This month we discuss Motherboards and Processors
Here is the Gigabyte M61P-S3 AMD Socket AMD2 that I purchased from NewEgg last November for $77. It now sells for $60. Using it now.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128034R
I put an AMD 4800 Brisbane in it for $100 also purchased last November which now sells for $85.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103212
Wikipedia has a nice list of socket choices for AMD and Intel with pictures/descriptions of each:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_socket
Hard to find reviews of this board, I usually always start with Tom's Hardware:
http://www.tomshardware.com/find_by_topic/reviews.html
Here is one from PC World:
http://www.pcworld.com/product/userreviews/prtprdid,32944378/gam61ps3_motherboard.html#
I usually end up spending several weeks looking at boards and processors before making a decision. This is my first dual core, the board I replaced was an ASUS A7N8X that would occasionally lock up but I never isolated why. I have two more of these still going strong.
Linux Corner
Got a copy of MiniMe running from flash we will take a look at.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/02/06/usb-minime-2008-install-from-windows/
Security
Episode # 130 of Security Now has an interesting mention of a class of Trojan called Banking Trojans we will spend a few minutes discussing.
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
You can open the transcript in a pdf and search for banking if you want to read it, or, just listen to the episode.
Other News:
The other things that got my attention lately were the BlueRay/DVD announcement recently, and Microsoft's new Server to be released on Wednesday.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19174580
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/paramount-officially-blu-ray-again/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23204819/
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/02/product_review.html
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/022108-windows-2008-server-test.html
