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- CPU
- Central Processing Unit The computing part of the computer. Also called the "processor," it is made up of the control unit and ALU. Today, the CPUs of...
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- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08
- OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...
- Tags: ASUS, Card, Video Card, Performance, Board, Motherboard, Price, CPU, List, RAM, Graphics, Intel Corp., Radeon, LGA775, Q9300, DDR3, XFX GeForce GTX 280, PSU, Western Digital Raptor/RaptorX, Galaxy EGX1000EWL, Corporate Governance, Video Cards, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List for Aug/Sep 08
- OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. So if you're thinking of buying, building...
- Tags: Hardware, List, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, cpu, gpu, nvidia, ati, intel, amd, wd, velociraptor
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Where's Sarah Connor?Will it change its shape to an LA policeman and chase me in a tractor trailer truck?Mercury?It's the only metal I know of that is liquid at room temperature.RE: Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Reminds me of liquid-sodium-cooled nuclear...
- Tags: liquid metal-cooled CPU, metal-cooled CPU, water-cooled system, Liquid metal-cooled CPU, CPU, Galinstan, Mercury, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?
- UK-based Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship -- and that Danish company Danamics says that its LM-10 outperforms standard air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled systems with a power draw of just 1W: The liquid metal is a...
- Tags: Metal, CPU, Liquid Metal-cooled CPU, Liquid Metal, BIOS, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- MKN PerformanceMonitor (exe)
- MKN PerformanceMonitor shows detailed information about system, I/O, and processor performance. It creates performance graphs for each installed processor, and the system I/O history. MKN PerformanceMonitor shows information about each processor core in the system, including the CPU usage, the KERNEL mode time, hardware processor usage, and the processor's current...
- Tags: I/O, CPU, MKN Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: report
- Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: reportRather moot, isn't it?Sort of like the US case against Microsoft after Netscape was already pushing up daisies, any fines assessed against Intel won't revive AMD. In fact, it's a good bet that any fines against Intel will show up on the...
- Tags: Corporate law, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., new antitrust charge, antitrust charge, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugsAnother attack path: Just what we need!Now that there are millions of instances of every type of microprocessor, ANY bug in one will be in millions of systems. Relying on bugs is---um---buggy, but just checking every system you can (as a criminal,...
- Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Intel Centrino 2 lives
- Following a technical stumble which allowed AMD to gain a lead, Intel has now released the long awaited Centrino 2 notebook platform. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Intel Centrino, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, intel, centrino, wifi, chipset, core, cpu
- Image galleries 2008-07-15
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs
- Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia. If his proof of concept code consisting of JavaScript or TCP/IP packet attacks on...
- Tags: CPU, Intel Corp., Processors, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Flash Player and Pentium 2 CPUs don't play nice together
- Flash Player and Pentium 2 CPUs don't play nice togetherNot just flash and not just P2Pentium II cpu's are not the only one's that might still be out there that don't support SSE. The AMD K-6 series which was contemporary with the P2 and the early Athlon's (contemporary with...
- Tags: Processors, Pentium II CPU, CPU, Intel Pentium, Pentium 2 CPU, Macromedia Flash Player, Pentium 2, SSE
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Flash Player and Pentium 2 CPUs don't play nice together
- Not sure how many of you this will affect, but it's well worth keeping in mind if you run the Flash Player on a PC built around the Pentium 2 processor. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Intel Pentium, Macromedia Flash Player, CPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- CPU market shares in Q1 2008: Intel - 78.9%, AMD - 20.9%
- In terms of processor vendor shares, Intel experienced a small gain over AMD in Q1 2008. On an overall unit basis, Intel earned 78.9% market share, a gain of 2.2%. AMD earned 20.9% market share, a loss of 2.2%, according to IDC. Similar shifts in market share were evident by...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- Dell grabs a gold. That is, a gold rating for one of its server power supplies
- Dell grabs a gold. That is, a gold rating for one of its server power suppliesThe OS in the CPUIs trying to start when you get one Blue Screen then Restart after another.After the blue screen the OS in the CPU tries to start with a 'Restarting' prompt.It won't start...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., server, firmware, gold, blue screen, CPU, power supply
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Tech Tool (exe)
- Tech Tool is a lightweight tool for Techs to get simple information about a users computer. It produces a log that is easy to post to a forum for a user. It is small and keeps it simple but gets the job done. It also has a few buttons to...
- Tags: CPU, Tool, CPU Powers, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-06-17
- Blizzard of Snow Leopard Scat
- Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, was announced last week at Apple's developer conference and there are few details creeping out from under the developer non-disclosure agreements. Mac enthusiast sites are busy posting conjectures that fill in some of the blanks, including which processors that will run it, its...
- Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., CPU, IBM PowerPC, Intel Corp., Mac Enthusiast Site, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Don't forget the fan
- Don't forget the fanOK, but....Was it fun? How many people showed up? How many installations did you do? Do you have pictures or even videos?Greeting, Pjotr.RE: Don't forget the fanMy last two boxes I built were based on a shuttle barebones kit: Motherboard, cooler/fan and power supply in a mini...
- Tags: CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- QuickSearch64 (zip)
- Search for a word, sentence or binary code fragment in files/folders/disks.Easy and powerful interface using "target" tool to save search parameters between sessions.The search engine was written in highly optimized assembler for very high performance.Written for 64 bits CPU (PowerPC or x86 Intel, and XMM/Altivec)French and English localisation.OS 10.5 or...
- Tags: Intel X86, CPU, IBM PowerPC, Birtz Alain, 64-Bit, Processors, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-06-16
- A 30-picowatt processor for sensors
- A 30-picowatt processor for sensorsunfair comparisoncomparing sensor chips to laptop computers is pretty unfair since the software running on a notebook computer isn't optimized to run together and, really, I think it's impressive that notebook computers deal with different disk, CPU, network, video, etc.... loads pretty well.the sensor chips, which...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, Notebooks, CPU, sensor chip, computer, notebook, processor
- Discussion threads 2008-06-15
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- The nature of data processing is to be long winded, boring, and dominated by acronyms derived from long gone technologies and business practices. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Program, Job, IBM Mainframe, Operating System, Environment, Mainframe, Instruction Set, Memory, Data-processing, Hardware, CPU, Unix, Computer, COBOL, Machine, IBM Corp., System 360, APL, JCL, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- What do Mac developers want from Apple?
- In advance of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, several longtime Mac developers share hopes, suggestions and even concerns for their primary technology provider. The discussion spans iPhone, graphics acceleration and Apple's strategy for technology licensing. Of course, the talk across the industry is about the iPhone. Still,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Apple Macintosh, Performance, Operating System, API, Apple Inc., CPU, Graphics, GPU, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
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