Windows 2000 has been the talk of the operating system circles for almost a year now.  At first, it was supposed to be Windows NT 6.0.  Then, some say after Linux caught on, they upped it to Windows NT 5.0, and renamed it, Windows 2000.  It’s still based on the NT 4.0 code, which we...

With dial up Internet service, you can access the Internet from every computer in the house, as long as every computer has a modem. After a while of dialing up, you might feel that you’ve outgrown standard dial-up Internet service.Its slow speeds are too cramping for the daily work you do on the Internet, so...

Ethernet ChoiceThe first thing you want to do when attempting to build your own home network, is choose what you want to use for cabling.  For ease of use, and easy expansion, I suggest using 10/t or 100/TX.  10/T and 100/TX both use Cat5 Cabling.  If you look at it, it looks like a phone wire, but has twice as many wires both on the plug and in...

Although Intel got into the Socket 7 chipset business and basically took over, there were many great chipsets out there that didn’t boast the Intel name. Also, Intel decided to move onto sixth generation chipsets after its release of the TX chipset. TX was their last Pentium-class chipset, leaving the market wide open for their competitors to come in and...

Overclocking has long been a favorite method of tweaking PC performance by PC enthusiasts. The concept of it probably got its start back in the days of the Intel 486 and AMD 5×86. For example, the 5×86 was the basis of a lot of overclocking fun, because you could increase the front side bus speed from 33 MHz to 50 MHz and reduce the multiplier to 3.0x...

Intel released the Pentium III “Katmai” processor in February of 1999, running at 450 MHz on a 100MHz bus. Designated as the Pentium III “B”, Katmai introduced the SSE instruction set, which was basically an extension of MMX that again improved the performance on 3D apps designed to use the new ability. Also dubbed MMX2, SSE contained 70...

The packaging is simply the entire makeup of a unit of memory, such as the SIMM or DIMM. Since the memory chips themselves are way too small, they must be combined and put onto a medium that can be worked with and added to a system. So, designers took the memory chips, placed them on a small fiberglass card, and created the memory module. There are...

SCSI is an entirely different interface than the more popular IDE. It is more of a system level interface, meaning that it does not only deal with disk drives. It is not a controller, like IDE, but a separate bus that is hooked to the system bus via a host adapter. A single SCSI bus can hold up to eight units, each with a different SCSI ID, ranging from 0 to 7....