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Blindsided . . .

We’ll note in opening that the Inquirer reports that rumors of AMD reverse hyperthreading are just fantasies. AMD stock price is now down 40% from what it was four months ago, and outside of a Dell announcement and perhaps continued

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Antec NSK2400 Case

SUMMARY: A Beautiful HTPC Case for under $100.00. Today we take a look at one of Antec’s many new products in the New Solution Series cases the NSK2400, a MicroATX desktop case designed primaraly for use as a HTPC. The

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A Gruesome Roadmap . . .

Daily Tech has an AMD roadmap extending through 3Q 2007. In its own way, it’s rather gruesomely stunning. If you thought AMD was going to throttle up to match Intel’s Conroe, forget about it. By the end of the third

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How-tos

Motherboard Basics

A motherboard, also known as a main board, is the primary circuit board inside of a computer, and is where the central processing unit (CPU), memory, expansion slots, drives, and other peripheral devices are connected.

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The Battle Within The Battle . . .

AMD issued a sort-of-profit-warning yesterday, saying that sales were down 9% from the previous quarter. That’s a little more than one might seasonally expect, but given the single-core price cuts late in the quarter, that’s OK. Intel’s numbers are likely

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What Freedom Is . . .

On the 230th anniversary of the U.S. Independence Day, it is a good time to say a few words about the term most associated with the holiday: freedom. What freedom means is “Do whatever you want provided you don’t step

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Editorials

Power and Your PC

The power coming into a computer is the most critical component, and it may be one of the most overlooked. It is just taken for granted that it will always be there and working properly.

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Editorials

How To Choose A Computer Case

In the past, computer cases were all very similar… Clones of the same boring, beige box. With all of the choices available today, this is no longer the ‘case’, and people can use their systems’ chassis as a means to express themselves and to set their system apart from the rest.