June 27, 2007 by Brad.

This guide is for installing an IDE drive. If you’re opening up something an OEM machine you could be voiding your warranty so check first.

When you try to install a really big hard drive into a lot of older systems, you’ll find that the BIOS is only capable of seeing 137 GB. On even older mainboards you’ll find a 32 GB limit.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

There are 8 dual-core Opterons in there somewhere, running at 2.8GHz each (as I recall) … but they’re hard to see as they are tucked away under 128 Gigabytes of RAM.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

Have you been interested in RAID, but wondered what it’s all about? Do you have one, and think your RAID array is helping your speeds? This article from bit-tech.net takes a look at how RAID works, they types, and demystifies some of the real performance benefits.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

These days it’s pretty easy to put together your own Windows PC, but which parts should you get for the most performance for your money? This article tells you.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

HardOCP had hoped the newer ATI driver revisions would improve performance on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. Sadly the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is not even a match for even the much less expensive and much less power hungry 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS when it comes to real world gaming at 1600×1200 resolutions and above.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

Gigabyte Technology, one of the largest motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan, hosted a factory tour at its facility, inviting journalists out to give them a brief overview of the company and explain how their factory worked.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

The Compenion is a sleek concept laptop designed by Felix Schmidberger. It certainly looks like the kind of portable PC we might be carrying around in 2015, made more futuristic by its OLED touchscreen, which serves as both monitor and keyboard.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

8 Ghz using Liquid Nitrogen, Pentium 4 631 and an Asus motherboard. Great project with lots of pictures.

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

There is only one thing..

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June 27, 2007 by Brad.

IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer–the Blue Gene/P–that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second.

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