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AMD Press Conference. . .

Most Memorable Jerry Sanders Quote of the Conference: “We think the Duron can compete effectively against the Pentium III. We think the Pentium III is dead meat and the only weapon they’ve got left is price.” What You Need To

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Dogpiling DDR. . .

Without Vision, the People Perish We’re going to be getting a 133A and DDR board this weekend. Reviewing the 133A board should be no big deal; we expect to see some minor incremental improvements. Certainly not enough to justify buying

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Turkish Overclocking

ED NOTE: Cem sent me this email: I have been lost for some time for building a new overclockers site, with my close friend Ozgur and some other fellow Turkish overclockers. The site is almost finished but it is only

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In Search Of

I pick up the New York Times early one morning, and see an eight-page ad announcing some grand opening (really extension) of a store, in fact, J&R, a place I’ve talked about for CD-Rs. Hmmm, quite a few specials here,

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L1 Pencil Problems

SUMMARY: Penciling in the L1 bridges works sort of OK; the reason is that graphite is a RESISTOR, not a great conductor of electricity. I received this email from Walt: Just a brief comment on your observation that sometimes connecting

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Sales Next Week: Others

CompUSA Here’s an item I overlooked, not entirely sure it’s the best deal in the universe, but it’s not bad: Belkin Home Office Grade SurgeMaster ™ with 7 outlets, 550 Joules and fax/modem protection Model number:F5C572-TEL CompUSA SKU: 136954 Price:

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Sales Next Week: CompUSA

CompUSA Product: Epson Perfection 1200U Scanner – $149.97 Limitations: One to a customer. Offered by Best Buy, Staples, or Office Max? No. This is more an availability buy than a huge bargain (though it’s still lower than anything on Pricewatch).

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CD-R Quality Survey

There are tons and tons of bargain CD-Rs being sold nowadays. A relative few are good, many are bad. The idea here is to figure out which are the well-made ones, and which are the cheaply-made ones, and buy the