January 2005 - Page 2 of 4

Throttlewatch 2.0

January 23, 2005 admin 0

Panopsys has released version 2.0 of Throttlewatch. You can download it here. If you don’t already know, Throttlewatch tells you if certain modern processors are throttling back for one of two reasons. If your CPU is overheating, thermal management throttling

Do It For The Competition

January 22, 2005 admin 0

If science isn’t a big enough reason to fold, would a bit of friendly competition sound like fun to you? Last month, you may remember how we appealed to Overclockers.com readers to use idle CPU cycles going to waste and

SilverStone Nitrogon Heatpipe

January 21, 2005 admin 0

SUMMARY: An interesting choice for P4, LGA775 and AMD 64 CPU cooling. Size: 130 x 108 x 95 mm (ex fan); Weight: 588 grams. The good guys at SilverStone were nice enough to send their SilverStone Nitrogon heatpipe heatsink for

A Solution Finds A Problem

January 20, 2005 admin 0

Up to now, voice recognition for the average computer, outside of some niche areas, has been a solution in search of a problem. This has been because it is just more convenient for the average person in a typical computer

Price War In Dual Core?

January 20, 2005 admin 0

From the Inquirer: “Customers of Intel have been tipped the wink on proposed pricing of Smithfield dual core 840 (3.2GHz), 830 (3GHz), and 820 (2.8GHz) processors. . . . These chips are curently scheduled for release in the second quarter,

AMD Financial Results

January 19, 2005 admin 0

AMD lost money last quarter, but the CPU part of the business wasn’t responsible for that. They lost some money in flash memory, and, to make a long story short, it cost them $50 million to turn a lot of

When To Buy A Sempron

January 19, 2005 admin 0

From the Inquirer: “[Intel] will add EM64T 64-bit support to its existing 5XX Pentium 4s in the second quarter, and to its 3XX Celeron D processor range in the same period.” Since the roadmaps the Inquirer has seen includes details

Much Ado About Nothing?

January 18, 2005 admin 0

Thermal design power for Smithfields (Intel’s first dual-core processors) is supposed to be 130 watts, and this has some folks aflutter. Personally, I think if Intel can get two sons of Prescott together running at 3.2GHz each at just 65

A Look Back at Three Products

January 17, 2005 admin 0

SUMMARY: Swiftech’s “Q-Power” Water Cooled Case, Koolance’s first water cooled case and Dell’s 600SC Server – A hit, near hit and miss. I reviewed Swiftech’s “Q-Power” Water Cooled Case on March 2002, Koolance’s first water cooled case on April 2001

Huygens

January 17, 2005 admin 0

Any comment I hear about the Huygens images always seems to include “It’s so small – how did it cost so much?” (Planetary.org). While this article is concerned with the Huygens probe, it applies equally to any space probe. Hopefully