Thanks for the replies. :D I've found that although each P-state by itself can be very stable, using the Performance-on-demand profile with multiple P-states causes stability issues. It's probably due to the frequent switching between different frequencies and voltages? I'm going to try increasing ...

There a few people getting the new B3's to 3ghz+ with stock volts and cooling. Lots of 3.2ghz with high end air.

But I'm more interested in how far these undervolt.

I wonder what watching Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares would be like in the states. Do you just get an hour of silence? Our version of the FCC got a couple of complaints about the last episode, apparently it had the F word 87 times, and over 200 other swear words. Thankfully they said it was appr...

What's the situation these days with ATI drivers and driving 1366x768 / 1920x1080 displays at 1:1 without too much messing about? I've got an HD3450 connected to my 1366x768 LCD TV. It has 1360x768 as a valid resolution. Windows desktop looks better than 1280x720, but still blurry text. I don't see...

According to the newegg specs for the ASUS board it comes with only a 10/100Mbps LAN. How could ASUS screw up so badly??? I downloaded the Asus manual and it appears newegg.com had it wrong. According to the manual the board does have a gigabit LAN. I'm disappointed at the lack of availability of o...

Anyone has a clue as to whether my proposed combination of 780G/HD3470 will be able to deliver enough performance for this? Since your talking 2D flash animation I would think that the performance would be entirely CPU bound and not use the GPU at all. Also make sure to check out some 3rd party mon...

Just share it around. I've had over 20 people borrow my watt meter, I'm sure its saved more than it cost.

I wonder how many households still get their TV OTA anyway? This is going to be a bigger problem is other countries. The USA has huge rate of TV subscription, Europe and Asia, etc not so much. Australia is at less than 20% subscription and the rate is actually dropping (slowly) as more people downl...

Don't worry about the VGA port, just use the onboard graphics and find a low profile 3450 with a DVI and HDMI port and then get a HDMI to DVI converter (they look like the DVI to VGA ones that are packaged with most cards). I'm not 100% sure if you can run DVI and HDMI at the same time with the 345...

The GA-MA69GM-S2H seems like a fine choice. Your second option is a 690V motherboard, which won't be suitable. It has no DVI out. If you can avoid using VGA, I think you should. A VGA -> DVI adapter doesn't exist because that means converting an analog signal to digital. It will simply pass the ana...

Thats inline with the E4300 the 3 I've had. Also goes up to ~80c at 3ghz. They do undervolt well on the right motherboard however, 2 of them did 1.8ghz @ 1v.

For the last two years its been between 8.6 and 9.2 KWh/day (so ~ 265KWh/month ). For two people in an apartment it isn't bad and we don't have gas. The 50L hot water heater takes a fair junk and my Wife works from home. Before she moved in myself and a flat mate would use about 7KWh/day (smaller fr...

You could also wait for the 780G chipset and use a 3450

Human habitation is probably the biggest problem, we move them out of their traditional areas, change the local environment and remove/compete for their food source.

wim, I have a Thermalright bolt-thru kit that I can sell if you interested. Its in Sydney at the moment, but I go to Canberra regularly so shipping wont cost you. I bought it for a Gigabyte DQ6 build, but it was to much of a hassle with the motherboards back plate (and I've downgraded from that comp...

I don't think Gigabyte support undervolting in BIOS, do they? It all depends on who you are. If you run a hardware review website they will send you special version of the BIOS with voltage control so you can give their board a rave review. But if you are a mere mortal you can only get the crippled...

This kind of improvement in operating voltage is pretty common at the start of the product cycle of Intel CPUs. I know this is true with AMD and their APM method, but I thought Intel used a Copy Exact method for its fabs i.e. tweaks are made in the R&D fab and then pushed out to the production fabs...

A CPU that is just as fast as a Sempron LE, but more expensive and the same power demand, won't sell for crap. I don't see any advantage to it. same power demand? 25W vs 45W is almost half the power usage. sure, you can say the slower Sempron LEs won't use 45W, but then I'm sure the Isaiah doesn't ...

Any weather where you require more than jeans and a long sleeve shirt is to cold (anything less than 12c during the day). You can keep your frozen hells.

Now who wants a game of tennis? Its only 38c outside at the moment.

QuietOC wrote:Edit: Okay, some early benchmarks show the RS780 to be faster than a Radeon 9700 Pro (3DMark05=2495).

Yeah, the 780G chipset with 64mb of dedicated ram is a bit a above a nv6600, without the ram its more like a 9500pro.

Some more in depth details would help i.e. Motherboard version, CPU details as per CPU-z, etc. The best change you can make is lowering the voltage but a lot of older machines don't allow that. The most likely change you can make is the FSB, setting it lower than what it currently is (most like 200)...

mattthemuppet wrote:I remember reading about a move to mandate emissions standards for lawnmower engines in california.

2 stroke lawn mowers have been baned in Oz for about 5 years. Whipper Snippers and other garden tools (not chainsaws) are getting the same law soon (mid this year?), so expect all electric tools soon

I don't like that the ICE system is an optional extra. One of the things that really helps a shuttle is that the ICE fan replaces 2 fans with one (CPU and Case) and that they ICE system reduce the internal space taken by the components making the cases easier to work with.

I get the feeling that Intel (and nvidia to a lesser extent) is trying to give AMD some breathing room. 1) Intel have no plans to release a Quad faster than 3.2ghz for the rest of 2008. 2) Intel have delayed the quad 45nm processors (except the extreme series) 3) Intel have moved nehalm from late 20...

Quad core @ 2.4ghz at less than 35w PEAK? I'm a bit surprised that Intel doesn't advertise the E8200 as a 45 W CPU, or even lower. It's nothing new with a series of CPU's having the same TDP, but a low TDP is more interesting for the consumers now than ever before. I think Intel is backing off and ...

OTOH, what if the doubters are wrong, and the large majority of scientists are right? And if we ignore them -- then the outcome is pretty terrible. It takes a crisis to push most people into action. Thankfully when we act we can do things. Oz has been in drought since before 2000 and the majority o...

Ok, this is not really just bumper stickers, but its the most bogan car I've ever seen and it was parked near my work a while back. Note the aerials, lights, bull bar and the mud flaps that say diesel power for a non diesel car. http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/13th_wulfen/Car1.jpg http://i43....

Even if your not changing OS VM is actually very usefully when

a) testing out new applications.
b) running 2 applications that don't play nice when installed on the same machine.
c) separating applications for different users.

Isn't the 45 degree angle supposed to cool the VRM? The lack of VRM cooling is one of the main problems with Tower heat sinks.

nVidia are supposed to be releasing cards that can switch between on-board VGA and the card on-the-fly, which could be interesting. Certain laptops have this already. (Asus U3, I believe) Except they require a reboot. Part of the PCIe 2 spec is the ability to change the power supplied to the PCIe s...