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This Athlon 64 X2 3600+ is the lowest spec. in Athlon 64X2 family. This processor will run at 2.00GHz and will contain 512KB of level two (L2) cache (256KB per core), while being made for the AM2 form-factor.

Athlon 64 X2 3600+ VS Pentium D 915 & 925 Benchmark:

Athlon 64 X2 3600+ VS Pentium D 915 & 925 3D Gaming Benchmark:

Benchmark Platform:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ (2.0GHz/256KB L2 x2) Socket AM2
Intel Pentium D 915 (2.8GHz/2MB L2 x 2/800MHz FSB)
Intel Pentium D 925 (3.0GHz/2MB L2 x 2/800MHz FSB)
Corsair DDR2-800 1GB x2 (CL 5-5-5-15)
Gigabyte Geforce 7900GTX 256MB (e:430MHz/m:1.2GHz )
Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (nForce 590 SLi)
Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 (P965 + ICH8R)
Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 160GB 7,200 ATA133
Delta ServerPower 550W
Windows XP Professional SP2
nVidia Forceware 91.93

As we can see, Athlon 64 X2 3600+ well performed PentiumD 915 & 925 with its processor architecture especially the fully integrated DDR memory controller which helps speed access to memory by offering the processor a direct connection to the main memory.

Gigabyte already joint venture with ASUSTeK Computer Inc. to produce GIGABYTE branded motherboards and graphics cards. Read more…

The new company will have an initial capital of NT$8 billion, with 51% of the company being controlled by Gigabyte and 49% by ASUS. The new subsidiary is expected to be fully operational in January of 2007. Under the agreement, the chairman of the joint venture will be appointed by Gigabyte, as well as three board directors and one board supervisor on the board of directors. The remaining two seats on the board will be assigned by ASUSTeK.

The marriage of two of the world’s largest motherboard and graphics card makers is expected to increase their competitiveness in many different fronts, especially in leveraging both companies’ economies of scale, research and development, and diverse product lines to achieve greater synergy.

We all know that to use POP3 client to access and manage your Yahoo! Mail messages, we have to upgrade our account to Yahoo! Mail Plus service which cost $19.99 per year.

But now, u can save the money. Because we can retrieve our Yahoo! Mail messages using our own email client.

What you need to do :

1. Download YPOP!

2. Install YPOP in your system.

Click Yes to automatic load YPOPs! when Windows Starts

3. After installed & run the program, icon will appear at your system tray.

4. Follow below page for instruction to configure your email client.

Configuring mail client 

5. Finally u will be able to POP3 access your’s Yahoo Mail.

XPY is a small tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation. Besides disabling Windows and some of its components to communicate with Microsoft servers, xpy improves privacy settings and your system’s security.

Features:
• Disable Windows “calling home”
• Disable questionable services
• Disarm Internet Explorer
• Disarm Windows Media Player
• Remove Windows Messenger
• Improve privacy and security
• Improve performance

Some more it can disable the annoying Microsoft WGA .

Click Here To Download ! 

Microsoft finally launched their ipod killer ~ Zune. You can view the press release here. Basically, the Zune is a 30 gb mp3 player that has FM Radio, a 3 inch QVGA screen, and music, video, and picture playback. The Zune plays AAC, MP3, and WMA formats.

The 30 gb Zune will retail for around $284 at Walmart, which is still $34 more than the Video iPod’s 30 gb player ($250).

I’m wondering  when can i see this product in Malaysia ?

Snap Backup is The One-Click Backup Utility that makes it simple to protect your important work.  Snap Backup is for individual computer users who need a simple and convenient way to backup their valuable files.

How often do you backup?  How much work would you lose if your hard drive crashed right now?  Snap backup makes it easy to frequently backup and archive your valuable data.  Protect your work with Snap Backup.

• One Click to Perform a Backup
• Configurable Settings
• Runs on Most Platforms (Including: Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Windows)
• Supports Multiple Languages
• It’s Free (No adware, spyware, or any other evil stuff)

Microsoft Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is a Windows-based operating system designed for customers who have older computers running earlier operating systems and who are not in a position to purchase new hardware. This operating system is available only to Microsoft Software Assurance customers and helps you get the most from your older hardware, thereby reducing your total cost of ownership. This Software Assurance benefit provides improvements to security and manageability to reduce the strain on your IT team, improve end-user productivity, and close security gaps.

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is based on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 (SP2), enabling you to upgrade to the security and stability of the Microsoft Windows XP platform. This eases the transition to Windows Vista Enterprise when you eventually replace your computers.

Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs is not a general-purpose operating system. It is designed to work with the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection client or third-party clients such as the Citrix ICA client. In addition, it allows for a limited number of workloads to be executed locally, including security software, management software, terminal emulation software, document viewers, and the .NET Framework.

Actually this WinFLP is created for older computer as a XP thin-client. It lets PC to run Window XP without changing current hardwares.

System requirements:

Memory/ram : min 64MB ; recommend 128MB or higher

Processor: min Pentium ; recommend Pentium 3 or higher

Hardisk: min 500MB ; recommend 1GB or higher

Resolution: min 800X600 ; recommend 1024X768 or higher

More detail regarding this OS can go to

Xinorbis is a simple but powerful hard disk analyser. Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk (or directory). It makes it easy to see the contents, structure and file distribution and file composition of a whole hard disk, directory, or mapped network drive. Includes full report creation.Features include:
1. analyse a single drive / directory or merge several together in one report
2. complex report generation, with export to HTML, ASCII or XML
3. save reports and compare them to see how the contents has changed
4. all information displays are completely resizable for ease of viewing
5. XP style support
6. improved speed
7. shell support, scan a directory through explorer!

Screenshots:

Download here ! 

The innocent victims of Internet child abuse cannot speak for themselves.

But you can.

With your help, we can eradicate this evil trade.

We do not need your money.

We need you to light a candle of support .

We’re aiming to light at least One Million Candles by December 31, 2006.

This petition will be used to encourage governments, politicians, financial institutions, payment organisations, Internet service providers, technology companies and law enforcement agencies to eradicate the commercial viability of online child abuse.

They have the power to work together. You have the power to get them to take action.

Please light your candle at lightamillioncandles.com or send an email of support to light@lightamillioncandles.com.

Together, we can destroy the commercial viability of Internet child abuse sites that are destroying the lives of innocent children.

Source: http://hanneng.sg/ 

Dota had been released the 6.37 official map.

Kindly go to http://www.getdota.com/  and download the latest map.
Changelogs:

* Fixed a big exploit with waveform
* Medusa's Purge now deals 600 damage to summoned units, instead of instantly killing them
* Rebalanced Alchemist
* Reduced the Kobold Endurance Aura from 17% ms to 15% ms
* Hand of Midas IAS from 35% to 30%
* Cyclone on creeps from 20 to 10 seconds
* Reduced Primal Roar cooldown and Call of the Wild manacost
* Treads from +60 to +65 ms and from +30% ias to +35%
* Land Mines can now be properly seen on minimap
* WTF mode now requires voting
* Added a better cancel icon for Pulse Nova
* Increased Enchantress's Intelligence per level
* Fixed a bug with -ar and -random that allowed you to get two heroes

After i tried this version, not much changes on the hero except the damn razor seems to be very strong compare to other version. If you all find any other changes on heroes, kindly leave a comment and let me know what is the changes.