Here is a good description on how the memory is connected: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6159/the-geforce-gtx-660-ti-review/2 Basically there are three memory controllers, each with 2 32-bit memory channels, and one controller just has more memory attached. The effective bandwidth depends somewhat …

Here's an inexpensive solution to add RAM on 5150/XT class machines: http://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/1MB-RAM-Board That card is mainly useful for real 5150s, as they shipped with 16K-256K memory (there are 2 motherboards, the first can only take 64K max, the second only 256K max). Most clones ship …

does anyone have a version of this file that is not in Dutch??? it says EN-US (English, United States) but it comes up in Dutch.. maybe an error on microsofts part? http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc60pro/Update/2/W9XNT4/EN-US/VC6RedistSetup_deu.exe It's German (_deu signals 'Deutsch' which …

Hum, that was an interesting era :) I think I still had my trusty Pentium 120@133 back then... 64 MB memory, Matrox Mystique 2 MB videocard. Running Windows NT4, Win98SE and MS-DOS 6.22 in triple-boot config. SB Pro 2.0 and GUS MAX on board. The PC my dad used at work was more interesting though... …

Surprisingly the Pentium D did not gain much from increased FSB, without HT there isnt much need I guess. The Pentium EE *did* have HT however (which effectively made it the first 'quadcore' x86?). So it would be interesting to know what would happen with a Pentium D at high clockspeeds and HT …

it seems strange that u would need to install visual c++ packages to run a precompiled app.. It depends on how the app is compiled. Since MFC is used by many applications, it makes sense to use a shared library rather than compiling the same library into each application statically. So a lot of …

I have an Philips NMS 9100 XT Computer with 768kB of RAM. I am wondering a few things about it, since i never had an XT computer before. The specification is the following: 8088 Microprocessor 8MHz , 768kB RAM , Video 7 VEGA VGA 256kB I think I have the same one, or at least a similar one. Mine is …