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On [CPUs] Intel Atom CPU Silverthorne     hannibal 0 175 hannibal
09-05-2008 at 07:37 PM
On [CPUs] Anandtech: Nehalem - Everything you Need to Know...     hannibal 15 460 jaydeejohn
08-22-2008 at 09:00 PM
On [Other Components] UT3 and Ageia PhysX PPU     hannibal 7 875 3Ball
12-14-2007 at 09:34 PM
On [CPUs] AMD Second-Generation "Stars" Plans Unveiled     Hannibal 17 1563 HatMan
07-03-2007 at 06:10 PM
On [CPUs] Shanghai?
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And Anadtech report:
    jaydeejohn 30 680 uguv
11-13-2008 at 04:49 PM
On [CPUs] Core I7 review
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Nice CPU and even better when the tick comes out... (Hopefully there are cheaper alternatives then.)
    joseph85 42 1607 Stupido
11-04-2008 at 03:19 PM
On [CPUs] Nehalem - Tri-Channel Memory What will you be getting - 3x 1GB or 2GB
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It's allway up to what do you use your computer for. I have allways been in situation where more ram is more usefull than faster CPU... Fo [...]
    Anth 21 944 habitat87
11-04-2008 at 08:30 PM
On [CPUs] Is Intel too far ahead of its time?
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It's the common way of the things to happen. We get new hardware. We get some professional programs to use that hardware. It will take 10 ye [...]
2   jaydeejohn 67 1449 jaydeejohn
10-20-2008 at 06:09 PM
On [CPUs] Watch out Intel here comes AMDhabi!!!!
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Well this is good news. It allows AMD a change to developt their products. I am not worry about Intel being in trouble. Intell has so much m [...]
4   jaydeejohn 181 2585 turpit
10-13-2008 at 07:05 AM
On [CPUs] Core i7? No. An arm and a leg
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Yep yomamafor1 is right in here. The prizes will come down after a while. If you want to be the first, it's gonna cost you some premium. Th [...]
4   BaronMatri​x 165 2618 yipsl
10-12-2008 at 08:07 PM
On closed [CPUs] Barcelona surrenders to Shanghai: 45nm AMD heart beating 20% faster?
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Well the AMD has have been too optimistic sometimes... But, when they have compared to their own older products, the numbers have been in li [...]
2   dattimr 73 1542 turpit
10-02-2008 at 04:23 AM
On [CPUs] Hyper Transport upgrade necessary?
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You need more HT speed when you use two to 20 prosessors... so it's more usefull in server segment. HT can be useful allso in normal use if [...]
    xcalibur37​7 6 232 xcalibur37​7
09-14-2008 at 10:52 AM
On [Sound Cards] Recommendation for Speaker and Soundcard
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Good speakers are the most important part of good sound. After that it may be possible to get some improvement via disgrete sound card. The [...]
    Maziar 7 285 Maziar
09-09-2008 at 01:11 PM
On [CPUs] Lucid Hydra 100 - Enabling SLI/CrossFire on Any Platform
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Is there anyone in here forum who has an any clue if this system can really work? Sounds very interesting and allmost too good to be true... [...]
    Maziar 13 390 Maziar
08-29-2008 at 05:06 PM
On [CPUs] Hexus.net benchmarks Nehalem
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Well Nehalem is basically Intels server chip and allow the increase of cores in the future. So I am not worried about it's gaming results. T [...]
4   epsilon84 153 2083 hannibal
08-21-2008 at 10:42 PM
On [CPUs] Opinions: Gpus going lower node than cpus
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GPU are also easier to design, so it is easier to go smaller production node. Allso there is not enough competition in CPU side... Intel is [...]
    jaydeejohn 9 251 cjl
08-19-2008 at 04:08 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] is my 550W PSU enough?
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No problem. If you go for Crosfire or new 4870x2 double GPU graphicks, then you need more power, but good quality 550 is good for you single [...]
    jbourne84 5 232 jbourne84
08-18-2008 at 05:33 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] pimp out my p182 b
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$50 is not much for making imptovements to appearance... I would put all my money to better fans, but... What do you like? You can ad more [...]
    thegibbler 26 452 uk_gangsta
08-07-2008 at 07:06 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Antec P182 vs short cables on PSU
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Does anyone know if the next one's are suitable for Antec 180/182 case? - Antec TruePower Quattro 850W - Antec Signature SG850W - Be [...]
    MadMikeee 9 482 Wikkus
07-22-2008 at 05:24 PM
On [CPUs] Nvidia does it again! no sli licence use our chips!
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Well it may be allso that Nvidia is very sure their rumored upcoming DX10.1 cards, or at least are hopefull... It's very hard to say what ki [...]
    dragonspra​yer 12 408 dragonspra​yer
07-15-2008 at 07:05 PM
On [Sound Cards] Audiophile Sound Card.
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If you want creative, there is only one to go... X-fi elite Pro, the only external sound card from creative, if you dont count those poor us [...]
    therock003 24 789 quantumshe​ep
07-13-2008 at 05:47 PM
On [CPUs] Nehalem Possible Arrival Date? Anyone Know?
