Hi I'm looking to buy a Vista compact "Living Room" PC for use as a television and recorder etc. It is small and compact and doesn't appear to have the same cooling fan noise as with normal desktop PC's. The one I've already seen is: T5250 1.6GHz 533MHz FSB, 2MB L2, 1GB RAM

I have an interesting decision, I have to build a workstation, and I can use either the Intel Core2 Duo 6850 (3.0GHz, 4MB L2), or the Core2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz, 2x4MB L2). The usage is a mix of single threaded applications and multithread, like video format conversion, building Linux kernels,...

Where can i find detailed technical information about L1 and L2 cache organization for Q6600 processor?

(hope this is not off topic. hoping someone has the similar experience and found a solution.) Apparently I can't install XP pro the original without service pack integrated on the Intel DG31PR PC with dual Core 2 duo CPU. For the effort I get system crash before it comes up prompting for the...

have a dq35joe board with a core2duo running xp pro sp2. The USB will not recognize any external pata device, be it hard drive or optical. The usb works fine with everything else (keyboard, mouse cam, etc.) Do I need any special driver or bios tweek to make it work with pata drives? TIA

Dear all, I have gone through 80188XL ICU part I am pretty clear with master mode.But in slave mode i have the following queries: 1.Why this interrupt vector register is added?What is the use of making the last two bits of interrupt vector register as programmable,since to clear the in-service...

In article , (George Orwell) wrote: mwebsurfer wrote: any problems using 32 bit XP Pro on this system? Millions of people do it every day:-) The biggest problem with running XP x64 is that all of...

I'm looking for a new INTEL dual core processor; here's my rig: ASUS A8N SLI 939 SOCKET AMD ATHL0N 3700+ VENICE CORE CPU 2 GB RAM CRUCIAL MEMORY EVGA 7800GT VIDEO CARD HIPER 580WATT PSU. I use my PC mainly for gaming, surfing, downloading and other basic office work. I've just recently bought a...

Do I need to wait for the X48 motherboards to use the 45nm CPUs? What chipsets support those today? What advantage would the x48 give me? faster FSB?

i have DP35DP Intel MBO with SigmaTel audio chipset onboard. i can't get any drivers to recognize sound devices, i've tried both drivers from MBO cd and from Intel website. operating system is windows XP 32-bit. i've read on some forums that other people had similar problems but no solution. any...

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=46547 more discussion on Larrabee: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=46393

I currently have a RAID 1 setup. Would I be able to add another drive or two and get even more protection from a drive failure?I do have backups of vital data... Looking into a TBU, but that's for another newsgroup.

Hello, I am not certain if I have a problem with thermal sensors on CPU which is P4 HT on 3GHz (Northwood) on motherboard (which is Abit IC7). Sometimes, regardless of where I read temperature data from (BIOS, software in Windows or Linux), temperature is 0 degrees. And curious, when I remove...

What are the major differences between the Q35 and the P35 chipsets? Thanks.

Gigabyte P35-DS3 or the Austek P5N32-E-SLI? Soupladel

Hi I am running Vista Ultimate and have just installed a Pentium D Extreme Edition 840 3.2 GHZ CPU onto an Asus P5SD2-X motherboard. The BIOS does not show the Speedstep option and when I run the Intel CPU identification utility it shows that Speedstep is not running. Any ideas on how I can...

I have an Intel Intel BLKDP35DPM and I am somewhat baffled as to how I hook up the front audio ports. I hooked up the USB and Firewire with no problems. The wires coming off the case are labeled as follows: MIC IN GND (I know this is ground) Return R Spkout R Spkout L

"MitchAlsup" wrote in message ... On Jan 11, 7:46 pm, pg wrote: al cl wl rl bl ddr ddr2 ddr3 ... RL = AL + CL / WL = RL -1 ... It years past, when SDRAM was all we had, memory...

I have a Q6600 processor, and four 2GB memory sticks; I bought an Intel DG965OT motherboard, in the touching hope that an Intel processor might be happy in an Intel motherboard. It runs Linux incredibly slowly, and a bit of Googling (http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/6/4/99603 is...

In article , (LSkizynski) wrote: "General Schvantzkopf" wrote in message Is the speech recognition program multithreaded? If it is then you'll benefit from a quad core otherwise you won't. Try the...