Month: December 2002

Computing Event of the Year AMD Stumbles And Bumbles: For almost the entire year, AMD essentially sang, “Yes, we have no bananas.” PR replaced product; the only thing that showed up the first three quarters was excess inventory. Sales plummeted,

Let’s see if there are ANY factors which make or break the drive for 3GHz. This is going to take a bit more info than is asked for in our CPU database. If you have a C1 stepping PIV, and

Capacitor Theory Pops It doesn’t look like having capacitors arranged in 3.06 style makes any real difference in performance, folks. I’ve seen enough reports from people who have a 3.06GHz arrangement but aren’t reaching 3.06 to conclude that this is

My most vivid adult Christmas memory? It happened a few years ago, over at the old Tom’s Hardware Forum. You didn’t have to have thick skin to survive that forum, you needed skin made out of Kevlar. Nonetheless, I remembered