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My 980x is on order. I know that all motherboards need a new BIOS to support it.. my motherboard is a Asus P6T Revolution workstation board and I'm sure it will. But when you finally get the 980x in hand, how can you flash the BIOS without actually using the 980x to boot? Will motherboards just work...

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Evaders, wow, what a great site, and filled with all kinds of useful reviews like I was searching for. Thanks for the link! Looks like the "Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router" is what I've been looking for. I've never used Netgear hardware before so I probably wo...

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I have a nice little home network, about 6 machines. I'm using wired 100mB wired ethernet to 4 boxes and wireless B/G to others like laptops and iPhone. I use a standard cable modem leading to a classic 2005 era linksys WRT54G router/wireless G. It all works great. But.. it's 2010 and I'm starting t...

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It's a DOA Radeon. Other people have had the same symptoms, especially with the 4850's heat problems. See the first review: http://omgili.com/reviews/2C232E611F6C9FD57AA3D4AE21110F5B/ASUS-EAH4850-TOP%252FHTDI%252F512M-Radeon-HD-4850-512MB-256%402dbit-GDDR3-PCI-Express-2.0-x16-HDCP-Ready-CrossFire-Su...

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Looks like there's also some new options coming soon: Shuttle woke up and made some new systems just last week, shown at CES. One nice one is the i7 based system... http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Shuttle-CES-H7-H9,6817.html BUT they also have a portable workstation, the SDXi Carbon, which supports...

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I'm just asking for trouble.. because I think I'm going to go the matx route, and use this i7 MB when it comes out: http://vr-zone.com/articles/dfi-lp-jr-x58-t3h6-microatx-board-details/6299.html?doc=6299 The crazy idea is to stuff an i7 quadcore and TWO NVidia 295 boards in it. This thing will be s...

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@Uber.. wow, excellent pointer (from the Man himself!). That's a tiny and restrictive case, but that of course is the fine niche I'm aiming for. The Silverstone site is rather annoying to navigate with Flash everywhere, but it may be that you can use DUAL double-width cards which would be rather inc...

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I need to build a new system with two requirements. It needs to be pretty small, and it needs to hold a PCIEx16 double-wide graphics card like the Nvidia 280GTX. Ideally there's a Shuttle design that I could just get, but it seems that the space inside, even for the models with 2 PCIE slots, isn't q...

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A friend is looking for a new Athlon X2 system (as a 3D rendering workstation), but isn't a hacker so he just wants to plunk down cash and get a system. I can't give him good advice (since I built my own system myself from parts). So what's a good source of a prebuilt system? He's looking for probab...

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I'm doing exactly this with my 7800GT. I'm in SLI mode but only using the LOWER slot, the upper slot is empty. THis gives me lots of room for the passive Northbridge cooler. It works fine on my NF4 Lanparty SLI-GT. My brand new Athlon X2 4800+ with 7800GT is running at stock speeds and voltages, but...

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It may become much worse than we all expect.. Here's a very interesting two year old report about "what would happen if a category 5 hurricane hit New Orleans?" And the conclusions are chilling, with a likely situation of an erased city.. Meaning NOTHING left except toxic mud and submerged buildings...

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I concur wholeheartedly...if you watch for sales..you can pick up a 17" LCD for less than $200. I just got a Dell 17" LCD delivered for $185. You will thank yourself many times over..and so will your eyes :wink: Just make sure you get one with a DVI connection. I'd normally agree with you, Lickety,...

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http://www.jantechcomputers.com.au/product.asp?pID=12559&cID=282 Video: Xpertvision ATI radeon X800 256mb 256bit I took your advice on the mobo and CPU but the MSI X800 was way too expensive in Australia which is where I am. Instead I chose the Xpertvision X800 so if this isn't any good could y...

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Hey Spworley, integrated sound cards are no good when authoring video productions. They chew up CPU power, and at $140, it’s pretty good for an Audigy 2. I also do sound mixing with Sonic Foundry Acid and Sonic Foundry Sound Forge, so would want something better then integrated. Thanks for th...

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I just designed a similar X2 rig with the same P180 case but a big budget. http://www.techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32900 Why get a Soundblaster? You chose the S8N-SLI Premium, so you got the built in 8-channel Realtek sound. About your video card question, you're right that the 6600GT will ...

