Win $100! A little creative writing or programming could do it. Submission Guidelines HERE.

Eddie Bauer wins $100 for his laptop review;  Kris Courter and   John "Hoot" Hill  each won $100 for their outstanding contributions. - Thanks to all!!

DVD Decryptor Crypted It is D (as in Dead)-Day for DVD Decryptor; it has ceased to exist. Read the explanation from the author here.

ASUS Z71A Joe completes his review.

Apple To Go x86? If it's going to happen, it's going to happen Monday. We explain what exactly Apple is most likely to do, and why the time could be ripe to do this.

PC Air Conditioning Joe finds a few companies at Computex who want you to pump cold air into your case.

New Intel Stuff: DRMed Or Not? Of course it is, and so will AMD's and everyone else's stuff.

More on i-RAM Joe talks to the Gigabyte folks at Computex about it, and Ed adds a little more info, and more advice to the mix.

Computex: Water Water Everywhere Lots of water cooling kits - a first look HERE.

I Want It! Some of you may have only visiting the site for a year or two, and thus have never seen Ed enthusiastic about a new product. Here's your chance. :)

Overclocking The Dell Inspiron 6000 Robbie Wilson tells us how.

Computex: Items Worthy Of Note A few points and comments here and there.

U.S. Memorial Day We thank and honor those who served and serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, and especially those who served in World War II. Without them, there would have been a European Union, alright, Hitler's, and we might be buying Tojos rather than Sonys.

More On Duallies Intel make not make as many Ds as predicted. This is even more reason for AMD to be aggressive on duallies. Unless they can't, of course.

Overclocking Duallies A couple tests indicate that for most overclockers, AMD is the clear choice. Too bad they're a bunch of losers.

Vantec Mach 1 Heatpipe Heatsink "Very pretty colonel - but can they fight?" Test Results HERE.

ThermalRight XP-90 SALE HeatsinkFactory.com is having a sale on ThermalRight's XP-90 for only $29.99 starting today! This offer ends Sunday at 12:00m. The XP-90 is a top rated heatsink - Our Test HERE.

Laptop Overheating? Check The Heatsink Jon's experience is not uncommon - Details HERE..

Prescotts Not So Hot Anymore Does less heat make them cool to buy now? What about duals? Our thoughts on this.

Flash Hard Drives Samsung will shortly release an all flash-memory based hard drives. Our thoughts on this.

ASUS Z71A - An Overclocking DTR Notebook Hot overclock but hot CPU? Find out the heat differential between running 1.6 and 2.13 GHz HERE.

ASUS Z71A - An Overclocking DTR Notebook A drop-dead-no-brainer-easy-as-pie-the-gods-must-be-crazy 33% overclock HERE.

From Hotrodding To Golf Pretty soon you'll be able to lay out $250-$300 to answer the physics questions for your jock video card. Can there be any doubt that gaming is leaving the hotrod era and turning into golf?

Socket 754 Owners Why your next CPU upgrade could well be HERE.

ASUS Z71A - An Overclocking DTR Notebook There are notebooks, and then there are notebooks that can be overclocked. This DIY notebook has real potential - Part I HERE.

Asetek WaterChill CPU/VGA/Chipset Power Kit - KT12AT-SL35 What's the performance difference with only the CPU waterblock and with GPU and chipset waterblocks added into the loop? Test Results HERE.

Rev E. Speeds There's enough results out there to answer the question, Can I get 3GHz?

All Marketeers Are Liars When you buy equipment, what are you really buying? Good hardware or good feelings?

How I Lapped my Heat Sink Jeff's DIY HERE.

Computex - What's On Your Mind? Have a burning hardware question? Maybe an answer HERE.

Bill Gates Says The iPod Is An iFad We think he's absolutely right for absolutely the wrong reason.

Will AMD Go All Dual Soon? We're afraid this is yet another case of AMD speaking with forked tongue.

Alpha PRE9060 Pentium 4 (LGA775) Heatsink A new entry from Alpha for LGA775 only - Test Results HERE.

How-To Install An Inverter Into A Vehicle If you want to run 110 volt appliances in your car, READ THIS.

Dual-Core Hammers Lots of talk, but it's just hot air. With its non-competitive pricing against the no-doubt inferior Pentium D, AMD gets the hails, Intel will get the sales, and that's the only scoreboard that counts.

Dynapower Black Widow ATX Mid-Tower Case An attention getter for sure, with good cooling and convenience features - Details HERE.

Sticker Shock We price out a decent Athlon 64 system. The results may stun a lot of Athlon XP owners.

