SUMMARY: A very handy utility that lists the key parameters of your RAM stick. Ike apprised me of a utility that ct, the German magazine, has called ctSPD-Speichertest; it’s a RAM Readout utility that enables you to see all the
HardOCP has a piece purportedly from a Microsoft employee explaining how the protection scheme for XP products is supposed to work. I don’t doubt they got the email, and that it came from somebody associated with Microsoft. I do have
This is what I want from a benchmark program: 1) The ability to let me test a wide-range of programs in standalone mode. 2) The ability to let me test programs running concurrently, and, besides an overall number, give me
SUMMARY: Another new copper heatsink joins the “performance elite” – Thermalright. The good folks at Thermalright sent me a pre-production sample of their heatsinks to test. I am impressed! Assuming Thermalright delivers the same outstanding performance of these samples, I
After handling a half dozen AXIA T-Birds, I found one that would do 1550 aircooled w/ 2.0v on my modded Asus A7V133 (bare board on the bench in my garage – on a cold night). Running a chip like that
Over the next few months, we’re likely to see the following fights: The adherents of the three or so DDR chipset makers on the Athlon side will be fighting it out. The long-quiescent Intel loyalists will start making noise about
Sometime soon, we’ll have representatives from all three DDR chipset makers to test. Whom would you like to win? I’ll tell you right now, from what I see, I could make any one of them beat any other. When it’s
SUMMARY: Another copper entry – OCZ’s Gladiator delivers very good performance, most likely due to its thin fin design which maximizes surface area. The Gladiator weighs in at almost 400 grams. Overclockerz (No Relation) was kind enough to send a
OK, let me first off say that I am new to overclocking. I’ve been reading reviews and in the forums to try to get a better idea about what’s going on. I’m a college student on a tight budget and
SUMMARY: Global Win’s latest heatsink is all copper and a solid entry to good Socket A/370 cooling, although NOISE is a problem. The good folks at Global Win were nice enough to send me their latest – the all copper
