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"MAJOR TOPIC AREAS FOR REVIEWS AND TIPS"
- 3/14/07: CPU Die Flatness Tests Interesting results - Ian Anderson
- 4/26/06: ASUS P5WD2 Premium & Intel 920 Processor Review - Peter Wick
- 8/23/04: COOLING SOCKET 478 PRESCOTTS Practical tips - Bryan Bain and Dave Casole
- 8/1/04: Connecting To The AMD On-Die Thermal Diode Mod for direct die temp readings - Willy Lorenzo
- 10/10/03: AMD Bridge soldering Another example approach - Doug Leeper
- 10/3/03: CPU Overclocking On The Cheap AMD Bridge soldering - Nicolas Zegers
- 10/1/03: Overclocking The Very Low-End Cheap upgrade, excellent performance - Stephan Höneise
- 5/22/03: The Removal of a P4 Integrated Heat Spreader Also shows how much the temp improves - Cody Stasyk
- 3/14/03: Lapping Theory - Is It "Perfectly" Flat?" Some answers on a common practice - USASMA
- 2/26/03: Standard GD&T Specifications and the P4 Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) It's flatter than you think! - HighFlowRod
- 2/11/03: P4 IHS Heat Distribution Temp analysis of the P4's copper cap - Joe
- 12/11/02: AMD CPUs - High DOAs? User's responses - Joe
- 11/23/02: Do We Really Need To Answer The 64-Bit Question? Is a 64-bit processor really a worthwhile concept? - Brian Bedingfield
- 11/7/02: Celeron Overclocking - 3 GHz Possible? High performance on the cheap - Alex Dumas
- 8/24/02: Pentium 4 1.8A Shoot Out - Three different chips and motherboard chipsets tested-- Jason
- 8/24/02: BAPCO A bad benchmark is no better than an evil one.-- Ed
- 7/17/02: CPU Die Size - The Cooling Challenge Ahead - Joe
- 5/7/02: Hoot's AMD Diode Reader How-To read CPU temps on-die -- Hoot
- 4/26/02: A Little More On Dual DDR Why this will be important for some in the future. -- Ed
- 4/25/02: Deliberate Confusion? The Opteron announcement is much less than enlightening. -- Ed
- 4/22/02: SSE3? Intel plans optimizations for hyperthreading. -- Ed
- 4/22/02: AMD vs. AMD Will UMC end up a partner or a competitor? -- Ed
- 4/20/02: Joe Rules, Not You It will be the average Joe who will decide whether or not processors like Hammer will succeed, not the experts. -- Ed
- 4/20/02: An Enormous Success? Some facts and figures on how well AMD and Intel have been doing. -- Ed
- 4/18/02: AMD 1Q Earnings If you can wait until 2003, XP successors will be a bargain. -- Ed
- 4/17/02: The Next Alpha? With some "help" from Intel, AMD's Hammer could have a rough time gaining acceptance. -- Ed
- 4/17/02: Intel's First Quarter Results Only real difference was an accounting entry. -- Ed
- 4/12/02: Six Weeks To Get Out of the Gate AMD's large window for TBred introduction indicates some juggling going on. -- Ed
- 4/8/02: An Overlooked Overclocking Option The Willamette Celeron can be overclocked, too. -- Ed
- 4/6/02: Patience, Patience Intel-AMD is a Cold War; there are no decisive battles. -- Ed
- 4/4/02: Code Cracking Seeing what a few letters printed on a few 2.4GHz CPUs can tell us -- Ed
- 4/4/02: PIV 2.4: What You Need To Know The title says it all. -- Ed
- 3/28/02: Getting Out Of Hand Some comments about the Aberdeen White Paper and its criticisms of AMD. -- Philip Lee Willson
- 3/28/02: Aberdeen Drops A Cow This White Paper about AMD is so bad, Ed spends most of his time talking about something else: the accusation of "bias." -- Ed
- 3/26/02: Sales, Market Share, ASP How AMD and Intel are doing. -- Ed
- 3/25/02: Lull A long-range look ahead, and why you may want to save up for a while. -- Ed
- 2/27/02: Making a Printed Circuit Board for an Athlon XP Diode Reader A detailed How-To -- Pudge
