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There's a lot of chatter about Apple apparently announcing a switch to Intel CPUs today, instead of the IBM PowerPC chips they've been using. More info/speculation here. No official word yet.
HotHardware updated their CrossFire article when they discovered they couldn't reproduce some NVIDIA-based screenshots distributed by ATI. This isn't the first and probably won't be the last time we will be witness to over-zealous marketing efforts, whether accdidental or intentional.
PCStats decided underclocking is the way of the future. Well, worth a go, anyway. The question is, how much heat and voltage can be dumped by underclocking a given processor (down) while still retaining acceptable processing performance?
VIA has admitted its K8T890 chipset does not support dual core A64 X2 CPUs, thanks stmok. "From VIA K8 chipsets only K8T890 is affected, K8T800 and K8T800 Pro do support AMD Athlon 64 X2 processors," Mr. Lisiecki added.
Arthur noticed that BF2 has gone Gold! Woo! Rumour has it there'll be a demo this Friday.. just in time for a long weekend.
From Nick: ARE VIRUS WRITERS CREATING A SUPER WORM? Recent rash of Mytob worm variants has some security experts concerned.
From Dinuc: Well, it's that time to run over to the photography thread and start voting for May's Iron photographer. There was a fantastic response to the challenge and good luck to the finalists.
From Leon: More fun from Japan. For those of you drooling for some dualcore action they seem to be taking orders for AMD AthlonX2 in a few stores in Akihabara. 4200 2.2Ghz 512kb L2 $829, 4400 2.2Ghz 1Mb L2 $899, 4600 2.4Ghz 512kb L2 $1239, 4800 2.4Ghz 1Mb L2 $1545. The Pentium XE 840 (3.20Ghz) is mentioned on another page which has been seen for between $1440 and $1549, with HT this chip has a virtual 4 CPUs! Now thats for some serious multitasking. More info here.
PCTip has a S939 A64 chipset roundup article posted. Our goal is to compare the features , layout and eventually the performance. Unfortunately it features some non-zero-origin graphs which make a 1.5% difference look huge.
Another pile of links from Paul: A new timing attack against the AES algorithm can be used to extract entire Advanced Encryption Standard keys from remote servers. US Hackers at the Service of the Nation - But Who is the Enemy? Search warrants executed in LexisNexis ID case. Paris Hilton hacked thanks to old school scamming. Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack. HP muscles in on SMB security. Hack Can Upgrade XP Home to Pro. So what info does WinXP really send to MS? Dijjer, free P2P software that dramatically reduces the bandwidth needed to host large files. Google Maps Stealth Bomber. Building a Beowulf System.
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