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On [CPUs] Q6600 w/ crazy temps
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If the temperatures take an hour to peak, the ventilation problem is with the case or the closet/room, not with the CPU HSF. Problems with [...]
    Rusty867 11 183 nukemaster
11-18-2008 at 12:13 AM
On [CPUs] Extremely slow computer
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1) You said that you left a SATA connector "ajar" before experiencing sudden performance problems. Have you tried swapping SATA c [...]
    skeletongh​ost 38 442 skeletongh​ost
11-16-2008 at 09:40 PM
On [CPUs] AMD: Core i7 as being out of touch with the marketplace
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You can buy just 2 sticks, and the chip will run dual channel. The only costs are having your RAM in DDR3, and having to purchase an en [...]
2   dragonspra​yer 99 1760 croc
11-19-2008 at 09:57 AM
On [CPUs] Intel tick tock locked?
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Intel's previous two quarters were records in revenue and profit for its decades-long history - if I read right - yet we're predicting doom [...]
    jaydeejohn 35 539 dragonspra​yer
11-15-2008 at 04:25 AM
On [CPUs] Multithreded gaming
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Is that really a fact? Remember you are simultaneously saying, multimedia liked the cache, and games did not. And today you're saying a [...]
    jimmysmitt​y 44 917 habitat87
11-14-2008 at 12:41 PM
On [CPUs] Dirk Meyers turn in the Henri Richard Sit-n-Spin
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Indeed I can! I just have to pay >$750 for a 2.5 gig quad model and run it with registered DDR2 on a two-socket mainboard. And pray i [...]
    turpit 35 322 Homeboy2
11-14-2008 at 08:59 AM
On [Other Components] new PSU + 4850 = slow boot
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Did you make sure to plug the 6-pin PCI-e power connector to the matching receptacle on the HD4850 card?
    tsekkdeez 16 240 tsekkdeez
11-15-2008 at 03:10 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Tagan TG480-U01 to power 4870
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A PSU is rated for DC output, not AC input. For that 610 Silencer, if 83% efficiency holds true at full load: 735W AC x .83 = 610W DC [...]
    beatts 14 153 wahjahka
11-14-2008 at 05:48 PM
On [CPUs] upgrade from intel q9550 to qx9650 ???
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You have DDR3 already, why not wait a week or two for i7? That SLI will port straight over to X58.
    teeyay 17 339 tim924
11-12-2008 at 10:58 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] GTX260 and Seasonic S12 II 430W
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< 20A @ 12v would be for the whole system - CPU, GPU, fans, drives, motherboard and RAM. Keeping in mind total power draw also includes [...]
    Kossitch 5 140 wr
11-12-2008 at 06:48 PM
On [CPUs] Shanghai?
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One of the XS members made a spreadsheet of all the non-synthetics - If we calculate IPC with the average of the benchmarks over frequenc [...]
    jaydeejohn 30 680 uguv
11-13-2008 at 04:49 PM
On [CPUs] Where's the bottleneck?
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CPU temperatures look fine. Fan setup is solid. Hard disk benchmark looks normal. Motherboard sensor readings for idle are acceptable. I [...]
    enchant 45 532 enchant
11-12-2008 at 01:13 PM
On [CPUs] QX9770 price cut?
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History says their "extreme" CPUs won't get a price cut; however, a similar CPU with locked multipliers might come out. What's wr [...]
    ladycosmic​jive 7 254 cats_paw
11-10-2008 at 01:28 AM
On [CPUs] Core i7: 4-Way CrossFire, 3-way SLI, Paradise?
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I see this general hint that exploiting the CPU for gaming doesn't produce nearly the eye candy that exploiting the GPU can. That's why I [...]
    jimmysmitt​y 15 418 jaydeejohn
11-08-2008 at 08:33 AM
On [CPUs] Quad-core Xeon E5430 3.00 GHz v. Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.00 GHz
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1) The E5430 is 2.66 GHz, The Q9650 is 3.00 GHz 2) The E5430 goes on a 771 platform; the Q9650, a 775 platform. The 771 platform: - u [...]
    mheselti 3 178 The_Blood_​Raven
11-10-2008 at 02:48 AM
On [CPUs] AMD & ATI making a come back?
