Month: July 2002

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”–Samuel Johnson AMD certainly has had enough bad news to concentrate their minds and get their act together for the Read More

All of us who fiddle around with these boxes have a cross to bear: the friends and relatives who bother you about building them computer systems. If you’ve reached the end of your rope with such folks, and just don’t Read More

In a previous article I documented my adventure of implementing a very good-looking water-cooling system. There was one problem: An ugly sheet of aluminum hid all my beautiful workmanship. I needed a window. No, not just any window, the window. Read More

Introduction One on the nasty side-effects of overclocking is that all the fans we add are very, very noisy. For many of us, it becomes an obsession to buy quiet fans and hard drives. We pad fans and buy sound-absorbing Read More

Introduction It has been said many times before — Athlons are hot. Now, with Athlons, “hot” has generally meant a few things. Many referred to them as “hot” processors, referring to their speed. This is the more metaphoric and slang Read More