Posts Tagged ‘CPU’

Palm Treo 750 Review

August 1, 2008Matt 2 Comments »

I received a completely unexpected present from a good friend of mine a couple of months ago, a new Palm Treo 750 running Windows Mobile 6. I am quite fond of the design of the Palm Treo’s as they manage to incorporate an (almost) full keyboard along with a reasonable sized screen (240px * 240px) [...]

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Snow Leopard Thus Far

June 25, 2008Matt No Comments »

I have noticed news and rumours popping up, as well as some releases on Apple’s website about the next version of OS X, due out next year, Snow Leopard. Just going off the information directly from Apple, Snow Leopard is sounding like it is going to be a very interesting release and as an unashamed [...]

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Quad Core Observations

February 10, 2008Matt No Comments »

I have Folding@Home running on all of my computers, I have run it for quite a while. I have no real reason not to. Now having it setup on the new computer, and watching the usage on the CPU, it is nothing like what I had expected. On everyt other computer I have used it [...]

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Quadzilla – The Process

February 9, 2008Matt No Comments »

Hard drive line up I have been working on my new baby since I got home after watching Sweeney Todd this evening, trying to get it up and running. It’s been over a week since I bought the parts, that’s the longest it is has ever taken me to get a new computer up and [...]

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Quadzilla Begins – Piecing Together The Core Components

February 3, 2008Matt No Comments »

Putting the new computer together was really no more complicated than any of the computer’s I have put together in the past, except, the video card is gigantic. Normally, I build in this order: Power supply Motherboard CPU Front panel cables Video card RAM Data devices, any expansion cards Power and data cables As you [...]

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Explorer Using Excessive CPU Time

January 31, 2008Matt No Comments »

I have been having some interesting computer problems the past few days. I have noticed that upon a fresh boot the past two times I have booted, Explorer.exe has been using 100% of the CPU time and rarely drops below 90%, thus everything else has trouble running. Of course if you change the priority to [...]

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