Month: February 2002

AMD Announces Hammer Chipsets By Themselves, Others Ed Fixes Up Relative’s K6-2 300 System Now what do these two have to do with each other and the title? The Hammer announcement isn’t a snoozer at all. Rather, it’s a pretty

Anti-Noise League or Anti-Noise Defamation League? I know there are plenty of people who buy relatively cheap heatsinks with high-speed fans attached. They’re noisy, but they do the job well and cheaply. There are also a good number of people

The critical question in 2002 for AMD is “how much bandwidth can the Athlon (as opposed to any particular platform for it) handle?” AMD apparently plans to stick with a 133/266MHz FSB throughout 2002. Are they doing that because faster

A couple days ago, I put up an article talking about Newegg’s positive comments only policy in its “reviews.” From some comments we’ve gotten from folks, maybe they’re not alone. Maybe it would a good idea to identify those places

In at least some instances, XP processors are being shipped out with the bottom L1 contacts burned. You can go to a discussion of this with links to pictures here. It is by no means clear or certain if this

Abe and George have been taking a beating lately, and not just from the ads from the retail merchants. Abe? There are folks out there who are now claiming they have proof he was gay. George? While no historian has