Month: October 2004

Howard Stern is going to switch to satellite radio in 2006. What does this do with overclocking or even computing? At first glance, not much. However, the situation with satellite radio very closely parallels the situation with the Internet and

AMD recently demonstrated their dual-core CPU. What is important to take from this demonstration is that any dual-core processors are going to run rather slower than what is possible for single-core processors. A lot slower. Three to five speed grades

The Inquirer reports that AMD is reducing official prices on some Hammers. It’s a mixed bag of cuts. The highest end processors aren’t being cut at all, the middle range seems to be going down a pricing notch, while the

Up to now, we’ve assumed that a Hammer 4000+ would be a 2.6GHz chip. Turns out this isn’t the case. If you look at this roadmap, you shall see that the A64 4000+ will only run at 2.4GHz (though come

Looking a cheaper socket 939 Athlon 64 than you can find on Pricewatch? Well, something told me to look a little harder, and I found them at Newegg. For some reason this isn’t showing up on Pricewatch, but you can