- 2/4/02: My Northwood 1.6A Overclocking Experiences A very good overclocker.-- FrankisGER
- 2/2/02: Voltage Voltage can destroy; respect it.-- Ed
- 1/29/02: PIV Vs. XP Analysis With fairly cheap low-speed Northwoods, it's pretty much even at the moment.-- Ed
- 1/27/02: A PIV Anamoly Running PIV faster may not mean they perform better.-- Tim Cole
- 1/25/02: Hammer Gets Hammered
Intel contingency plans are bad news for AMD.-- Ed
- 1/24/02: CPU Pricing
AMD CPUs pricing seem to be softening.-- Ed
- 1/22/02: Looking for Low-Speed Northwoods
Initial tips on finding these.-- Ed
- 1/22/02: 1.8 Northwood Overclocking
A Northwood pioneer reports.-- Dylan Williams
- 1/21/02: AMD Update
AMD's future plans analyzed.-- Ed
- 1/18/02: Early Northwood Overclocking
First look at overclocking Northwood results.-- Ed
- 1/18/02: A Peculiar Kind Of Bias
Followup on the "AMD Gets Cowed" article.-- Ed
- 1/17/02: AMD Gets Cowed Read the facts rather than the spin from the AMD conference call, and you get a different message.-- Ed
- 1/17/02: The Intel PIVs Thermal Diodes An overview of how these work and what "CPU Thermal Throttling" does in BIOS. -- Joe
- 1/16/02: PIV Memory Scores at 166Mhz An early report. -- Tim Cole
- 1/1/02: PIV SDRAM vs PIV DDR vs XP DDR vs T-Bird SDRAM - HELP! Cross platform benchmark comparisons. -- Joe
- 12/5/01: Celeron 1600 vs XP 1600 Higher bandwidth for the XP1600 yields large peformance gains. -- Joe
- 12/5/01: Do It Yourself PLL How to build your own TurboPLL device. -- FrankisGER
- 11/12/01: Inside The PIV What lies underneath the metal cap. -- Julina Stenning.
- 11/12/01: Intel Celeron 1200 Overclocking the retail version to the mid-1600s. -- Joe.
- 11/8/01: Celeron 1.2 @ 1.6 GHZ - How Easy Will It Be? Overclocking experience with the Celeron 1200. -- James Anderson.
- 11/6/01: AMD XP L1 Closeups For the curious. -- Dozer and Tinhead.
- 11/4/01: AMD XP Bridge Soldering It can be done, but not easy. -- John Cinnamon.
- 10/28/01: From Pits to Slits One way to connect the XP's L1 bridges. -- Joe.
- 10/19/01: Connecting Athlon XP Bridges A pictorial "How-To" connect the XP's L1 bridges. -- Lew.
- 10/15/01: Athlon XP - It's The Pits First look at AMD's newest CPU. -- Joe and Ed.
- 9/16/01: AMDFAQ This covers some of the most asked questions about AMD products. -- Asmodean, n2 and SickBoy
- 9/10/01: A Little Math A simple explanation of the "MHz aren't MHz anymore" problem. --Ed
- 9/8/01: A Matter of Faith Even those who should know better are still thinking "MHz = MHz." --Ed
- 9/7/01: No Comprendo Complaints about AMD's PR rating don't hold water. --Ed
- 9/2/01: Getting Hammered October 15 is the key date for finding out
about AMD's next-generation processors. --Ed
- 9/1/01: An Enema for the Anal-Retentive Number worshippers pray to the wrong god. --Ed
- 8/31/01: AMD vs. Intel: A Sports Analogy Using sports to evaluate the computer game and its announcers. --Ed
- 8/30/01: Northwood Overclocking The next great overclocking frontier. --Ed
- 8/29/01: PR Or BS AMD's PR ratings and why they need to do it. --Ed
- 8/27/01: A Shot Across The Bow Intel's CPU strategy explained. --Ed
- 8/20/01: AMD Pricing AMD's unannounced drop in prices betrays fear it will have to price based on MHz. --Ed
- 8/20/01: SSE2: Part of the Picture? Software optimizations can determine winners in the CPU race. --Ed
- AMD Palomino - First Look
- Reconciling CPU Temperature Measures
- Cooler Guys Non-Conductive CPU Shims
- Soldering L1 Bridges
- What Temperature Is Your CPU?
