Month: June 2002

Intel seems to be in a comfortable place in the processor market right now. They do not appear to have much pressure from AMD or other processor manufacturers (as opposed to chipsets, where matters are more comptetitive). I think Intel

This article from XBit Labs states that PR ratings for Barton will be different than for what we’ve seen for Palominos and TBreds. Essentially, they add another 600 to the + number. A current AMD CPU running at 1.67GHz is

I’m a case junkie: many brands, many models. Ed from Koolcases sent me the Nobelese for a look. The Nobelese is a mid-tower case with an impressive-looking front bezel: The case has four 5.25, five hidden 3.5 and two exposed

Intel Discontinues 1.6A Here’s the announcement from Intel. When Intel discontinues a processor, they usually give a future date for discontinuance of the product, then post the last date vendors can order these things. This time, discontinuance is now, and

Scenario-Building When I put together the two alien scenarios, I tried to keep them as simple and focused as possible so people wouldn’t go off on tangents or get distracted from the main point. To do that, I either oversimplified

An Intel exec is reported to have said it isn’t going to happen. Others are saying that there’s initial silicon out there with x86-64 included. A few points: Paul Otellini may well have said sometime, somewhere, that x86-64 wasn’t in

You can see numbers here and here. By usual gaming “FPS Is God” standards and settings, this card stinks. It doesn’t beat GF4s. It often doesn’t even beat GF3s. By today’s standards, it’s asleep, if not comatose. It’s only when

Last Friday, I asked folks what they would do if aliens showed up and offered super-duper computers for $25,000. The real reason for the question was to ask in an imaginative (and more than a few treated that notion like

Most of you have a good deal of sense when it comes to choosing between AMD or Intel. You look at what you value most, and you choose based on those values, which usually are at least somewhat reasonable. Most

This story starts with a Computer Renaissance R-Machine. It had a Cyrix M2 233 CPU; an Amptron PM9100 PC Chips integrated board, 16Mb of RAM (14 after the 2Mb went to video), a 3.2Gb hard drive and a generic 28.8