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On [CPUs] Crysis Crisis
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Your video card is a bigger problem on crysis. Any dual core can handle crysis no matter but at 1280X1024 and higher it a gpu killer. If y [...]
    ICC 12 231 jimmysmitt​y
07-21-2008 at 10:33 PM
On [CPUs] Weird freezes + random errors
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First thing is this is a lab test for finding faulty parts. Your lucky you have 2 of the same machines to do such a test. The thing is doe [...]
    matekdk 4 119 BadTrip
07-04-2008 at 06:52 PM
On [CPUs] AMD Phenom V.S. E8400?
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The E8500 is a bit faster but at 800X600 ~1024X768 will you notice much. quads get advantages in new games when you get the resolutions at [...]
    zllivetech 17 717 ro3dog
06-08-2008 at 05:36 PM
On [CPUs] Noob running E8500 - but it ain't working right
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You will have to disable Intels power management. Intel has what they call Enhanced EIST to lower the performance when the CPU is being und [...]
    bagpiperdu​de90 7 211 bagpiperdu​de90
05-31-2008 at 06:46 AM
On [CPUs] E8400 vs Q6600
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Given thats an E8500 which is about the same price as a Q6600 I would say yes. Given that an E8400 at 1600X1200 will drop below the cheap [...]
    hitman24 23 642 joneb
04-26-2008 at 06:23 PM
On [CPUs] Will getting the Phenom 9850BE and overclocking help me with Crysis?
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Quad's are a great choice you want be sorry. The Q6600 is a great deal and can OC near 3.8GHz. The Q9300 will cost you $50 more than the [...]
    ryanthesav 27 648 jimmysmitt​y
04-24-2008 at 04:51 AM
On [CPUs] What is a good CPU match for the following ............
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I would suggest not buying a high cost dual core. For that much get a quad core or at least save some cash and get a cheap dual core. [...]
    Lar49 13 340 ashleylist
04-11-2008 at 02:21 PM
On [CPUs] E6750 vs Q6600
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Its easy to say that a quad cant OC as high as a dual core but near each CPU's max which wins? Here is a review dated 08/31/2007 showing qu [...]
    blucher_au 29 787 pauldh
03-29-2008 at 08:00 PM
On [CPUs] Intel Core2Duo Cache size
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First a simple point about cache is its used to lower the latency of your memory. While its true you cant add cache you do lower your laten [...]
    syrold 36 1008 bildo123
03-24-2008 at 04:00 PM
On [CPUs] E8200 vs. E8400: Worth the trouble?
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The E8200 would have to be well below 3/4 the price of the Q6600. At neweggs price of $239.99 I wouldn't even think twice before buying [...]
    Malachiv 7 2167 dragonspra​yer
03-15-2008 at 12:53 AM
On [CPUs] Phenoms B3 coming in days?? or what????
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Last report had them in May to June. Thats about the same time as HD 4000 so few wires could be crossed. The price of the phenom's at sp [...]
    MrGoodBar 38 1399 endyen
03-14-2008 at 09:27 AM
On [CPUs] Overclocking Intel's Wolfdale E8000
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LOL were did I say many programs? No the the Q6600 is better over all if you compare OC'ed v/s OC'ed. Look at the benchmarks a notice th [...]
2   muk 60 1859 hughyhunte​r
02-22-2008 at 08:09 AM
On [CPUs] Is Phenom the worst CPU launch of all time?
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I think coppermine holds that title. To frequently not boot is far more of a problem than to lock up once or twice a month for consumer [...]
5   wickedmons​ter 203 6195 prox2far
06-07-2008 at 08:24 PM
On [CPUs] E6750 or Q6600, any advice please ?
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The E6750 is used to its max potential as just about all current programs take advantage or dual core. Very few on the other hand take mu [...]
    Mick68 18 688 vagetaqtd
02-18-2008 at 10:26 PM
On [CPUs] Should I risk a phenom?
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To see price wise better performance I would suggest the 9600 and if possible the BE. In dual core the 9600 is about an equal to 6000+ wi [...]
