Building a computer from scratch. It'll be built for someone who'll use it for alot of things, but tilted in the 'gaming' direction. Should whether the processor is 64-bit or 32-bit matter? If not, when? If so, how so? In other words, should I go AMD or Intel? I understand AMD is slightly faster...

Why aren't retailers specifying whether the power supply is 24-pin or not? Check out newegg.com; there's no way to tell. I've gone to multiple online stores, and they simply don't list it. I'd like to find a list of which power supplies are ATX 2.0 (24-pin). As of now, I can only guess, or attempt...

Would a Radeon 9800 Pro (non-PCI Express card) work with, say, the Abit AA8XE motherboard?

Have some spare parts, and was curious. Reading the specs., the D845PT supports up to 2.0 GHz. However, since the 2.0 GHz was a leap to 512k cache from 256k, I was wondering if this motherboard (D845PT) will work with the Northwood 2.0 GHz CPU.

There's slots 1 & 2, which are paired with the same type and brand of memory. (dual channel twin pack) If I were to add two additional DIMMs, also twin dual channel modules, but of a different brand, would this cause any problems? Is it preferable that all four slots be of the same brand and make?...

Per the manufacturers website (ABIT), it states one should clear the CMOS (by moving the jumper off for a couple seconds) after updating the BIOS. I never found this necessary in the past, and have updated the BIOS without doing so. All of the additional features in the new BIOS are available. Am I...

hello all - please help! I have a brand new system, I have given this 29 days of troubleshooting, and it is my last day before I have to apply for an RMA on my 30day newegg.com return policy for a couple products I purchased... My system will post, boot into windows --- running vista x64 ultimate...

Hello, After upgrading my computer to Intel D865GBF motherboard, the IBM DeskStar (parallel) IDE drive has suddenly been set to "MS-DOS compatibility mode". Do you have any idea what could be causing this? The MS documents say this is result of loading a DOS device driver through CONFIG.SYS, but...

There is the spec of my terrible pile of bolts. As you can see i have no agp or pci express slots just standrad pci. I recently bought a nvidia fx 5200 256mb pci graphics card. Its pretty crap, i dont notice any difference and i still cant play games like unreal tournament v1.0 on high detail and...

I have been wrecking my head trying to figure out how to get a good graphics card for my new (pile of t**d) dell computer. I just opened the machine last week and to my astonishment there was no agp slot!! haha typical, dell just forgot to put enough information up on their site to stop me from...

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33318 (slightly edited from Inq's original post) Intel's future graphics tech is PowerVR Shader-like SGX licensed

http://tinyurl.com/kh6vl BOSTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp. shares climbed more than 8 percent on Wednesday amid speculation the graphics chipmaker could be acquired by Intel Corp., traders said. A spokeswoman for Intel, the world's No. 1 chipmaker, declined comment, saying her company...

(Google Translated) In France, the Grand National Equipment Intensive Computing (Genci) striking hard since his first supercomputer, one of the first machine of its kind to use the GPU processing for calculation. According to our information, the 1068 processors are indeed Nehalem eight of...

http://tinyurl.com/29lwux By Dean Takahashi Intel CEO Paul Otellini finally talked up Larrabee today at the Intel Developer Forum. This code-named graphics-CPU combination chip has dozens of cores capable of running as many as 64 threads, (think programs), at the same time. Unlike the upcoming...

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/242 Larrabee: 16 Cores, 2GHz, 150W, and more... Friday 01st June 2007, 06:08:45 PM, written by Arun It is amazing how much information is out there in the wild, when you know where to look. TG Daily has just published an article partially based on a...

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200703291555DOWJONESDJONLINE001007_FORTUNE5.htm SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) - A major computer-chip redesign at Intel Corp. will likely put more pressure on smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., industry observers said Thursday. Intel (INTC)...

An Interview With Cell Architect Jim Kahle Thursday, October 26, 2006 The PlayStation 3: An Interview With Cell Architect Jim Kahle Dean Takahashi, 12:01 AM in Dean Takahashi, Gaming Microprocessor_party_035 Jim Kahle is the chief architect of the Cell microprocessor and the visionary behind the...

http://tinyurl.com/ydtq7k (nytimes.com) http://games.kikizo.com/news/200610/063.asp http://tinyurl.com/yadece (teamxbox.com) http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68767 it seems Microsoft will try to design its own multi-core CPUs. the same thing was said shortly after Xbox1...

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/08/the_coming_comb.html#more The Coming Combo Of The CPU And GPU, Ray Tracing Versus Rasterization, And Why Billions Of Dollars Is At Stake Dean Takahashi, 12:01 AM in Dean Takahashi, Gaming Not everybody may care about how they get their eye-popping...

http://www.dailytech.com/Dodecacore+The+Megahertz+Race+is+Now+Officially+the+Multicore+Race/article11531.htm Hardware Dodeca-co The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi- core Race AMD engineers reveal details about the company's upcoming 45nm processor roadmap, including plans for...