Recent content by iDont

Thanks W1zzard for the extensive review! The reduction in power required for AMD to put out this performance vs. Intel, means to me that AMD has the edge currently. I do think the X3D chips are priced way too high at release date, but the upgrade promise of AM5 relieves this a bit. Seems like a...

Where's the ARM love :D? Using a Cortex A8 right now. Other CPUs: i7-820qm (laptop) and an Athlon II X2 (HTPC)

You could like get a MB with about 7 PCI-e ports. Put in 7 pci-e 24-ports SATA raid controllers (don't know about IDE raid controllers), which would give you 168 sata connections. Then create individual raid setups on the 7 raid cards (7x raid 5 with 24 drives) and the create a software raid of...

I agree with you, but what disturbes me is that the blog link from wiak suggests that the Intel compiler has made its way into some benchmarking apps:

Dual 8 pin + triple 6 pin power connectors :eek:

If your CPU is unstable, your OS/apps are prone to crashing, preventing you from using your PC in a normal way. Plus, if you're using software raid like me, you could also encounter data corruption. If your GPU is unstable, you'll only get some artifacts while you're gaming. It is even possible...

It looks like they stole the 'high performance' cooling from Club3d: http://techpowerup.com/99877/Club_3D_Announces_HD4890_Graphics_Card_with_High_Performance_Cooling.html Maybe this is some sort of new reference cooling (eg. for budget cards)?

The Asus EAH4850 looks like a reference card to me: http://techgage.com/article/asus_eah4850_512mb/ He doesn't specify he got the HTDI version (which does got the glaciator cooling), but rather the normal, reference EAH4850

Don´t we already have a thread like this? http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=55387

What is your northbridge speed? The HT-link frequency has to be equal or less than the NB frequency, higher frequencies aren't allowed by design. You can check your northbridge speed in the "Memory" tab of CPU-z

AFAIK the GTX280m uses a g92b core, so it contains 128 shaders on a 55nm production process. The GTX260m has 112 shaders on a 55nm process. http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-280M.14558.0.html

IIRC, ganged means you'll have one wide 128-bit memory bus, while unganged provides 2x64bit memory buses (hence ganged is better for single threaded apps and unganged for threaded ones)

Europeans use a comma instead of a dot as the decimal dot and as I live in the Netherlands, I've been taught to do so as well. We also use a dot instead of a comma to seperate the thousands in larger numbers. Hate to use Yahoo Answers, but this explains a bit...

Yes, but that's 6,7GHz on just 2 cores. I think 6,5GHz on all four cores is more impressive.

I agree you don't need an AV in Linux. However, if you really want one I can recommend AVG Free for Linux: http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afl I've used it for a while myself and found it to be very easy to set up and it has a clean GUI. Though the latest version dates from the beginning of...