Jan 31 2011
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the fact that Intel had me drooling over the new Sandy Bridge chipset. The CPUs are incredibly fast and are priced fairly well. Today, the Sandy Bridge came crashing down due to a huge design flaw. It’s related to the SATA controller, making anything connected to it vulnerable to […]
Jan 25 2011
If you talk to a hundred computer users what they use for antivirus, you’ll get dozens of answers. I’ve tried my share of A/V programs over the many years and have been very happy with the free version of Avast for the last three years. It works. It doesn’t bog down my system. Did I […]
Jan 15 2011
My two computers are showing their age. While they both run reliably, neither one of them is considered fast by today’s standards. Intel’s new Sandy Bridge technology frankly has me drooling, even more after seeing Anandtech’s video encoding tests. The Intel i7 2600k was able to outpace almost all other CPUs except for the i7 […]