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CeBIT 2008: MSI Shows Passive Fan for Chipset
Published on March 08, 2008Here's another prototype that could have been quite interesting. It's at least very original and comes from MSI. The ECOlution (the developed by the Taiwanese Polo-Tech) is a passive fan for northbridge. What we mean by passive fan is that this cooling system doesn't need a fan when the chip is idle. However, when in peak, the heat generated by the chipset is used to dilate a gas that will move a piston that in turn will move the blades of the fan that's placed in front of the heat sink's extension linked with 2 heat pipes. Read more
Thermaltake's "Bigger" Typhoon Coolers
Published on January 12, 2008Thermaltake is introducing two new versions of its Big Typhoon, a dual 120 mm model and a single 140 mm version. Read more
CeBIT 2008: Thermaltake's secret weapon
Published on March 10, 2008When it came to cooling systems, Thermaltake had quite a few interesting thing to show. Air cooling wise, the manufacturer promoted 14 cm fans with two new models: the V14 Pro and the BigTyp 14 (the latter had already been seen at the CES). The first model, very wide, uses 6 heat pipes to send heat on the two copper heat sinks that aren't that thick, but that are wide. In between is the fan that is placed vertically, a la Zalman CNPS. It'll easily evacuate the casing's hot air but will provide only a small air flow to the chipset and the processor's power supply stages. On the opposite, the BigTyp 14 and its six heat pipes in U will handle this well and should have better overall performances for the processor. Both air cooling systems should be available in a month. Read more
CeBIT 2008: Gigabyte - The Fan Becomes a Useless Argument
Published on March 05, 2008Gigabyte has a good example of the unbearable marketing trend that wants to take the smallest thing and turn it into a marketing argument. Even though the manufacturer built most of its reputation on graphic cards using passive and silent cooling systems, it now boasts a "3D active fan" as a major feature on of its graphic cards. Read more
Four Full Tower Cases From $150 To $600
Published on December 15, 2008With Intel's Core i7 920 looking like a solid overclocking play, we wanted to find the right full-tower case for our test benches. ABS, Antec, Cooler Master, and Thermaltake battle it out for chassis supremacy. Read more
Overdrive: Italy's Team Is Chosen
Published on December 13, 2008Our international Overdrive overclocking competition finals are underway in Paris. But before we start streaming the goings-on in France, we want to present the results of our Italian trials. Read more
Synology DS207+: Getting NAS Into Your Home
Published on December 12, 2008Synology really impressed us with the performance of its Disk Station DS408. Can the same company do it again with its Disk Station DS207+? Read more
Radeon HD 4830: High-Speed, Cheap CrossFire
Published on December 11, 2008AMD recently launched its Radeon 4830 to take on Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GT. With PowerColor and Sapphire flavors in single- and CrossFire-configurations, we pitch the card against factory-overclocked 8800 GTs and see who is left standing. Read more
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it seems it's ok with the folks at the financial aid offices if I spend the money on 'educationally related' things, and you guys KNOW how i need my microsoft word FAST! lol no seriously though, I'm on the school newspaper as a photographer, and I do need photoshop/lightroom to run well too, its not just for gaming 
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640k ought to be enough for anybody.
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Actually most of these idiots http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] guide-open go to section 3.1, it says this: "As an example of quad core vs dual core performance, we will compare an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (Quad core) to an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (Dual core) both running at the identical stock clock speed of 2.93GHz a little further into it: "Photoshop CS3 filtering 69mb tif (time in minutes) So in other words don't listen to all the guys recommending a quad-core they probably more or less are part of that mentality, well I have a quad-core and I use it for gaming and its uber good, so everyone else should use it... now in the future [who knows how long] [don't say you know when b/c in most cases you would be lying] there actually might be more justification to use a quad core but as it is right now, for what you do, no, you are better off going with something else... Did you o/c your e2180? and if you did what did you overclock it too, b/c the only area where that CPU is weak is in cache, an E8400, or even a E3110 would be great in this arena. If you feel it is sluggish you could always push it a little further. So 6MB of cache compared to 1MB might make a bigger difference that you might be able to actually account for, and the fact that you could take the Wolfdale's further, like 4ghz or higher, makes them better for what you do [at least the gaming end of it]...Just take into account that if it feels sluggish, then you might wanna upgrade it but to be honest you won't notice a huge difference going from an Allendale to a Conroe, but it might be more apparent when going from an Allendale to a Wolfdale... I would recommend you do a little more research as I pulled that CPU guide from the THG forums...so I assume you could find more information than you could point a stick at, if you just looked for it. As for the monitor, if you like the one you got, just get another one, or get a bigger/better one. The keyboard & mouse are all up to you, I personally like straight forward laser mice like the Microsoft 6000 Message edited by FrozenGpu on 03-30-2008 at 05:20:29 AM |
, haven't actually done the basic amount of research to say that a quad core actually helps in photoshope, if u refer to this link:![[:kentuckyranger:1]](http://img.tomshardware.com/forum/uk/images/perso/1/kentuckyranger.gif "[:kentuckyranger:1]")
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