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Rat Poison and Radeons

A long time ago, I was in some sort of training class that had something to do with working as a team, and we were given this hypothetical problem to solve. It involved people getting sick, some quite seriously, from

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Catalyst 3.8 Drivers . . .

There are those who believe that ATI’s Catalyst 3.8 drivers are blowing up their equipment. Here’s some threads from various forums on the subject: Short-Media Forums (describes what the problem appears to be and provides links to 3.7 Catalyst drivers).

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More On Prescott . . .

XBit Labs has a piece on Prescott generation processors. Two initially contradictory quotes from the article: “The issue is not with 90nm yields. I cannot say they are as good as the 0.13 micron process, but they are good. Intel

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The Year of UD . . .

Like Intel, AMD benefitted from more sales and a somewhat better selling price last quarter. The company as a whole essentially broke even, the CPU sector a little above, the rest of the company a bit more below. It is

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Intel Shifting . . .

Quietly Making Money In the pricing wars, there was a ceasefire this quarter. Intel and AMD pretty much left each other alone. That combined with a bigger than seasonally usual upsurge in CPU sales gave both of them much better

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Biting The Hand It Feeds . . .

There’s a bunch of reviews of the ATI Radeon 9600XT out there. The numbers say it still isn’t in the same class as the 9700 or better (despite rumors to the contrary), and sometimes, even the reviewers say the same