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AMD Price Cuts on Durons and T-Birds

From AMD yesterday: Pricing “The 1.1GHz, 1GHz, 950MHz, 900MHz, 850 MHz, and 800 MHz AMD Athlon processors are priced at $853, $612, $460, $350, $282, and $215 respectively, each in 1,000-unit quantities. The 700MHz, 650MHz, and 600MHz AMD Duron processors

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Water Cooling Case – A to Z

Many readers have asked where they can get this case; I received it from a defunct vendor and have seen it at some computer shows every now and then. Reader Dave, after 3 hours of searching, found the name of

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Beginner’s Guide to Overclocking

Among the most frequently ask questions by beginners arriving for the first time in our Forum is the most basic one: “How do I overclock my CPU?” This guide is written in hopes of giving the beginner the basic information

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1Ghz and All That

Summary: The purpose of this review is more a demonstration of the potential of the Thunderbird than a recommendation to buy this particular configuration. We found that the TBird holds its own against the PIII in Win98, but did extraordinarily

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Coppermine cC0 Chips

Today is supposed to be the first day that cC0 chips are supposed to “begin” to become available per Intel. Well, we learned from the cB0s not to take Intel’s dates too seriously. You probably won’t actually be able to

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More Water Cooling Talk

This material has been heavily edited. Any resultant errors are solely my fault. Ed From Mike Larsen: You recently published and article written by Allen Stace about water cooling and his views on it. He said: “The most efficient choice

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Duron 650 Overclocking Results

SUMMARY: The flexibility of settings FSBs and multipliers gives the Duron some added performance benefits. As I continue to play with the Duron 650/Asus A7V, I see some value in having the flexibility to vary both the CPU’s multiplier and

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Minotaur

I first came across Minotaur I was going though through www.resellerratings.com sites top 100 sites. Minotaur is in the 4th place category with 160 respondents it holds a remarkable 6.7 out of 7 rating. At first glance it’s a rather

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Ghost – Drive Copying

So I said to Joe: “I can’t face another Windoze install, Joe. Things ARE better with the full copy CD I bought – at least no more updates from Win98 to Win98 SE and it’s much faster. But I still