Intels Atom D945GCLF mini-itx
Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors, Motherboards on 19. May, 2008 | No Comments
The first online retailer to release Intel’s Atom powered motherboards was announced today. The UK based firm Tranquil PC are selling the units ten pounds cheaper than the estimated retail price. The company have stated that the boards will start shipping within the first week of June.
The Intel D945GCLF mini-itx main board yes ITX not [...]
Nvidia Product Naming
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 17. May, 2008 | No Comments
Nvidia are in the process of changing their current product naming conventions. Over the past years Nvidia used a straight forward model naming structure such as the 6200 and 6600 obviously the latter having the highest specification. Nvidia can also mislead consumers because some versions of their 8800 series cards are faster than their 9600 [...]
ATI Radeon 4800 vs Nvidia GT200
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 16. May, 2008 | No Comments
I previously written a blog on ATI’s possible graphics card products. You can view the post here amd ati 4800 series graphics cards.
Right lets get to it! ATI are releasing a new series of graphics card to their Radeon based products. The series will be called 4800 and is set to be released between [...]
HP blame for XP SP3 Crash?
Posted by Simon Whiston in Operating System on 13. May, 2008 | No Comments
With regards to my earlier post last week Windows XP SP3 crashes AMD Machines it has come to the community’s attention that HP are to blame for the problems. Last week Users of Windows XP and AMD machines resulted to operating system reboots and random crashes, Ironically similar affects to Windows Vista SP1.
The problem has [...]
Nvidia Buy Out VIA
Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics on 12. May, 2008 | No Comments
Has Nvidia really bought out VIA the eastern based hardware company? Well No! The CEO of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang today told Cnet that they have no interest what so ever in buying VIA. I can imagine why the hype was created within the hardware community, with Intel and AMD looking to offer integrated chipset graphics [...]
Windows XP SP3 Crashes AMD machines
Posted by Simon Whiston in Operating System on 09. May, 2008 | No Comments
The long awaited Service Pack 3 for Windows XP has proved to be a headache for most AMD PC users. One day after the release Users were complaining of system crashing. The problems have been published over Microsoft support websites.
One user reported
“After Installing SP3 and restarting XP would not load. Once the system had rebooted [...]
