Confession “Why has it been that overclockers.com has taken on a very AMD look and had almost nothing good about Intel to say?” We asked folks to respond to this question posed by a reader. Most of the responses we
SUMMARY: It took ice cubes and a peltier, but I made it to One GHz with a Duron 650. In an effort to determine how receptive AMD’s hotplates are to supercooling, I launched an effort to drive my Duron 650
NOTE: Phil is a college student who wrote this as his final for a business communications class and submitted it to us for posting. Computers now have come into every aspect of our lives and are in most homes and
A Million Bucks Isn’t Trivial I’m sure most of you have watched or at least heard about “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” at some point in the last few months. What you may not be aware of are some
SUMMARY: Surprising what a little horsepower will do – the Alpha PAL6035 and Global Win FOP32E with a 33cfm fans look like OK AMD coolers. Interestingly, a modified Global Win FDP32 does just as well – what progress! The kind
SUMMARY: A very nice waterblock that gave me a 100 MHz performance boost. Craig over at Cool-Computers was nice enough to send us his all copper Athlon K7 waterblock. As you can see from the pic below, this baby is
UPDATE: Royce sent me an email and apparently these are still available from All Electronics. Catalog numbers are CF-75 and CF-82. Thanks Royce! SUMMARY: Great air-cooled heatsink but not available any more – I still think the Alpha PAL6035 is
I’ve spoken a number of times, including fairly recently about future prospects for AMD and Intel. However, the stock market has been following the beat of a different drum. Intel stock has gone up as its prospects have worsened (even
Ok, I’ve tried to keep my head about this. I complained to a few online fellows and have heard similar responses from other people delving into the water cooling arena. I recently purchased a BE Cooling water block from 3DCooling.
These provide generic instructions for setting up a dual-boot Win98/2000 RAID system. If you don’t have Windows 2000, don’t do the Windows 2000 instructions. If you don’t have RAID, don’t follow the RAID-only instructions. Boot off a floppy. Just to