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Kind of a naive or outdated statement. That's what they said in 1994, minus the 64-bit part. Motorola 68040 (~ weak 486) was giving way [...]
3   MikuMiku 147 2747 universedo
11-07-2008 at 09:21 AM
On [CPUs] 9950 AMD Overclocked it not what you think
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Doesn't Intel have a history of offering us high cost platforms? AMD too, at some point. But those are non-exclusionary offers... we can [...]
5   jed 204 5069 amdfangirl
11-10-2008 at 06:42 AM
On [CPUs] Why would anyone need a personal server?
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To download torrents - utorrent is fast and very lean, supposedly runs on 486 and up. For printer sharing, a P3 is certainly enough. F [...]
    Dougx1317 14 412 wr
11-06-2008 at 05:02 PM
On [CPUs] x6800 safe operating temperatures
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You're well within the safe temperature range. Core Temp reports up to 85C before it starts throttling. Tcase doesn't reach thermal diode [...]
    gigoguy 3 386 wr
11-06-2008 at 02:26 AM
On [CPUs] Intel's 'Overspeed protection' will limit Core i7 overclocks!!!!!!
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Conroe was pretty robust, but quite a few people have wrecked their Wolfdales. Even if you have very efficient heat removal, you can stil [...]
2   thunderman 74 1650 bfellow
11-06-2008 at 08:10 PM
On [CPUs] Nehalem memory limitiations?!?!
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1) Wiki does not prove facts; it is written by many ordinary people over different times. The wiki article about ddr3 contradicts itsel [...]
2   chunkymons​ter 88 2223 salem80
11-17-2008 at 05:06 PM
On [CPUs] Hardware questions. Please help!
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8800gts-320 to 9800gt-1024 does not seem like that much of an upgrade; they're both of the same generation, though the latter is at a better [...]
    DaSwede112​7 2 88 wr
11-04-2008 at 06:12 AM
On [CPUs] Core I7 review
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I'm finding oddities in the gaming tests at OCAU, too. On the game you mentioned: OCAU setup: QX9770 or i7 965, GTX280, 1280x1024 0xA [...]
    joseph85 42 1617 Stupido
11-04-2008 at 03:19 PM
On [CPUs] If you own an Nvidia motherboard read this.
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This is old news. Opti has sued AMD, Apple, and Nvidia for the same group of patents. The only chipset manufacturer not to get sued was [...]
    joefriday 12 560 jimmysmitt​y
11-01-2008 at 11:51 AM
On [CPUs] My tax return will be wasted on i7 just for this....
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$270 for my 975x, plus $7 shipping. Initially it barely supported the Core 2; with subsequent BIOS updates, it's capable of supporting al [...]
    spathotan 26 750 V3NOM
10-31-2008 at 11:35 AM
On [CPUs] What to do about a new CPU
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1) You can reuse the case, optical drive, and hard drive for a budget build. 2) Old PSU might be sufficient. That x850xt was a high-end [...]
    mandanclan 11 336 aevm
10-30-2008 at 03:53 PM
On [CPUs] Core i7 question?
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Initial A64 boards were puny by comparison. Single-channel DDR, no SLI or Crossfire at the time, 754 pins. Mainstream, one-size-fits-all. [...]
    gpippas 8 412 zenmaster
10-27-2008 at 08:34 PM
On [CPUs] Intel appeals EC antitrust findings
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Yeah, no court has found Intel guilty of this one. But I believe no court has heard this issue, either. By court, I use the layman's ref [...]
    enigma067 21 592 roofus
10-26-2008 at 08:42 PM
On [CPUs] CPU for High(er) End Gaming Rig
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From the beefy power supply and the SLI motherboard, it looks like you want to leave open the possibility of an expansion. A 4870 on a P45 [...]
    wargigas 16 445 aeiouandxy​z
10-26-2008 at 10:31 PM
On [CPUs] Probably a simple question
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If the 7300 comes in a retail box instead of a bare chip, it'll have a stock HSF with pre-applied paste valid for one installation (remember [...]
    Dante Sly 3 184 Dante Sly
10-26-2008 at 08:01 PM
On [CPUs] 3.4ghz Dual-Core or 3.0ghz Quad-Core?