2   reconviper​one1 59 1828 Mathos
01-26-2008 at 05:59 PM
On [CPUs] Phenom
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Anandtech did a review showing 1 out of 4 9600BE hitting 3GHz stable. The 9600BE had 1 to 2.9GHz stable and the last 2 hit 2.8GHz stable. [...]
    adlerthema​n 6 431 mathos
01-10-2008 at 12:41 AM
On [CPUs] AMD Phenom CPUs to see further delays? (Digitimes)
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Those famous words come to mind, "French people piss me off."
2   Epsilon84 96 2210 Sailer
12-29-2007 at 06:51 AM
On [CPUs] OC'ing a 3600+ Brisbane (Help!)
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You may need to reduce your HT and your ram. Many mobos will only do 242 + at HT 3X or less. Your RAM may need set to 533. Note 4 X 42 [...]
    teh_boxzor 11 521 teh_boxzor
12-28-2007 at 06:41 PM
On [CPUs] 5000+ BE ZALMAN 9500 AM2 running at 50C. Why?!
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Whats the voltage? Your bios may be giving the brisbane 65nm voltage a 90nm needs at that clock. You should be around 1.25~1.3v at stock. [...]
    DM0407 31 708 teh_boxzor
12-30-2007 at 06:10 AM
On [CPUs] AMD Closes Below $8: Wall Street not Happy with Delays
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AMD is a big company and to do so many dumb things in this short time is odd. Could this however be a brilliant move for a stock buy back s [...]
2   Technology​Coordinato​r 80 1796 intelamdus​er
12-19-2007 at 09:29 PM
On [CPUs] Halfprice Phenoms !!
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That correct and o how shortly do we forget the full year intel keep quite the need for a bios fix for C2D. If AMD would have said nothin [...]
3   Reynod 126 4138 homerdog
12-19-2007 at 04:22 PM
On [CPUs] Wow--New Black Edition Phenom Next Week-- Comments?
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And do you know the differance in Barcelona and phenom? We can not imply this to cover phenom as the question was barcelona and not pheno [...]
3   Husky McTa​rFlash 134 3092 Coret
12-19-2007 at 07:48 PM
On [CPUs] Upgrading AMD rig
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I would advice you to hold off and get an AM2+ mobo in about 1 months. January is the official launch of spider and we should get a good id [...]
    firc_ops_g​ordo 20 630 Coret
12-16-2007 at 03:44 AM
On [CPUs] AMD's big anouncement on monday?
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Could be an announcement that IBM will be producing some barcy's on its 32nm. Could be an announcement that they too will be bypassing [...]
2   kellytm3 75 2785 bstep1989
01-15-2008 at 05:40 AM
On [CPUs] AMD Issues "Stop Ship" Order for Opterons; TLB Errata Cripples K10
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AMD needs to save face here fast and give a statements saying they will replace b2 barcy's and phenom's with b3's when they launch in Janu [...]
2   Technology​Coordinato​r 66 2176 jaguarskx
12-08-2007 at 07:41 AM
On [CPUs] AMD Drops QuadFX Like a Bad Habit
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I think a lot here need to read the article again. That in no way sounds like AMD drops Quad FX. Sounds to me like they just wante [...]
    Technology​Coordinato​r 44 1793 spoonboy
12-03-2007 at 05:10 PM
On [CPUs] An early look at Phenom dual / tri core performance
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Ok but are they basing it on a 3GHz Penryn which we all know its able to go much higher? Going from netburst to conroe was in that small [...]
3   Epsilon84 149 2992 Coret
12-01-2007 at 01:40 AM
On [CPUs] Anandtech Phenom review is in
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I would agree but AMD only promised drop in compatibility not same performance. They stated that high versions would see bottlenecks on t [...]
5   Epsilon84 214 5898 Thom457
11-29-2007 at 01:59 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Will my PSU handle an 8800GT?
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After looking though Thermaltakes support and produces the 430w TR2 is the only 430W PSU they have. Its either the PN W0069 or W0070 but [...]
    D3lit3 17 659 JbJ190
11-26-2007 at 11:42 PM
On [CPUs] FX-60 to Intel
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Seeing as the X2 6400+ is about an equal to the E6550 at 2.33GHz and knowing that the 939 FX-60 was slightly faster clock for clock than i [...]
    sdf 12 389 starcraftf​anatic
12-01-2007 at 11:12 PM
On [CPUs] How will "Phenom" change the CPU Market?
