The AMD Phenom 2 - Hardware review

Ever since Intel launched its “CORE” series of processors, the designers at AMD have been having sleepless nights. To keep themselves abreast of the competition, AMD has now launched the Phenom II series of processors. These are available in following models namely: X4 940 Black edition @3.0 Ghz, X4 925 @Ghz, X4 810 @2.6Ghz, X3 720 Black edition @ 2.8 Ghz and X3 710 @ 2.6 Ghz.



The Phenom 2 has been built on the same architecture as that of its predecessor Phenom yet has a 9.5% smaller die size. This coupled with a L1 cache of 128 Kb, L2cache of 512 Kb and a L3 cache of 6 Mb (shared among all) does promise to give its rival a run for its money. However the first setback here is that unlike the Intel i7, Phenom 2 cannot switch off all its idle cores- thus increasing heat build up and electricity consumption.

The designer have come up with some neat architecture for this baby: AMD plans to launch this series with a AM2+ socket followed by low voltage tri-core models with DDR3 support. This means anyone with a motherboard based on AMD 780G, 790G or Nvidia 780A, Nvidia 750 Sli support can run the Phenom 2 just by flashing their BIOS. Here again the latter part is dangerous as one false move and the MoBo would end up like the circuit board worn my Abhishek Bachhan as the black monkey in Delhi 6.

All in all, backward compatibility, support for DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers, more room for overclockers, new patented Cool’N’Quiet technology makes the Phenom 2 a worthy contender for the title of fastest processor on the block. But here again we have to wait for further models and also wait for Intel’s answer for the same. What would it be- the i7 successors or the Phenom II or better still AMD’s Spider series of processors; that would steal the win. The winner takes it all this year.

Post in your comments here so as what do you stand for- Intel or AMD? Or just give outyour rants for either of these Titans.

Credits: Yatin kamath

Make invisible folder in windows - computer trick

Good morning pals...

Today, i will teach you different ways of hiding a folder or making a folder invisible using a simple computer trick. Everyone wants to hide personal stuff on PC or laptop. Generally people hide a folder using its properties. This is a very old and known trick to hide a folder. Anyone can make this folder visible and access your personal stuff. So, we will use a simple trick to make a folder invisible in windows operating system.

Step 1: Make a folder at desktop or any drive on PC or laptop.
Just go to the drive or desketop (wherever you want to create this folder) and right click on the blank area, select new > Folder.

Step 2: Rename the folder. Hold ctrl & press 0160 and hit enter. This way folder's name becomes invisible.

Step 3: Make the folder's icon invisible. Right click on the folder icon > select properties option > customize > click on change icon. A pop up box will appear. There are many icons in this box, just scroll to the right and you will find some blank icons there. Choose one of the blank icons and press apply & ok.

Now you are ready with an invisible folder. Just remeber where you saved this folder.

Final Words
Come back here soon for a video tutorial of this trick. So, did this work for you? feel free to leave a comment or feedback here..

How to add an image background to a folder in windows xp - computer tricks, computers

I like to have images in background for all the folders in windows XP. Many people think it is not possible to do that. So, i have created a tutorial on "how to add an image as background image to any folder in Windows XP." Just follow the instructions.

First, make sure all hidden files are visible on your system. Then, go to the folder for which you wish to add a background image. Within the folder, right-click and select Properties » Customize tab » Customize. There, choose any icon, click Apply and OK.

This will create a file named "desktop.ini" . Open that file with a text editor (eg: notepad). You will see the following code in the file.

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=(some number)

Just replace this code by following code.

ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=C:\path\folder\background.jpg

To customize this according to your needs, edit the path in red in last line to reflect the location of the image, you wish to use as the background image for that particular folder. Save the code, close the file and Refresh the folder. You will see a new background in the folder.

Final Words:
Please try it at your own risk. I have created this tutorial for fun sake. So try it and leave a feedback or comment here.

How to add a drive or folder to Send To option - Computer tricks

I have all my four drives named as per my needs. I like everything well managed. While working on blogs, i download a lot of stuff and pictures for posts. These things are generally downloaded at desktop. So, at the end of the day, i have 30-40 items on desktop. I have to manually send them to blog's forlder in a drive, which is lil irritating. So i have added my blog folder to "send to" option.

What is Send to?
Press right click on any folder, a pop up box appears. Here you will see a "send to" option having many sub options. By default, Send to contains four to five options like compressed (zipped)folder, Desktop (create shortcut, Mail Recipient etc as shown in the image below.






I wanted to add an option, which sends all the selected files to "blog" folder. Just follow the instructions given below to add folders or drives to "send to".

1. Click on start button at the bottom left of desktop screen.
2. Open RUN.
2. Copy and Paste the below address and Hit Enter

%USERPROFILE%\SendTo

3. Now, press Right click on the blank area & navigate to New >> Shortcut as shown below

4. When you click on the Shortcut a pop up menu opens in that browse the address of the folder or drive and then click OK & FINISH.






You are ready to use new send to option.

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Final Words
This is a simple computer trick to get your work done quickly. There are other ways of doing the same thing which i will explain here soon. Hope you enjoyed this trick, din't you?