The BC government allegedly offered a large tax break to MS would they choose to move from Seattle to Vancouver upon the negative result fromt the Anti-trust case. Before this news was known, it was already thought that they would not accept. Now it just makes sense that MS did not.
They are X86. both are 100% compatable
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Both AMD's processors and Intel's processors comply, and are built to, the same specifications. X86. Therefore, any code written for an x86 processor will run on both AMD chips as well as Intel chips.
The reason we have seen incompatabilities in the past with different X86 specced chips has been because of the chipsets that were used in order to make the chips run. The BX chipset (which most people are familiar with) has been a very stable chipset. However, the chipsets that were first used with AMD's K6 line of chips was not stable nor perfected, and led to many 'incompatability' issues. These had nothing to do with the chip itself like many people were led to believe. Proof of this is seen in the fact that AMD has not made any major revisions to their K6 line of chips (till the K6+), however, there have been no large groups of people yelling about incompatabilities with their newly purchased K6 based computers. This is because while all those nice issues about incompatabilities were popping up, VIA dumped its old chipsets (which were the cause of the incompatabilities) in favor of the MVP3/4. Other chipset makers did the same.
Any these issues have been fixed with the Athlon line of chips from AMD as well. In fact, they were hardly ever even there. With the new chipset from VIA, any incompatabilities that arise do so mainly because of ignorance.
Intel on the other hand should have recieved the same flack that AMD got from its k6 line of CPUs. They have had many more incompatabilities with their i8xx line of chipsets than were ever present with Socket 7 chipsets.
I think we need to look at the possibility of this merger from both sides of the fence. There would, of course, be advantages to having AOL merge with @home. Access to their intranet would be a nice addition to many people's array of internet tools. However, with such an addition, would there also be downfalls? I expect that there would not be any structural changes (to the @home backbone, and the way it works... etc), however, would we be experiencing any slowdowns, or price hikes due to this? It would certainly open up a new source of cashflow for @home. A merger with AOL would bring in lots of the Jane/John Doe's who have heard the AOL buzzword all over the place. Something like that could greatly help to get upgrades to the backbone in place. However, would such an influx of users overwhelm @home? blah.
I'll admit right off the bat that I'm not (yet) too experienced with taking out a motherboard & swapping it w/ another one, so if anyone has better info than me, post it and spare me the flames...:P
Taking a motherboard out of the case should be simple. Just disconnect all of the power cords running toward it (and it might be a good idea to mark on them what they were for, a print on your current motherboard should specify their use, though I am not sure wether this is absolutly nesicary, it seems like a good idea). Take all of your add-on cards off the board, and you should be left with your motherboard stripped down inside the case. There will be little plastic knobs that need to be squeezed to let the motherboard pop out...
Your new motherboard *should* fit into the case, assuming that you are buying one that is the same form (not sure on if thats the correct use of the word...) as the origonal, ie. replacing an AT motherboard with an AT motherboard In many cases, the size of your new motherboard wont matter, because most of the cases I've seen seem to be able to take several different sizes of motherboards, so you should be ok there... but you might want to make sure that this is the case before you go out and spend your wad of money on that new MB... but then again, its only $50 for a new case...
Back to the point, once you've got your new MB in the case, its as simple as reconnecting all of those wacky things you just took off 10 mintues ago...
Hope I'm close to right on all of these things since I just bought a new MB and it should be fedex'd over within the next few days...:P
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The BC government allegedly offered a large tax break to MS would they choose to move from Seattle to Vancouver upon the negative result fromt the Anti-trust case. Before this news was known, it was already thought that they would not accept. Now it just makes sense that MS did not.
Both AMD's processors and Intel's processors comply, and are built to, the same specifications. X86. Therefore, any code written for an x86 processor will run on both AMD chips as well as Intel chips.
The reason we have seen incompatabilities in the past with different X86 specced chips has been because of the chipsets that were used in order to make the chips run. The BX chipset (which most people are familiar with) has been a very stable chipset. However, the chipsets that were first used with AMD's K6 line of chips was not stable nor perfected, and led to many 'incompatability' issues. These had nothing to do with the chip itself like many people were led to believe. Proof of this is seen in the fact that AMD has not made any major revisions to their K6 line of chips (till the K6+), however, there have been no large groups of people yelling about incompatabilities with their newly purchased K6 based computers. This is because while all those nice issues about incompatabilities were popping up, VIA dumped its old chipsets (which were the cause of the incompatabilities) in favor of the MVP3/4. Other chipset makers did the same.
Any these issues have been fixed with the Athlon line of chips from AMD as well. In fact, they were hardly ever even there. With the new chipset from VIA, any incompatabilities that arise do so mainly because of ignorance.
Intel on the other hand should have recieved the same flack that AMD got from its k6 line of CPUs. They have had many more incompatabilities with their i8xx line of chipsets than were ever present with Socket 7 chipsets.
I think we need to look at the possibility of this merger from both sides of the fence. There would, of course, be advantages to having AOL merge with @home. Access to their intranet would be a nice addition to many people's array of internet tools. However, with such an addition, would there also be downfalls? I expect that there would not be any structural changes (to the @home backbone, and the way it works... etc), however, would we be experiencing any slowdowns, or price hikes due to this? It would certainly open up a new source of cashflow for @home. A merger with AOL would bring in lots of the Jane/John Doe's who have heard the AOL buzzword all over the place. Something like that could greatly help to get upgrades to the backbone in place. However, would such an influx of users overwhelm @home? blah.
I'll admit right off the bat that I'm not (yet) too experienced with taking out a motherboard & swapping it w/ another one, so if anyone has better info than me, post it and spare me the flames... :P
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Taking a motherboard out of the case should be simple. Just disconnect all of the power cords running toward it (and it might be a good idea to mark on them what they were for, a print on your current motherboard should specify their use, though I am not sure wether this is absolutly nesicary, it seems like a good idea). Take all of your add-on cards off the board, and you should be left with your motherboard stripped down inside the case. There will be little plastic knobs that need to be squeezed to let the motherboard pop out...
Your new motherboard *should* fit into the case, assuming that you are buying one that is the same form (not sure on if thats the correct use of the word...) as the origonal, ie. replacing an AT motherboard with an AT motherboard
In many cases, the size of your new motherboard wont matter, because most of the cases I've seen seem to be able to take several different sizes of motherboards, so you should be ok there... but you might want to make sure that this is the case before you go out and spend your wad of money on that new MB... but then again, its only $50 for a new case...
Back to the point, once you've got your new MB in the case, its as simple as reconnecting all of those wacky things you just took off 10 mintues ago...
Hope I'm close to right on all of these things since I just bought a new MB and it should be fedex'd over within the next few days...