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I vote a strong step forward but not because of the Phenom. The Phenom is only a small step forward at best the real strong forward step [...]
    the_vorlon 49 1502 Hellboy
11-22-2007 at 10:19 PM
On [CPUs] Phenom 9700, AMD's 1st Quad-Core CPU
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That could occur in the future but at the same time you could have 4X HD3870X2's on AMD spider at least in theory. AMD is stating a 3X pe [...]
5   Muk 224 7808 warga
12-01-2007 at 06:38 AM
On Phenom Benchmark at Ocworkbench
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Or the crossfire drivers are just taking more advantage of the extra cores. At those resolutions it shows the CPU's doing about the same [...]
2   keep it re​al 56 3337 Mephistoph​elis
01-08-2008 at 04:26 AM
On [CPUs] Is 1.44v too much for 24/7 usage?
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Your pretty much correct but not everyone can buy a new CPU, mobo, and RAM every 3 years. The CPU socket changes and your force to buy ne [...]
    ericvpi 41 841 homerdog
11-20-2007 at 01:51 AM
On [CPUs] Does Cache Size Really Boost Performance?
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Speed of cache is more or less relative to the speed of the CPU. It is import not to forget cache is used to reduce the over all latency [...]
2   Muk 99 2734 Grimmy
12-07-2007 at 09:03 AM
On [CPUs] AMD help
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Thats a very good HSF but at the price of the AMD's Its over kill. I would suggest the X2 5000+ with ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro. I [...]
    5killer 12 445 amdfangirl
11-15-2007 at 07:59 PM
On [CPUs] Will there be any Intel price cuts soon because of the new Penryns?
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Yes thats just 1 Penryn the QX9650 the other 15 are all Xeon's. The rest of the Penryn's is anyones guess. Looks like only an increase [...]
    inktri 12 549 exit2dos
11-13-2007 at 01:43 AM
On [CPUs] Its official: AMD withdraws Barcelona benches
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May be good or bad as new spec scores should have support of AMD's new math library.
    wombat2 4 378 Dahak
11-12-2007 at 01:58 PM
On [CPUs] AMD Phenom 9600 benchmark - Sandra XII
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The 29390 MFlops in Whetstones may be low enough for Phenom win but given its single channel that would be a stretch. yomamafor1's tests [...]
    X-Files 45 3697 turpit
11-12-2007 at 05:38 AM
On [CPUs] Barcelona Doesn't Deliver - Benchmarks Deemed Non-Compliant
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Barcy most likely has lower yields but with a year and a half of old systems plus new system I would see this as more of a demand issue. I [...]
    Technology​Coordinato​r 36 1356 randomizer
11-13-2007 at 11:47 PM
On [CPUs] AMD pulls a rabbit out of their Agena hat
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Clear scaling from DC to QC in low resolutions would need atleast 40%. The 15% your stating is closer to non scaling at that resolution. [...]
4   BaronMatri​x 160 5073 bfellow
11-09-2007 at 09:28 PM
On [CPUs] 3DMark06: Phenom X4 vs C2Q
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Yes I was using the Intel mobo as a comparison to why the X4 had to be forward looking for memory. Sorry for the confusion. I guess I sh [...]
2   Epsilon84 54 3029 elbert
11-08-2007 at 07:03 PM
On [CPUs] Phenom X4 9700 at 2.4GHz to cost $329.99
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Its on the 51 to 100 sheet.
2   AKIRA972 73 2439 EnFoRceR22
11-09-2007 at 12:01 PM
On [CPUs] Another disaster for AMD: Phenom X4 slower than 65 nm Intel quads
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Yeap a hurting. LOL Guess Intels $1000 quads are junk also if a $280 dual core can get that close. Can you say only tests 1 core.
5   Wombat2 225 9096 onestar
11-12-2007 at 11:07 PM
On [CPUs] Intel's 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled
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Crap just noticed that its the QX6850 against the QX6800 on the chart. I would have liked to seen QX6850 OC'ed in the benchmarks to see [...]
2   Muk 78 3155 LAN_deRf_H​A
11-07-2007 at 12:56 AM
On [CPUs] From 3200+ to X2 4400 (s939) : worth $100 ?
