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X-bit labs – Articles – Another Gift to Overclockers: AMD Sempron 3100+ on E Core Revision (page 11). For budget folks a good choice is the new Sempron 3100+. Like the Venice core, this uses the Palermo core or the E revision. It overclocks to 2.7GHz and is as fast…

Tong Family Blog: Installing a new Windows PC. I’ve had a terrible stability problem with Calvin’s machine. The issues are that when I would restart the system, one of the IDE drives (Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB) wouldn’t get recognized and I’d have to wait 10 minutes before starting the machine.…

!>http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/athlon64-venice/icon.gif! X-bit labs – Articles – AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU: E3 Processor Core aka Venice at the Door. _The new Venice chips are now shipping, these are formally called the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ with E3 stepping, now that is a mouthful the short word, is that…

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_Thank goodness for the Internet. I couldn’t get Spambayes to work properly. Amazingly, someone found exactly the same problem. I had turned on DEP since I have one machine that is an Athlon 64 and this prevents data execution errors. I’m gathering that Spambayes is probably a bad self-modifying code…

Seasonic S12-430: Beyond the Super Tornado :: SilentPCReview.com. Seasonic’s Super Tornados are great, but they are being superceded by a slightly quieter Seasonic S12 series. The Super Tornados are running down on stock and are quite a bit cheaper right now $91 at Newegg for the 400 watt SS-400HT while…

Overclocker Cafe – Thermaltake Big Typhoon Cooler Review !>http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cooling/Tt_Big_Typhoon/pics/200.jpg! Another massive cooling fan, much cheaper than the XP-120 and separate 5″ fan. Very quiet too and just $50.