2009-05-03

Intel i860 in my collection

I was looking for a one Intel i860 CPU for a quite long time. Everytime I was unlucky to get it :D. Finally I got one recently but its surface was covered by an old glue. I removed it somehow with a knife :) and cpu looks quite normal now (there are some small scratches but it was inevitable probably). As always you can find photos in my CPU collection. I also added some new PA-RISC CPUs (two 8700 and one 8200) earlier.

2009-05-01

PQI now works with Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4

As you might remember, I had lot of problems with assembling my Core i7 system. One of the main reasons appeared PQI DDR3-1066U memory. They were incompatible with Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 motherboard. I wrote Gigabyte about it back then. I don't know if they really considered this issue because of me, however, this RAM is working with the motherboard now. I tried them with current F6c BIOS. I don't know from which version they are compatible, but they weren't working with F3 BIOS for sure. As result I have 6GB of RAM now :).