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DDR Status Report 2460

See AT&T. See Baby Bells. A few years back, they have this wonderful (for them) thing called ISDN. They get to charge by the minute, and makes lots and lots of money from a few business people. Much money, little

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DDR Status Report

Where Is It? Good question, bad answers. Motherboards There’s two types of mobos out there, one based on the Ali Magik chipset, the other based on the AMD 760 chipset. The first isn’t terribly good. The second is meant to

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Some Willy Specs

I never intended to buy a willy, but when I saw an unlocked sample I jumped. I’ve got some results you might be interested in. Not really a review, just some benchmarks from the P4T and unlocked P4. I played

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Code Tracking

It looks like AMD is throwing a muddle at us now. We have all different flavors of CPUs being sent at all different official speeds. It would be very useful if we knew just what AMD was shipping out at

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Intel Survey

A couple weeks ago, I saw an item over at the Anandtech Forums saying that Intel would pay a $20 Amazon gift certificate to those completing a survey. I went to the survey, completed it, looked like a good deal,

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L1 Bridge Connecting

SUMMARY: How to connect L1 Bridges on AMD’s Duron and T-Bird CPUs. Changing the multiplier on AMD’s Duron and T-Bird requires two things: A motherboard that allows multiplier changes; A CPU with the L1 bridges connected. Some CPUs leave the

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My Counting, Right or Wrong 1542

Got this email, this person said what some are probably thinking: I am about to network my two computers, and I am an overclocker so I was eagerly awaiting the NIC survey results. I’m sorry to say I was disappointed.

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My Counting, Right or Wrong

Got this email, this person said what some are probably thinking: I am about to network my two computers, and I am an overclocker so I was eagerly awaiting the NIC survey results. I’m sorry to say I was disappointed.

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AMD CPUs: How Hot Is Too Hot?

SUMMARY: If you see CPU temps much over 65 C, AMD tells us you’re too hot. I get a number of emails asking me “My Duron/T-Bird runs at 45-50-55-60-65 C; is this too hot?” In my book, anything over ambient

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NIC Survey

Thank You! First, I’d like to thank the tons of you who answered! Easily the most response we’ve ever gotten from a survey. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer this. But let’s get straight to the negatives.