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Okay, I'm somewhat floored. Intel went back to the 80's and did away with the domino dynamic logic design, and went back to using a static CMOS transistor design. I had no idea what this is, except it allowed them to scale frequencies at the expense of power. Long technical story short in...

Hey Rob :) I was saying that because the QPI frequency is multiplied by the CPU multiplier, which gives the final CPU clockspeed. So for overclocking we would need to overclock the QPI link, which is similar to how AMD's HTT link overclocking works. No one anywhere has stated this "Turbo...

Turbo Mode is based around the chip's overall TDP. So, say some cores are idle and get shut down, this increases the TDP margin significantly. If the user has a single-threaded program running, the remaining core can overclock itself up to the point it reaches the original design TDP envelope...

That wasn't your hand in the photos was it? :D Hm this seems directed at someone... ;) Partly what I was getting at is if we can find a way of mitigating this huge performance hit due to CAS 7 or CAS 8 1066MHz memory, then the performance should jump noticeably, even significantly in some...

Well, now Hexus has joined the fray, but with some gaming benches to add to the mix. http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15015&page=1 Unfortunately Johan Gelas is correct on in the very least one thing, Nehlem is NOT about super improved integer performance. This directly means games...

This article on "AMD reaching 22nm first before Intel" was kind of funny. Not sure how much more slanted it can get! http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38941/135/ AMD has yet to launch 45nm. So forget 22nm, better question is when will AMD launch 32nm? A little digging, apparently AMD's...

Well the app has been updated several more times. Most notably is how the program runs, is a bit easier to use for a novice user. However more importantly the Linpack libraries were updated, and some how the program is even more stressful than it was previously. I've had a little time and...

About time! I was expecting another USB 1.0 / 1.1 fiasco since Intel was refusing to release the spec. Very glad to see they came to their senses, even if it gave themselves and their select partners something around a six months lead in developing USB 3.0 spec devices....

I had some bad experiences with virtual drives, although admittedly it was a rather long time ago now. I don't even remember what program it was but it completely mucked up my real CD-ROM drivers so that the OS didn't recognize the real optical drive. I've not run into that issue as of late...

Were the issues with AA enabled on Crysis? Madshrimps was fine without AA, but with AA they had similar problems from the sound of it. http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=5&artpage=3656&articID=864

Well Intel is great with hardware, but I won't rule it out just yet that they might have a few issues to iron out with drivers, especially since this is the first of a kind for them. And their last attempt with a discrete GPU didn't really work out so well. I will just have to see how the "new"...

Nope, Rory found the cause of the freezing! It has not occured again. There's some fruity issue with the spindown, even though it wasn't affecting the RAID 0 array directly (as that was in constant use). I guess that after spinning down the other drives Vista would hang the entire system...

Great article! :) Hm, tough call. I can't pretend to truly know anything about the coding and compiling and who's code is more closely related to C, but Anand's article really does put Larrabee into a positive light in my opinion. Whatever NVIDIA may say, their "shaders" are not fully...

I briefly mentioned finding a new stability testing program in my help thread dealing with Vista, figured I oughta share the news here so y'all could have some fun with it. This program reportedly is much much quicker than Prime 95, reportedly able to detect errors in 10 minutes what Prime...

Well, I debated holding off posting but I figured if it doesn't freeze shortly after I post (just to make me eat my words) then it probably did actually work. Rory, I think that was exactly the problem. All of this hassle and grief because Vista was spinning down one or two rarely used drives...

It's also an intriguing proposal... The fabbing company can produce semiconductors for anyone just like TSMC and UMC. Certainly they would have to be within the top 5 such fabbing companies in terms of technology, even if Intel and TSMC are ahead of them? With the number of such fabbing...

Okay, brief update before I respond to Rory's post. I forgot about Checkdisk, spent 4+ hours letting it check every single drive and do it's thing. It didn't find much. I almost wish I hadn't. After doing so now the freezing sometimes repeats, 3-4 seconds, then the system freezes again after...

AMD has not held a competitive edge in manufacturing that I can think of? Intel switched from 200mm to 300mm wafers first, always shrank their chips first, and switched away from SOI first due to the reported leakage issues with it. Currently, Intel+TSMC will have 450mm wafer production soon...

I don't think it is overkill, I simply don't like how they combined 550w and 650w NeoHE power supplies into one linked PSU. People run into issues with split 12v rails or unbalanced power distribution on power supplies all the time, so a set up like this with an actual split PSU design just...

Well, the freezing occurs every couple hours. Finally caught it twice with Task Manger visible in the background, however no processes were visible that would explain the issue. To be logical this points to a hardware issue or a kernel issue, so I killed the GPU overclock. No joy. I...