Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

I’ve been using the Macintosh at work. Great to get back to this machine. quite a community of software. After 15 years of being on the PC pretty much exclusively, I sure feel clumsy in a different environment. Anyway, here are some tools and things I’ve been finding helpful: * http://www.errant.org/lago/archives/000723.html. A good list of…

“OC FAQ”:http://www.ocfaq.com/forum_new/showthread.php?t=303. The folks at OCFAQ seem to know an amazing amount. Here’s the detailed scoop from a thread of theirs. There was quite an opportunity in the last ATI product cycle to turn 9500s into 9700s, but that window has closed, but is still open a tad for 9800 SE to 9800 non-pro *…

Video at Digit-Life.com. A good overall review site. Every month, they test various video cards from top to bottom. Good to get a perspective. They just did a 4 year test from 1999-2003. Amazing the progress that’s been made. Good to check every month. “Overview”:http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/over2003/index.html of the last four years of video development. To sum…

X-bit labs – Hardware news – Does AMD Supply Enough Athlon 64 Processors?. Well as usual, yields are the big issue. A good summary of Athlon 64 shipments. They claim 170K units shipped in Q403. The folks at Solomon Smith Barney think they’ll do 350K in 1Q (a drop in the bucket). For perspective, they…

My main problem right now is that Windows Update isn’t working. It’s the well know “Windows Update Problem”:http://www.updatexp.com/0x800A138F.html call 0x800a138f. Great name! In my case, studying c:\windows\windows update.log revealed I was really getting an 0x800C0008 error (man have PCs become like mainframes or what!). Amazingly, this is because I got the clock screwed up by…

X-bit labs – Articles – AMD Athlon 64 3200 CPU Review (page 4). Very cool point about the Athlon is that with the right Athlon 64 CPU (look at the serial number on the chip, it should end in “AP” and if you have the right motherboard BIOS, it should have a quiet’n’cool entry in…

Stuart’s Overclocking Software Page. Stuart recommends Motherboard monitor and cpu cooL. .:: Motherboard Monitor. Great tool when you are in overclock land. What is the temperature and other facts about your machine. A nice monitor, but you need to see if your motherboard is supported since it dives down *deep* into the system to find…

I got the components and assembled it over the last couple of nights. Here are notes for other brave folks doing this: * Pricing. Make sure you get good pricing on the Athlon 64. These prices seem to be changing weekly. There is good availability if you go to http://pricegrabber.com, but for instance the Athlon…

Ultimate CD and DVD Data Recovery and Rescue tool (CD Data Recovery). Like winimage, this shareware, lets you backup CDs and DVDs. Very useful if you ever need this stuff back.