks.