x64, also known as x86_64, has been around in consumer-level computers for a little over 5 years, having been introduced to the public by AMD in their famous K8 lineup back in 2003. The x86-64 instruction set, which AMD had presented in 2000, had for a goal to extend the existing x86 achitecture in order to be able to address more physical and virtual memory, use newer SSE instructions sets, and eliminate some of the older, archaic 16 bit instructions. 64 bit would also bring many more advantages...

I've been tired of flipping burgers for a while, and at some point I even was wondering if I would ever get paid to do something else then chain building junk food before obtaining higher education. After talking to a couple of friends and getting their encouragements to move on to somethig else, I made a man of myself and applied a second time at my local Futureshop, a Best Buy owned banner operating...

Since the very day I started blogging here on Overclock.net's blogs, it has been very clear to me that some of the members are somewhat confused on what blogs are supposed to be and what they can and can't be use to do. I'm not pointing fingers here, but seeing two sentence blog entries just makes me want to cry.

I figured that I might be useful to newer members and first time bloggers by sharing the little knowledge that I have on blogging with you guys, as to make OCN blogs a better...

Nvidia is acting weird lately. Apart from keeping the bar high in the GPU sector, Nvidia seems to be wanting to take over something else, the CPU sector. I'm a bit confused as if they want to do so using CUDA and GPU-powered applications to entirely eradicate the need for a powerful CPU and build crappy replacements of their own, or just trying to beat Intel at their own game, plain and simple, by producing super high end chips.

I might be totally wrong, but in the case that this "...

Although I'm now somewhat ashamed to admit it, I gnawed my way into the top 350 in the folding ranks with regular clients. By fear of bricking my machines with 100% load all the time, I simply ran the lamer v5 clients, even though half the machines I was running them on were SMP capable.

It's only until very recently that I've started folding full tilt with SMP on my capable machines. First impressions:

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