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I've seen normal drives reach 46c... not good for a normal drive, but for a 10,000RPM Raptor it should be fine. Those drives do run hotter than 7200RPM drives. If you have a fan blowing air over it then I wouldn't worry about it. :) Not very likely the drive sensor would be bad.

As long as the voltages match, and both use dual-sided memory chips then you should have no issues. Otherwise make sure to set the voltage to the higher RAM setting if the voltages don't match.

Expensive, maybe a little. Hot, definitely yes. Nehalem is 731M transistors... Quad Penryn was ~820M transistors, so total count actually went down. This is because Intel traded 4mb less L2 cache for more useful stuff, like triple channel memory controllers. :) Silicon size doesn't reflect on...

Um... you mean from March 2004 to January 2007 when Michael Dell wasn't at the helm? :D Seriously though, I do wonder about this. There is probably a small but non-critical defect of some sort that they don't want their customers figuring out, since every single 3008WFP ever sold is still...

All of those are good points. Windows Vista goes beyond the hardware demands though, if that was the only problem with it I'd still be using Vista right now. My XP SP2 box built on a Abit IS7 + "Northwood" Pentium 4. It was my main box, now lives on as a F@H box, network fileserver, and...

3DMark Vantage is confirmed to have graphics, AI processing test, and a physics test. Anyone think it might do anything beyond CPU based physics?

Actually, someone corrected me on another forum. The Socket 423 Pentium 4 was bigger! Do keep in mind that Nehalem is no longer a square processor, one side has been elongated just slightly. It doesn't show very well in those photos. Intel processors up to thie point were always a square...

I did not see it mentioned in the review... there is a serious shortcomming of D-Link routers that I rudely discovered when I bought a DIR-655 a week or two ago. Every single bloody change, regardless of how big or small such as enabling a port, changing the NAT Endpoint Filtering, requires...

Yeah, we all need an outdoor movie screen in our backyards to sort and edit our photos... :D

People ate AOL, but I think most have thrown them back up by now... ;) There are reasons things like Magic Jack and Lifelock work... God, just reading the wiki on the LifeLock founder made me want to both laugh and defame the guy...

That may be roughly correct, 115F is 46c, and that isn't extreme for a 10k Raptor. Speedfan also will give HDD temp readings and SMART info. I suggest creating an account to use the beta software though, the official release is horribly out of date and has a great many bugs the betas fixed...

They are not doing it out of paranoia I believe. They simply know if they keep everything locked down so everyone must go through them, then they will make much, much more.

You should read Anandtech's article on Atom. It does not even need a heatsink to run. The surface temp without a heatsink stayed at or below 35c. :) http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3276 Also:

Not sure about DSL providers, but cable companies have the ability to update people's routers and reboot them from their HQ. This is especially true of Time Warner Cable, they lock users out of their routers...

Does this happen without the overclock? Made sure the PCIe bus was locked at 100?

You've seen current batteries catch fire and explode... now imagine a battery with 4x the "boom" in YOUR laptop! There is a real issue with scaling up batteries, the safety issues actually grow as you add more cells together. This was a huge reason Toyota still doesn't use Lithium-ion batteries...

Shouldn't make a difference, I've run Speedfan, Coretemp, RealTemp, Gbyte's EasyTune5 Pro monitor, CPU-Z, GPU-Z, and Memset at once just to see if any would crash or give strange results. :D The guy behind RealTemp explained that the delta between programs like Coretemp and Realtemp would...

What Rob said... there is a difference between "need" and "use". I use all four cores, and I make use of plenty of programs that use several cores at once. I always have 4 instances of Folding@home running in the background, even during games. Hm, was there sarcasm there? I can't wait to see...

Vista's memory usage is dynamic... so if you had 3GB or 4GB it would be using ~1GB or so instead of 874mb. Memory usage also differs between 32 and 64bit versions, with x64 using more RAM. I've run Vista on just 1GB, although 2GB is the sweet spot and 3GB will still yield some improvements...

That is a big reason why Windows Vista uses so much RAM, then gets blamed for being a RAM hog. XP was designed around 2001, computers typically had 128-256mb of RAM and up to a 2GHz CPU or so. 1GB+ wasn't really ever considered when XP was created... ;) Vista can get amazingly light on memory...