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Fighting Last Month’s Battle

Fighting Last Month’s Battle Many of those reading this are gamers. Generally, this doesn’t mean Scrabble. Rather, people engage in digital genocide. This is not normally known as an educational pursuit. It’s not too often that I find references to

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Prescott E Steppings Coming

Those reading this website regularly know that we don’t like Intel’s Prescott processors very much, simply because we think they’re (literally) too hot for overclockers to handle. Results from our CPU database indicate that the CPUs up to now do

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Cheap As Free Air Cooling Mod 1250

Bill Leggett just did a great article about case ducting that showed a genuine temperature and noise reduction. I’ve been working on a similar ducting project for a while, and the results have been absolutely amazing. I bought a new

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Sempron Shortly

Xbit Labs has an article which talks about overclocking a Sempron, the socket 754 type. They manage to overclock it to a tad over 2.5GHz, where it does quite credibly against its higher-end competition. Should you buy one? In the

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Miscellaneous AMD Tidbits

First Returns On 90nm There’s been a handful of 90nm chips overclocked so far. Generally the maximum OC with high-end air is coming in at around 2.5-2.6GHz; one person got a 2.75GHz. There’s also been a few misreports and urban

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Crunch Time Cometh

AMD released its financial results yesterday. Essentially, their flash division didn’t do well, but their CPU business did. AMD said that sales revenues of Hammers increased fifty percent from the previous quarter and now account for over a third of