Hardware forum?

I was just wondering what people (esp admins) thought about having a small hardware forum? I understand this site is mostly for software developers and such, and thus is focused on programming, but its hard to completely divorce the two subjects, and there are definitely members here with extensive knowlege of computer hardware. Currently, questions about this are mostly in the lounge or the beginners area, but it might be advantageous to make a place to consolidate them. Just a thought

this was asked before. the old owners said no

maybe the new owners will give it a shot =)

Double thumbs-up!

I think it's a good, it would generate more traffic and boost the
ad revenue. It might get a little clogged with inane questions about
why the monitor keeps going out every 5 minutes, and they have
to hit the keyboard and it comes back on.

Oh!.....and a Jennifer Lopez room!

On second thoughts, I suppose Hardware isn't strictly what DevShed is about... that's probably what the previous owners (I didn't know DevShed changed owners - how many times has it changed owners?)

I just read an interesting article in PCZONE (hardware section) on the .09 micron process for Intel's newest 3GHz offerings - claims AMD are in trouble (financially) and that Intel will have a significant market lead when these .09 micron chips come out (833MHz FSB, HypterThreading etc.,) I get the feeling that HyperThreading is just another 'Pentium Pro' type marketing ploy... AMD are, apparently, developing their AMD64 chips with the chipset built INTO the CPU! Supposedly that means no bandwidth bottleneck between processor and chipset - don't know how happy the chipset manuf.'s will be about that.

Anyway, yes please, a hardware forum! I think Sleve's made a good point on increased banner revenue.

I think we are going to add a hardware forum - just tay tuned, we are going to tweak our forum topics a tad and add a few.

Cool, good to hear.

also, maybe a subforum for hardware / software integration (getting your apps to control things outside ure box)

Cool... going to have to read-up on hardware more frequently now, got to keep coming up with interesting facts and useful information to post.

(I enjoy posting on DevShed THAT much!)

Slightly off-topic, but anybody recommend a good, objective online or offline source? (magazine, ezine etc.) My main interest is in consumer IT.

Thanks.

Toms Hardware Guide (THG: http://www.tomshardware.com/) is pretty popular. I think I prefer Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/), though. It's a little more object, but not quite so busy. THG tends to be biasly pro-amd and pro-nvidia, but not excessively so.

pc mech is good
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