Party Like It's 2099 There's a time travellers' convention tonight. No, this is not another scifi convention. They want doers, not talkers. We explain why this is bound to flop, even if time travel is possible. Update 5/8/05: Nobody showed.

Two Money Savers We offer a couple suggestions to the less than rabid on how to save some money on a socket 939 system.

Do You Go Both Ways? We explain why early buyers of Revision E Hammers need to be biTESTual when trying out these chips, and report which way works best.

Asetek WaterChill CPU/VGA/Chipset Power Kit - KT12AT-SL35 From the Land of Hamlet, a performance watercooling kit - Test Results HERE.

Mouse Clicking Troubles? DIY Repair Doug's DIY rescues a failing mouse - Details HERE.

Venice Benchmarking We have a new Venice, E stepping user with some Venice benchmarks in the OC forums at up to 3.28GHz. Granted, he's using a Prometeia, but 2.9Ghz at default, and 3.2GHz with a small voltage increase isn't bad.

You can see an ongoing thread where others are reporting on their Venice results here

Are You Hurting? We asked laptop users whether portability left them hurting. Feel their pain (or lack thereof).

Flashy Hard Drives? What do you get when you combine flash with a hard drive? We wonder.

Become a Folding Mentor Helping a worthy cause - Details HERE.

AMD In 2006 We talk about their plans.

LapWorks Laptop Legs A neat way to increase cooling - Details HERE.

Kingwin Portable 5.25" Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Attractive and sturdy - Details HERE.

iBaby Little Stevie Jobs pitches a fit and Apple bans a whole category of books from their stores. Will Macsters stand up for themselves, or will they suck up to Stevie again?

Smells Like Team Spirit Our computing teams want you!

Windows XP for 64-bit An OS swap is now available for users of WinXP Pro, but we explain why only the adventurous-bordering-on-foolhardy would do this very soon.

Laptop Tips John shares his views on keeping your laptop from becoming a paperweight HERE.

Common Cooling Misconceptions Johnathon's collection of corrections HERE. Feel free to chime in!

CompUSA Rebate Problems? Greg emailed me about his rebate issues with CompUSA's recent Compaq laptop, which I reviewed HERE. Turns out the FTC caught CompUSA on this issue - if you are having a rebate problem, dropping a line to the FTC might help.

Has Going To A Laptop Been Painful? We don't mean figuratively, we're asking users if it is literally painful.

Here We Go Again AMD's dual-core Athlon 64 announcement is just a reheated old stunt.

Laptop Favorites - Big Blue Best? Readers chime in on their favorites, and why - Details HERE.

Tech Talk - Favorite Laptop Don't be blue if it's not yours - Details HERE.

The Dual-Core Wars Begin What you need to understand is that this will be a different kind of war.

Suppose We Had To Expect This Go here, and you can see the VatiCAM.

So long as they don't turn it into a reality TV show, I guess. :)

AMD Conference Call Unusually, it provided a few official confirmations on some long-standing predictions of ours that could affect whether you'll buy, what you'll buy and when you'll buy it.

A Tool For Its Time We point out a very useful tool for those beginning to consider an upgrade.

User Laptop Review - IBM ThinkPad R Series Paul's experience with "Big Blue" HERE.

Tech Talks on Laptops Makito's take on various laptop models HERE.

Is It Enough? After asking you about whether or not you'll upgrade to the latest and greatest AMD platform, we find out that AMD's biggest opposition for upgraders' dollars isn't Intel, but rather ATI and nVidia.

Laptop Favorite?? I'm still interested in feedback from laptop techs - our readers want to know - what brand do you favor and why?? - Email Joe with the goods; also if you want to share your expertise based on what you see every day, drop me a line.

XBox2 To Be Introduced On MTV by Frodo. Sheesh, what's going to be the slogan for XBox2? "One Box To Rule Them All"?

A Useful Interview If you'd like some clues as to what Intel will do the next few years (things like socket changes, memory standards, how long PCI devices will work in new Intel machines), read this.

Laptops - A Tech's View Zach shares some thoughts based on his repair experiences HERE.

Dell Inspiron 9100 Review - Comment David, a Dell repair tech, shares some thoughts on them HERE.

OK - I know there are other techs reading this - how about sharing some of your expertise on various brands with us?? Can be posted as "anonymous" if you like - email Joe with the goods.

Is This Enough For You? We now have early indications of what these new AMD chips will do. Is it enough for you?

How To Tell Them Apart How to tell new Hammers from old ones, that is.

Scythe Kamaboko CPU Cooler A heatpipe heatsink with a rheostat controlled fan - Test Results HERE.

Thermalright XP-90C Heatpipe Heatsink All copper version of the XP-90 - Test Results HERE.