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Ragemonkey thats an AM2 X2 4200.
    DetConan 24 577 MrMr
10-26-2007 at 02:27 AM
On [CPUs] x2 5600+ vs E4300 O/C?
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I would suggest the E2180 for around $93, a less expensive mobo $90, and a good after market HSF for $30 should get 3.2~3.4GHz. Your more [...]
    french_guy 28 932 lunyone
10-24-2007 at 01:04 AM
On [CPUs] Canadian CPU upgrade
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If your buying OEM I think you must buy a HSF on the same order for your CPU to be under warranty. This is atleast tigerdirect.com warran [...]
    uNsafe 10 293 bobbknight
10-22-2007 at 07:16 AM
On [CPUs] Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 OR Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 ?
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Q6600 no ifs ands or buts. Every month programs even games will move toward 4 core optimization so those benchmarks will just keep mo [...]
    zisman 29 1503 itotallybe​lieveyou
10-25-2007 at 12:57 AM
On [CPUs] E6750 vs X2 6000
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Yes but check gigabytes first to see if they have drivers more suited to the mobo. All their drivers are old so maybe Nvidia would have [...]
    NightScope 40 1762 onestar
11-07-2007 at 01:34 AM
On [Network Interface Cards] Intel seized my NIC... what to do?
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Intel is stating it could also be stolen and not just a fake. This is most like the reply to both knock offs and stolen produces. Keep all [...]
    dhrysg0d 18 1020 Dooyas
12-03-2007 at 10:26 PM
On [CPUs] TheInq talks about Nehalem's performance
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Ok everyone here must be asleep as no one said anything about the AMD blunder. Thats about a 100,000~500,000$ screw up depending on w [...]
2   yomamafor1 78 3149 spoonboy
04-08-2008 at 03:39 PM
On [CPUs] Future of die shrinks- 130nm ---> ???? processor size
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I think the hard wall limit of a gate is 1.5nm's but thats of course if they solve the leakage and tunneling problems. Getting below 15nm [...]
    nawfal 15 859 blashyrkh
10-15-2007 at 03:51 PM
On [CPUs] Breaking news: AMD delays duals by 6 months
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Thats good new. Looks like they will be using all their 65nm capacity for quads and those that fall short will be tri's. Dual core may a [...]
    Wombat2 6 1398 BaronMatri​x
10-12-2007 at 05:44 PM
On [CPUs] Gaming performance difference between P4 3.2 and a Barcelona processor
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Really depends on the number of cores the software can use. I'll try to rationalize this for you. A 6400+ should be near a 2.4GHz C2D [...]
    Do_u_sEx 18 940 nukchebi0
10-11-2007 at 12:30 AM
On [CPUs] Parallel Processing, Part 1: CPU Cores
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True and we didn't see any test on differences in programs exiting back to windows or program startup. How much faster is program startup [...]
    Muk 33 1971 DrGonzo94
10-18-2007 at 12:53 PM
On [CPUs] Barcelona's non_rate SPEC benchies
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I dont think it really matters if a single core of a Intel can beat a single core of an amd. The single threaded performance benchmarks h [...]
    yomamafor1 12 880 yomamafor1
10-08-2007 at 05:47 PM
On [CPUs] Core 2 Duo E6750 or Athlon 64 X2 6000+?
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Spend that money on a good GPU for your amd 64 3500+ or go quad. A high priced dual core is a waste due to cheap quads. A low end dual c [...]
    vasanx 39 2645 jtt283
09-26-2007 at 08:14 PM
On [CPUs] Is Nov. 12 Penryn release Xeon only?
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From what I have read the penry will only get a 5% clock for clock boost. The penry will release at 3.33GHz which accounts for a 15% ga [...]
    warezme 5 834 warezme
09-19-2007 at 07:11 PM
On [CPUs] Q6600 Go @ £171 or AMD X2 6000+ @ £110 ??
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If you dont plan on OCing dont waste money on an OCing mobo. Either way I would suggest ASUS P5K LGA 775 Intel P35 that can OC the Q6600 [...]
    abarrett 29 1500 dragonspra​yer
12-12-2007 at 09:34 PM
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