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Porn and ‘Puters

It used to be the three Rs; reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. For nVidia lately, it seems to be the two Ps: porn and ‘puters. First, they came up with a pixie named Dawn that was . . . errr .

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Current RAM

I’m afraid there’s no wonderful place that’s dedicated to providing advance information on memory and other itmes like that. The closest I’ve seen so far is the Official Corsair Memory Support Forum over at the HouseOfHelp.com. It deals only with

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Ratios

The Problem There’s some mutterings out there that the new Intel boards have some sort of 275MHz “wall” that blocks people. Yeah, there’s a wall alright. In many cases, it will be a self-constructed one. To overclock the 200MHz FSB

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Cheating

We run a particular video benchmark, and it’s no longer a contest between video cards. It’s a contest over the better way to cheat. Is it cheating the benchmark or is it paying big money to those who make it.

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Math Is Fundamental

There’s some complaints here and there that a few manufacturers are doing their own overclocking of motherboards. Whether intentionally or not, FSBs have always tended to vary a tiny bit, but by less than 1%. Now we’re getting reports that