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 This
guy has overclocked his Pentium 4 to 1.8GHz (that's 1800 MHz if you
can't count). Now that's what I call overclockin'! The site's in Japanese,
but as Kyle says, the article is in the
international language: benchmarks and pictures. Click
here to start the cpu-envy.
The Register has an article about
some Microsoft documentation that MS
has suddenly removed from their web site. The documents not-so-subtly
urge system builders (OEMs) not to sell PCs without Windows (an OS) installed.
I used to be an OEM and no-one would believe me when I told them about
MS's bullying tactics. By-the-way, even mentioning the terms violates
the terms of the agreement I signed with MS: it's that bad. The
terms they would use were essentially, "do what we say or we will
no longer sell you Windows." If that's not leveraging your monopoly
powers, what is it then?
But it seems with Microsoft trying to convince a judge that it is indeed
NOT a monopoly, these documents don't exactly help their case, so they've
been conveniently "disappeared."
Whatever...
 In
an article
you'd expect from Ace's. This article
is from Michael Schuette, Webmaster of LostCircuits,
not Kyle, they're just mirroing it. It is a good little article explaining
memory performance, DDR and how it works, and it has lots of charts and
graphs to help you get a picture of what's going on. I've found that ignorance
is pretty pervasive (it's also bliss), so anything to help edumacate the
public is gravy-train in my opinion. Go Learn Your Ass™.
 Related
links:
The same article
(LostCircuits mirror)
Adrian has put together a few hints and tips for you Windows 2000 users.
He has one tip I think is hilarious, "How to prevent certain programs
from loading during startup."
Now why would you want to do that? Does having 160 crappy little lecher
programs running decrease your computer's performance? What do you
think?
 This
is my tray. The only thing in there is the Matrox control application
(for my video card).
Take back your computer, or at least put up a fight: start by reading
Adrian's
article.
*NOTE: I did a bit too much "Rojak Pot" this weekend (afterall,
this IS Hammerville) - I hope
we don't have a "random" at work this week  .
I've been wanting to make a "how to remove crap from your computer"
article, a bit more thorough than the one at Adrian's... Remind me after
I finish school and I'll whip one up.
The IE info site has to be the best site for information about how to
modify Internet Explorer. Mr. Hooper has just notified me that his site
has been redone and is living at a new address: http://www.ieinfosite.co.uk/.
The next time you want to change something in ie, you know where to go.
He's also updated his Outlook
Express info page, so go take a pull.
I've updated the links
page as well, so you can always find it.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
source: from the heart... aw...
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TweakCentral wishes you a happy Thanksgiving. Be sure to stuff yourself!
Oops, I must mean "stuff yourself on the X-files E-ballot marathon
on FX noon to midnight PST." Yeah, there you go!
btw - Ace's
has some info on AGP-8x (Thnx to JC
for the link).
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More Pentium 4 benchmarks
source: [H]ard
OCP
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11/20 - 07:30
updated: 11/22 - 13:40
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update 11/22/00: The
Register got a hold of a prerelease version of the SiSoft
Sandra2001 benchmark suite and ran some tests.
Just a reminder with all this Pentium 4 business: If you're thinking about
asking Santa for a Pentium 4 system this year, keep in mind that Intel
will release a new version of the chip, in a different package (you'll
need a new motherboard) sometime around March. Here
it is: the Register story that I got this info from.
Now
all the wussies have released their reviews: These are the guys that were
afraid to post their reviews before today). While these nancy-boys were
busy being afraid of Intel's legal-team, TweakCentral was busy bringing
you the news! ... or something  .
Do you think if I tone down the sarcasm a bit, Intel
would send me a free Pentium 4 to review?
Here they come: Pentium 4 reviews
a'plenty:
Ace's
Hardware (12 pages) - always "the goods"
[H]ard
OCP (5 pages... you'll never make any ad money Kyle!)
- He runs about every benchmark under the sun though...
AnandTech
(24 pages) Wonderboy at it again...
