Month: May 2003

A recent review illustrates the problem with PCs nowadays. This article overclocks a 3GHz PIV C to 4GHz and records the results. What’s interesting about this review is that for the SuperPi benchmark, it pulls data from this forum survey,

What the hell does that mean? Pedophile comes from Latin. It means “child lover.” Pedopecuniaphile just adds another Latin word. “Pecunia” means money in Latin. So a pedopecuniaphile mean “child money lover.” Since that’s a bit of a tongue-twister, let’s

There are places where you can find the Intel PIV 2.4C (that will be the lowest-end one with a 200MHz bus and hyperthreading). What you’ll pay for it is a whole different story. The official Intel pricing on the 2.4C

XbitLabs has an article based on the AMD Opteron techdocs (page 17). The article points out that when the memory setting is at 133 or 166MHz, the actual memory speed will usually be slower than that. This article will explain

I’ve been talking quite a bit about MP3ing lately, and when I do that, as surely as you see green leaves in the spring, I get emails like these: “I come here for overclocking information, and I don’t want to

Well, reviews are coming in from real people about the products from Apple’s music store, and the results are mixed. Pick the opinion you want, and you’ll be able to find it. While audio folks can be even wackier and