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From Lou Warren: We've briefly discussed ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) as it relates to Building PC's, please take note of PEI - Petroleum Equipment Institute's Stop Static Campaign! No joke, this is serious! Please READ IT! (Posted 7/2/2002; Updated 10/14/2011)

Enabling AHCI the easy way by Joe Whinery!

News Highlights 2011:

1. New AMD FX Bulldozer Build Specification Recommendation (10-12-2011)

2. Enabling AHCI the easy way by Joe Whinery!

3. Win7 Upgrade install & Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Boot Times - Courtesy Joe Whinery

4. Windows Migration Step-by-Step Guide - Courtesy George Walker!

5. AMD 2009 Desktop Processor Chart

6. Casper Disk Cloning by Joe Whinery. This is the Best & Easiest Solution!  

2011 News Logs:

1. www.Simmtester.com - Seagate downgrade 4th Quarter shipment goal (11-18-2011)
2. ExtremeTech - Intel’s new high-end Sandy Bridge-E 3960X review (11-17-2011)
3. ExtremeTech - To SSD or not to SSD (11-17-2011)
4. PCWorld - Everything You Need to Know About 3TB Hard Drives 7-6-2011 (11-15-2011)
5. Intel.com - Visibly smart Press: Intel i7-3930K Reviews "...X79 chipset and LGA2011 socket." (11-14-2011)
   1. Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E 3.3GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73960X = $1,049.99
   2. Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K = $599.99
6. ExtremeTech - HDD Pricewatch You know where it’s going — we tell you how much it’s going to hurt (11-10-2011)
7. eWEEK Labs - The Silver Lining of Bangkok Flooding - Get your HDs while you can. Maybe 9 months of scarcity. Makes SSDs look more desirable. (11-10-2011)
8. Maximum PC Corsair's Quad Channel DDR3 Kit is 32GB of DRAM Ecstasy "...Corsair's quad channel kit is rated to run at 1866MHz with 9-10-9-27 C9 timings and 1.5V. ...The Dominator 32GB Quad Channel kit (CMT32GX3M4X1866C9) will ship sometime this month for $999 and includes Corsair's Airflow Fan" (10-21-2011)
9. AMD.com - AMD FX CPUs Sets Guinness World Record for Overclocking! "...AMD FX 8 core desktop processors to reach a frequency of 8.429GHz, eclipsing the previous world record of 8.308GHz." (10-14-2011)
10. blogs.amd.com - Our Take on AMD FX Game Blog (10-14-2011)
11. Geek.com - 18TB hard drives made possible using table salt – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology (10-14-2011)
12. Computerworld - Microsoft opens Windows 8 preview to all - (10-14-2011)
    1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
13. New AMD FX Bulldozer Build Specification Recommendation (10-12-2011)
14. www.amd.com/amdfx - New! AMD FX 8-Core Processor Black Edition! (10-12-2011)
15. Matrox.com - Mura Newsletter - Trenton Systems - "...up to six Mura boards... driving four outputs for 24 total potential displays... Mura-powered Trenton video wall controller..." (10/11/2011)
16. InfoWorld - Windows 8 7 handy tips and 4 cool tools Microsoft Windows - (10/5/2011)
17. ExtremeTech - Demystifying UEFI, the long-overdue BIOS replacement (9/22/2011)
18. InfoWorld - Windows 8 What it's really all about - Windows 8 expected Fall 2012? (9/17/2011)
19. MyCE – My Consumer Electronics - Seagate, Hitachi compete with new 4TB hard disk drives (9/10/2011)
    1. Seagate - Desktop hard drive External Desktop hard drives FreeAgent GoFlex Desk - Model STAC4000100 | USB 3.0 | 4 TB (9/10/2011)
20. PCMag.com - Wacom Launches Inkling, a Digital Pen for Artists News & Opinion (8/31/2011)
21. PCMag.com - Exclusive AMD's First Bulldozer Chips Arriving Sept. 26 News & Opinion See end of article for... MORE: AMD is also revving up Bulldozer cores for the consumer market (8/31/2011)
22. Maximum PC AMD Inadvertently Tips Price of FX-8150P Bulldozer Processor Posted 08/01/2011 (8/31/2011)
23. bit-tech.net - Rumour AMD Radeon HD 7000 supports PCI-E 3 Published on 29th July 2011 (8/31/2011)
24. GIGABYTE - Media - News - Motherboard - PCI Express 3.0 MotherBoards (8/31/2011)
25. PCI-SIG - FAQ - PCI Express 3.0 - Thinking about a new PC? Better to Build now or better to wait... Again? Download the PDF FAQ (8/31/2011)
    
26. InfoWorld - Microsoft teases more Windows 8 details Microsoft windows (8/30/2011)
27. InfoWorld - No contest Mac vs. Windows security Security (8-17-2011)
28. ExtremeTech: M-Disc is a DVD made out of stone that lasts 1,000 years (8/11/2011)
    1. Millenniata The First Permanent File Backup Disc That Lasts Forever - FYI - Signup To Be Notified as soon as M-DISC & LG Super-Multi Drive with M-READY technology are ready for shipping! (8/11/2011)
29. ExtremeTech: Black Hat hacker details lethal wireless attack on insulin pumps (8/11/2011)
30. sata-io.org - Enabling Higher Speed Storage Applications with SATA Express - "SATA Express will provide a low-cost solution to fully utilize the performance of SSD devices. This new technology will provide a cost-effective means to increase device interface speeds to 8Gb/s and 16Gb/s. SATA-IO expects SATA Express specification to be completed by end of 2011."
    1. Press Release: SATA-IO to Enable Higher Speed Storage Applications With SATA Express Specification pdf (8/09/2011)

    2. Presentation: Evolving SATA for High Speed Storage Applications pdf (8/09/2011)

31. PCWorld: Everything You Need to Know About 3TB Hard Drives (6-06-2011)
    1. Supporting 3TB HDs - Limits & Requirements
       
32. www.computerworld.com - D-Link issues fixes for router vulnerabilities (1-15-10)
33. Is Windows 7 the last major chapter in the Windows story Windows - InfoWorld (12-23-09)
    
34. Wed 03-03-10: Special Guest Speaker - Frank Hudziak, AMD will be discussing the product road map for desktop, notebook and server processors, along with exciting new products for graphics.  Frank will have a processor for our Drawing. It will be a Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor. This is a quad core processor that runs at 3.2 GHz with an unlocked multiplier.
35. 
    SATA Revision 3.0 or SATA 6Gb/s Coming! PDF

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