I Am Not A Geek heeft een zes pagina's tellende review online gezet van Asus' AMD 760 moederbord, de A7M266. Het bord bleek uitgerust te zijn met veel opties, maar net een aantal van de dingen waarop Tweakers hun keuze baseren ontbraken, zoals de RAID controller en vooral multiplier selection. Een ander nadeel is dat de snelheid van het geheugen gelijk moet zijn aan die van de FSB, waardoor het bijvoorbeeld onmogelijk is om PC2100 geheugen te gebruiken op een normale Athlon met 200MHz FSB, hoewel dit niet de schuld is van het moederbord maar van de chipset:
Well you can see the ASUS A7M266 has a pretty good list of features. I previously would not consider buying a board without a multiplier selector. Now I would consider it because you can get a good overclock my raising a the bus speed to 133 for a CPU based on the 100MHz bus, however it is still much nicer to have multiplier selector. The reason people would be considering upgrading to this board is for the DDR SDRAM, however as you saw in my benchmarks it didn't offer much of a performance increase. I am hoping ASUS might be able to improve those scores with a BIOS update, but we will have to wait and see. The only other thing you must consider is that the DDR SDRAM that you will need for this board is at most places at least as expensive the motherboard itself. For one of the first DDR boards around this motherboard isn't bad, but there is some definite room for improvement.
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Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems will install Linux on an IBM eServer z900 to manage massive email databases for its customers by running hundreds of Linux partitions;
Het besturingssysteem bracht vijf jaar geleden een schokgolf teweeg. Het zorgde voor een sterke omzetstijging van Microsoft.
I am hearing rumors that the AMD 1GHz+ processors
are difficult to acquire in the spot market, and that
AMD is sold out of these higher speed grades in the
channel. This would indicate either a large demand, or
lack of production. Based upon conversations with
AMD reps several weeks ago, my guess would be the
former.
On Tuesday, February 13, Microsoft will host a Windows Whistler event at the rock 'n' roll-themed Experience Music Project (EMP). The hour-long event will feature several Microsoft executives, including Bill Gates and Jim Allchin, and although Microsoft hasn't said so, I think we can expect to learn the final names of both Whistler and Office 10 by this date. Given the name of the rollout location, it's safe to bet that Microsoft will apply the "XP" (eXPerienced) label mentioned previously in WinInfo Daily UPDATE to both Whistler and Office 10. Windows XP and Office XP: Are you experienced? It's unclear whether Microsoft will apply year tags to these names; reportedly, Bill Gates himself nixed the 2002 tag for Office.
AMD announced today at LinuxWorld events in New York and Paris the first
public demonstration of "VirtuHammer," the recently announced high-performance tool developed by AMD and Virtutech that
allows software developers to write and test 64-bit programs for AMD's next-generation "Hammer" family of processors.
Additionally, AMD is showing a dozen AMD Athlon™ processor-based servers and workstations running on the Linux operating
system at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo shows in New York City and Paris. LinuxWorld is the premiere tradeshow for developers,
supporter and end users of the Linux operating system.
