so going from 130nm to 90nm SOI, despite current leakage, almost halves power consumption. There is a 130 nm mobile Athlon 64 rated at 35 watts also (2700+, 1.6 GHz, 512KB L2 Cache). Not sure what that means for this 90 nm part? Its early days for 90 nm, so they may manage to reduce the power consu...

The pin retraction mechanism for socket T is supposedly quite delicate (it breaks easily). If you break a pin or two, the motherboard is useless. Apparently motherboards will be guaranteed for a limited number of insertions (20 insertions is what I've read). This situation seems kind of pathetic. :...

I guess it's a good thing that a few Northwoods will be available on Socket T. If you wanna try out that platform's new technology (hi-def audio, PCI-E, DDR2, etc.) you can do it without Prescott. (Although most reviews I've read indicate no dramatic performance improvements are to be gained just y...

On my ASUS K8V SE Deluxe the CPU fan stops for most applications such as web, email, word processing. Newer ASUS motherboards such as A8V Deluxe and K8N-E Deluxe can control 2 fans (Q-fan 2): cpu and case fan. With a splitter two case fans can be supported. Great to see Asus are now supporting the ...

Just when it looked as if AMD were running away with the award for the most Byzantine CPU product range, Intel stick their nose out with this and reach for the finishing post. It gives the impression that they don’t know what to do in the short term, so are revamping product lines to keep their st...

so if you have a mobile athlon xp-m or athlon64, the best performance would be to find a target clock speed power consumption, say 20 watts @ 1.2 ghz, then lower the clock ratio to something like 5x and increase FSB to 250mhz DDR PC3700. do you need an adapter to run xp-m in a standard socket A? No...

1mhz? that reminds me of the days of my Apple IIe and the IBM PC XT. though i suppose you could run DOS did you mean 1 Ghz? 1 MHz would be rather challenging, even for Linux :) i know that intel locked the clock multiplier on celerons. i would like to lower my clock multiplier, not increase it. are...

A S754 @ 90 nm should be a great performer for the power output, provided that the process shift isn’t too traumatic. You can run an Athlon 64 S754 @ 1 MHz @ 0.9 V for roughly 15W which is pretty damn fine. Who knows what we’ll see with the process shrink, but the above figures are looking very ...

One important point is to decide what is the maximum case temperature that you are happy to live with? It’s not so difficult to adequately passively cool an under-clocked and under-volted Athlon XP, Athlon 64or possibly even a Northwood, but the case temps might get uncomfortably high. That I find...

How does Cool ‘n’ Quiet interact with non standard BIOS changes to voltage and multiplier? I’ve been reading up on the subject but I’m still not clear on this topic. I can see why any changes that have been made by Clockgen will be lost once CnQ does its thing. That makes sense as they are s...

Thank you for the very detailed reply. It's good to see that the source code for the C 'n' Q driver is available, although it has probably been written in C (++) which will melt my brain. I'm much more familiar with Pascal. I wonder if that could be amended to change the various Power States that th...

Does anyone have experience of using CnQ with Linux? I want to build an Athlon 64 system and will probably install SUSE 9.1. I’ve been building quiet Windows PCs for a fair few years, but this will my first Linux install. I’m choosing SUSE as it seems particularly user friendly for a Linux newbi...

I'm using a Sapphire (ATI Radeon 9200) AGP adaptor with 64MB RAM as my primary video card. Passively cooled, doesn't get hot (have a 120mm system fan that blows across it and some other components). Handles all the video editing I do perfectly well. Inexpensive too. 1 DVI connector, 1 HD15. I use t...

For video editing, you need a video card with good 2D video quality. AFAIK, the video software never uses any 3D acceleration features of the contemporary cards. The http://www.vcdhelp.com people suggest that any card is sufficient, even, as was mentioned, the MX440. However, the MX400 does not hav...

For video cards you may actually not be buying enough. At work we setup some computers with (Asus I think) FX5200s. They will only do 1024x768x2 in dual monitor mode. We ran into this problem when we tried to run two 17" LCDs off of one card. You might look at the radeon 9600 or even the 9200. Most...

Hi, Do I gain anything with a faster GPU in video editing? Most probably not. The 5200 most probably will suit you just fine. I'm just concerned about picture quality, refresh rates of entry level cards. kogi Yeah, I've been considering the picture quality, as I'm starting to realise that not all D...

Hi, Do I gain anything with a faster GPU in video editing? I just looked at the Asus 9600XT which has a thermally controlled fan which appeals. I also just checked out the Matox P650 which is passively cooled and this company has a good reputation for image quality. The next model up the P750 is tri...

I’m building a desktop system for general purpose usage at very low noise & also video editing. Below is my proposed spec and I’d grateful for any critique that might point out some flaws or oversights. Case Antec SLK3700BQE CPU AMD Athlon XP-M Barton 2500 Motherboard Abit NF7-S or AN7 RAM Twinmos P...