[H]ardNews 7th Edition

AMD Overclockin’:

Muropaketti, known best for their extreme overclocking adventures, stay true to form with this AMD 2700+ overclocking article. The results achieved this time around were made using conventional air cooling, with a little super cooling action planned in a later article. Have a look.

With default voltage we were able to raise the clock frequency only to 2,2GHz. With higher 1,85V Vcore the CPU managed to handle 2326MHz clock frequency. I ran couple of tests to make sure the CPU was stable. Althought the temperetures were above 60°C so watercooling is more than recommended if you are going to overclock these new Athlon CPU's.

IWill P4ES i845E:

I must’ve missed this IWill P4ES review the other day, but PCStats has a look at an i845E based offering from IWill and they seem to have an overall good opinion of the board.

Iwill's goal with the P4ES appears to have been to make a very stable, feature rich motherboard. In this they have succeeded by all accounts. The P4ES is very future proof and should satisfy all the needs of the average user.

OEM Hyper-Threading:

An interesting story about OEM PC’s that have been shipped to end users with Hyper-Threading disabled, but can be simply switched on in the BIOS. The article talks about the lack of applications that take advantage of Hyper-Threading, but if you ask me, why not get a new CPU that has added performance benefits lit HT and open end potential for future applications. I am all for Hyper-Threading.

Hewlett-Packard and Dell, among other workstation manufacturers, have been shipping their systems with the function turned off, according to company representatives. Right now, workstation makers say, the broad array of software used in that segment of the market doesn't take advantage of the technology yet. Users, though, can easily turn the hyperthreading function on if they wish.