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What is the deal with Piggy-backed memory chips. How is the bandwidth. Is it read/write with full 192bit speed for the first 1536MB of mapped memory and is it 1/3 speed for the remaining 64bit 512MB on the back of the PCB since only 2 chips are piggy-backed with another 2 not all of the 6. Also...

8800GT nov/2007 249$ jul/2008 140$ mar/2009 110$ GTX280 jun/2008 699$ jan/2009 330$ GTX285 jan/2009 400$ GTX460 jul/2010 229$ GTX560ti jan/2010 250$ Based on all that it is possible that next year there will be 20nm 500$ card shrink ~ 330mm2 of the titan and better. And 2 years from now -...

Pentiums and celerons don't offer memory ratios above 1066Mhz, same could apply to the DMI PCIe ratios. So motherboard-chipset may not be able to overcome this limitation. Why the chipset holds the clock generator and oc abilities is unclear but at some point say 14/10nm it will be small enough...

The Cable ties are installed below the cpu cooler and video cards to support the weight. They were clearly bent and twisted. Not that it matters. it will not damage them or lower their market price much anyway if these are deformed. the parts are already antiques. But I've seen scary things...

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nikko | Intel | i5-2500K @ 3991 Mhz | 378% | 4110 MIPS | 15512 MIPS | 64-bit | dram1333

Are all cables sleeve free. So cumbersome for MITX and collects dust to have 24 pin cable sleeved. They can be enhanced even more with DSP. But it is nextgen. seasonic don't have it yet.

Likely the motherboard has overclocked the CPU to 3700 1.3310 (1.28) all cores and therefore raised the voltage a bit (default is 3400 1.2810 VID (1.23V) regardless of turbo to 3700-1core voltage is still 1.2810 or less) The latest version including the new AVX instructions will result at least...

2nd and 3rd gen I5/I7 are indistinguishable performance-wise. There is no question about it. I would take the i7-3770K and Z77 Extreme3 very soon and use it for about 3-5 years with 1-2 video card upgrades. Other I5/I7 non-K combined with Z77 are partially unlocked default+600Mhz.The 3570 for...

Considering the 7870 Die Size is 212mm2 and is only 10% slower than 660ti 294mm2. Nvidia is wasting more transistors on this product. But less than the 364mm2 7950. Confusion. 212mm2, this is the mid to low end card people. 130$ is too much.

The short PCB allows for the second fan of the Phantom to be half-covered by the PCB and half uncovered moving air up.

If you read the reviews. the 660ti turns out to be very power-limited, It can't go above 150 watts even with tests like Furmark, unlike 560 that can reach in excess of 200-250 watts when overclocked.

You basically 1) run the downloaded executable file from windows OS and then restart and the flashing process starts. 2) or boot and press the F7 key and browse the path to the downloaded BIO file on NTFS partition and flash it which should look like 1) from this point. And remember to load...

I wouldn't be surprised if until Broadwell CPU integrates the PCH on the same package as CPU they all have bad socket placement.

Not surprising if 600 series gets discontinued some 6 months from now followed by the 700 series. And lower the price of the 560se like gtx660 part to 129$.