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A Little More Info. . .

Apparently, the folks at AMD Japan are a bit more talkative than those elsewhere, and the folks at PCWatch. (If you prefer a bit more English in your articles, take a look at what XBitLabs has to say here and

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Needed: A Third Way . . .

Imagine someone saying two years ago that people would be arguing over how to boot Windows from a Mac. 🙂 Right now, the contenders are Apple’s Boot Camp, which is a simple multi-boot system, only one at a time, please,

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A Quiet Fix . . .

Intel talked about their future plans the other day, and announced that between now and 2010, they will introduce two new microarchitectures, Nehalem in 2008 and Gesher in 2010. I can hear the yawns already, but really, this is a

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Watercooling a Dell XPS Gen1 Laptop

I’ve modded the Dell XPS to accept an AQUARIOUS II Water cooling system. I finally settled on using the Koolance CPU-180 Waterblock, which has pipes sticking out on the same plane as the block itself and is probably one of

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Reverse Hyperthreading? . . .

Some days ago, AMD mumbled something to somebody about coming up with something called “reverse hyperthreading,” which would make multiple CPUs look like one to a single-threaded program. This was supposed to be a feature that would show up in

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Hell For Intel . . .

What kind of discounting has Intel been doing lately? A comparison of Intel’s official prices with those found on Pricewatch reveals that what Intel has been doing is discounting their less desirable (for one reason or other) models by about