Nighthog wrote:I agee they should focus on the phenoms a little more...

heck they could fit 3 of these x2 (6 cores total) and still have a lower TDP than the Phenoms...

GENIUS!

Well personally i haven't tried any intel cpu on nvidia chipset yet but i've tried am2 on nvidia and they've got some cool features. Like the nvidia ide drivers that let you hotswap sata without all the AHCI nightmare. I never got my intel platform to do the AHCI, mainly because i didn't try harder ...

Simple solution. Use intel chipsets with intel CPUs. From what i understand, power regulation has nothing to do with the chipset (or the cpu in itself for that matter). It's up to the board maker to certify their board to be compatible with whatever cpu. But i don't like the fact that AMD has to be...

Anandtech said the following in their preview : The announcement gets even less exciting when you realize that the biggest feature of Hybrid CrossFire, the ability to power down your discrete graphics and only use integrated graphics in non-gaming scenarios, won't be delivered in the first version ...

Well, my point is they might possibly have made it even better but they are not, because Atom and Core would be clashing against one another. Now the pricing might make it seem like a smooth transition between the top of Atom to the bottom of Core, but look at the production cost estimated at Tom's ...

Now intel is so large that it's competing against itself. In turn, it can't allow Atom to become too powerful that it would eat out the Core market, or make the Core too efficient that it would eat the Atom market.

How about getting one of those D-sub to component dongles?

EDIT: Just put more research into it and that wont work with a TV, only specific proprietary projectors. The signals aren't the same.

Unless you keep the hamster for something else, eating the nuts and spinning the fan yourself is a lot more efficient.

Does the desktop 780G support powerXpress like the mobile? Early previews said that it did. If it doesn't, i'm gonna go with nvidia HybridPower instead. It's wierd, since before the parts were released, wikipedia made it look like the 780G was the most energy efficient chipset because it was on 55nm...

I'm trying to clip my mini ninja to an Asus M2NPV-VM inside an NSK2400. The method i use to hook it up is to hook one side and then lever the second side in. At the first knotch (defaut) the clips are way too far from the hook of the bracket. I've tried getting in in, with significant force, but i d...

The morex 2766 has a case fan right besides where the cpu heatsink would be. And it has two exapantion slots, which is cool.

Alright, tried the zipang in the minuet and if that's any indication, it doesn't fit, needs like ~5 or 6mm more to the case. I've seen that the nsk1480 is slightly taller than the minuet, but does that mean that it's internally taller? I'm just about to sell the zipang at a loss but would keep it if...

Are the feet gonna be cheap rubber feet like on the minuet?

To Xan: you mentioned a finned aluminum tank. I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing! I wish I knew how to weld. I had a science teacher who tried to weld alumnium and he said it explodes (!) as it was oxidized by ambiant air before it melted to any workable point. In the industry, i believe they do...

It's a good thing that they flipped the controler board. Just yesterday, summum of back luck, as i was switching cases for my system, i pulled out my seagate 7200.10 and one of those small squarish roundish electromagnet, from what it looked like once it came off, broke and fell off. Now i'm in big ...

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Well, why would anyone want to have a top down heatsink fan in this case? It'll be sucking against the wall. There are two sidefans, i think i'd just use the full 90mm for the heatsink and let the sidefan pull. The Scythe Zipang is 85mm for just the heatsink, hope it'd fit.

That's alright, but how much a piece?

Well, the via board can be relatively feature rich. Then, if you take a mini-itx board for intel or amd, then you add the cpu, then you add the low profile heatsink, the via system will come back cheaper. Jetway is another board manufacturer that makes via platform mini-itx that are priced lower tha...

bob548 wrote:I e-mailed an Antec rep and he replied 65mm clearance for the heatsink. The Minja is 115mm.

I'd think they have more than 65mm. I have a minuet which probably uses the same sized power supply and i mesured about 90mm for the heatsink, lets say 80mm to be safe.

Ha, and it's low-profile too! I'll be waiting for this one.

Well, if you're going with intel, might want to wait for the nvidia's MCP7A with hybrid sli later.

The 3Dmark results for hybrid crossfire is really wierd indeed. Tom's hardware benched with an older version of catalyst and got some good results.

My computer is currently refusing to wake from sleep. I tested the ram with memtester86+ and it detected errors, but only when the two sticks of ram are in together. When i test one stick at a time, they test without error but still will note wake from sleep. It worked at one point but then stopped ...

Well i mention 3 core because i suspect these to be coming from the same batch of sub par 4 cores. Say if they have 4 cores with 1 core that can only clock to 1.8GHz, and the other 3 cores clocking up to say 2.4GHz, they could either sell it as quadcore 1.8 runing at the speed of the lowest performi...

I'd rather have a higher clocked 3 core than lower clocked 4 core.

directcanada.com has them for 86$:

http://www.directcanada.com/products/?s ... e=GIGABYTE

So finally, can anyone know if the hybrid crossfire can turn off the discrete card at idle or in 2D (no thanks aeroglass).

It will be interesting to see how the diamondville dual core at 8W will compare to isaiah. I don't know the isaiah lineup yet but if they are the same TDP as their C7, the fanless cpu would be 7W. It's gonna be single core out of order against dual core in order. Also, i have a question not directly...

Would like to see if the 385W pro82+ performs the same.

In the anandtech article it is said the first iteration of hybrid crossfire will not support powering down the discrete video card at idle. Have we reports that it does or does not now that the boards are shipping? And if it doesn't, is it something that will be enabled later with driver updates or ...

I've seen this at a canadian etailer and it didn't have hdmi, i don't know about hdcp, since dvi and hdmi are pin compatible, maybe hdcp is carried through hdmi anyways, so a simple dvi to hdmi cable could do the job. It's also about 10$ cheaper than the gigabyte board.