PowerNow! is effectively AMD's version of Intel's SpeedStep technology. The premise is a simple one: some applications require less processing power than others. Word processing, for example, consumes relatively few processor cycles, whereas … [Read more...]
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The performance of a hard disk is very important to the overall speed of the system - a slow hard disk having the potential to hinder a fast processor … [Read More...]
SCSI-1, the original 1986 standard, is now obsolete. It used asynchronous transfer, where the host and the device, blind to … [Read More...]