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All else isn't equal, though. That 3.4 GHz o/c Athlon will still have 512K L2 per core; a single threaded game won't even see the combined [...]
    Dannar 32 541 amdfangirl
10-25-2008 at 07:39 AM
On [CPUs] Prime95 fails on two cores of my Q9550...related to other probelms?
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I had CRC copy errors too on a Core 2 Duo/975x. I narrowed the problem to either running the CPU L2 too fast or the Southbridge too hot. Y [...]
    kingfeta 5 523 kingfeta
10-26-2008 at 05:52 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] do you recommend it?
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The Thermaltake TR2-RX @500W is: 1) out of stock at Newegg 2) inefficient 3) expensive for its rating 4) not a Tier 1 supply 5) helpf [...]
    _SunTzu_ 4 216 wr
10-22-2008 at 03:25 PM
On [CPUs] AMD reports narrower loss; stock surges!!
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Turpit, You are right, the sale of old equipment to Russia was recorded in Q2. But from reading the first sentence of their earnings [...]
3   thunderman 147 2119 jimmysmitt​y
11-08-2008 at 11:16 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Antec tp3 trio 650 W is it good?
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Have TP3-650. Going strong for 2 years and 2 months now. 20/7 operation, main system, ambient 15-35 Celsius. x6800 @3.2-3.6 Ghz, 975x, Ve [...]
    elperra 6 232 elperra
10-23-2008 at 04:08 AM
On [CPUs] i7 940 Benchmarks
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I may be wrong on this, but from observation, it seems the games that exhibit considerable multicore speedup already run at pretty high FP [...]
3   BadTrip 143 2348 reynod
10-28-2008 at 11:20 AM
On [CPUs] Which CPU should I buy? Rest of my PC specs here.
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Can a 4850 really play Crysis smoothly at 1920x1200? What kind of frame rates are you getting and on what detail/AA settings? 4850 ben [...]
    andresss 14 297 andresss
10-27-2008 at 08:24 PM
On [Other Components] SCSI Drives, question.
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Most people RAID for 2x transfer rates. Are you sure the $20 18 GB drives offer at least half the transfer rates as a modern Raptor/Velocir [...]
    apox97 8 322 ApoX97
10-19-2008 at 09:16 PM
On [CPUs] Is Intel too far ahead of its time?
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Was Pentium Pro ahead of its time? Pentium Pro/i7 - feels like the same thing. Some with deep pockets or server type applications will jum [...]
2   jaydeejohn 67 1449 jaydeejohn
10-20-2008 at 06:09 PM
On [CPUs] 4 Ghz Core i7 920
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1) While the forum is named after and managed by Coolaler, the pictures we're talking about come from a different user name, presumably a d [...]
3   BadTrip 122 3646 pausert20
11-04-2008 at 03:58 AM
On [CPUs] Newegg and 790GX: A matchmade in heaven?
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DIfferent folks have different needs. When we're arguing about 3d benchmarks on one side, and the other side is talking about a business en [...]
2   BaronMatri​x 65 1040 radnor
08-13-2008 at 12:23 PM
On [CPUs] Counting transistors??
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The Pentium D 9xx had 376 million transistors for two cores. Wow, that must have been one beast. Close to the 410 million on full fledged [...]
2   Vertigon 53 1514 Andrius
04-08-2008 at 01:27 PM
On [CPUs] chess computer
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A single Raptor would beat RAID arrays of 7200rpm drives. I think the 150GB capacity is plenty for chess purposes. Databases are compres [...]
3   Bobby Fisc​her 110 2504 rockstone1
04-04-2008 at 07:21 AM
On [CPUs] Nehalem is sampling
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As said there are numerous small reasons to hold back a product - like further testing to avoid release-day flops. When your sole compe [...]
    the_vorlon 31 1343 Just_An_En​gineer
03-13-2008 at 03:07 AM
On [CPUs] AMD 6000+ hits 3.4ghz in vista
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That's not true... getting me confused! The K8 core (2003) is a close derivative of K7 (2000). Core 2 (2006), however, was a ground-up [...]
2   ryanthesav 87 3198 apache_liv​es
03-19-2008 at 10:14 PM
On [CPUs] Think i found the stupidest idea ever thought of.
