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My PIV Adventures–Part II

This is a case where the sequel is better than the original. 🙂 I spoke about my initial go with this yesterday. Malay Madness Another day, another processor. Late in the afternoon, FedEx delivered another 1.6A. This one was a

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A SUMA Reseller

We wrote about a Korean company named SUMA which sells a super Ti4200 card. Unfortunately, when you look at the company’s marketing agility, “sumo” seems more like it. A few of you told me about a place in Sweden that

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My PIV Adventures

Consider this a work-in-progress. More like a warning for the moment. Yesterday, I worked with a PIV system, the relevant (at this point) details: Intel 1.6A PIV, Costa Rica, week 8, pack date early April Asus P4B533-E, BIOS version 1006,

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Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave

AMD is supposed to demonstrate a four-way Sledgehammer Opteron at Computex in Taiwan. There’s a bit of a hullabaloo about what will be demonstrated. These won’t be introduced for close to a year. Running a four-CPU cluster is a good

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Platinum XP

SUMMARY: A good case for the money. 7.75″w x 17″h x 18.75″d; 4 x 5.25 External Drive Bays ;1 x 3.5 External Drive Bay ;4 x 3.5 Internal Drive Bays; 2 x 80mm Front and Rear Fans The good guys

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Loosened, Not Loose

I asked folks a while back what was the absolute most they’d pay for a video card. Here’s an instance where the raw numbers are useful: How Much How Many $150 Or Less 14% $175 Or Less 10% $200 Or

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Hammering Overclockers?

There’s an AMD Tech Tour going on. Somebody from a website went to it. Part of the tour was a technical conference. The item which should stir your interest was what was said about Hammer’s memory controller. To get everybody