Ad
Latest Reviews & Articles

The Hardware Behind Overdrive

Published on November 18, 2008

Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid for a shot at $5,000. Read more

Synology's DS408 Reviewed: Fast NAS For Pros

Published on November 18, 2008

Does a NAS device with high data transfer rate and a Web interface that is easy to configure actually exist? Synology shows how it should be done. But the enclosure is not without its faults, either. Read more

How To: Get A 4 GHz Dual-Core For $120

Published on November 17, 2008

Intel’s 45 nm Core 2 serious is known to boast substantial overclocking margins, and the entry-level E7200 with 3 MB L2 cache costs less than $120. We'll show you how to get close to 4 GHz from this little gem. Read more

Team USA Emerges In Round One of Overdrive

Published on November 17, 2008

After a long weekend of intense benchmarking with nearly 1,300 liters of liquid nitrogen, one team emerged victorious. They’re on their way to Paris to represent the United States against four other international teams. Show them some support! Read more

  

Tom's Hardware Forums

»

CPU & Components

 

CPU & Components

Post new message   Click here to post a new poll

CPUs | Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods | Sound Cards | Network Interface Cards | Other Components
        Thread Last page Thread starter Number of
Rep. Read
Last post
On [CPUs] What is the point of quad core?
Last matching post:
its not just more cores for individual programs, its more overall cores, so you can run more apps at once.
    jeb1517 31 3052 NewbieTech​GodII
07-15-2007 at 10:19 AM
On [CPUs] Need 3.0 cpu for video work
Last matching post:
how much do you want to spend, and what apps are you using, if they take advantage of multiple cores a socket 771 quadcore xeon would be goo [...]
    BruceMyers​48 15 1382 BruceMyers​48
07-19-2007 at 02:48 AM
On [CPUs] No more E4300s?
Last matching post:
the reason for dropping low end chips is less production runs which lowers cost or adds more capacity for other chips.
    rammedstei​n 16 1529 darkangeli​sm
06-29-2007 at 03:22 AM
On [CPUs] ntel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Conroe vsIntel Core 2 Extreme QX67
Last matching post:
All the top end coolers are pretty close performancewise, unless you go liquid, then you might be able to get even more out of the proc. [...]
    hitman24 17 1428 hitman24
05-19-2007 at 03:11 PM
On [CPUs] New system: Dual or Quad plus future CPU questions
Last matching post:
Quad core is better for futurproofing. have you thought about sound damping the case? or watercooling to drop your noise levels?
    ichabod 6 677 ichabod
05-11-2007 at 01:53 AM
On [CPUs] New pc from dell, which one is the best? need your help
Last matching post:
the power supply in the 410 is 29 amps, and will run an 8800GTX. and you can get it shipped with raid 0. and delluser1: i know your s [...]
    martinmim 29 2757 martinmim
05-07-2007 at 03:27 PM
On [CPUs] It's official: AMD X2 6000+ frags Intel quad core Qx6700
Last matching post:
the 6000+ won those benches cause they rely on clockspeed, run those benches on a X6800 and i bet it flips back to intel or OC the quad
2   Mandrake_ 51 7093 baligavino​d
05-04-2007 at 05:29 AM
On [CPUs] What is your AMD History?
Last matching post:
K6-2 300 k6-2 350 Duron 600 athlon 1.2 athlon xp 1700+ athlon xp 1800+ sempron 64 2500+ opteron 170
    LambofGodE​3X 44 2129 MU_Enginee​r
04-25-2007 at 11:55 PM
On [CPUs] The best benchmark?
Last matching post:
well different applications will stress different things. SuperPi is good for raw calculations, but what applications are you going to use, [...]
    dspear 21 989 clue69less
04-25-2007 at 07:48 AM
On [CPUs] Help on decision please (E6320 vs E6420 vs E6600)
Last matching post:
what video card do you have? that is going to limit you more then which cpu you get.
    minty 36 4372 minty
04-25-2007 at 09:55 PM
On [CPUs] Funny quote from an Intel guy
Last matching post:
new sales campaign, get hot booth girls to tell people to play with their parts
    Phrozt 31 2802 1Tanker
04-20-2007 at 06:31 PM
On [CPUs] AMD vs Intel......My thoughts...
Last matching post:
ram and hard drive performance are going to be more of the factor here then the difference in the processors.