Thresh's
Firing Squad (dieciseis (16) paginas)
Takes a stab... I like Firing Squad
reviews: Heavy on benchmarks, pretty impartial too (which is a good thing™).
SharkyExtreme
(29 pages* the reigning champ! SE takes 3 pages to write his name!) (remember
the "shark" is pro-Intel ad-nausium so take what he says with
a grain of salt)
Gamer's
Depot (17 pages) long on "how it works," short on benchmarks.
Hot Hardware
(9 pages) lots of benchmarks, including the game (I hate) MDK(2), beh.
Planet
Hardware (7 pages) benchmarks good. Where did these guys come
from?
What? Not enough Pentium 4 reviews? If none of these tickle your fancy
(if they did, you had better schedule some therapy) try CNEWZ
or Kyle's lame-ass - they have mo' links...
Remember, for these guys, "Page-views = ad revenues."
So for you aspiring web-kiddies, just split up your articles into as many
pages as possible (a good rule is one
word per page)... ugh
With
the Pentium 4 release date on
Monday, the benchmarks are already leaking out (probably because it's
already Monday in europe, huh). The graphs
on JC's are nice because you can get general idea of what's up in
about 10 seconds.
Related
links:
JC's
News & Links & stuff
I think what he did was translate the c't info from German and make some
nifty little graphs
Silicon
Investor page
with P4 benchmarks
GamePC
review of the P4
13-page review of the P4. 13 pages is pretty weak compared to SE
or Wonderboy, but not bad for a rookie.
Remember the credo, "Page-views = ad revenues!"
Where have I been? No news for a week and all-of-the-sudden, POW! Anyway,
if you're into computers, or just like to "shake your stick,"
enjoy!
From iXBT-labs/news:
No DDR for Pentium4 (from Intel at least)
until... "According to non-official sources,
there will be no DDR SDRAM memory support in Intel’s chipsets for Pentium
4 till the first quarter of 2002." Now what
did I tell you? Don't sweat tho, VIA (and perhaps others) are proceeding
with plans to provide a DDR solution for Pentium 4.
Pentium3 "Tualatin" details - Tualatin is the codename
for Intel's Pentium 3 on a new 0.13 micron process with some added improvements
to make it "cheaper, smaller, faster" (sounds like my last experience
with a woman... er).
NV20 in February 2001 - NV20 is Nvidia's
next-generation of video card. If you're into cutting-edge video cards
for PC's, you're probably foaming at the mouth with just the thought of
the NV-20.
There's all kinds of news over on iXBT,
so just go over there and put your ass in the know, or as we say around
here, Learn-your-ass!™
From [H]ard
OCP: (Kyle claims that he doesn't "even know what OCP stands
for." - I'm not buyin' it: I think he knows exactly what it stands
for, he's just keeping it to himself! )
Intel
Pentium 4 benchmarks: These almost definitely violate someone's
NDA, so "peep" them before they're taken down. It basically
shows the P4 whoopin ass on Athlon and P3 in SPECfp2000 (whatever that
is ).
Hey Steve, when are you going to put up some
content instead of just regurgitating news and whoaring links? what?
The ICANN (no, it's not the 12-step
self-empowerment group) has announced its approval of seven new TLD (top-level
domains), to add to the current TLD's, such as .com and .net (lame ).
The agency, known as the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers, chose ".biz," ".aero," ".name," ".coop"
and ".info" to add to the pool of Net names. The others are ".pro" for
professional Web sites and ".museum."
Not to monday-morning-quarterback, but How the hell did .aero and .museum
get in there? WTF are those? And where are .mov and .xxx
(huh?). Serioiusly, with .mov, we could get rid of all those ridiculous,
"goseethecryinggamethemovie.com" domains!
CNet didn't report on how domain names with the new suffixes will be distributed,
but from what I've read elsewhere, you can bet that it will be terribly
unfair.
If you missed out on Yourname.com and would like a Yourname.name
or one of the other new suffixes, your best bet, in my opinion, is to
get a trademark or incorporate under Yourname or something, and
then you might have a better chance of getting that domain you want...
