The Patri0t’s Palace

I have been told by Asus to send the board in question back to the Distributor, have them checked and then sent to Asus RMA but I am not going to do that. It’s Pakistan not USA. It will take months before I get a new board and besides I don’t think it’s a hardware problem, it’s the stupid drivers released by Asus.

The proof is simple, install Windows Vista and it loads up all drivers, you will not feel any performance lags or any thing like what you face in Windows XP after installing drivers provided by Asus. Windows Vista Ultimate’s installation time with me is 15-20 minutes only, the boot time with default drivers and installation is just 20 seconds with 1 GB of RAM and double of that with 512 MB of RAM.

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Assalaamu alaykum brothers and sisters,

The International Revert Conference registration is now set. This event is a first of its kind and has stirred a lot of interest. We are so pleased to hear of so many who wish to attend from so far away.

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Intel Core 2 Duo processors have shaken the Computer world, at least AMD’s if not anyone else’s. Intel is scheduled to release new processors in coming months of 2007 which will add into the current Core 2 Duo processors line up. The newest to arrive is E4300, same as E6300 but with a slightly lower clockspeed, lower FSB and a 6-9 multiplier. I am amazed at the fact that the said processor is scheduled for shipping on 21st of January BUT it has appeared in Pakistan prior to that!!! Yes, E4300 is released here.

It has appeared in the price lists of “POP - Pakistan Office Products”, one of the official distributors of Intel in Pakistan. The price list is dated 5th of January. I have confirmed it from POP, it is available with them. I tried to confirm the said launch from “Intel Corporation Pakistan” and “Intel APAC Sales Center” but no response from them yet. They don’t give a damn about it I guess. The prices are listed as, ofcourse excluding the DAMN Government Sales Tax:

• CPU CORE 2 DUO E4300 1.80GHZ 2MB 800MHZ = Rs. 11,200
• CPU CORE 2 DUO E6300 1.86GHZ 2MB 1066MHZ = Rs. 12,600
• CPU CORE 2 DUO E6400 2.13GHZ 2MB 1066MHZ = Rs. 14,900
• CPU CORE 2 DUO E6600 2.40GHZ 4MB 1066MHZ = Rs. 20,900
• CPU CORE 2 DUO E6700 2.66GHZ 4MB 1066MHZ = Rs. 35,000

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Upgraded to the latest version 2.0.6 today.

We have a pretty important release available for everyone, it includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade. This is the latest release in our stable 2.0 line, which we’ve committed to maintaining for several more years.

Here’s what’s new:

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A very Happy New Year; 2007 and a belated Eid Mubarak to all visitors of The Patri0t’s Palace. Thanks to everyone who supported the website.

A few stats for 2006:-

• Around 10,000 Unique visitors since I changed from Blogspot to Wordpress and own domain name, thepatri0t.net, this July. More than half, yes! 5000+ Unique visits in December 2006 alone . . . [I should thanks Asus for this one, if P5B Deluxe had not buggy drivers, that would not happen ]
• 31,000 views were generated.
• 94 posts were posted.
• 380 comments were posted.
• 293 votes were casted.
• Got 10$ [HEHE!!!] off Google Ad-Sense, keep clicking the Ads people and I would have 20$ till end of 2007 .