Posted 08/01/2009 at 07:50:14pm

Why is there no dedicated soundcard in any of the rigs? As long as I can remember, Dream Machines always included a dedicated soundcard.

Posted 03/07/2009 at 08:10:29pm

All cell and isp providers should be more clear with their statements. Something can not be called UNLIMTED and then have some type of cap, because it then becomes LIMITED. Its time for all these companies to use ONE universally recognized system of measure, then I and all of these other people would not have to be suprised by insane charges for use. FINE PRINT should be illegal.

Posted 02/20/2009 at 11:13:07pm

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

    - Albert Einstein

Posted 01/17/2009 at 11:05:54pm

I have a Rambus based system in the other room, which is still used today, with a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz overclocked to 2.2Ghz running WinXP SP3 and MS Office 2007. Cant upgrade much more because of no PCI-E slots, but the thing still works great. I don't even remember having the option with Pentium 2 or 3 chips. The Rambus ram also runs at 1066Mhz. DDR was just recently able to hit that mark with its latest iteration. As for the requirement for two chips, well one of my earliest computers required the purchase of two chips.It was called parity ram. Remember that stuff and the blank chips were only neccesary if you did not fill all four avalable slots,which I did for a totalof 1 Gig of memory. That thing flew and blew most eqivalent machines out of the water. For the new Intel Core i7 chip, you have to buy three sticks of DDR3 to get the full potential from the system, and you thought having to buy two chips was bad. Have you seen the prices for the tri-channel kits? Rambus also had much lower latency than DDR. Yeah, it was more expensive, because the other ram manufacturers feared the potential of the Rambus ram putting DDR manufacturing out of business. As to your innovation point, of which I am not exactly sure, because RDRAM already ran at 1066Mhz six years ago and DDR is just now reaching that speed, If anything, Rambus was too innovative. As to the deal with Intel, Intel only backed out due to pressure from their motherboard makers who were under pressure from the DDR makers. I will agree with you on one point however, and that is that Rambus had a golden oppurtunity to make a lot of money and their management blew it out of greed and power and wanting strict control over who was able to use the technology. As for the patents, what has beeen going on recently i am not completely up to date on, but I do know that DDR was based on Rambus technolohy, and that has been admitted to by all parties involved.

Posted 01/17/2009 at 11:05:22pm

I have a Rambus based system in the other room, which is still used today, with a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz overclocked to 2.2Ghz running WinXP SP3 and MS Office 2007. Cant upgrade much more because of no PCI-E slots, but the thing still works great. I don't even remember having the option with Pentium 2 or 3 chips. The Rambus ram also runs at 1066Mhz. DDR was just recently able to hit that mark with its latest iteration. As for the requirement for two chips, well one of my earliest computers required the purchase of two chips.It was called parity ram. Remember that stuff and the blank chips were only neccesary if you did not fill all four avalable slots,which I did for a totalof 1 Gig of memory. That thing flew and blew most eqivalent machines out of the water. For the new Intel Core i7 chip, you have to buy three sticks of DDR3 to get the full potential from the system, and you thought having to buy two chips was bad. Have you seen the prices for the tri-channel kits? Rambus also had much lower latency than DDR. Yeah, it was more expensive, because the other ram manufacturers feared the potential of the Rambus ram putting DDR manufacturing out of business. As to your innovation point, of which I am not exactly sure, because RDRAM already ran at 1066Mhz six years ago and DDR is just now reaching that speed, If anything, Rambus was too innovative. As to the deal with Intel, Intel only backed out due to pressure from their motherboard makers who were under pressure from the DDR makers. I will agree with you on one point however, and that is that Rambus had a golden oppurtunity to make a lot of money and their management blew it out of greed and power and wanting strict control over who was able to use the technology. As for the patents, what has beeen going on recently i am not completely up to date on, but I do know that DDR was based on Rambus technolohy, and that has been admitted to by all parties involved.

Posted 01/12/2009 at 03:15:50pm

...they were wrong. All you people that think Rambus are just a bunch of patent trolls should really look up the history of what actualy happened. If I was Rambus, I would be doing th exact same thing, as these companies admittted collusion to put a superior product out of the financial reach of customers by dropping the price of DDR so low that there was no way for Rambus to compete.

Read the GUILTY pleas from these companies from the DOJ website.

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2005/212002.htm

If you still think the same about Rambus after seeing what type of collusion they were up against then by all means, keep slamming them. All I know is that we all lost the oppurtunity to purchase a great product to make our computers much faster, overclockable, and more dependable years ago.

Posted 11/15/2008 at 10:00:42pm

The cap for AT&T is 150GB per month only if you have their Max (up-to-10Mbps) service which is only available to their U-verse customers. Otherwise the speed caps are as follows:

Basic (up-to-768Kbps) cap is set at 20GB per month.

Express(up-to-1.5Mbps) cap is set at 40GB per month.

Pro(up-to-3.0Mbps) cap is set at 60GB per month.

Elite(up-to-6.0Mbps) cap is set at 80GB per month.

So unless you buy their U-verse package, if it is even available in your area, your cap is actually 80GB per month at most.

I would ike to see MaximumPC make templates for emails that anyone can use with addresses provided to make complaints to all the companies that will be affected by AT&T and any other ISP's setting cap limits. If everyone emails companies like GE(who own NBC and others), Disney(who own ABC and ESPN and others), FOX, Netflix, Blockbuster, Apple, the major movie studios, TBS, etc., as these are all companies that have high bandwidth requirements to use their services properly, maybe they will put pressure on the ISP's not to have caps.. With caps, people with have to be much more selective of which sevices they use, which will not make any of these companies very happy. This is the only way I see that we can get the ISP's to remove caps.