Hi. Does anyone know of a good bootable CD/DVD that contains utilities to benchmark and "torture" test an x86 system? The torture tests need to be bootable from CD. The reason is that several occasions now, I have aggressively overclocked my CPU and memory to feel out the performance...

"Ted Jones" wrote in message ... Anyone aware of any decent, free video benchmarking utilities available since the demise of the Ziff-Davis Benchmarking Operation ? http://www.futuremark.com/

Hi, I have just installed two 512mb ram in my Sony Vaio laptop which should now give me 1024mb ? My system information only shows 448mb. When I boot up and go into the BIOS the 'Total Memory' is also only 448mb ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I am using a P975X ASUS motherboard, with OCZ overclockable RAM - OCZ HPC 1GB - that states in the manual must run at 2.30V (and can tolerate 2.35V with no damage - I am running them at 2.30V). On two occasions now, when the computer enters sleep it results in the buring out of the RAM. This...

New processor naming and performance numbering scheme from AMD. DailyTech - AMD Expands Upcoming Processor Branding http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7537 The new naming scheme designates the first letter as the processor class. AMD currently has three processor classes for the new...

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The system has 3 slots, and 1 is occupied by a 128MB 9-chip single sided DIMM, so it has ECC but is apparently unbuffered. I want to bring it up to 512MB, or 640MB if possible. The Dell website has 2 RAM options listed for the GX1 -- 1 ECC registered and 1 non-ECC unbuffered. This seems strange...

Is this one CPU that can do the work of four? If so, for applications that are licensed per CPU - what happens there? Uproar? Thanks, Corso

Hello, I have an old computer, and I've upgraded it for many times. Hardware List: Cpu: Celerom 733 MHz up to 1100 MHz Motherboard: GA-6VXE+ Ram: 320 MB HD: 10 GB + 60 GB

On one of my PC's I have a Intel Pentium 4, Can I go to a duel core or would I have to buy a new mother board?

Hi Does anyone know where to find throughput numbers (MB/s) for IBM Power5, AMD or Intel dual-core processors. Everything I ve found so far has been TPC-C numbers, which I do not fully understand. I am trying to see what the max data I can pump through a bladecenter server per core. Regards.

Anyone know how to cause the BIOS to redetect hard drives during the boot process without causing a reboot? DOS or Windows is lot loaded yet so all that is available to me is INT 13h or direct vectors into the BIOS

I am looking for a 29f040 flash programming service near boston.

I have heard twice that Intel drops PS/2 and LPT support in ICH9. Latest is http://iopanel.net/forum/showthread.php?t=881&www.reghardware.co.uk Intel has never implemented legacy I/O in their chipsets, just the bus to connect it to. It was originally in the ISA super IO chip, which moved to LPC...

On May 22, 6:40 pm, MooseFET wrote in http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt/msg/faea8c19d1bcc8d0?hl=en& : On May 22, 3:47 pm, Radium wrote: On May 13, 9:14 am, MooseFET wrote:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/9W_Sempron_FINAL_5.23.pdf This is for embedded... No fan. But would make a nice PC too :-) On an AC adapter ;-)? Why not?

I'd like to install a new modern motherboard in a Compaq Presario 425 just for kicks and run Ubuntu. Anyway, the motherboard sort of slides into a socket which connects it to the integrated crt monitor. Any ideas on how I could get the schematic or just figure out those "pins" (It is a one-piece...

Wonder if this is going eliminate the aged capacitors problem? TechBrief: Gigabyte Adopts Solid Polymer Capacitors For Motherboards - PCSTATS.com Address : http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2113