Just got a Blade (3200x1800, 14") - did some programming in VS on Windows 10 with 125% text sizing and had no problems. Played some RAGE at native res and had no problems.
Same boat I was in except from Newegg - first Intel CPU since the Celeron 300A for me (16 years ago), expected a little better packaging for a $350 cpu. Heck I got a tin with my FX-8350.
December 2000 - Celeron 300A to 1ghz Thunderbird (Socket A)
I remember finally being able to utilize my Voodoo 5 5500 in Quake 3 to it's full potential.
Upgrading from a Dual 2ghz Mobile Barton (Socket A) -> Athlon X2 5200+ (AM2) in 2007 was a huge bump too.
No idea what TDP they were - hoping next trip to Frys or Best Buy will have some on display to install CPU-Z on.
If they were 15w (in particular the 8800 ENVY) - as long as it was faster than my now 3 year old 17" HP Pavilion (A10-4600m 35W) that's all I care about.
For work I have an...
They are in the Pavilion line - but not in the ENVY model.
In the US right now you've got a choice of:
1080p + 8700 + m360 + 802.11ac in 15" or 17" Pavilions
768p + 8800 (no 802.11ac or dGPU) in a 15.6" ENVY
I do a lot of development (sql/web/mobile/desktop/backend) so having the 1080p...
The thing that gets me is the HP ENVY 15 - if they would have put the same 1080p screen on the FX-8800p variant as they do with all of the Intel versions they would have gotten a purchase by me. I could have overlooked the lack of 802.11ac/dGPU.
Yeah unless you're going RAID 5 or 6 onboard ICH9R is fine, look at Areca or Highpoint Tech if you ever go down the RAID 5/6 route. I've 6x1.5TB 7200.11 Seagates (I know not the best performing) running in RAID 6 at around 500mb/sec reading for my 1080p video work.
Not that it really applies to the original poster, but I successfully went from a SB600 based motherboard to a SB750 based motherboard with a RAID 0 array and it picked up the array just fine and didn't have to reinstall Windows.
I'm currently running 2x500gb Maxtor SATA II drives in RAID 0 and get between 150mb/sec and 216mb/sec in benchmarks. If you don't care about your data ie its just games and apps, I see a huge difference but then again I do a lot SQL server/C#/C++/3D Animation/DV Editing stuff all the time so...
I got 1 minute 42.156s on a Mobile Barton running @ 2.3ghz (11.5x200) on a nForce 2 board. With my Dual 2ghz Mobile Barton's I got 2 minutes 10.515 seconds, I guess it's not multi-threaded :(
Hehe, I work for CVS, those types of things happen all the time when the product that isn't on sale has the same UPC as the one that is on sale. It happened during the Valetine candy sale as well.
I tried it out back when they had that $50 rebate, on my main rig (2300mhz Barton, 512mb of ram and a 128mb GeForce 4 ti4400) it wasn't getting higher then 20fps at 720P and only around 13fps with 1080I signals. My dad's 3400 A64, 1gb of ram, 128mb GeForce 6800 performed much better but still...
Just a heads up, Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 are getting special editions with director's cuts later this year and Gladiator is getting a director's cut in a 3 Disc set.
I always keep my best computer in my 3.5 year old Antec 1040B, so everytime I build a computer (once a year or so) things get shifted. If I didn't have 2 extra cases I would have had to get a new case.
I've bought 2 refurb motherboards and a refurb video card from them. The video card came in a retail box with everything, all the bundled games and cables. The motherboards came in retail boxes and came almost complete, they didn't come with the spdif connectors. Processors are a little...
That's what happened to me! I looked around at the benchmarks this morning after thinking about it yesterday afternoon/night. Then right when I was about to order it, I see it had been sold out :(
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