Hello everybody, According to several websites, boxed Athlon 64 CPUs come with a thermal pad (A.K.A. phase-change material) pre-applied on the heatsink. e.g. http://www.madshrimps.be/printart.php?articID=135 "Also interesting to know, this heatsink has some sort of thermal pad pre-applied....

Anandtech attempts to sort the mess of AMD core revisions. http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2418&p=3 The Socket 939 situation description is OK, but I thought it was even more complex than that...

Is there a page somewhere that compares the different integrated audio chipsets that many motherboards are now including? I'm about to build a new PC with a microATX motherboard. Audio quality is an important factor but I have a limited number of PCI slots so I'm looking for something...

EEProductCenter.com :: Transmeta sells processor line to Hong Kong firm http://www.eeproductcenter.com/analog/review/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163702355 Yousuf Khan

Hello everyone, I'm rather confused over something I was told today. Low-end PC power supply units always dissipate whatever power they are rated for, e.g. a 400W PSU will always dissipate 400W whether the system is idle or not. If the system does not need the power, then that power is dissipated...

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Hi, I have a P4 2.4Ghz overclocked to 2.7Ghz with 2 modules of 256MB DDR400 RAM on a ASUS P4S8x-x motherboard. I have a NVIDIA 6600GT 128MB AGP Video card. When I installed a futher module of 512MB DDR400 RAM the performance of my PC has decreased....keeping everything else the same. I...

Hello, I was looking for some help...I have two old chips. One is a pentium MMX 200 mhz chip and the other a Cyrix MII 333 83mhz 3x chip I was thinking of setting up a PC using one of these chips to run old games and be a files server. I am wondering which chip is faster. I am reading a lot...

Which direction should the air flow on a case fan? I have it sucking in but find no difference in the cpu or case temperature. The manufacturer (Enermax) indicates it's reversible, but the speed control knob doesn't appear to be removable. Does anyone else use Enermax? Jon Cosby

I just purchased a Ramses 256mb PC2100 266MHz memory chip, to accompany (I thought) the 256mb chip already in my machine. Trouble is, the one in my machine is CL2.0, the new one is CL2.5. Any way to resolve this in the bios or externally? Thanks! :)

As most people know by now Hyperthreading, has a security flaw found by researchers working with the BSD projects. http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/ Another good article can be found he http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1815954,00.asp After reading the eweek...

I have a K8ns pro gigabyte mothearboard and right now i am running 2 DDR 2700 Dimms of 256mb and one of DDr3200 at 511mb. Orginally I had 2 dticks of DDR 3200 512 and it ran fine but suddently it stopped working freezing up ect. Now I got some new Ram in the mail and putting it with the DDR 3200...

Ed wrote: The test I have data for is CineBench 2003's CPU test, which is one of those rare benchmarks which can make use of multiple CPUs and thus shows a dual core part in its best light. For comparison, we can see how an Athlon64 X2 4800+ fares against a single core Athlon FX-53, as well...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22676 woot now if only they would hurry up with virtulization, seriously though is anyone else feeling sorry for intel and probably dell soon as well.

Lots of non-server benchmarks he http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/opteron-x75/index.x?pg=1 They put the dual-core 2.2 GHz Opty 175 and 275 through a bunch of non-server tests. I expect AnandTech and XBitLabs to come up with some server numbers very soon. What impresses me is that a 2.2...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22838 Literally, he's one bad hacker. Yousuf Khan

After researching the subject for 3 hours, here's my question: I had a Pentium III 550 Mhz computer for the last 4 years, running Windows 98. Last week I installed XP on it. The old 64 MB RAM was barely keeping up. So I bought 128 MB RAM. Both memory sticks are working, so I have 192 MB RAM, and...

I only get about 1900 RPM out of my cpu fan. The manufacturers rated speed is 5100 rpm. The manufacturer suggested it wasn't getting enough power. What's a way to test this and correct it? Jon Cosby

Ed wrote: AMD has officially informed European resellers about the end of socket 754 Athlon 64. Bad move on AMD's part. Some of the best 754 pin based motherboards only came out in the last 8 to 10 months.

I just updated my old p4 3ghz with MSI 875P chipset from 1 to 2gb of memory. it had 2x512mb (PC3200 cas2) corsair twinx. now it has 4 of them. suddenly the BIOS reports the memory speed as 266 (133 DDR) instead of 400DDR (200DDR). take any of the two sets and its back to 400 again. anyone know...