The sale of platforms vs individual components have been things that both AMD and INTEL have played with. INTEL had some early success with their Centrino mobile platform, and caused such a stir amongst mobile users that people started to ask for “Centrino powered” laptops by name, regardless of how many other models and brands were available with the exact same functionality. A success that their Viiv platform never seemed to follow up with on the desktop.
AMD has tested the waters in the sea of platforms as well marketing their mobile configurations under the PUMA name. They matched Intel’s Centrino in purpose, but were much more relaxed in scope. What that meant was that their hardware requirements weren’t as strict for a system to earn a badge saying it was part of this or that platform. Unfortunately, no one asked for a PUMA like they did a Centrino.
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Last year Gigabyte organized their first World Wide Overclocking event in Taiwan. The 2008 event was open for invited overclockers only. This year however, they put up an online entry system. So not only the happy few could participate, but everyone out there running an overclocked Gigabyte setup.
“In support of my daughters battle with Hodgkins Stage IVB Cancer I am giving away an XFX 4850 graphics card this month to one lucky Folder”.
With all of the talk lately about the April Fool’s Day Virus, what does it do really? Today, Programming Specialist Dan Shannon takes a look at the code behind the Conficker virus, and tells us what it REALLY does…
If you’ve ever been to Idaho, you’ll agree with me that’s it’s a nice place to visit. They have more potatoes than anyone else really cares to brag about. But there’s something else there just behind the thin veil of potato chips and skinheads. There is a group of people living on a twenty-acre tract of land nestled in the hills just outside of Mountain Home, Idaho. They claim to be the last line of defense against a force so great that most of the world shudders at the very thought of its existence. 
Consumers are no longer replacing their computer every 2-3 years seeing the one they bought in 2002 after a format and OS reinstall is still perfectly fast and they are only out the cost of paying a tech to return their computer back to factory fresh.