    DerrickDJ 23 2635 randomizer
04-13-2007 at 03:27 AM
On [CPUs] X6800 better for gaming then the QX6700 + No Prices Drops?
Last matching post:
if you can afford a quad core go for it, more power has never hurt anybody.
    Trunkz_Jr 46 3019 Azmal
04-14-2007 at 02:10 AM
On [CPUs] Woo Hoo The Day Is Here The X2 6000+ Is Now $239 @ Newegg!
Last matching post:
apple uses intel chips, so they are not competing with them.
2   Soldier37 82 7014 turboflame
07-26-2007 at 04:22 PM
On closed [CPUs] Open Letter To Omid: Have You Lost Your Frakkin' Mind?
Last matching post:
the other thing I have noticed is the number of articles is a lot less, I used to be able to visit the site 5 days a week and a new article [...]
6   CaptRobert​April 281 23366 mjam
04-15-2007 at 03:19 PM
On [CPUs] careers in cpu engineering?
Last matching post:
the specifications are not just created its all based on what can be achieved at a price point with the technology available. Its not like t [...]
    tipoo 18 1522 ryman554
04-30-2007 at 12:04 AM
On [CPUs] i want to buy a dell :/
Last matching post:
well the video card is the same oem card you would get from online. and as for never wanting a dell, thats kinda debatable, based on my prev [...]
2   ihateibuyp​ower 92 5481 dt
04-04-2007 at 10:37 PM
On [CPUs] Dell + AMD => Tanking together?
Last matching post:
Dell isnt exactly tanking like AMD is.
    The_Vorlon 22 1604 BaronMatri​x
03-27-2007 at 08:14 PM
On [CPUs] So what is your job?
Last matching post:
server tech
5   ChaosGS 227 11907 Ford_Prefe​ct
03-20-2007 at 01:23 PM
On [Network Interface Cards] Should I upgrade to 6.0Mbps?
Last matching post:
yeah, my where i showed my speed at 15mbps down and 5 up with the pic from speedtest
6   ikjadoon 290 18169 YahooAolCo​mcast
07-27-2007 at 07:54 AM
On [CPUs] stress testing my opteron 170
Last matching post:
cool, yeah my system idles at 36C and load at 48C but my motherboard voltage regulator gets above 52C and my system will reboot...i need to [...]
    rickpatbro​wn 11 674 m25
02-18-2007 at 12:29 AM
On [Other Components] Hard Disk...RAID Land Mines
Last matching post:
The I doesnt stand for inexpensive it stands for independent. anyway to OP, you are correct in saying every array is prone to data lose, [...]
    zgreatwhit​e 30 2093 darkstar78​2
02-20-2007 at 05:06 PM
On [CPUs] 64 vrs 32 bit?
Last matching post:
it depends on your hardware, i am running vista 64 bit and i have only had problems with 1 app everything else works fine, sound, video, NIC [...]
    nuliana 48 4177 udontnome
02-15-2007 at 11:16 PM
On [CPUs] Fastest CPU Available, For My Board
Last matching post:
you probably will benefit more from more ram, maybe increase to 3GB
2   SMM2469 90 5295 SMM2469
02-21-2007 at 08:01 PM
On [CPUs] Quad core x 2 - SQL servers, WMware, Virtal Server
Last matching post:
i wouldnt try and run vista as the main OS i would say use 2003 server as the base OS for the VMs
    fourfives 16 1315 BaronMatri​x
02-12-2007 at 07:56 PM
On [CPUs] The 8-Core K10, 4x4 , 4 card R600 Rig. .Intel has no answer?
Last matching post:
I think i need to put solar panels on my roof to power this computer
6   lordpope 256 15540 Hellboy
10-28-2008 at 12:27 PM
On [CPUs] Dual chip Core 2 MoBos?
Last matching post:
Unless you need more power then a single quad chip will offer there is no benefit to dual proc
    mact 8 769 darkangeli​sm
01-25-2007 at 11:48 PM
On [CPUs] Console Hardware - Comparisons
Last matching post:
well there is a problem with that, as the tv they tested on only does 1080i over component, so they cant have gotten 1080p to work on it. [...]
    Technology​Coordinato​r 31 1838 StrangeStr​anger
01-19-2007 at 08:03 PM
On [CPUs] Opteron processors
Last matching post:
raid 0 should be faster in this case as it is video encoding, so large most likely sequential files are what raid 0 does best.
    easymoney9 14 766 BaronMatri​x
01-06-2007 at 06:01 AM

Go to:
Post new message   Click here to post a new poll

  New threads
  New messages in an old thread
  No new messages
  Go to the last read message in a thread you have not participated in
  Go to the last read message in a thread you have participated in
  Go to the last read message in a Bookmarked thread
 

Google Ads