Is Picking The Lock Worth It? There’s more than a handful trying to unlock this CPU. Some have succeeded, some have failed, but success or failure, all agree this is a PITA. The two forums that seem to have the
SUMMARY: Thermaltake’s more conventional Volcano 6CU+ heatsink could be a cheaper alternative to the ORB. Tony at PHAM Computer was nice enough to send over Thermaltake’s Volcano 6CU+ heatsink. No ORB here – very conventional construction – extruded aluminum body
There’s been complaints about the Epox 8K7A and (often) Enermax power supplies giving low 5V results. It should be noted that the people who are having this problem seem to be really cranking it up: very high VCore and DDR
Finally, I made my decision to go get a Radeon. Now let me tell you that the system I am using at present is an old PIII @450 MHz, o/c to 558 MHz on an Intel 440 Bx motherboard equipped
Utterings and Mutterings I’ve been getting some comments about Linux over the past few days, for two reasons: 1) I linked to an article describing somebody’s Linux efforts and 2) Getting emails saying essentially, “To hell with XP; I’ll just
Thought I show you what I found with my Palomino, compared to T-Bird using various mobos. OS: Windows 2000 Pro (SP2) Memory: 1 x 256MB Crucial PC2100 CPU: 1.33GHz T-Bird; 1.2GHz AthlonMP “Palomino” core Boards: A7V133, MSI K7T266 and K7
Back in the bad old days, say, nine months ago, people used to have to judge a bit before buying a CPU. After all, they weren’t disposable diapers, this was something you had to live with for a while. Now
I must confess; I am not a cooling aficionado. This is a skill I have been able to afford to neglect for more than a year simply because somebody else on this website is: Joe Citarella. My concept of cooling