There have been lots of comments, including mine, on the absence of Xeon EM64T 64-bit performance results... anywhere. The only thing I've come across is this: http://www.computeractive.co.uk/news/1156849 - only one test and one which would seem to favor memory bandwidth and prefetch. I'm not...

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Apparently somebody has found a practical use for electromigration: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=1&u=/pcworld/20040811/tc_pcworld/117326 Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

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SGI Altix systems again. A cluster of 20 512-way Itanium2 Altixes connected together with NUMAlink. There's also some talk of SGI re-architecting the cluster so that it becomes 2048-way Altixes rather than 512-way Altixes. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17491 Oh, BTW, it looks like NUMAlink...

Hi I have an old IBM ThinkPad 2621-427 that where I can't get into this computer Bios. In my manuel and on the net it says that I have to push F1 when I see the Thinkpad logo on startup. I don't get the startup logo, but I only get the menu where i can choose between windows xp and 2000. I can't...

I need a PC, preferably an AMD because I'm planning on doing some gaming (not really serious), that would be around 3 GHz. I plan on having a friend build it so i'm going to buy the parts separately. I also need a decent (but not top of the line) sound card, video card, and LCD monitor (17"). I...

I need a PC, preferably an AMD because I'm planning on doing some gaming (not really serious), that would be around 3 GHz. I plan on having a friend build it so i'm going to buy the parts separately. I also need a decent (but not top of the line) sound card, video card, and LCD monitor (17"). I...

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Hi, I am upgrading my PC, can you guys enlighten me on which processor to chose from. Should I go for AMD Athlon XP 2600 or Intel 2.8E HT??? Could you please suggest 1) motherboard 2) video card to go with your suggestion? I am not a heavy gaming person, I do some home video editing and I...

They are talking about replacing the slower existing Opterons with faster dual-core Opterons to take it upto 100 Tflops! http://news.com.com/Sandia+supercomputer+to+get+dual-core+Opterons/2100-7337_3-5289251.html Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply...

I got too trigger-happy and bought this combo on eBay: 1x Opteron 142 1x MSI K8T ATX dual Opteron motherboard -- only one CPU has RAM slots 4x ECC Registered PC2100 512MB DIMMs -- total of 2GB I only need to make one PC out of this. Would folks recommend selling the CPU and buying a pair of...

Hello ! I have updated my BIOS from the v1010 to the v1011 using the AWAD BIOS flash utility available during POST. At the end of the procedure the utility told me that the booting part of the bios that unwritable. Now I can't boot at all ! No bip, no screen, nothing... I have tried to use the...

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Actually this sort of took me by surprise, I wasn't even aware that they were expecting 4.0Ghz P4's so soon. I guess I was assuming that with all of the Prescott problems that they were just busy sorting those out before they try for any speed records. I guess that's exactly what...

Hi, TIA for your informative replies. My friend has advised me not to purchase an AMD 64-bit processor at this time, citing concerns with severe software incompatibility except for MS Server 2003 and Linux 64 bit OS'es. What are your experiences ? Steve -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client:...

Ed wrote: Microsoft Pushes 64-Bit Windows To 2005! Microsoft should've just released the Windows with whatever drivers are already available (and there's quite a few already). There's nothing like a shipping OS to get people to hurry up with their device driver code. Actually, I'm not sure why...

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5281908.html Among other things that they're proposing for the Itanium are SpeedStep and multiple i/o buses (a la Hypertransport?). Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

I replaced a 233mhz processor inside of a Compaq Deskpro with a 333mhz processor, which is the maximum the motherboard will take. But now upon boot-up, the memory count and initial screens no longer show. It's starts on the white "Compaq" screen, followed by the "Windows 98" screen, and then the...

note: some off-topic newsgroups to which this was cross-posted were removed On 27 Jul 2004 13:38:14 -0700, (Jim) wrote: Hi - I have an MSI KT3 Ultra2 board, currently housing an AMD 1800+ and 256Mb 2700 ram. I want to upgrade my system and have heard this board will...