You probably have keychain material CPUs lying around that could whip Itanium when it runs 32-bit. Hell, maybe even some of the ones you’ve already made into keychains, at least for the moment. You can see Tweakers.net’s benchmarks here. This
Like most overclockers, I began at a very wee age (at least 6 months ago) when I bought my first Athlon. Once I had assembled my Athlon 700 with an K7V mobo, I was shocked at the 94F temperature on
I have my watercooling system for more than two months now. The detailed description of this system can be seen in an article titled “Simple Watercooling System”. Briefly, it is an open (no-pressure) system with two waterblocks, for CPU and
SUMMARY: Similar rated Peltiers, or TECs, perform about the same. Look at the ratings but also look for potted units. However, carefully consider what to expect with high wattage CPUs – you could be very surprised! Marc-Antoine Menard was kind
UPDATE 2/5/01: I realized my AGP video card was dying on me and causing instability at 150 MHz. I swapped it out for a cheap PCI card, and much to my surprise I got the board up to 155MHz! The
Technical information from AMD’s tech document #23792 , pages 35-39: Upon a boot, the Duron/Athlon, for several milliseconds, operates at the multiplier provided by the BP/FID pins of the processor, no matter what you’ve said otherwise through the motherboard. So,
. . . everytime I buy any Microsoft game. The CD check doesn’t work, so I’ve had to get a patch from MS for FS2k, FS2k second patch, Age of Empires II, and Mech Warrior 4. Each time they promises
It started off with this: “Having huge problems to run anything above 135 bus on the motherboard. Found the problem. The motherboard doesn´t change PCI divider when running 133 bus or more. . . . According to the manual it
The informational article is here. Ars Technica is taking the lead on this, and running a poll, so you might want to pop over there (if you haven’t been there before, it’s a very good technically-oriented site). The gist of
TURBO BIOS Download 3/19/01: This is Iwill’s “performance” BIOS: KK266 KK266 RAID Try it out and tell us how it does. SUMMARY 1/18/01: Iwill’s KT133A board looks like a winner – fast, stable and with Vcore and multiplier settings in
