Recent content by christof139

Gee, I took my letter to Santa down to a PO here in Detroit and gave it to the PO lady and I asked her if she was Christmas Carol and went to give her a big hug and kiss and she slapped me, bonked me on the head and kicked me, and I then ran away into the foot of nice Xmas snow before more PO...

I wish I had read this earlier as the BD's were on sale at Mwave or wherever but instead I went with GSkills because the customer reviews on the BDs weren't that good. Chris

Hi, No, that is not the tests I saw. The tests etc. compared the Shanghais to i's and/or Xeon i7's (ES's I guess, don't remember or know). Chris

Thanx for that!!! Sums it up and there is plenty of interesting reading. Now I can even better retaliate against and screw with this know-it-all-about-nothing hack at work. Chris

You got one of the Denebs or Kuma 7750's fer me fer Xmas ole buddy and longtime friend!???! :D Tell Santee Claus and Christmas Carol and all those demented Elves to hurry up and don't ferget me please!!! :toast: Merry Xmas, Chris

Yeah, I see they aren't yet released yet due to past problems Intel has been having with them and Nehalem in general, but the server units are available. http://www.acmemicro.com/estore/merchant.ihtml?pid=6758&lastcatid=16&step=4...

Yeah, I have had similar occurrences with compooters. I wonder if the Earth's magnetic field fluctuations etc. are screwing with things. Chris

So why are the new Shanghai Opterons performing better than the i7 type Xeons?? Could it be that Hyper Transport is more efficient than Intel's rehashed netburst and Hyper Threading?? Chris

Almost every review I have read states and shows calculations that most AMD CPU's are a good bang for the buck and some are stated a giving the best bang for the buck. Yeah, Intel is getting away with it, but I have seen benchmarks where the expensive top end Intels were nearly, matched...

Phenom II Series is not a single CPU, so what are you talking about. AMD is competing with Intel and many people are quite satisfied with AMD CPU's and the Opterons still outperform Xeons. Phenom II's look like they will compete well with the lesser priced 17's and older Core 2 CPU's, at...

Yeah, I saw that the power usage was high, but I could live with that as they performed well on all tests. Similar to the Prescotts in a way concerning the heat and power usage. Thy're just stop gaps anyway until the new X2's come out in June. Just about every review I read has given them good...

Yeah, they look interesting and just fine. There are also benches out for the Kuma Athlon X2 7750 and 7550 and they perform well and in most games near as well, as well, or better than some AMD and Intel quad cores at higher resolutions. Quite amazing. Now, I don't know wheter to get the...

Yeah, and the metal gateways have a lot to do with the speed of info. transfer. I bet there is not that much difference at all except for the metal in the silicon, and if there was than the AMD chips would be very poor performers and they are not. AMD has also made other as of now unknown...

METWVI ONE will not run on NVIDIA 8000 series cards. I can if I want to give you the links to prove this to you. It is complete BS that METWVI ONE will run on any NVIDIA 8000 series and above video card. The troops move opposite to where you order them to go, the screen is all screwed-up, and...

Not completely true. Benches and real world performance show that AMD processors perform well but do not overclock as well as Intel but most people could care less about OCing and are interested in price, good solid performance, power savings (and here we know that this is different from CPU to...