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1) For the cooler look into the Zalman CNPS9500 (the initial reviews are promising) http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/zalman-cnps9500.html Yep, looked at it, but it's also not available yet nor compared against the Ninja or XP-90. Also it doesn't allow you to use your own fans. 2) The ...

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After way too much research, I decided on my new system. It will be my 10-hour-a-day work system for the next 2 years or more. It will be used for 3D rendering, software development, and probably too much web surfing. Upgrading from a 1GB RAM, NF2, 2.4GHz Barton with an ATI 8500. It was a Really Hot...

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I haven't seen any SLI boards that follow the lane layout you describe. Most typically, I've seen this: 16X 1X 1X 2X or in SLI mode: 8X 1X 1X 8X With the various slots physically moved around a little. The NF4s have a total of 20 PCIe lanes to spend, which is typical of the PCIe chipsets we've seen...

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Half multipliers are NOT supported by the Athlon64. But many motherboards set up their BIOS to EMULATE the half-multiplier by boosting the FSB appropriately to get the CPU to the same frequency as if there was a half-multiplier. That's not quite the same as a true CPU half-multiplier, since it means...

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Seen on AMD's price list, so release is likely Real Soon Now. It might even be quietly slipstream released already, but that's speculation. Time to check Akihabara I guess.. The 254 and 854 are 2.8GHz, 90nm SOI just like the 252/852. But 2.8Ghz matches the top end speed of the FX-57, so these things...

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NINJA EDIT: Fox, you're right. This PDF of all the SSE instructions in AMD chips does not seem to list MONITOR or MWAIT. Unless this PDF is too old to include SSE3...... The chip will take the instruction, it will just ingore it. So there is no need to worry about crashing, or bugs. Oh sweet. Where...

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Now that the X2 series is established, is there any AMD roadmap for a low power X2 for laptops (an X2 Turion)? Lots of googling hasn't found any info yet. I did find a link to one laptop (using a desktop X2) due in November: http://www.m-techlaptops.com/amd_dual_core_laptop.htm I'm hoping to get a d...

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I did see this though, looks pretty sweet for air cooling although I can't speak from experience. http://www.frozencpu.com/ex-blc-213.html As for the Case.... This would be my preference... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133143 The vapochill micro looks very promising, even...

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I'm planning to put together a new dualcore Athlon64 system. I have a large budget so I'm pretty free to choose top line parts. Here's my current very tenative parts plan: CPU: Athlon64 X2 4800+ MB: DFI Lanparty RAM: 2 X 1GB DDR400 Video: Nvidia 7800GT HD: 74GB 15K RPM Raptor (system disk) + 400GB S...

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Hey, Astro! Congrats!

That's exactly my current goal.. to get within top 100.
Boy you're right, the advancement gets slower and slower every step you take.

I'm at 144 and still 4 months away to my deserved place in the top 100.
Say hi to me when I join you in the "100 club" this fall!

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But it shows up in dual cores with HT DISABLED. Yeah, that's the scary part! The Pentium D 840 doesn't even HAVE Hyperthreading, but look at the LightWave 2 thread speeds on it.. only 15% better. I would assume that the Pentium D 840 shows up as 2 CPUs in Windows, not 4. So why the bad 15% boost? I...

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For server type applications you're almost always dealing with many threads rather than just two. For dual thread applications where the bug will show up, you can set the affinity to just use cpu's 0 and 2. Pain in the ass to have to set it every time though. Hopefully Microsoft will fix this at so...

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After today's Shortbread, I read HardwareZone's Pentium D review. It brings up a problem with the Pentium D that I haven't seen discussed elsewhere. My Shortbread comments: Hardware Zone reviews and benchmarks the Pentium D family. They bring up one serious (fatal!?) flaw of the Pentium D with HT in...

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HEHE I use one of these. Hey, that's the kind of table I use! It's cheap and austere, but it reminds me of being at a LAN party. That's exactly the computer desk I used for 10 years. Worked great! I laughed at other fancier one. But they're at table height, not desk height. Guess what eventually ha...

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Actually, Usacomp2k3's screenshot is what I am experiencing too. My AMD system is running FAH 5.03 Built November 9, 2004. But in Task manager, I don't see FahCore_73.exe, I see FahCore_65.exe. That FahCore_65 is using just 11M, both currently and peak. winFAH is using 4M, but it peaked at 59M. Are...

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