John-Erik

The Intel i7205 chipset utterly drowns any AMD chipset in raw bandwith … if money’s no object the best performance lies with one of those

400 MHz DDR would be very much overkill. Remember, the chipset’s only rated to 266 MHz, albiet dual channel (for 533 MHz of effective bandwith).

Onto the Tyan board, Tyan does not usually cater to the consumer crowd, they’re mostly business oriented (CAD draftsmen, OEMs, etc.). That said, most of

If you go AMD, keep in mind that your upgrade path is non-existant. With the 3.06 P4, you can upgrade later to a 3.2 or

I’d go P4 – more stability (and more OC overhead) than the Athlon XP. Plus they cost about the same and nVidia and ATi both

lol, format /mbr only fixes a broken bootsector (aka where ntldr/lilo starts from). Useful if going from Linux to NT/9x Removing it from the boot

After the additional overhead of 802.11a, it only get 69 Mb/s (nice number, eh?) Also, 802.11b+ just uses compression, there’s no increase in data rate

Actually, AMD said it because over time with the vibrations thermal paste can squeeze out from under the HSF and leave less thermal conductivity. By

I came back from doing laundry about 30 minuites ago (hey, the washers and dryers are empty at 4 AM) and hear my chasis alarm

Far from it, the Xeons have better power decoupling, better SMBus support and much better thermal management (since the HSF can fall off and the

Right now AGP 4x is nearly pointless, the biggest performance boost comes not from the bandwith but from fast writes and other AGP 4x features.

Alright, first thing’s first. In Via chipsets the RAM clock runs asynch to the CPU bus clock and V-Link clock. In recent Via chipsts the

I am particularily happy with my 3Com X-Jack because: a) it colapses into the laptop when I’m done and want to throw it into the