The TV out on my old 9550 was fine for my 60cm PAL TV.

That Jay Car mains power meter has been out of stock for at least the last year, none of the shops will get it in either.

Theres a couple of forums talking about the power meters.
http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/techtal ... 65651.shtm

Amourek wrote:While I do believe the Ninja is a better cooler, unfortunately I don't have any confidence in the mounting system they use fot LGA775.

I agree with the above, however you can just use a bolt through kit with the ninja on 775.

95% with 220-240v should be doable. 95% on 110v gets alot harder.

What AMD is really saying is "Dear OEM, We guarantee that all processors marked as 45w will work with any assembly (case/heat sink/power supply) rated for 45w components."

The TDP is an upper measurement for system design, the fact that is mentioned for retail CPUs is just a bonus for us.

Wasnt there some sort of problem with the gigabytes 965 DS boards and nvidia cards when over clocking? PCIe clock not locking or something. I think I remember reading something like that overclockers.com.au

What CPU socket are you on? On 775 you get ~5 mounts before those plastic push pins dont grip properly anymore, you dont get the pressure and the temps jump. If I had to guess I would say that the ninja came loose. Run orthos again, but this time have the ninja verticle and push down a little. Its u...

In Oz it is illegal to use someone elses wireless unless your are given express permission (digital tresspass). A DHCP response giving you an IP is not counted as permission. Which sort of makes sense given our low download allowance and $x/mb over or throttled to 64/64. Also the owner of the wirele...

Give me an option to turn off sigs on a per user basis i.e. not all or nothing and they can have them as long as they want.

It seems it's actually more power hungry than the 965. Today's Tech Report article. Conflicting results. I trust TR results, but there is some strange things happening with this chipset. The 965 chipsets get hot when running 1333 FSB speeds, but I didn’t think there was this much difference. Both...

I hope this gives amd the edge. so far, no one is writing anything of note that uses all the cores really heavy-like. lazy programmer folk hoping for faster fsb's and memory clocks, faster gpu's and overclocked 4.0 ghz chips. Lazy programming actually helps AMD's native quad core look better. Good ...

Lyshen wrote:I'm not sure if a passively cooled 7600 or x1650 would be a good idea since he said he is in Tokyo... where it will be hot and humid during the summer.

Tokyo is not that hot, I had a 9550 passive in my Shuttle with 40c ambients. No problems when gaming, etc only 100c temps.

Hows Via's graphic drivers in Linux? I recently bought 4 SK22G2 SE for Office PC's. Their quiet (only the PS and ICE fan), simple to build and cheap (AM2 socket). 3600X2, 1GB, 80GB HD, DVDRW, idle at ~45w, load ~80w. I know they take 2GB of ram, just not sure about 4GB. Also there are only 2 ram slo...

does undervolting an amd cpu make cnq superfluous? or does cnq still work in some fashion? thanks very much. It depends on the motherboard. If you get a motherboard that sets the CnQ voltage to fixed values, then disabled CnQ and use custom Crystal or RMClock settings to set the P states. If you ge...

1. You can't use CFL's in adjustable light switches. None of the ones I've used anyway. And there is a warning on the box when you buy them about such. They basically flicker like mad, even when full. There are dimmable CFL's. The german company Megaman makes good ones and I've seen them for sale a...

For those thinking of video performance, it looks like AMD have a bios update for you.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... p?t=142804
1080p MPEG2 was 2.8ghz now 1.8ghz
1080p VC1 was 3.0ghz now 2.4ghz

There is a 1.9 and a 2.0 GHz version of the 3600+. One has more L2 cache the other has a higher clock speed. The higher clock speed is better for most users but YMMV. The 1.9ghz version is 65nm, the 2.0ghz version is 90nm. Both have the same TDP 65w, but the 65nm version general use alot less power...

incandescent bulbs do not flicker. cfls do. incandescent bulbs output solar spectrum of light. cfl's put out crap light. incandescents are pleasant and natural to use anywhere in the house. I really dont give a crap about more electricity. my bulb use is not the problem. allowing corporations to gr...

In "general" an A64 3000+ was equal to a 3ghz P4 with an 800mhz FSB. Your notebook would be using a 533mhz FSB. Even a AM2 Sempron 3000+ 1.6ghz (the slowest AMD you can buy) would be faster than your P4. How much faster would depend highly on the tasks. You mention intense database activity which is...

dragmor, I remember reading somewhere that someone have managed to put a backplate on top of the existing cooler plate that comes on the DQ6 by using some plastic spacers. That was an easy DIY. That way he was able put a tower HSF without removing the "Crazy Cool" plate. And he was more than happy ...

I've got a E4300 on a GA-965-DQ6 rev1. The first motherboard I had was not stable at stock (just didnt like 9x200), but was fine when overclocked. It had other issues with on board raid so I ended up RMAing the board. The 2nd board is stable at stock but the mounting holes were damaged. I cant get t...

1) Get the 520w Corsair, you wont need 620w.
2) Look for a heatsink with a bolt through mechanism. I'm really *really* not happy with the pushpin design.

If your ok with WinRAR and your only annoyed by the "buy me" message, then just buy WinRAR.

As for the interface I agree with mr. poopyhead, 90% of what you want from WinRAR is available in the right click menu from explorer.

I've got the DQ6 rev1. You need to turn the fan control off in the BIOS.

The CPU after Barcelona will also include separate power planes for each CPU core. But this will require socket AM3. Can you post a link for this? Everything I've read only suggests that it can clock individual cores independently, but that they're all on the same power lane, so they all get the sa...

I'd be more worried about someone taking your ipod than PC these days. When I was at UNI, someone went and took the 2nd ram stick from ~500 PCs. The IT department didnt notice for a couple of months (although it must of taken a while to take all the ram). As far as I know they never caught who it was.

See I still dont buy the no requirement for public transport. I think its just that the USA has an ingrained thought pattern against public transport. A town with 20k in Oz (say 30km radius from the town center) would have at worse hourly buses between the town center and each of the suburbs. At pe...

Thanks for the reply. In the meantime, I have been doing some searching myself. Perhaps this will be interesting to some. Since I do not intend to overclock, the E4400 appears to be the sweet spot as for as price/performance goes. Also, as far as I understand, 667Mhz RAM in Dual Channel mode will b...

Roughly 2/3 of that is tax. It makes me wonder why the people haven't stormed #10 Downing Street with pitchforks and torches. I guess the sheeple are accustomed to 66% tax on a commodity. :roll: Our cost is $3.91 USA/Gallon (actual cost is $2.35 USA/Gallon, our tax is $1.56 USA/Gallon) In Oz today ...

The suburbs in the USA are built so that the only way in or out is via cars. Exactly. A 20,000 population suburb cannot afford a rail line to take 5% of the population to work where the rail line goes. It doesn't make economic sense. I've seen enough buses with 2 people on board spewing out tons of...