One thing about the keyboard that looks nice is the inclusion of the number pad. As far as Acers go, I actually just used one a little while ago and it made me want to pull my hair out. Absolute piece of crap! It seems as if the keyboard on the Sagers is closer to the Macbook Pro keyboard than...
Thanks for all the details. I guess I should have been a bit more clear in that I understand you couldn't possibly have a year of usage on THIS model... just was curious of perhaps how the build quality of older models held up over time. The nVidia driver issue isn't so bad if you use...
So, my nearly 4 year old Thinkpad T61p finally bit the dust outside of its warranty. It's been repaired one before in-warranty but now it's finally officially dead. So, I need a replacement. I've been eyeballing the W520 since they've been announced, but it turns out that the System76 machines...
I would definitely take a look at the new W520's. They do have the new Qudaro 1000M GPU's, optional 1920x1080 screen, 2MP webcam and apparently two microphones to try and alleviate noise from the keyboard and such when you're video conferencing. Plus, they can certainly handle being transported...
From personal experience, either of them will work fine without using Access Connections. Being that the company I work for has used Thinkpads for many years, the first thing we always did (we being the IT department) was remove the Access Connections crap. I swear by the Intel wifi hardware...
well, as far as the power switch, reset switch, HDD LED, etc. the rule of thumb is usually to put the labels on the connectors facing upwards. I have the A8N-E, which is a similar board and that's how I did it and they all work fine.
Some of the newer onboard NIC's use the PCI-E bus from my understanding. I might be wrong but I could swear I've seen a few that use the PCI-E bus instead of the standard PCI bus. Obviously this is only of use if you're using GigE. Then of course there's the old i875 chipset that used a...
Well aboiut the only thing there I haven't tried is going to 2T instead of 1T ram timings. It's been perfectly stable @ 245x10 and I haven't really had much of a need for anything over that so I've not bothered tweaking it anymore. I might play with it some this weekend but I'm not so sure I...
Also AMD dual cores have the advantage of communicating over the Hypertransport link instead of the frontside bus. Thus lower latency and faster communication between the two cores.
I don't know that going over 250Mhz is going to do me a whole lot of good since my RAM doesn't seem to want to go over 210Mhz anyway... on top of that, I have to run 1.525vcore just to get it stable @ 245x10. I don't think I have much headroom left as it stands.
I was under the impression that the 2T performance hit was on the order of 3-6% depending on application.... am I wrong? Or is the performance GAIN from the higher HT setting less than the 6% performance loss you get from going to 2T?
wrong... it'll go to 3x just fine and STILL won't boot at over 245... the only thing I haven't tried is an older BIOS rev, which I'll do when I get home from work in the morning. The HTT setting works perfectly fine without issue and the AUTO setting works great as well. Basically when I try to...
the RAM isn't the problem... I even set the RAM @ 100Mhz and CPU multi @ 5x to find out the board's max overclock, thus taking the rest of the components out of the equation... As such, it'll boot fine @ 245 and won't boot at all at 250. As far as the HTT goes, I've tried both auto (works fine...
good lord... my Corsair 3200LL tops out @ 210Mhz no matter what timings I use. I think it's partly because I have two different sticks.. one's rev 1.1 (BH5) the other is rev 1.2 (CH5).
Floppy is enabled in the BIOS, however I have no way of flashing the BIOS from DOS because I don't own a floppy drive. It also appears the the HTT isn't locked @ 5x because when I load the Asus AiBooster app, it says the HTT is @ 981.64Mhz. Sandra also reports the same. Sounds like I'm stuck...
No matter what I do, my A8N-E will not boot at FSB's over 245. I set the CPU multiplier to 4x to test to see what the max FSB the board will boot at is and the highest I can go is 245Mhz. I've tried setting the HT bus to 4x as well (keeping it under 1000) and still won't work. PCI-E is set at...
I picked up a Thermaltake Silent 939 K8 for $30 @ CompUSA and it works quite well. I also like the fact that it's super quiet. My CPU idles @ 28C/82F so I'm happy. That's almost 30 degrees cooler than my AthlonXP.
