Great review. I had a question, though. Jan mentions in the article: "it's good to know that similar utilities are also available for the Linux community." Is this a reference to RMclock (which is discussed right before this statement)? I went to the homepage and it looks like RMclock is a windows p...

xbitlabs measured the power consumption of the new revision of the Athlon 64 chips and found them actually higher (but only slightly). Here is the relevant page in the xbitlabs article. Here is another choice quote from the article: "All this pushes us towards the conclusion that AMD didn’t focus on...

rtsai wrote: Yes, you've hijacked this "K8TPro-939" thread with your K890Pro-939.

Whoops. I didn't pick up on the fact that I was talking about a different motherboard.

I also have a Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 and I've had no problems with it. I use 100Mb ethernet, onboard analog sound output, and the two fan headers with sensors in order to read RPM information (I don't try to control fan speed with those headers . . . which should not be possible). I do have one probl...

Thanks for the replies (esp. Straker since it did turn out to be a memory problem). I just wanted to post an update. I ran again with the processor overclocked and it still failed the Prime test (this time after about 3 hr 45 min). Running memtest86 repeatedly gave errors for test #5 -- almost certa...

I recently built a new system consisting of: Athlon 64 3000+ (90 nm, Winchester version) Zalman 7000B cooler ( close to max [~10V] on fanmate) Antec SLK3000B case (side panel off, fan on low) Soltek K890Pro-939 motherboard Geforce 6200TC videocard Seasonic S12-380 power supply 1 Samsung SP1614C hard...

xbitlabs has posted actual power consumption of the new P4 6xx CPUS (instead of total system power draw). From previous articles, they have also measured power consumption of the Athlon 64 processors (both the newer Winchester core as well as the older NewCastle core). Their conclusions are the same...

I was considering getting an Nvidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache for my new, silent PC since the 6200 TC is PCIe-based, pretty cheap, and passively cooled. After reading this review at Tom's Hardware, which concluded that the GeForce 6200 TC costs about as much as a 6200 but performs considerably worse, ...

"The Seasonic S12 series power supplies are expected to be available through retail stores in February 2005 and become widely available thru online resellers in March. " The above is a quote from page 7 of the following review of the Seasonic S12-600: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=106&type=ex...

MikeC wrote: AFAIK, the S12 series are available in the US right now, and cost will not be any higher than Super Tornado (for similar power rating).

(first post, long time lurker)

Has anyone actually seen an S12 available anywhere? I've been looking around the web and I couldn't find it.

--Sunil