*Off-topic* Only homosexuals wear ripped jeans. Especially WITH blonde highlights

By the way, very nice looking interior looks well organised and built.

I think the big deal here is AMD specifically optimizing a line of CPU's to run extra cool and so quieter I'd agree. Finally there seems a reasonable prospect that in the not too distant future we will see chips which can be passively-cooled in stock form and which have been specifically designed f...

Anyone have experience with the 160GB 7200.9 ? As it's single platter.

The solution is simple. Buy isolationg in ear earphones like Etymotic ER6i. You can listen at much lower volumes and hear more clearly as background noise is "isolated"/reduced. People listen to thei $5 earphones so loud because they're trying to cut out background noise, the result is a static nucl...

Arn't AMD increasing the TDP values for their next socket CPUs?

45nm, 32nm and 22nm is expected. After that, who knows? I think the industry will shift from Silicon to something else after that.

You could wait for Intel Core Duo (Yonah) but the prices will be very high.

The 2.5" size seems a great way to go. My understanding is that they're more hardy to heat compared to 3.5" also because they're designed for primarily laptops.

Isn't a Pentium-M CPU a better solution if you want fanless CPU operation? I heard the performance of Geode is Very low.

Intel's VIIV machines will use Yonah. MikeC didn't know what he was talking about

I want to see a SPCR review for Intel Yonah CPUs.

I think a dual-core would have attracted people to buy S754 motherboards. But with this it just gives the current S754 owners another option.

Talk about late.

imagine a 65 nm chip built to have the power of a Semp 2600 or 2800. It could be a VERY cool running chip,quite easy to run passive. AMD may want to go for the Power U$er market and sell X2 5000 chips instead,,but they ought to recognize that there is a low heat/noise market segment too. They'd hav...

I still can't believe they didn't try overclocking it.

having seen the preview of Intels Yonah chip at anandtech it seems intel is going to lay some smackdown on AMD unless AMD have something left up their sleeve ready to pull out. Granted it was a preview chip and the performance could change, but still at 2GHz Intels Yonah chip wasn't too far behind ...

Mats wrote:Yeah, January 1 2006 is the day AFAIK. So strange that they're replacing it only like 6 - 8 months later. Maybe because they need a new desktop CPU and see no reason not to update the mobile one too (even though it's not old by then).

i dont hear anyone complaining

MikeC wrote:...What we do know is that Intel has once again deflected attention from its current lineup and put the focus on a product that won't be on the market for at least another quarter...

i think 5 weeks from now

wow LAN over electric cables. that sounds crazy. does it work well then?

surely you cant connect in another building though? would the reason be that the signal would be too weak?

i think Yonah will be excellent. but i'm waiting for Intel's line-up around the time Merom is released :]

isnt the next stage to move your HDDs next to the radiator in the basement?

why not get a 1.8" HDD and be done with it?

ok i've registered and gonna see what this game is all about thats if i can actually play online over this network :/

yeh, if you had a huge copper tank buried in a cool soil area in the ground you wouldnt'd need turbines. i think you need some copper pipes too ?

i find the notebook drive in my Toshiba notebook quite loud when i'm sleeping about 2m away even though its a Toshiba 4200RPM i think

looks good

"...not accepting new registrations..."

c'mon ! gimme a break! i wanna play!

what kind of cfm do those fans have?

i think everyone can predict solid state to take over the job of conventional mechanical hard disk drives. but the question is "WHEN?"

that is madness! so are those pipes leading to your computer about 2 miles away for silence?