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Motherboards.org Articles Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-26-2009 Category: Tech-planations Hardware based physics in a game has only been lightly touched by games like Unreal Tournament 3 and games based upon that engine. Mirror’s Edge takes full advantage of the PhysX physics engine with a persistent, physical world th... Author: Vlad Mihaiescu 01/29/2008 Date: 01-29-2008 Category: Tech-planations And now, SEGA is at it again, just releasing their latest title, Universe at War – Earth Assault. Partaking in the genre of RTSs (Real Time Strategy), Universe at War – Earth Assault will try to dominate all the other mediocre RT... Author: Randy Zlobec Date: 11-01-2007 Category: Tech-planations In order to get around the dead horse of SEO standalone, you need to be ready to add links, backlinks and quality backlinks. You need to be able to do more than string three words together. Today’s readers are savvy. They want rea...
Author: Chris Gump Date: 10-23-2007 Category: Tech-planations For the first game to be reviewed on Motherboards.org, Id Software’s Enemy Territory Quake Wars is a great choice. This product easily wins itself and Editor’s Choice award for being one of the best team-based shooters that I have... Author: Niso Levitas Date: 09-25-2007 Category: Tech-planations This year Intel celebrated the 10th anniversary of IDF (Intel Developers Forum) with over 5000 visitors attending. Unfortunately for me, it was my eighth year attending to the forum. Since 1997, each year all the geekiest engineer...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-13-2007 Category: Tech-planations At the moment SYSmark 2007 is a headache at best to techs/reviewers and a waste of money to those who have to purchase it. I would really feel bad for the poor soul who shelled out the $499.00 of hard earned cash for this only to ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-30-2007 Category: Tech-planations Every single Ultra Durable 2 Motherboard is equipped with quality components such as Low-RDS MOSFETs, Ferrite Core Chokes and Japanese All-Solid Capacitor to help reduce heat dissipation and significantly increase motherboard life... Author: Heather Skinner Date: 06-27-2005 Category: Tech-planations Many factors contribute to a computer's performance. Beyond the processor speed, motherboard bus speed, and hard disk drive capacity (and speed, too), a system's memory plays an important role....
Author: D'arcy Lemay Date: 01-26-2005 Category: Tech-planations Currently the high end 130 and 90nm chips have issues with outrageous heat dissipation, to the point where the fastest Pentium4 processors aren't capable of running their fastest speed under load without aftermarket cooling being ... Author: D'Arcy Lemay Date: 12-30-2004 Category: Tech-planations The grand scheme of PCI Express is to be like the One Ring in JRR Tolkien's tale, "one bus to rule them all". In the end though, "one bus" isn't a really good descriptor of how PCI Express works. "One protocol" would be a more apt... Author: MoboCop Date: 11-12-2004 Category: Tech-planations The form factor determines the general layout, size, and feature placement on a motherboard. Different form factors usually require different style cases.... Author: MoboCop Date: 10-30-2004 Category: Tech-planations Most computer users have probably heard the term motherboard, but if you are unfamiliar with the role of the motherboard within the overall PC architecture, or if you are not quite clear about the components that make up a motherb... Author: MoboCop Date: 10-06-2004 Category: Tech-planations Expansion slots on a motherboard are designed to accept peripheral cards that add functionality to a computer system, such as a video or a sound card. Over the years the expansion slot bus has been a major system bottleneck, and j...
Author: MoboCop Date: 08-25-2004 Category: Tech-planations Take a quick tour on the history of the motherboard starting in 1924....
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 12-29-2000 Category: Tech-planations DDR is a common term for Double Data Rate. This is a type of memory that has been used in different applications, but more frequently in the video card market. DDR as referred to here is a type of SDRAM that supports data transfer...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 09-24-2000 Category: Tech-planations When considering the purchase of a new computer many questions will arise, but the type of user you are is the most important. There really are only about four different categories in the mainstream computer market.... Author: MoboCop Date: 01-01-2000 Category: Tech-planations The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) is the program that enables a PC to boot after power-up. The BIOS is a built-in set of routines that serve as an interface between the computer's operating system and hardware devices.... Author: MoboCop Date: 01-01-2000 Category: Tech-planations The motherboard has one or more sockets or slots into which the processor is inserted. The type of processor that can be used is defined by the type of socket or slot present on the motherboard.... Author: MoboCop Date: 01-01-2000 Category: Tech-planations The BIOS String ID number is assigned to every motherboard made. It is not always unique but there is usually some good info hidden in the string. The most useful is the portion which identifies the manufacturer of the motherboard... Author: Billy Newsom Date: 01-01-1997 Category: Tech-planations A list of chip manufacturers. From CPUs and chipsets to ICs and RTCs.... Author: Billy Newsom Date: 01-01-1997 Category: Tech-planations Those of you who know personal computers know that the most important major component in the PC is the motherboard. Not the hard disk, not the video card & the most important single component on the motherboard? The CPU, right... |
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