Didn't see these posted anywhere, so if you haven't heard already.. hold on.

Intel

With the upcoming release of their new processors, one will notice something is lacking. The Alderwood and Grantsdale chips have no connector pins. They're all contact based, and the "pins" are now located on the motherboards themselves.

As well, Intel is apparently including an overclocking-prevention mechanism into the 915/925 chipsets. And from what this article says (Slashdot), Asus and Gigabyte are the first to find a way around this. Hopefully other mobo manufactures follow suit.


Microsoft

A lot of people are really waiting for the coming release of SP2, with all the great new features, why not?

Well they really screwed up on a good thing.

After a lot of research (or so they tell us), findings show that most security holes and issues are due to compatibility with "legacy" programs. Older programs from 98 and prior will apparently have compatibility removed from XP completely.

Removing backwards compatibility will not only hurt the end user, but really piss a ton of people off. Here is a good read on SP2 and this issue.


They're really making this difficult for everyone. Both companies need to see the problems that will occur from this. No more OCing?! Guess AMD will be getting an even larger boost of mod enthusists.

All I have to say is chalk one up for ASUS! Sorry them and gigabyte are my favs partly cause they move so quick to Overclock.

And Booo to MS they're always trying to find some way to get more money out of us.