Tech News
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Will Intel's Prescott chip run 32/64-bit??
Published: Thursday, April 25, 2002 | By: DennisThis is too good not to quote "Intel Corp. said it is on track to deliver a 3-GHz desktop microprocessor by year's end, but the rumors are still flying that the company will bundle its 32/64-bit "Yamhill" technology on its code-named Prescott chip line". I can't wait.
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Intel Answers to the Hammer Release
Published: Thursday, April 25, 2002 | By: DennisIntel shoots back with news of a second version of the 64-bit Itanium processor called the Itanium 2. This processor is code-named "Madison" and contains 500-million transistors, and a 6-megabyte cache.
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SOYO KT333 DRAGON Ultra Review @ VR-Zone
Published: Thursday, April 25, 2002 | By: DennisI have started to become quite fond of the Dragon Series Motherboards from Soyo, they come equipped with everything that the hardcore system builder and tuner would ever need while still providing out of box system performance for those in a hurry. Feel free to check out the VR-Zone review but don?t expect anything more than "par" performance when compared to any other KT333 or KT266 chipset enabled motherboard.
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Game Ideas Needed
Published: Thursday, April 25, 2002 | By: DennisDigiGirl from the Ninjalane Message Forums is looking to design a new game and needs some help. So far she is looking for "Any suggestions-- story lines, characters, style, injokes, anything! ". If any of you are interested in helping out let DigiGirl know.
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Microsoft Support for 64-bit processing
Published: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 | By: DennisHere is a quote that I find interesting:
" AMD of Sunnyvale, Calif., has scheduled a conference call for 4:30 p.m. Eastern time in which it plans to announce "two significant developments" related to its 64-bit processor family, according to AMD's Web site. An AMD spokeswoman in Europe declined further comment." -
Major OS Level Support for the "Hammer"
Published: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 | By: DennisThe much talked about 64-bit processor from AMD code-named "Hammer" has gotten official OS support from Microsoft. Good things in the AMD camp.
On a side note based on photos from Anandtech the Hammer proc uses the same package as the P4 heat spreader and all.
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64-bit WindowsXP to be Announed
Published: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 | By: DennisWe have all heard the rumors of a 64-bit version of XP but the date was kept under wraps. According to this article April 24th is the key day, it also marks a turning point for AMD.
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Another Space Tourist
Published: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 | By: DennisThis time its a 28 year old Internet millionaire.
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"Jenna Jameson" virus
Published: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 | By: DennisI really like the attachment name "'JENNA-JAMESON-FREE-SUPERFUCK.TXT.vbs'". Anyhow update your virus defs, scan your email, and don't click on attachments. Or you could use a different email program like Pegasus Mail and not have to worry.
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Micron buys Hynix, Tentatively
Published: Monday, April 22, 2002 | By: DennisThis headline come directly from The Ninjalane World News Section. In a tentative agreement Micron and Hynix come to a 3.4 Billion dollar deal that would put Boise based Micron as the world's largest memory chipmaker.
