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A Case of Crappy Capacitors?

If you own an Abit board, take a look at this. Essentially, the gentleman behind the website is saying that a rather large number of Abit boards suffer from what he believes to be aren’t very good capacitors. He believes

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More Bad News

Now that the second quarter is over, AMD announced that its revenues will be even lower than the lowest estimate they provided a couple weeks ago (our comments at that time can be seen here). In all likelihood, this reflects

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Initial TBred Overclocking

It’s still very very early in the process but I think we can make a few statements about the TBreds 2200+ on sale now. The AIRGAs do a bit better than the original reviewers’ AIRCAs. Using high-end air, one can

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CBDTPA On A Chip

There is a very interesting and well-done piece on some emerging technology that will affect you far more than Hammer or serial ATA or hyperthreading. In a phrase, hardware-based digital rights management (for many, read copy protection). The consortium of