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Core2 is smaller, so it should be cheaper too... If it sells well, and AMD can not bring anything to compete with more speed, why not sell N [...]
    DookieDraw​s 35 4633 NewLCD123
10-08-2008 at 07:27 AM
On [CPUs] Tom's Benchmarked Nehalem + 4850!!!
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Well the new memory interface is very usefull when you really puch all your four or more cores... And now when most programs use one to two [...]
    dattimr 15 795 enmaalvb
07-08-2008 at 07:34 PM
On [CPUs] Phenom 9950 Black Edition available at Buy.com
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Well sample at least... But this is an very old news. And from AMD itself:
    sslusser 38 1586 yipsl
07-03-2008 at 04:42 AM
On [CPUs] AMD releases new higher clocked Phenom's!
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Yes, the Core2duo is still better, but AMD is slowly closing the gap. This is good alternative, if you want to support CPU competition. Q660 [...]
    xX12amanXx 5 348 hannibal
07-01-2008 at 10:24 PM
On [CPUs] AMD 9950
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It was owercloked with stardard AMD cooler... So expect better with real heatpipe tower...
    reynod 10 1092 Mathos
07-03-2008 at 07:30 AM
On [CPUs] Multi-core CPUs: An Idea
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You are optimistic I am pessimistic :-) But yeah, nobody knows, but most of those cpu related improvements have taken guite a lot time un [...]
2   Kevinator 92 1472 iluvgillgi​ll
06-16-2008 at 12:02 AM
On [CPUs] Wait for Nehalem?
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If you are gonna wait 2 years, then go for Nehalem... it may even be possible to get one for reasonable sum of money by then... If you need [...]
    AbydosOne 19 743 dagger
06-14-2008 at 02:57 AM
On [CPUs] Anand does Nehalem!!!
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Hmmm... at this moment Intel don't have to be worried about people jumping in the AMD train... Even if it's not possible to overclock an [...]
7   jaydeejohn 305 5634 apache_liv​es
07-16-2008 at 10:29 AM
On [CPUs] Which theoretical processor would you rather have??
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Theoretical prosessor... Well ofcource it would be brand new quantum computer that is supposed to be thousand times more powerful than anyt [...]
    DarthPiggi​e 44 1132 Technology​Coordinato​r
05-21-2008 at 01:41 AM
On [Sound Cards] Does anyone have a top of the range soundcard? Or a very good one?
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I have reasonable good SB X-fi elite pro external soundcard and the sound is definitely quite good, but you really have to have good speaker [...]
    jonisginge​r 17 553 quantumshe​ep
06-09-2008 at 05:22 PM
On [CPUs] AMD K10 Inside Article.
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Well there is allso very good article at Anantech: Summa summarum it says that Barselona has no any chance in single threaded games, but [...]
    radnor 15 560 endyen
05-13-2008 at 10:22 AM
On [CPUs] Nehalem: The End Of Mainstream Overclocking?!
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There is allso one one more reason for this to be true. Some bad ventors sell overclocked versions of prosessors to some ordinary comput [...]
2   dattimr 76 1235 amdfangirl
05-12-2008 at 02:35 PM
On [Sound Cards] Sound cards and new sound api in DX10.1
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Has any new news about hardware audio acceleration? Is it coming back or is this some hopefull though? Some new information in here: [...]
    Arnagath 5 644 hannibal
05-06-2008 at 10:25 PM
On [Sound Cards] Odd audiophile build -- advice appreciated!
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Allso if you are serious about audiophile build, forget X-Fi Fatal1ty and take instead Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro... It has desent externa [...]
    DestradoIm​pulse 11 537 DestradoIm​pulse
05-07-2008 at 10:03 AM
On [Sound Cards] Creative sucks, I need some soundcard advice
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Well I have had Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro for ower two years, and there has not been single problem with that card. And the sound is reas [...]
    chedrz 24 1203 TheMiracle
05-23-2008 at 07:15 PM
On [Other Components] Best Speakers?
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If you wanna have really good speakers try one of these monitors... Gelelec 8020A: and Gelelec 7050B: Or if you want to have a little b [...]
    firehawk_1 14 453 TBiggums
05-05-2008 at 03:39 AM
On [CPUs] Wait a year and a half for Nehalem?
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Yep. Nehalem is expensive piece of technology at the beginning. And it's first coming to server market, that is the only part off CPU market [...]
    Captain Fw​iffo 19 615 dragonspra​yer
04-24-2008 at 07:39 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] looking to replace P180
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Well 182 is improvement when considering caple management, it allso helps in coolin! I have P180 and really like it a lot, but the cable [...]
    smartel707​0 12 509 The_Blood_​Raven
04-11-2008 at 12:36 PM
On [CPUs] CPU Cooler Charts 2008, Part I - Loosing Your Cool?
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Nice to see really big comparison! Normally there is only few of them at given time. And some comments: ranking: For some people the coo [...]
3   muk 141 4429 bobbknight
07-11-2008 at 10:06 PM
On [CPUs] What is a good 3dmark06 score these days??
