A PC's third and principal level of system memory is referred to as main memory, or Random Access Memory (RAM). It is an impermanent source of data, but is the main memory area accessed by the hard disk. It acts, so to speak, as a staging post between the hard disk and the processor. The … [Read more...]
In February 2003, AMD introduced the first processor based on the new Athlon XP core, codenamed Barton. While this Athlon … [Read More...]
Introduced in the late 1990s, the MicroATX is basically a smaller version of Intel's ATX specification, intended for compact, low-cost consumer … [Read More...]
It had been Intel's original intention to introduce the Tualatin processor core long before it actually did, as a … [Read More...]