Hello. Lately, I have been random and rare kernel panics on my old Debian/Linux box (tried both Kernel versions 2.6.30 and 2.6.32). I couldn't figure out what it was until I discovered mcelog a couple days ago, and it revealed interesting scary datas in my dmesg/messages and syslog: # cat...

I recently upgraded my AMD Phenom X3 8650 to an X4 9600 with the same clock speed (2.3GHz). Imagine my surprise when the X4 turned out to be dog slow on my workload, which fundamentally is several (~5) firefox browser with a few hundred tabs to load up. The X4 could not even keep my DSL going at...

Hi, I'm currently trying to decide between an Athlon 64 3200+ and a P4, 2.8 - 3.0 My main interest is in digital photography and I want something that will handle large RAW files quickly. Gaming etc is not really a priority. I'll also be using 1024 Mb of RAM I've read extensively about the...

Hello All, I have a question on usage of shadow page tables in virtualized environment. AMD processor with virtualization extension support use Address Space Identifier (ASID) to identify a VM uniquely. The ASID is used to avoid flushing of TLB entries when host OS switches from one VM to...

If an application does NOT support multiple CPU cores, will it run slower on a Phenom 2.4 GHz CPU than it would on an X2 2.4 GHz CPU? I currently have a 2.2 GHz X2 and I want to upgrade it. My motherboard supports the Phemon X4 but from what I'm reading, software that doesn't support multiple...

Leak: ATI Radeon 4800 Gets 480 Stream Procs 4:20 PM - April 23, 2008 by Theo Valich Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: ati, radeon, 4800 Categories: AMD/ATI Chicago (IL) – Next month will be more important for AMD’s graphics division than any other month of this year: The company is set...

I just completed upgrading to an Athlon 3500 90nm winchester core, with an MSI Neo2 Platinum mb this past weekend. I got the oem processor, along with a Thermalrite XP90 heatsink, with a 80mm ( i think) fan. I used Arctic Silver 3. My cpu temp as reported by corecenter, and in the bios, idles...

http://www.3dchips.net/content/story.php?id=3927 No information on any BIOS update from my motherboard manufacturer (ASUS) yet.

http://tinyurl.com/3htnuq I've never heard Jen-Hsun go on about Intel like that in a conference call before. He must truly be worried about Intel's upcoming Larrabee architecture. I think Larrabee scares the living **** out of him.

I have set my bios to boot from the CD....When I start the system with the CD in the drive it won`t boot from the CD...I looked for support and ms has none for this ....can someone point me in the right direction?? TIA Jim

Anyone seen any of these for sale (oem or retail)? Anyone thinking of building 1? Tia

AMD and Nintendo Join Forces in Creating a New Way to Enjoy Console Gaming Entertainment AMD's Custom HD Graphics Processor Enables Immersive HD Multimedia Gaming Entertainment for Nintendo's New Wii U Console LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 7, 2011) - Today at E3, AMD announced its support...

I have a ECS 755-A mobo oem amd 64 3400+ and do not under stand where the three tempature sensors found my MBM5 are monitoring. does any one know what sensors 1,2&3 are, and possibly what ther optimal temp is? Joseph

I'd like some advice on some problems I'm having with my new setup. It's a Gigabyte GA-K8NSNXP-939 mobo with AMD Athlon 3500+, Corsair 3200 memory, two Seagate 160GB SATA drives, ATI RADEON 9600 video, Artec case and XP Pro. Originally I only installed a single 160GB SATA drive. XP Pro installed...

I know almost everyone out there wants to make their CPU faster, but I'd rather slow mine down just a tad - less stress on the system, less worry about failure. I just built a new system with the ASUS A8N-SLI series motherboard. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 3500+, which is supposed to run at 2200...

For som reason, no posts show up on the groundhog newsreader, after downloading headers! Actually i was looking for som info Regarding L1 on the newest x86-64, and since groundhog(Android Newsreader) was already open! Guess, ill just look at port 80!

The proposed IEEE 754r standard for floating point computation states that the standard can be implemented completely in hardware, completely in software, or as any mix of hardware and software. The new standard specifies both 128-bit and 16-bit floating point data formats and operations. Is there...

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/reviews/51 NVIDIA GT200 GPU and Architecture Analysis Published on 16th Jun 2008, written by Rys for Consumer Graphics - Last updated: 15th Jun 2008 Introduction Sorry G80, your time is up.

Does anybody own or have any experience with the Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard? I know that the first version of this board (not SE) had some issues, and it seemed like it was more than just bad capacitors on limited shipments. Though the Asus K8V Deluxe earned many positive reviews...

Here's an article answering why is the AMD 64 so heavy and then what happens when you bend it -- "Duct tape is a lot like the Force. It has a Dark side, a Light side, and it holds all the pieces of the Universe together"