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Overclocking Opterons: An Update

With the AMD price drops on lower-speed Opterons, more than a few people have been asking about the prospects of overclocking Opterons to FX levels at much less than FX price levels. About a month ago, we spoke a bit

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More FSB, Less Overclocking?

The Inquirer reports that this AOpen page hints that AMD is going to increase the FSB on Hammer mobos sooner rather than later. XBit Labs more or less reiterates the thought when talking about future SiS chipsets. If you follow

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The Big Beat?

The Big Beat? MIT recently announced a new campus music system called LAMP they say is perfectly legal and doesn’t pay the RIAA a dime. I looked into this, and yes, they are right. It is perfectly legal. Is this

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CPU News

Intel Cuts Prices On Top; AMD Doesn’t As fully expected, Intel cut prices on PIV yesterday. This could make the 2.4GHz C a little bit cheaper, and gets the 3.0C under $300 and the 2.8C a bit over $200. The

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AMD: Three Roads

There’s an article over at the Inquirer which points to a Business Week article which has bad things to say about AMD. To a limited degree, the Business Week article is good because it at least notes AMD’s economic weaknesses,

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Zerotherm

SUMMARY: High noise, low performance. Size: 68 x 110 x 70mm; Weight: 151 grams. The good guys at Cibna were nice enough to send the newest version of the ZEROtherm for a test spin. This is a heatpipe heatsink featuring