The Intel Celeron processors have always had a special place in the hearts of overclockers everywhere. Ever since they came out, they have been known to be able to run on the 100MHz bus for a 50% overclock from the 66MHz bus, as their Multiplier Ration is locked. Even the little 266MHz Celeron could whip [...]

In keeping with my latest trend to pick a long promised technology and bash the hell out of it for being late, I have chosen today to be the day I discuss USB 2.0. Current USB technology lies at version 1.1, a 12MBps version that has been with us since it’s days in Windows 95 [...]

Ever since Halloween, the Internet has been buzzing with disillusions of grandeur concerning memory. Double Data Rate SDRAM has been promising lower power consumption, high bandwidth, and similar latency compared to Normal PC100 and PC133 SDRAM of today’s market. It was of course on October 30th that the majority of Tech sites released the info [...]

Dok reviews a kick-ass case that makes him drool.

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If you have been stuck in a case for the past month, the Pentium 4 processor from Intel has finally come out of its hole in the ground. Whether is saw its own shadow or not is yet to be determined. If you are a follower of the Church of Intel, you will say that [...]

Online shopping can be hazardous for anyone, even me.  Recently my motherboard decided to give out on me…followed by my father’s.  Upon buying a replacement for mine online, I waited patently for it to arrive.  When it did, I installed it, and lo-and-behold, it was highly unstable.  Upon testing the CPU, Memory, and other parts [...]

Modifying, Painting, and drilling cases have become quite the rage lately. Painting your case camouflage to fit in with your wallpaper, or putting nifty little flames on the sides like the muscle cars of the past. It’s really cool to do, especially if you’ve got extra spray paint laying around. Unfortunately, I’m too lazy to [...]

Dial up modem got you down?  Constantly getting kicked off the phone line because of static?  Think the chipset on your modem is infected?  Do some of your own preventive medicine.  The most overlooked thing in the computer today is the modem driver.  Most people don’t even know the modem has a driver.  Sure, the [...]

Ever since it’s first die, the L2 Cacheless 266Mhz Covington Core, the Celeron processor from Intel has always been the Overclocker’s Champion Chip.  The 266, 300A, 366, and 566Mhz versions have been known for going from the 66MHz to 100MHz system bus, without major changes in CPU core voltages, and remaining at that voltage for [...]

So here’s your *explicate removed* Christmas card.  For the second Christmas in a row, the holiday has been ruined for me, before Thanksgiving.  Thankfully, or horribly, depending on how you look at it, it only happened two days before Thanksgiving this year, just to make sure that both holidays were equally as horrible so I [...]

Last week M.A. ended on a high note – M$.NET. What one wonders is whatever happened to all the good names for stuff. When I was a kid, marketers were still working overtime to get into the limelight, to get their product on the lips of every consumer everywhere. Products had names like QT and [...]

Dok takes an in-depth look at the AMD K6-3+.

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It’s the Pentium 4. That’s correct, 4. Not !!!!, IV, IIII, or Four, it’s called 4, the Arabic number 4. Intel changed it’s naming system for the first time since they last introduced a processor. Pentium II to Pentium !!! Those are exclamation points…if you don’t believe me, check out their website, or latest commercials. [...]

It’s called Christmas season. Right after Halloween, we start to see all of the toy commercials on TV, and get bombarded with Christmas decorations, and even Christmas shows. People outside of the U.S. are glad they don’t live in the US during this season. It’s one of the worst in the US for sanity, as [...]

Cyrix has been the dog of the computing world ever since the days of the 486DX/100MHz chip.  It’s always been plagued by low yields, low profits, and even lower performing processors.  For what seems to be the past year, Cyrix has been working on a Socket 370 chip that is pin for pin compatible with [...]