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   #11. Posted at 02:49 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
albundy
ooooh, SAS! I'd like to see benchies vs. regular SATA on the board.
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#11, SAS is essentially SATA with a higher voltage signal = it ca...  :  Krogoth  (#12)  «
#12, Not so fast. SAS does use a higher signaling voltage, but...  :  Xylker  (#23)  «
#23, Not really, the difference between SAS and SATA is ver...  :  Krogoth  (#32)  «

   #1. Posted at 12:26 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
Shinare
Woohoo! My 286-16MHz had a turbo button!!! Non-turbo just cut the 16 to 8MHz... go figure. I dont think there was a second of its life that the turbo button wasn't pressed in.
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#1, HAHA!!! I KNOW! I remember back when our family got our 486....  :  moose17145  (#3)  «
#3, I remember getting an Orchid TinyTurbo for my PC/XT and i...  :  fishmahn  (#5)  «
#5, So in other words, the turbo button should reduce the ...  :  bhtooefr  (#22)  «
#22, Umm, well, on a C2D-based system, it would probably...  :  fishmahn  (#31)  «

   #29. Posted at 05:34 AM on Jun 11th 2007 Edit   Reply
odizzido
If they made it so you could lower the FSB to 100, that would be more interesting...
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#29, Or user defined fsb.  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#30)  «

   #24. Posted at 09:22 AM on Jun 9th 2007, Edited at 09:23 AM on Jun 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
maroon1
HD2600XT is slower than 8600GTS !!!
HD2600Pro is slower than 8600GT

It seems that both ATI high-end and mainstream graphics are horrible !!!

And overclocked 8600GTS currently cost $168 only
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127284
And there is another one that cost only $159 after MIR

And 8600GT overclocked cost only $124
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127286

I doubt that HD2600 are going to be priced lower than those
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#24, MSI states the 2600XT will be sub-$150. It may wind up compe...  :  SPOOFE  (#28)  «

   #16. Posted at 10:24 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
PetMiceRnice
I love the idea of a Turbo button, it conjures up memories of my old 386SX and 486SX and DX4 systems of years gone by. But on a laptop, that is a really good feature to have. I mostly use my laptop for Internet and don't need the amount of processing power it has 99% of the time.
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#16, And not to mention the good old days of 4.77Mhz IBM PC-XT co...  :  Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman  (#27)  «

   #26. Posted at 06:48 AM on Jun 10th 2007 Edit   Reply
Hattig
I know it is a gaming laptop, but dayum is that one ugly device!

Never mind that the touchpad is EXACTLY where your wrist will be resting when you're on the WASD keys, so you can only game with an external mouse plugged in. I use my right hand for touchpad actions on my laptop, so moving the touchpad left is rather ridiculous actually.

And what is going on around the power button? 80s style stripes, giant ring power light, ... sheesh.

And that power connector is going to break.
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   #25. Posted at 01:16 PM on Jun 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
BobbinThreadbare
My first pentium had a turbo button. I actually had to use it in order to play older games.
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   #19. Posted at 04:13 AM on Jun 9th 2007 Edit   Reply
willyolio
passive cooling on a 2600? if performance is good enough, i think we have a winner...
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#19, Winner? ATI's entire line is late and slow. You did catch th...  :  snowdog  (#20)  «
#20, Stop generalizing quite so much please. Yes the 8600gts i...  :  Nullvoid  (#21)  «

   #18. Posted at 11:17 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
d0g_p00p
My current server has a turbo button. it's a old school dual Pentium Pro crammed into a AT case.

Anyhow, I hope more motherboard companies start to put a SAS controller onboard. It would be nice to use a SAS drive for OS and apps and SATA for storage.
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   #7. Posted at 12:59 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
Sargent Duck
I like the idea of the "turbo" button, espicially when the laptop is plugged in. However, does anyone else think that's an ugly looking laptop?
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#7, Very ugly, with the flame decals and red grilles and all.. t...  :  Mithent  (#8)  «
#7, Hear hear. I'm in the market for anew laptop, and so far the...  :  Thrashdog  (#9)  «
#9, Just turn the lights off. It is the best laptop under 2K ...  :  hellokitty  (#15)  «

   #10. Posted at 02:20 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
Usacomp2k3
Are you sure that's a 15.4" I've never seen a 15.4 that had the numpad, only 17" models.
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#10, 15.4" laptops with full numpads have been done before  :  Firestarter  (#13)  «
#10, The keyboard part is a small one. My Toshiba 15.4 has huge u...  :  evermore  (#14)  «

   #6. Posted at 12:54 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
Firestarter
Hmm I'd like to at least *try* overclocking my laptop
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   #2. Posted at 12:40 PM on Jun 8th 2007 Edit   Reply
Anonymous Hamster
The MSI x38 Diamond looks like it has 6 RAM slots. Does it also support both DDR2 & DDR3 memory types?
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#2, Yes, it does. If you click on the picture to enlarge it you ...  :  moose17145  (#4)  «
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