IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN… Time for another wonderful fun fill post of joy and happiness. Well you should know better if you come to this site often. Not that anything is happening, just been really slow at the store (where I work) as of late, and my ass is getting sore, but I am doing tons of geek reading. The slow down in business, I guess might have something to do with the NEW P4 line coming out. See Intel is changing the FSB (front side bus) again to 800MHz, from 533 (started at 400MHz with a 428 ZIF socket), which means that new motherboards are needed to support it. This is the forth time thing have changed, P3’s only had three changes, well four, but the last one really didn’t count because P4’s were out. Hellish for the customers trying to buy a system, all the numbers that get thrown at them (the carnage ), the real suckers are the ones that go out looking for a computer to take home that same day in a box (no names are going to be added here, but you know who you are). Real cool thing about the new line of 800MHz CPUs, besides the raw speed it’s offering, and the price is around the same as the others, is that they have “Hyper Threading” which tricks the OS in thinking that there are 2 proccesers, and that means more speed for multi-tasking “Windows” freaks like me (might have to get another monitor for more windows, hehehe), but really, it suppost to help for a smoother running system, hell it could fix the problem with one of the WinXP updates that has turned my P3 1.2GHz into a dog for starting programs. Just hope the the bugs are worked out, Intel had a recall for the CPUs on the day they were shipping, hmmm, makes you wonder. And the geek arises from his hollow hole, with a monitor tan… I need to get out more, heesshh. I’m going to do something non-computer related. Till next time.