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Well the real DX10 is not so far away... So far everything has been DX9 with some DX10 features. (It's no good busines to publish a game t [...]
4   RyanTheSav 159 8937 inspector7​1
09-14-2008 at 07:51 PM
On [CPUs] AMD Phenom processor fits to AMD Dual Core Motherboards?
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Try:
    njeriuXP 14 1395 spuddyt
12-04-2007 at 05:31 PM
On [CPUs] Conned by Crysis
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Hmmm... they use quite high resolutions. In previous test they used 800*600 and the game scaled well with four cores. In this test the g [...]
2   Pigbristle 84 2361 systemlord
11-08-2007 at 09:03 PM
On [CPUs] Breaking news: AMD delays duals by 6 months
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Good point. Low end parts are good enough, so its guite wise choice indeed!
    Wombat2 6 1430 BaronMatri​x
10-12-2007 at 05:44 PM
On [Sound Cards] Does Vista make soundcards obsolete?
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Well they offer better sound, if that means anything to user. The 3D sound support is gone, because there is not any in Wista at this mo [...]
    summer_of_​alvin 20 1920 fatcat
09-27-2007 at 03:16 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] ANTEC P180 , THREE 120mm FANS are ENOUGH
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I have ATI 1800, AMD4400, and 3 hard drives, one of them raptor. And the computer is cool enough with 3 case fans. (some pretty warm equipme [...]
    tonschk 3 921 tonschk
07-03-2007 at 11:40 AM
On [CPUs] Core 2 Duo bugs could be more serious than initially
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There are bugs in every cpu that has ever been published. It's just a fact. Most of them are not too serious, that they can not be avoided. [...]
    Wombat2 18 4023 turpit
06-30-2007 at 06:45 PM
On [Sound Cards] high end machine - need a sound card
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Creative X-Fi Elite Pro is reasonable, because it has external soundmodule... Less his and statics.
    scottolive​r 6 1142 Hannibal
06-27-2007 at 06:17 PM
On [Sound Cards] X-fi driver missing?
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Try creative page...
    rodr 16 1671 Focusondz
06-25-2007 at 11:11 PM
On [CPUs] Why is software 7-8 years behind CPU technology?!?!?!?!?
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Yep... People use even today 8 to 10 years old computers, that didn't were the bleeding edge even then... Multicores there has been availab [...]
3   DJ_Jumbles 107 8961 levicki
07-30-2007 at 09:05 PM
On [Sound Cards] changing the speakers on my z2300
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The best option should be collecting whole new speakers in pairs of 2. Integrated speaker system where all amplifiers are in one speaker are [...]
    Gingerade 5 462 Hannibal
06-09-2007 at 11:13 PM
On [Sound Cards] should i get a sound card
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I would say allmost opposite :-) If you have good quality 2 speaker system, go for separate sound card. If you have normal 5.1 gamer spea [...]
    felix2792 13 1232 Tyhr
06-12-2007 at 08:53 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Antec p180 VS. P182
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I think that the improved cable management is a worth of it. P182 is like p180 as it should have been from the beginning. The p180 is good c [...]
    wyattearp 12 8003 SEALBoy
06-08-2007 at 12:55 AM
On [Sound Cards] Why get a sound card instead of onboard sound?
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Yep you need good sound system to hear the difference. The external sound card can provide better surround sound in games though... (read ea [...]
    chikit 27 3428 DeAtHrApTo​R
06-12-2007 at 07:09 PM
On [CPUs] Barcelona benchmarks at Computex (next week)?
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Hmmm.. If I don't remember wrong you can expect K10 in autumn (at best) so you really are too early in this! Wait 3-5 monts and then expect [...]
    Wombat2 21 3609 yakyb
05-31-2007 at 01:17 AM
On [Sound Cards] Great sound card, Great Speaker
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You want stereo? Try these: Wanna have surround: So you can start with sub and two speakers and expand with, if you want to have [...]
    Brume 3 765 astrallite
05-20-2007 at 08:15 AM
On [CPUs] AMD ruin ati? HD 2900xt flop? Can AMD be saved from itself!
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This article seem to tell that the r600 architecture is not so bad, but that the 80 nm production is guite bad... So NV did much better [...]
2   DragonSpra​yer 97 10824 dragonspra​yer
05-24-2007 at 11:57 PM
On [CPUs] Anandtech DDR2 vs DDR3
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DDR3 is good thing for those new quadcore prosessors. They need good bandwidh! Single and dual core will be fine with ddr2...
    pausert20 14 2060 DragonSpra​yer
05-17-2007 at 04:49 AM
On [Sound Cards] Best sound card?
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Hmmm... I have X-Fi elite pro, just because the sound "card" is outside of computer. Always, when the audio source is inside the c [...]
    joker 10 2320 billdcat4
05-13-2007 at 02:01 PM
On [CPUs] AMD K10 lineup details (Dailytech)
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Rama is the very low end, and low prised product, lower power Kuma is for those who are willing to pay for speed and low power usage, so [...]
    Teema 33 5363 knightrous
05-07-2007 at 07:31 AM
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