Red Hill Technology

Popular pages

• The Red Hill Guide to Computer Hardware

  ‘Hard drive performance has more effect on overall system performance than any other single factor.’ The CPU: Dogs, duds, and darn good ones. A history of X86 CPUs, with particular attention to what ...

• The Red Hill CPU Guide: the forgotten generation

  the red hill cpu guide the forgotten generation Perhaps it is simply human nature that the really memorable things tend to be either the first or the last of a particular category. On the previous pag...

• The Red Hill CPU Guide: in the beginning

  Intel 8080 The classic Intel CPU. This was the heart of most of the world's first microcomputers, including the Altair 8800. (Pictured in the 8085 entry below.) All modern PCs use descendants of the 8...

• Red Hill motherboards

  Shapes, Sizes and Trends Why it matters what shape your mainboard is The entire PC industry is founded on standards. Without industry standards, the PC as we know it would not exist. Most departures f...

• The Red Hill CPU Guide: the great race

  Clock for Clock Performance Issues In the entry on the Athlon Thunderbird 700 just above, we said that it was, "clock for clock, the most powerful modern CPU on the market". Note that key word "modern...

• Red Hill: The Main Board Index

  1995 Boards mostly for 486 and 5x86 1996 Boards mostly for 6x86 and Pentium 1997 Boards mostly 6x86, 6x86MX, C6 and Pentium MMX 1998 Boards 6x86MX, K6 and Pentium II. 1999 Boards K6-2, Pentium II, 6x8...