The reason most people are having to watch their weight to begin with has more to do with how much they eat vs. what they eat. Completely and utterly wrong. The problem is 100% what you eat - sugar, particularly any kind containing fructose. Your body does not know what to do with fructose. It send...
but it seems to me the best they can hope for is to become just another "me too" ARM vendor among many. They could license GPUs and SeaMicro designs. Play the "me too" game, but on the opposite side of the table. Who knows, maybe they'll even come up with their own CPU architect...
I was wondering about the performance hit from a single channel.
You need to qualify that question. Performance of what? Since you're talking about a basic laptop, you will increase the battery life a bit. That's a performance increase!
Most people are so accustomed to exaggerated boomy bass, they think that is "normal". So when presented with speakers which actually have flat response, the perception is that they are lacking in bass. Or they hear in the upper Khz ranges like me. That's why I have severe issues with stuf...
You may lose hearing in high frequencies, even at a young age, but listening for it on any headphones or speakers playing back in a bedroom isn't going to give you much of a clear idea where and how much. Most men have lost 10 dB down to 8 KHz by age 35. Don't freak out. It's just what happens. It d...
First off make sure you friend gets a power conditioner to protect his equipment. I like the models from Monster Audio. Lol you mean a surge protector? That's all those are. Open it up and see for yourself. It only costs more because it's in a metal rack enclosure with the word "Monster" ...
It's 66F; so yeah, below ambiant. If it's using a stock cooler, that's even more implausible. My statement above still stands though :). My friend uses the stock cooler on a Phenom II X6 and it idles at 25C/77F. While the BD reading is almost certainly a bit inaccurate, modern CPUs really shouldn't...
Coming from a laptop, I think the #1 issue is to be sure she will actually be happiest with a desktop. Sandy Bridge quad-core laptops are virtually identical to desktops in price and performance, and still have very good battery life if you're running them on integrated graphics, so they can effecti...
You're oversimplifying and just assuming. While laptops may be different and it wouldn't be quite as significant, it drops several watts to remove one from my desktop. You're also switching it to single channel mode, halving the bandwidth, and taking additional circuit boards, traces, connections, b...
Laptops can only run a few hours while I'm actually using them. Therefore, standby power consumption is insignificant. *face palm* Seriously now, that's just silly and shouldn't even figure in. It all depends on how you actually use it. Do you often use laptops unplugged? If so, use one. Do you ofte...
It will probably get better battery life with only one, which I believe is why both Lenovo and HP do that by default in all their new business models. The likelihood that you would need more memory bandwidth in a laptop is slim to none.
Ignore the power tests on "enthusiast" sites. Even if they bother to test integrated graphics, they're just about universally done with stupid bell and whistle laden motherboards and overkill PSUs, the two greatest offenders of wasted power. Desktops have been able to idle around 30w witho...
This is making a big stink over nothing. Phenom II is still too much CPU for current high end graphics cards, as is Core 2, sans integrated memory controller and all. Just ignore the stupid low resolution benchmarks every so called "enthusiast" website peddles. The next update to their mai...
I very seriously doubt that setup would ever cross 150w DC under any real use. Without the absolute highest end graphics cards, most computers have not gone beyond that threshold for years. The socket 1366 i7s seemed to skew everyone's perception. Expect something like this: http://www.hexus.net/con...
I think you'd be shooting yourself in the foot to not throw down the extra $20 for a Phenom II X4. The Athlon II X4s are really good for the money if you just need a lot of CPU power, but they have even less cache than the Athlon II X2s, and it hurts minimum FPS in games when you're playing with hig...
Eh...have you looked at CPU benchmarks lately? Or even graphics card benchmarks? Very little is real world. You mean that people don't game, do rendering, video encoding, etc? :) I didn't say anything about what people do. The issue is that the benchmarks don't represent it. If they were real world...
"I know you can get this information now, but it seems to be behind ten pages of iometer and HDtach scores. Our priorities are wrong, IMO." Eh...have you looked at CPU benchmarks lately? Or even graphics card benchmarks? Very little is real world. I hate to break it to you, but it's becaus...
Yes, yes it is. Note the earlier link in this thread: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2011/02/21/why-is-justin-bieber-louder-than-acdc/ Topping the list is, in fact, nothing but murder. Mr. Meadows, I am sure you are quite aware that is not a list of every commercially released album of the last dec...
No, I'm talking about an artifact of turning up the compressor where transients end up the same loudness as everything else and it sounds like a hyperactive chihuahua is jacking with the volume control. It's actually referred to as "pumping" I think you're both talking about the same thin...
So you're keeping the same monitor, which is probably something like 1280x1024 resolution? If so, that doesn't call for much. Resolution is important. People here will just assume you are using a new 1920x1200 monitor for gourd knows what reason, but that's very close to double the amount of pixels,...
Ok, I'll play. I guess most people are talking about PC games, but 90s console games were the bees' knees to me. Hardest game ever - Gradius III. Damn thing came out in 1991, slows down when too much stuff is on the screen, and I STILL can't beat it on EASY. You can't stop focusing for even a split ...
If you have two RAM modules, take one out. If you can somehow lower the RAM speed then do that, as well. Locking the CPU speed to as low as you can get away with is one of the things that set the CULV Core 2 platform apart. With other CPUs, including the new CULV Core iXs, the multiplier is typicall...
SpeedStep is the Intel equivalent of Cool'n'Quiet. They're just silly names for the CPU powering down to save electricity and keep from building heat. Why don't you just try turning it back on and see if you get away with it? None of us can really tell you how your own computer is going to work, exc...
From an upgradeability standpoint, I don't think it matters at this point in time. Both sockets probably have at least two years of future processors coming, that is assuming the "AM3+" Bulldozer works in AM3 as the name suggests. Eh, I don't know. They could both be dead in the water alr...
On the subject of the Performance/Price rating, just pointing out a few things:
1) The Phenom II 965 is down to $186. 2) The 955 is $165, which is still a BE, if you care. 3) There are a lot of options for cheaper AMD boards and combo discounts than with P55s.
I noticed that searches for a few models will fetch you a main brand name computer, but no actual CPUs. The 605e also mysteriously appeared at about a dozen random places on froogle about a week ago, but that one is too darn expensive. The X4 630 dropped to $112 so I just went for that and I'll unde...
OneArmedScissor (are you a sword then? :)), I have a bottom of the line Gigabyte P45 board- the DS3L. And it's supporting a fully grown up Core 2 Quad Q9550 at 3.4GHz. I know Asus is a different manufacturer. But please keep in mind, before you cry wolf, that you need to really check your facts her...
So you're saying despite what CPU I get that if the temp gets that high on my cpu that my mobo is gonna throttle it back? That's pretty disheartening. I wish I knew that to be the problem before my 30-day return policy for newegg passed the deadline. Yes, unfortunately, that is exactly what I am sa...