Related
links:
another
CNet article
The proposals the ICANN was sifting through
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (and stuff...)
AMD demos
1.5GHz Athlon at COMDEX
The Reg has
an updated AMD roadmap. If you didn't hear last week, AMD
announced that it had cancelled plans for an enhanced Athlon codenamed
Mustang. Basically the same news as last week, expect up to 1.7GHz
by the end of 2001. Well la-de-freakin'-da!
The
Reg also has an Intel roadmap. There are rumors circulating that Intel
will move up it's production of Pentium 4's and release a 2.0GHz chip
by Jan 2001. I am somewhat doubtful of this. I don't think JC
believes it either. There are also rumors of DDR support for P4 in Q1
or Q2 (2001)... I don't know which jackass is spitting out these rumors...
We just heard not more than a month ago that DDR for P4 was Q3 (2001)
at the earliest.
And according to Ace's,
Micron is expected to release 3 (DDR)
chipsets in 2001.
Related
links:
COMDEX
Going on right now in Las Vegas
Netscape has released Netscape
6. It has been in pre-release for a while, now it's finally ready
I guess.
I've taken a pull of Mozilla M18 and I assume Netscape 6 is the same thing,
except they make use use AIM, which can kiss-my-ass.
Download it now:
 Netscape
6 download page
Related
links:
Mozilla.org
Opensource browser project - technology behind Netscape 6
I've updated the links page: specifically
(or "pacifically" as the people like to say 'round
these parts), the hardware-performance related
links page. I've added some links, added descriptions to links that
were lacking and noted some sites that are down/not updating anymore.
The links pages are about the only thing I can
do right around here, so I try to keep them pretty spiffy.
If you haven't noticed, I've also been trying to bring some of the older
pages up to the current style, to make the site more consistent - as if
you care...
I saw over at CNet's GameCenter that
they have some advice on Tweaking WindowsME to get the most out of your
games. Go check it out! If you run 95, 98 or 98SE there's probably some
stuff that applies to you too, they're all basically the same. (heh heh).
GameSpy has kicked up a nice little
article on how to install a motherboard. If you're thinking about rolling
your own PC but you aren't sure if you can handle it, definitely take
a look at this article. It's a piece-of-cake... You can do it!
Do you have a Microsoft
IntelliMouse optical or other mouse with a little red-light in it?
Would you rather have a blue light in there? If this describes you (read
"If you're a big nerd"), check out this
page. This guy basically tells you how to stick a blue LED in there.
Personally, I use a trackball - cus
mice suck .
The one-and-only WonderBoy of the internet,
Anand Lai Shimpi has decided to jump on the weekly price guide bandwagon
and offer up his take on the week's lowest CPU prices. Anand's
isn't very link-friendly so the front-page
is as far as I can take you. From that point, you'll be on your own my
son...
Related
links:
Sh*t,
there's about half-a-dozen of these now... I don't know, go to any web-site...
JC's PC news & links &
stuff
Sharky's
Tech-Review (not to be confused
with Tech-Report)
update 23:28 - I just figured out that it's
FC-PGA (Intel cpu) boards only. Weak. I emailed Kirk,
who runs the show over there and invited him to include some real boards
like A7V and KT7. Just because we AMD chip owners have faster, cheaper
and just plain better CPUs, that doesn't mean we don't need good motherboard
info too.
Flipchip.net has a great idea: He's
put up a single web-page
with all the modern (post 1997) motherboards on there and put up links
to their drivers pages. They are catagorized by manufacturer and it's
really easy to find what you're looking for. If you're into computers
at all, you'll probably want to remember this
one.
I saw this link over on Billy's lame-ass
site .
I think this place used to be called BetaNews or something. Anyway, it
looks like a pretty good place to snag the latest versions of some hot
software... if there is such a thing. I think my pizza is warmed-up now.
...and I've got some kind of rash from making in the bushes!
I've updated the Enable DMA page to include info
on Windows2000 and ME. If you don't know what DMA is, or how it can improve
your life, go Learn-your-ass™.
