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- DIMM
- (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module.
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- DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street
- A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. This is the world's first large-scale study of RAM errors in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Core i7 sensitive to RAM voltages over 1.65V
- Performance enthusiasts take note. Pushing DIMM voltages beyond 1.65V on an X58 motherboard fitted with a Core i7 CPU can seriously damage the processor. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
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- Are today's new iMacs and Minis game-changers?
- It's been a logn time since Apple was ...... competitive at these retail price points but that day may finally have come! Good for Apple and good for the rest of us. Still, EdTech has always enjoyed extremely aggressive enterprise-level discounts from the top tier of PC vendors...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Poll: When buying a new PC, what's the most important component?
- The option you forgotMotherboard.The motherboard and sometimes specifically the chipset dictates what kind of each of the other components you can use. It also dictates options like onboard graphics.Each situation calls for a different answerAt least that's how it has been in my experience. For myself personally, however, storage...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- DRAM error rates: nightmare on DIMM street
- Windows.Atleast From Vista has a Utility in Administrative tools in the control panel.Where in "About this Mac"?I'd just like to make sure I know the right place to look for errors. I look under "Hardware/Memory" and see a list of all 8 DIMM slots. There's a column for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Quad-core CPU for $99 ... from AMD
- The Athlon II X2 comes with 1MB...L2 per core. It's too bad they didn't use 1MB per core for the X4.2M divided by 4 is 512KNope, it comes with 2MB of L2, divided by 4 cores gives us 512K per core.Adrian has it right.BradDid you read his Post?He said "Too...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Will flash DIMMs replace disks or DRAM?
- Where do you get drivers for booting off the SO-DIMM?I'm pretty sure that's not an option in the BIOS.Best guess, there would be a BIOS rewrite.An alternative would be (depending on the BIOS provider/vendor) that they would use a Linux BIOS implementation (examples: HyperSpace from Pheonix Technologies Pheonix BIOS...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Rember 0.3.5b (Mac)
- Rember is a front-end GUI to the 'memtest' command line memory testing program. This application will allow the user to select the number of test loops, as well as the amount of memory to test. There is a 'Log' tab that will allow the user to monitor memory testing. The...
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- Disney, Asus launch 'Netpal' netbook for kids
- Disney and Eee PC maker Asus announced Wednesday their collaboration for the Disney Netpal, a netbook computer for children aged 6 to 12. Developed with parents and kids in mind, the Disney Netpal has a reinforced mechanical design and, naturally, a Disney user...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Maingear introduces 'world's greenest gaming PC' for $799
- Claiming a title not unlike the "world's most fuel-efficient sports car," high-performance computer manufacturer Maingear has introduced its Pulse, a small form factor gaming PC based on NVIDIA ION graphics. Maingear says the Pulse is the world's first "ION-based" PC that can be...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Performance of HP ProLiant BL465c G6 With Low-Power Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series Processors (2.1 GHz) in a 64-Bit HP SBC Environment
- The HP ProLiant BL465c G6 server blade delivers a balanced architecture with Six-Core AMD Opteron processors that can enhance scalability and provide support for large applications. This infrastructure and general-purpose blade also supports a significant memory footprint - eight DIMM sockets - that allows one to utilize cost-effective DIMMs to...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Max memory limits for 64-bit Windows 7
- Max memory limits for 64-bit Windows 7I think a better question might bewhen we might start seeing memory densities that could make those limits 'limiting' in any way. I have not actually set eyes on any server board that will allow 128GB to be exceeded. I'm sure they exist, if...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- 6GB of RAM for the MBP
- If you own one of the new unibody/Late 2008 MacBook Pros or one released November 2007 or later you can use up to 6GB of RAM â€" the most on a portable Mac. The new MacBook Pros have two slots and the 2GB model ship with...
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- Dell Latitude XT2 12.1" multi-touch tablet announced
- Dell has announced its 12.1-inch (1,280 x 800 pixel) Latitude XT2, the industry's first tablet PC with multi-touch technology. Multi-touch, of course, as in "pinch to zoom" and two-finger gestures. In addition, the XT2 sports 11 hours of battery (6-cell plus battery slice) and DDR3 memory (5GB...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Give your system a mid-life kicker
- If the economy has made you put off buying a faster system, you aren't alone. The good news: you can make your current system much snappier with faster storage - DRAM and disk. Here's how - and why. Your CPU speed is fixed. So is your network...
- Blog posts 2009-02-08
- Acer Aspire X1700-U3700A
- The Acer Aspire X1700-U3700A is the third system in Best Buy's recent lineup of budget PCs. We gave the other two releases (Dell Inspiron I530S-119B and eMachines ET1161-07) average marks for a lack of features and poor performance scores respectively, but the $480 Acer succeeds where the others fail, by...
- Product reviews 2009-02-04
- eMachines ET1161-07
- The new year brings with it a new chance for eMachines to score big with its ET1161-07 budget desktop computer. The system contains the usual fare of baseline components with adequate room for upgrades inside the bare-bones tower, and $380 seems a decent price for the package--until you shop around...
- Product reviews 2009-01-27
- No penalty for MacBooks with 6GB; also works in some 2007 models
- A couple of weeks ago I noted an important new feature in the new MacBooks â€" the ability to use 6GB of RAM by installing one 4GB and one 2GB module. Previous MacBooks and MacBook Pros were limited to 4GB of physical memory. Adding more was...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- HP boosts power efficiency features for latest ProLiant blade server
- As promised, I'm back this morning from the airport with a couple more thoughts about Hewlett-Packard's green tech introductions this week, specifically some notes on its latest blade server, the HP ProLiant BL460c G5 Server Blade. Here are the energy-related vitals on the product: - Uses...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
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