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| Mar
15 |
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I've made a few changes to CPU
identification tool. When CPU identification is submitted, our
online script now uses submitted data to guess manufacturer, family
and model of the CPU. The information page now displays additional
data - CPU ID data as well as data provided by person who submitted
it. I also created a listing of recent
public submissions - this one will be enhanced next week to allow
filtering submissions by manufacturer, family and model. That was
the major site change for this week, and last week I updated CPU-Upgrade
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| Mar
1 |
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I created a small
Windows program that you can use to identify CPU features. The
idea behind the program is quite simple - you download and run it,
it uses cpuid instruction to get data about your CPU, sends the data
to our server, and then opens a web page with identification data
from our server. Here is an example of CPU features page for Intel
Q9550 microprocessor. You can find more details about the program,
and the program itself on the CPU
identification page. Please note that program and the CPU features
page were just developed, and were not tested on all combinations
of CPU / Windows OS. Consider it a beta software. We encourage everybody
to try our new identification utility.
A note about the reasons why we created the program. Our primary
goal was to provide an easy way to identify the CPU and to view
all processor features on one page. The second goal was to collect
CPU identification data. The data will be used in the future to
update processor features on our CPU pages for those modern microprocessors
that are not listed on AMD and Intel sites, such as mobile and OEM-only
processors.
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| Feb
17 |
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I completed the first phase of rewriting backend scripts.
Certain types of site updates (AMD stepping codes, S-Spec numbers,
CPU chart data) now take much less of my time. In the next two weeks
I will concentrate on updating the site, and then proceed to second
phase of rewriting the scripts. Besides working on the scripts, in
the past three weeks I added Phenom
II X3 and Phenom
II X4 processors, posted Opteron and Athlon 64 price charts, and
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| Jan
26 |
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Below is the list of the most important site updates
in the past two weeks:
- If you have any pictures of CPUs, microcontrollers or other
chips, or any related pictures, you can upload them to CPU
Pictures submissions page. Of course, these should pictures
taken by you, and not taken from the net.
- I posted information on recently released AMD and Intel mobile
processors, low power Intel quad-core CPUs and on two dual-core
desktop Intel processors.
- Added Socket
479 page.
- Re-arranged processors on Celeron
and Pentium III family
pages. Covington and Mendocino Celeron processors are no longer
combined into the same sub-family, and Coppermine Slot 1 and socket
370 CPUs are no longer split into two sub-families.
- You can now filter the list of displayed families or processors
by typing partial family or CPU name. See, for example, how it
is done on Core 2 family
page.
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| Jan
11 |
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I added information about recently released Athlon
X2 and Phenom II
X4 CPUs. I also started re-writing some of site's backend scripts
- these are the scripts that I use to add new information, generate
HTML pages and copy the pages to the site. Re-writing of all these
scripts may take a while, possibly months, because it will be done
in parallel with site updates. Some of site's functionality will be
changed as a result of this rewrite. I expect that CPU and S-Spec
charts will be changed, and a few new features will be added - the
search for CPU name on CPU pages, and other features. New backend
scripts should reduce my non-productive time, i.e. time I spend copying
files, verifying that the information is correctly updated, etc, which
in turn will allow me to spend more time on actual updates. |
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