TweakCentral has the definitive guide with all the
info and links to keep your smile horizontal.
Own an Asus A7V (if you don't, you're
basically a loser )? Chris
Tom whipped up a handy
article with all the info you need to slap on Win2k or WinME or whatever.
He put up all the handy links at the end so you can get all the drivers,
updates and patches your little heart desires.
I had started the new files area a few weeks
ago but never got around to finishing it. I just felt like what's there
is so bad I needed to replace it, even if the new files page wasn't done.
Enjoy.
Just some AMD news straight from the horse's
mouth. Just AMD saying 1.5GHz in Q2... etc.
Related
links:
Streetfusion
slides from the conference (thnx JC)
Yeah, Bill at G256.com doesn't believe
in using, buying or borrowing Symantec
Ghost, so he shows you how to move the contents of your old HD to
your new HD the old-fashioned way.
He also doesn't believe in using another PC to do the copy, which I've
found to be almost as easy as using Ghost.
Anyway, if you buy a new hard-drive and don't want to go through the hassle
(at TC, we call it fun) of reinstalling your OS, all your programs,
...etc
*NOTE: if you do this method, I recommend hooking the two hard-drives
to separate IDE channels (one on primary, the other on secondary). You
can detach your CD-Rom drive while you do the copy. Putting both HD's
on the same IDE channel will significantly slow-your-roll. It probably
wouldn't hurt to make sure DMA is enabled too.
And make sure you do the command-line switches correctly, or XCOPY will
not copy all of the files correctly.
Just my personal opinion, but Bill has you copy the swapfile Win386.swp
(virtual memory file if you're that much of a nerd) first, before
copying all of the other files. He claims that "this makes the swap
file much quicker," without giving us an explanation. I don't know
how much quicker, but if you're a novice, feel free to skip this
step, if Windows doesn't find a swapfile, it just creates a new one.
Related
links:
XXCOPY
as long as you're XCOPYing things, check out XXCOPY
Glencove
FAQ
A similar how-to guide
Phil Robertson's
guide
Another how-to
Ars is telling us that Microsoft
has released the beta 1 build of their next consumer OS, codenamed Whistler
(whistler is a mountain/ski-resort just a few hours north of Redmond).
Ars has two links for us:
Paul Thurrott's
Windows SuperSite Whistler FAQ has been updated and CNet
Preview: Microsoft Whistler. Even though Microsoft has been trying
to unite the consumer (9x) and business (NT/2k) OS's under the NT/2000
platform, so far they have been unsuccessful in killing off the DOS/9x
legacy. Paul Thurrott's site suggest
that Whistler is based on the 2000 kernel, but I've heard otherwise.
Rumors I've heard are that Whistler is still keeps major 9x components
(the kernel) and is not evolved from NT/2k. We'll see...
The guys at CNet got ahold of a Whistler box to play with and tell you
their experiences in the preview
so definitely go check
it out.
Related
links:
Want to try Whistler beta for yourself? You will need a MSDN professional
subscription. From MS: Beta releases of Windows
are distributed as part of MSDN
Professional Subscriptions.
Paul Thurrott's Winformant.com
some more information about Whistler beta 1 release
The company the world loves to hate has
just "stuck it to" Samsung,
the world's second-largest DRAM manufacturer. This
Register story is reporting that Samsung has caved and signed on to
pay RAMBUS royalties on the patents RAMBUS
claims on DDR SDRAM and RAMBUS (RDR)RAM types of memory as well as the
chips that control them. As a little side-note-of-evil, RAMBUS likes to
charge more for DDR SDRAM licensing than RAMBUS RAM just so you feel that
little extra sting for chosing something other than RAMBUS.
What? A new tweak/article? I know, it's
been over a year, but here it is. Microsoft
describes it best:
SYMPTOMS
When you try to download more than two files at the same time, the "Save
This Program To Disk" option may not appear until one or more of the
previous downloads is finished.
If you have this problem, there's a quick fix. Let TweakCentral show
you how:
 Internet
Explorer 2 simultaneous download limit fix
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