Recent content by Rookienoob

Inter-tech is, where I live, most famous for flooding the Scandinavian market with generic crap PSUs (Energon 550W, 650W, 750W and 1000W series), most of which sell for less than the Corsair CX430W. I have repaired too many computers where Inter-tech PSUs have killed various hardware parts...

I have always thought the Shuriken was brilliant design... I see they improved it.

I thought I would share a guide I made for tweaking skyrim for performance and visual quality... http://rookienoob.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d4hlntm It contains some new tweaks, I haven't seen online before as well as some tips on getting Skyrim to run better. Especially on...

I thought that was the case, but after seeing some reviews, that appears to not be the case after all... They're just placed closely together. The reviews do show a slight improvement over the old 212+ in cooling efficiency, though. about 1-4 deg. Celcius depending on the test... Not bad...

The 212+ was good... This "CDC" thing is quite interesting - I wonder if it makes a big difference having the heatpipes actually "melt together"... and what this method of production would mean for other popular coolers. I bet the performance is really nice compared to the size of the cooler...

That's not likely. This is a quad core CPU with 2 modules - it only has a total of 4 floating point units to share between the 4 cores, while an equivalent i7 has 8 (or am I wrong here?) With an 8 core bulldozer running 4 active cores, those 4 cores have access to the full 8 FPU's - that's...

AH... This makes a lot more sense. Sorry for misunderstanding that :( So basically, the two 8-core CPU's will probably have different power consumptions even if they're in the same 125 TDP bracket? Does this mean that some of the 8120 or even 8100-chips may be able to run at 8150 speeds without...

This is physically impossible. Every single Watt that is "consumed" by the CPU and is not output as data signals will be converted directly to heat. If the CPU consumes 125W at full load, then it produces 125W of heat energy. - if it consumes less than 110 watts, there's no way, it can produce...

I don't see why people compare 8 AMD cores to 4 Intel cores - Remember that for each BD module, two FAMC units are shared between the "cores". I guess with only 4 cores active, those cores have access to all the FAMC's... We really should be comparing 4 active cores on a BD 8-core CPU to the...

Now... I wonder how many of the FX-8100's that will run at FX-8120 speeds @ 125W TDP... It's a 11% speed bump, so at 30% TDP increase isn't totally unrealistic, right? Considering even 8120's are going to run at 95W eventually, I guess it's not at all impossible.