I will say one thing about that Antec case... it's very well-built and it's one of the more quiet cases I've seen reviewed. Plus the PSU alone is worth $75 or so if you were to go out and buy it separately. It's ATX 2.01 with dual 12v rails and appears to have enough amps on all the rails to...
I had the same problem with my SCSI drive... the ONLY way to get Windows to install and boot properly on anything other than an IDE drive is to connect only the SCSI or SATA drive during install and first boot. That guarantees that the system files and the OS all go on the drive you wish to boot...
make sure and remove the "everyone" group from the access list and then just add the groups/users you want to be able to access the folder. The catch is that if the username & pass they've logged into their computer with matches the one on the folder, they won't have to enter a...
Actually I was just reading an article on Tomshardware and they made a passing comment that dual Xeons basically put the dual core Pentium 4 Extreme Edition to shame because the Xeons have more L2 cache and don't have the single-CPU benchmark penalty that the dual core P4's carry. Apparently...
It's doubtful you'd notice any differences unless you were comparing it to a several thousand dollar home theater receiver. I personally use optical digital out to my home theater receiver instead of using actual computer speakers. One other advantage to having onboard DD/DTS decoding is that...
Might as well, right? I personally kinda like this one... http://www.tcmagazine.info/articles.php?action=show&id=188&perpage=1&pagenum=2
Coolermaster understates their PSU wattage. Their 550w is equivalent to other manufacturers' 650w PSU's. 30A on 3.3 & 5V and 3 12v rails @ 18/20/10 (48A total!)
If you're going to get a 500W Antec, make sure and get the NeoHE... it seems to be the best of what they make and if you're going all out with a system like that, do NOT skimp on the PSU. three 12v rails @ 17A each. Looks a tad weak on the 3.3v & 5v rails though. At least compared to some other...
Technically speaking, you'll need the repair install to install the correct HAL (going from Uniprocessor to Multiprocessor). You could swap out the CPU then update the HAL in device manager but that's not recommended normally. I've seen several people do it without incident however.
how's the sound quality on it? I had an Nforce2 mobo previously and in comparing the Realtek to the soundstorm, the Realtek is a ton quieter and really lacks the "oomph" that the soundstorm had. I miss it and would like something comparable. I've read mixed reviews of the Chaintech which is why...
Basically I'm looking to upgrade from the realtek ALC850 onboard sound to something discrete. It doesn't necessarily have to be top of the line, but it does need to have either coax or optical (preferred) digital out. I was looking at the X-fi but in order to get digital out you have to get the...
I wish I would have written down what stepping mine was.... all I remember is that it's a wk5 CPU. I don't remember whether it's an LBBLE or a CBBLE and whether it's DPAW, EPAW or whatever. I'm not about to yank off the HSF and scratch off the AS5 to find out, either. Too bad there's no way to...
I dunno... I'd rather just get the 3200+. More multipliers available and there are more chips available too. Regardless, the 3000+ is the lowest clocked venice core CPU
well, here's my overclock on my E3 revision Venice... note that I have a crappy 20-pin PSU which is probably a limiting factor (my 12v rail is @ 11.7v, which isn't too hot)
Here's the screenshot
Actually, I set the HT @ auto and it automatically lowers it as it sees fit. Right now it's @ 4x and seems to be doing fine at 2.35Ghz. I'm fine with it where it is so I'm going to leave it until I get a new PSU.
You may have to go to the performance tab, hit "view" and then CPU History... make sure "one graph per CPU" is checked. After that, install two copies of Prime95 in separate folders... run both copies, then go to the processes tab, right click each of them and set their affinity to each of the...
he did in fact state that a lower RAM divider has not helped the problem. My vote goes for more vcore. He's running his RAM @ 333Mhz or 83%, whichever his BIOS calls it (mine calls it 333Mhz). The OP should probably run memtest86 at his current speed to see if it fails test 5 and/or 6. My...
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