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Neither do I, for any serious paced games. I don't see how they can replace the low latency of several meters of connections from keyboar [...]
    ChaosGS 34 1314 happy_fanb​oy
03-08-2008 at 06:22 PM
On closed [CPUs] No Apple forum section and I'll leave this negative anti Apple site.
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Okay, I'll explain on principle. Your point still stands, but price average, median, and range (or std. deviation) are far better at appl [...]
6   SyPheR 257 6258 Grimmy
03-11-2008 at 10:32 PM
On [CPUs] Native 8-core cpu from AMD
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Nehalem wafer (45nm): 15 across, 22 vertical Shanghai wafer (45nm): 15-16 across, 15-16 vertical Barcelona wafer (65nm): 17 across, 17 v [...]
    review_ben​chmark_hun 18 1739 boner
03-08-2008 at 02:59 AM
On [CPUs] AMD Could Follow Intel with Variation
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It's more complicated than "bolt-on," but the complications are mostly to take care of compatibility with 4 disparately clocked [...]
    Bache 19 651 TMSter
03-08-2008 at 05:45 AM
On [CPUs] Q9450 or Q6600???
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I think there is some overheating with the E8400 depending on quality of the chip sample. If you reach 4.0GHz with 1.2V and a properly in [...]
    bryan240g 47 2288 reconviper​one1
03-08-2008 at 03:14 PM
On [CPUs] Anandtech: The truth of CPU degradation
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I agree at the core, but my problems actually stemmed from the differences between the AMD and Intel cores. I had been using AMD for almo [...]
2   yomamafor1 72 3047 endyen
03-08-2008 at 10:19 AM
On [CPUs] Just how much of an upgrade is this????
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Remember those truisms like 99% of people won't overclock, or 99% won't experience erratum # X? We also have to remember that quite a f [...]
2   Jongley 73 1372 jongley
03-14-2008 at 01:44 AM
On [CPUs] QX9650 Temps
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That Zalman is a fine cooler that doesn't need to be replaced. And idle temps are nothing to worry about since your CPU won't die idling. [...]
    dsgreen30 15 886 dsgreen30
03-03-2008 at 04:32 AM
On [CPUs] Do I need a new computer?
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1) The graphics card is much too slow for modern games 2) The CPU is barely adequate for modern games 3) The Hard Disk is fine, more ca [...]
    spamhatert​om 30 982 zpyrd
03-18-2008 at 01:01 AM
On [CPUs] High time for Intel to get serious about graphics
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That's not really true... Intel do have a track record already, for writing drivers for their IGPs that get bundled into motherboard drive [...]
    enigma067 29 1186 doubled
03-07-2008 at 12:15 AM
On [CPUs] I'm worried that i have damaged my CPU.
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That "CPU shield protection" piece of plastic is only for protecting the motherboard socket. It is not part of a running system. [...]
    Moondrinke​r 27 1249 Moondrinke​r
03-04-2008 at 11:38 PM
On [CPUs] Intel to launch six core CPU
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An individual Penryn die (2 cores, shared 6M L2) is about 107 mm^2, so three of those would take 321 mm^2, slightly more than the 283 mm^2 [...]
2   yipsl 51 2300 wolveriner​o79
02-26-2008 at 05:16 PM
On [CPUs] 1st AMD sucks after that Intel sucks and now AMD sucks etc yeah right!
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Hey SyPheR, Noticed some flaws in your points - In the discussion of AGP vs. PCI-e, you used low-end or dated graphics card benchmarks [...]
2   SyPheR 76 2299 SyPheR
02-26-2008 at 02:55 AM
On [CPUs] Possible Nehalem CPU-Z
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Looks fake: 1. CPU-Z doesn't yet know the IDs for Nehalem 2. There's a typo in the CPU description ("2>13GHz" )
    scarchunk 26 1164 wr
02-10-2008 at 06:25 PM
On [CPUs] AMD loss larger then expected for Q4 and year
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There are many shady ways to obscure an operational cash loss, but goodwill is not one of them. Without scrutinizing their core accountin [...]
    rorus 40 1204 Sailer
01-21-2008 at 06:55 PM
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