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DDR 600 on DFI nForce4
MADSHRIMPS – Hardware Reviews ,Crazy Projects, Modding Tutorials and Overclocking. _Here’s what I’ll ultimately do when the new Venus chips come out next month, its a way to get your Athlon to run memory at 300 MHz!_ bq. Recently G.Skill PC4400/4800 became the hottest memory on the market together with OCZ PC4800 based on Samsung…
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Athlon 64 Overclocking Tools
ABXZone.com Forums – A64 overclocking tools. Here’s a great guide. I’ve used them all, but Clockgen can be very unstable. Haven’t tried the other two.
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Scion xB
!>http://cars.about.com/library/graphics/scionxb_ext.jpg! 2004 Scion xB – Test drive and new car review – 2004 Scion xB. _This car is just about everywhere at our school. It sure is practical and I love the price. As Alex says, just about as ugly as sin, but maybe right for Dad. Ironically, it was supposed to be for youth,…
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Trackbacks are killing me
Learning Movable Type: Trackback Spam. Another example of how anything popular is going to get spammed. Trackbacks are now the disease for me. Instead of just shutting them off, they are at least moderated with MT-Moderate so they don’t appear, but they are still very annoying. A new one gets through every day and there…
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Conway's Law
Conway’s Law Conway’s Law: prov. The rule that the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent; commonly stated as “If you have four groups working on a compiler, you’ll get a 4-pass compiler”. The original statement was more general, “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs…
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Windows History
windows history and “Computerhope”:http://www.computerhope.com/history/windows.htm _Someone just asked me, when were you at Microsoft and what were you doing. I’m completely embarassed to admit that I know I joined in 1988 and left in 2000, but the intervening twelve years is a blur. Thank god for the Internet. Reminded me of some of the good old…
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Connectors
Now that Grace has a Sumicom S600, I can finally get my DFI 855GME to be a home theater PC. The main missing step is connecting my *old* HDTV monitor that only accepts component input. Fortunately, the HTI and NVIDIA Video Card Buyer’s Guide summarize very well what I need. That is essentially my 6800GT…
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Sumicom S600 is Loud
Who would have ever thought such a small box could be so loud. This is mainly because I have an old Western Digital WD120BB in it and it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. So, the next step is a $105 investment in an ultraquiet hard drive. These are mainly identical, so I mainly shopped by…
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Sumicom S350
SUMICOM S350 Wow, they just shipped this, this is a Intel 865GV system that is the size of a standard CD-ROM. A whole PC in 6x10x1.65″ if you can imagine that. Only takes Celeron CPUs and requires a slim disk drive and 2.5″ hard disk, but pretty amazing. It is $290 from “Cappuccino PC”:http://www.cappuccinopc.com/slimpro-sp350.asp. They…
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Windows Key Finders
Windows Key Finders. A super useful site, helps you to find those missing product keys in your installation.