AMD64 TCaseMax - v1.19 ---------------------- CPU Information (CPU #1): Standard CPUID: Family: F, Model: 3, Stepping: 2 Extended CPUID: Family: F, Model: 23, Stepping: 2 CPUID String: 20F32 Processor APIC: 0 Processor: Dual Core AMD Opteron 165 (Toledo) CPU Speed: 1808.29 (200.92 x 9.0) Revision: J...

spookmineer wrote: Is this "just" a laptop without a screen?

It's fundamentally one of these but upgraded and including a TV Tuner.

Personally, I'm disappointed that we still haven't seen any power measurements with the 65nm chips undervolted. The early adopters always seem eager to overclock (and overvolt) the damn things but they never reduce the voltage to see how well they undervolt. I guess we people who are interested in s...

jojo4u wrote:Any more questions?

No more questions thanks - that'll do me fine. In fact, I've just ordered one!

I'm planning to build a new PC during the next few days and intend on using a Fujitsu laptop drive. The one I have in mind is the 120GB SATA MHV2120BH which is available at a very good price here in the UK. I know that earlier Fujitsu laptop drives were very quiet but does anyone have any experience...

Ralf Hutter wrote:I think in Australia, it's not the people that are the problem, it's the cows.

Surely you mean the Kangaroos?

Slightly OT: Not about PCs per se, but still of interest to some I'm sure. As I'm sure many are aware, the new Sony Playstation 3 has just been released in Japan. Despite housing a couple of very hot chips in a small-ish enclosure, the PS3 reportedly runs practically inaudibly. Quite a few Japanese ...

NVIDIA is making it possible to do general purpose calculation on their gpu. Should give great performance on floating point stuff. Same for ATI: http://ati.amd.com/companyinfo/events/StreamComputing/index.html Yep, but the new G80 from NVidia is an absolute beast even in comparison to the R580 fro...

The major pain in the bum has been finding a decent heatsink for AM2 that'll fit in a Silverstone LC-11 (so <~70mm in height). The Asus X-Mars seems reasonable enough. The linked Madshrimps review indicates that the combined height of the heatsink and fan is just 62mm. Not sure if this is indeed th...

It is? If *I* recall correctly it's rated based on the original K6 core. Time to do some actual research... I'm pretty sure you are correct in this recollection. Bear in mind that the Semprons had much better performance than the crippled netburst Celerons. The new 65nm Yonah/(Conroe?) based Celero...

I'm open to suggestions. Just looking for a case that will handle a powerful system, looks like a decent piece of high tech furniture and doesn't make much noise. If money is truly no object and you don't mind having a non-tower desktop-style case, then either the mCubed HFX cases or a ready-built ...

The blurb about the TNN300 on the Zalman website says: Heat from the CPU is transferred to the heatsink plate through 6 heatpipes each 6 millimeters in diameter and a combined heat transfer capacity of 150 watts. The CPU Block Base is made of pure copper to ensure the highest cooling performance. Be...

So no surprise that Seagate doesn't have anything positive to say, kind of surprised WD didn't either, though. Well, I suppose it depends what you read into WD's "No Comment". If they were the company who was working on the technology they might want to keep it quiet to avoid Osborning any of their...

Yup - basically: Pentium D (i.e. Pentium 4 x 2) = Half-decent performance but very hot. Core (2) Duo = Massively improved design with excellent performance which runs much cooler. It's no coincidence that Intel are phasing out the old Netburst designs as fast as they can. You'd have to be as mad as ...

Would undervolting it be a safe option if I'm giving it to someone who isn't the most knowledgable person regarding computers (at least not when it comes to things like undervolting.) if I won't be there to check up on it for three or four weeks at a time? If you do a fair bit of testing to check t...

The 1950 Pro is two or three times the price of the 7600GT... But thanks for the advice Actually the 1950 Pro is around 60% more expensive than the 7600GT - or at least it is here in the UK. Nothing like 2-3 times the price but you are right that the two chips are in totally different price bracket...

DVI is DVI, basically. You shouldn't have any problems connecting a DVI display to a DVI connector on a motherboard.

The following page provides a bit more information about the differences between DVI-D and DVI-I:

http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html

I agree that the ASRock ALiveNF4G-DVI seems to be the best option if you consider undervolting in the BIOS to be of utmost importance. Good price as well of course. One of the main concerns with this board for me is that I really wanted a 6150-based board which supports NVidia's Purevideo HD - this ...

Unfortunately, I already know that my LCD TV (Toshiba 32WLT66) won't accept 1:1 pixel mapping. God only knows why Toshiba didn't feel it was a good idea to support this feature as the predecessor to this model (32WLT58) supported it as does it's successor, the 32WLT68 (or so I've heard)! Some engine...

I must admit that I've not really looked into the specifics of what the BIOS of the Abit motherboard supports as yet. I believe I could always use RMClock or CrystalCPUID to underclock/undervolt, however? I'll obviously check things out in a bit more details before purchasing. The motherboard choice...

The pitch: My current (and rather crappy) PC is kept in a spare room upstairs and, to be honest I could do with converting this to another guest bedroom. Therefore, I've decided to do get rid of the old PC and build a media-centric PC downstairs. I bought a 32" LCD TV shortly before the World Cup in...

I don’t remember Dothan offering a better performance per watt than Banias; so I don’t think you will gain much by swapping chips. Dothan will certainly clock higher though. Second hand Pentium Ms are so ridiculously cheap that there’s little cost in trying this option, providing that Norway ...

For those that are interested, there's a bit more information in the following thread over at Beyond3D: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34122&page=2 Mike Houston who is answering questions over there is one of the main movers and shakers in producing the Folding client for GPUs. His c...

The RV530 chip in a X1600 basically has a quarter of the shader power of the R580. However, it has exactly the same feature set of the faster chip including memory controller etc. (and it is actually more advanced than the R520 in the X1800) so there should be nothing stopping this chip from support...

There's really no point in buying these cards. The first gen cards for any new feature are typically dogs when that feature is exploited (for a recent example the nVidia 6800 series with SM3.0). Besides, there aren't any DX10 only games coming out anytime soon. Even Crysis has so far been running o...

Not sure about Linux support but this report (or the slides in it if you don't speak Chinese!) indicates ATI will have a new chip out towards the end of the year which integrates their Xilleon video processor with one of their low-end graphics chips. This will support 1080p h.264 decode on practical...

For low cost, a Sempron looks good with the right motherboard. Or even a Dothan sourced from eBay, where they can go for peanuts might be attractive if you can get a suitable motherboard for a reasonable price. That's the main problem at the moment - motherboards which support Intel mobile chips ar...

Personally, I find it pretty hard to get my head around some of the Opteron figures posted from the X2 TDP poll thread . These indicate that there are some 2,000MHz+ AMD64 chips out there with a TDP of just 35W at the standard voltage of 1.35V! Undervolt one of these (and possibly underclock slightl...

Incidentally, I've just seen this article at Anandtech which talks about a new BIOS for the P5B which allows unlocking of the core multiplier. Of course, Anandtech use this ability to see how high they can clock the chips but I'm sure this could also be useful for an undervolting/underclocking combo...

It all really depends on which LCD TV you are using as support varies from brand to brand and even model to model. For instance, I've got a Toshiba 32WLT66 which unfortunately, will not allow 1:1 pixel mapping for 1366x768 using any brand of video card whether through VGA or DVI/HDMI. Apparently it'...