- AMD CPUs: How Hot Is Too Hot?
- Conductive Ink Tip for Non-Surgeons
- TBird Coding
- Friends Do Not Let Friends Buy Willamettes
- Never Forget, Never Learn
- L1 Pencil Problems
- Copper CPU Spacers Adversely Impact CPU Cooling
- Celeron 100Mhz
- Copper CPU Spacers
- All Chips Are Not Created Equal
- The Next Few Months
- CPU "Back Door" Cooling
- Duron 800 - Cake Walk to One Gig
- Compiling
- Intel cc0 PIII 700E - Chip of Choice
- First Look: PIII 800E Cc0 Stepping
- Polling and Databases
- What You Need To Know About AMD Reviews Next Week
- Celeron cC0 Stepping Sspecs
- Pentium III cC0 Stepping Sspecs
- What You Want To Buy
- Lapping Tips
- cC0 Celeron Report
- A Real Rumble?
- The CPU Two-Step
- CPU Companies: A Forecast
- Rock and A Hard Place
- So You Want 1 Ghz?
- AMD: Copycat?.
- How My Duron Struggled To One GHz
- Scorecard: Part I, The Environment
- New Coppermine cC0 Chips
- Protect that Thunderbird/Duron!
- Blue Durons
- Duron-TBird Head to Head Comparison
- AMD Thunderbird Bird Blue-750
- What You Need to Know About
- Willamette/Rambus.
- TBird Update
- Here comes the blue meanies!
- TBird Testing
- Coppermine cC0 Chips
- 1Ghz and All That
- Duron 650 Overclocking Results
- CeleMine vs Duron Overclocking - First Impressions
- Bad Advice
- Duron or Duroff
- Power and Heat
- Duron vs CeleMine
- Duron Overclock
- Stop Overclocking and Stop Bitching!
- The Plot Thickens
- Ask AMD.
- No better than Intel
- The FSB Survey.
- Cracking Your Athlon Open
- AMD Athlon overclocking FAQ
- Sledgehammer and the Future of Computing
- Thunderbird-Slot A
- Slotkets for Thunderbirds/Durons?
- Here We Go Again: cC0 Steppings
- CB0 Survey Results
- The Worst Curse Word in Intel: MTH
- PIII 600E - cB0 Stepping User Review
- Time To Buy PIII cB0 Steppings
- Stability - What Is It? A Perspective
- Theories About Modern CPU Cache
- PIII 600E Deconstruction
- CeleMine Performance
- Celeron FCPGA 533
- Circumcised Celerons?
- Rip Mac Winkle
- Coppermine PIII 500E - Next Great Intel O/Cer?
- STEP Enhanced PIII 500
- Intel P3 450 - Next Great Overclocking Chip?
- Celeron FCPGA 533 MHz
- Intel Coppermine S-Specs
- PIII CPU Lapping
- RIP 500E
- Slot Cooler Modification for CPU Cooling
- Lapping The Coppermine
- Coppermine Overclocking Tips
- Coppermine Cooling
- Let's Get Naked - De-Casing the PII
- Removing the Heatsink from a Retail PIII
- CPU Lapping Tests
- Overclocking's Impact on CPU Life
- Cache and More Cache
- 100Mhz FSB Celerons - A Future O/Cing Opportunity
- CPU Temperature Measurement Gadget
- The Cache/CPU Connection
- Cracking the Shell on Intel
- Celeron Cache vs. P2 Cache
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