A Crisis In Counting The first dual-cores show that the old ways of measuring performance have to be changed. Two cores are going to require two-dimensional reviews and benchmarking. One size won't fit all anymore.

Hot Oil Cooling may be just the thing for the dual-core era sometime next year.

A 10-minute history of the Internet: Al Gore - Present Steffan's take on it HERE.

Cyberpower XPLORER U3-1000 Laptop Review Peter's take on a lightweight laptop - Details HERE.

An Opteron Roadmap shows one piece of good news for prospective AMD buyers.

New Interview, Old Attitudes Recent interviews indicate that neither Intel nor AMD get Cell.

Kingwin Ultra Cool Laptop Cooler Very nice bundle of features - Details HERE.

Memory The price of memory modules keeps dropping and dropping and dropping.

HP 4805US Laptop Review Eric shares his experience with it HERE.

Some Comments About Video Games from a Senator talking about you.

Electronic Paper Recent events move this technology from blue sky to merely over the horizon.

Arcticlear Preview Arctic Silver's new cleaner - Details HERE.

Project: OverMOD Chris's journey to a "QUIET and POWERFUL rig that is based on the BEST REVIEWED hardware at reasonable prices" - Details HERE.

ThermalRight XP-90 C Now available from The Heatsink Factory - this is the all-copper version of ThermalRight's heat pipe cooler; it can use either an 80mm or 92mm fan.

No Instant Gratification If you buy new equipment largely for the purchasing high, you ought to realize that most of the "innovations" that will be trumpted the rest of this year are the tech equivalent of time-released capsules.

65nm Talk How important is when and how CPU companies get to 65nm? Depending on your perspective, either a lot or very little.

IceStorm nVidia Geforce 6600GT VGA Heatsink Replacement for the stock heatsink - Test Results HERE.

Little Billy Gates Benefited From Not Having a PC This was the title of a recent Los Angeles Times article which blames PCs for the current state of education in the U.S. We find it monumentally stupid, and cut it up.

Linux And The Developing World Is adopting Linux a no-brainer in the Third World? Yeah, it's a no-brainer, alright. You have to have no brain (and/or live in an ivory tower) to think that given what's happening there real-life, real-time.

How Much Of A Competitor Will Cell Be To PCs This will not be decided on technical issues or merits. The Cell people will win or lose based on the extent they realize that PC vs. Cell is really Geeks vs. Sixpacks and side with the Sixpacks.

More Hardware Complexity means more software complexity, which will have effects on what and how much you get to use/play with that you may not like very much.

Revision E and nForce As we suspected, it looks like problems between Rev. E Hammers and nForce boards are fixable in BIOS

The Wait Is Almost Over We comment on some first, encouraging results from an E stepping Athlon 64.

CPU Pricing We discuss where it's likely to go the next six months.

25% By 2008 This is what AMD head Hector Ruiz wants AMD's marketshare to be by 2008. Not a crazy goal, but are going to have to change big-time or die over the next number of years.

Sixpacks In Action Computers are geeky. So is HDTV. Some amazing survey data about HDTV users illustrates how computer companies are going to have to change big-time or die over the next number of years.

If You Have or (more likely) know somebody who bought something from CompUSA and didn't get a rebate, you ought to take a look at this

ALERT! Better hold off buying a Hammer nForce board for a little while.

The Hermaphroditic Motherboard ECS can come out with a mobo that will run either AMD or Intel chips. Could someone please tell me why?

Apple Court Decision Why this decision, if upheld, would be really bad news for all of us.

UXD Quick Tech Personal Joe talks about the personal version of this diagnostic suite, along with an Overclockers.com discount.

E Stepping Desktop Hammers Next Month You can read about it here. We'll talk more about this over the weekend, but we're approaching potty or not time.

UXD Quick Tech Pro Joe gets all diagnostic on you today.

Physics Processing Unit Well, how much more are you willing to pay to see blood splatter better?

90nm Semprons Out Are they worth buying? We discuss.

Compaq Presario 2232US Notebook A CompUSA Deal - How good? My take on it HERE.

Gamers Like real-time Internet hunting and killing. Will they also like real-time real-life Internet killing?

New Life For Socket 478? Have a socket 478 system but cringe at the thought of putting a Prescott into your box? Help is on its way.

DVD Player Blowhole Hot drive? Cool solution HERE.

Multicores, X86-64, SLI, Vanderpool This is all well and good, but could someone please explain to me why normal people would want to go out and buy this stuff?

Intel Developer Forum The most interesting news coming from there is how slow 65nm dual-cores are.

Kingwin Super Shuttle USB 2.0 5.25" EIDE Drive Enclosure Joe takes a look at it.

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