Chips

AMD "Magny-Cours" super CPU?
I was thinking of upgrading the old ZX Specky, and saw that AMD have a new Opteron out named: Magny-Cours perhaps a pun on many cores, or connoting racy performance. Will they also be putting out a "Monza" or "Nurburgring"? (Better than the creaking Hebrew names from Intel and VIA.) And since they sponsor Scuder... 10 Apr 2010 01:34

Motherboard + Memory Bundle
I got an email from a company says their Motherboard + Memory Bundle is on sale. I compared the prices around and found they are really good deals. Motherboard: Asus M4A785-M AMD 785G/SB710 AM3/AM2+ Memory: Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 Link: centralcomputers.com/commerce/catalog/product.jsp?product_id=7462... 18 Apr 2010 04:15

Cooler Master GX 650W PSU for $79.95
Really? But this PSU is ok for me. -- ga785gt ... 10 Apr 2010 10:11

450443 Constantly updated Free COmputer and business portal 25
I fell in love with the net and all the compuiter teahcnology in the very early years and have loved it ever since, I have an IT Degree and Communications degree and will be working on my doctorate for the next five years, in bwetween I design websites, databases, Multimedia Produxction or anything that wil make me a p... 23 Mar 2010 02:21

first generation Intel Larrabee will not have a consumer release, butsecond-gen might
No, youre definitely not in the minority, Mitch. We all think that a general section is required, however, some of us at least, want the AMD and Intel sections moved out of it. Captain Newbie, misposting will happen, but that doesnt mean we cant try to do something to stop it. Its gotten to the point where the ... 23 Mar 2010 00:07

The virus has infected more than 750 thousand computers
A new virus has infected more than 750 thousand computers around the world, Reuters reports citing the information the company NetWitness. Virus "Trojan-DownIoader.Win32.Agent" gathers information on the login and password for the online financial systems, social networks and mailboxes. According to the compan... 23 Apr 2010 17:38

first generation Intel Larrabee will not have a consumer release, but second-gen might
http://www.techspot.com/news/37231-intel-delays-larrabee-graphics-processor-indefinitely.html Intel delays Larrabee graphics processor indefinitely By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Published: December 7, 2009, 10:20 AM EST It looks like Nvidia and AMD won't have to deal with Intel in the discrete graphics marke... 18 Mar 2010 16:38

Optimal string copy performance
> I need to copy some RAM memory area to the screen buffer with as good a performance as possible. The prerequisites/restrictions are: 1.) it has to work under OS/2 - that is with 32-bit legacy - no 64-bit instructions 2.) if possible it should support INTEL and AMD CPUs but I might thin... 18 Mar 2010 04:50

"TLB parity error in virtual array; TLB error 'instruction"?(acpidump)
I don't know if this will help at all for you, but it didn't for me (no matching addresses): # acpidump DSDT @ 0x9fff3180 0000: 44 53 44 54 c4 63 00 00 01 38 4e 56 49 44 49 41 DSDT.c...8NVIDIA 0010: 41 57 52 44 41 43 50 49 00 10 00 00 4d 53 46 54 AWRDACPI....MSFT 0020: 0e 00 00 01 10 2c 5c 5f 50 52 ... 14 Mar 2010 19:52

"TLB parity error in virtual array; TLB error 'instruction"?
Hello. Lately, I have been getting random and rare kernel panics on my old Debian/Linux box (tried both Kernel versions 2.6.30 and 2.6.32). I couldn't figure out what it was until I discovered mcelog a couple days ago, and it revealed interesting scary datas in my dmesg/messages and syslog: # cat /var/log... 19 Mar 2010 21:14