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Slotket Sorrow

I bought a generic slotket. Here is a picture of it: This is a newer generic slocket, so it is supposed to support FC-PGA as well as PPGA. There are NO adjustments anywhere – everything works via autodetect. Or does

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A Different Angle–Part I

If I were a nice normal reviewer, I’d just run the benchmarks one or three or however many times and come up with a single number you could refer to. But I’m not. I come up with all different kinds

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Another Via Bug

Big thanks to Christian Schmelzer for alerting us to this. The article is here. It’s in German, so if you need a translation, go here and cut and paste: http://www.chip.de/news_stories/news_stories_163106.html The bug affects motherboards with a Via VT8363A Northbridge (i.e.

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System Builders Speak

(Ed.note: These are comments from those who built or have been intimately involved with the construction and/or operation of dozens to hundreds of machines. You can see that these folks have had much different experiences. Maybe it might be a

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Ed, You Incompetent Slut

(Ed. note: This is a merge (with some minor editing) of an exchange between myself and this person, who builds systems for a living. My comments from the article are in italics, my email comments are in bold italics are

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More K7Master

Let me tell you what’s going on with this board. There’s a certain special interest group in this board. A typical email from someone in this group would go like this: “I need to get a new computer, and would

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DDR: What Does What

You’ve seen DDR memory scores all over the place. You don’t know what to make of them. There are three factors which influence memory scores: FSB Speed Memory settings Overall CPU speed The first two are more important than the

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DDR

Here’s where we stand: In general: Good points: Now reasonably cost-effective for new systems with current Crucial DDR pricing. Offers somewhat more performance than current SDRAM system, generally more so for games. Bad points: Potential performance gains are not big