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Because Xeon's are designed for DP use. The desktop i7 isn't, so it won't work. Tell me about it, haha! I'm not so sure most of these boards would overclock well at all though. Overclocking is the last thing on the designer's minds when building these boards, so it will be tough. I'm actually...

I guess if time permits, we could just include performance for "modest OC" and "top OC", but in the end, that does take a fair amount of extra time. It's like benchmarking three CPUs instead of one. I could just focus on the real-world benchmarks though... nothing like SYSmark or the synthetics...

From our front-page news:When Gigabyte first introduced their "2oz copper" motherboard feature last year, many scoffed at their claims of better overclocking, improved power efficiency and lower board temps. ASUS was included in this mockery, and in some cases, I was with them. I failed to...

From our front-page news:Oi. It's become no secret that the European Union has had fun slapping Microsoft with pointless lawsuits over the years, but the latest happenings just further proves how asinine their Commission's thought-process is. Take one cranky browser company, Opera, and couple it...

Oh, alright. I'm not familiar with VMware Server. I thought none of the free versions of VMware allowed <em>creation</em> of virtual machines though. Am I wrong? I'll have to check it out regardless... As for VMware Workstation, it's what I use, and yes, it imposes the same 2-core restriction.

So... I'm about to test out a few different games to see what's suitable for benchmarking. As I mentioned before, CoD: World at War and Crysis Warhead will remain. The former because it's a perfect game to benchmark (is stressful to all GPUs), and the latter for kind of the same reason, but the...

1440x900 is a little odd, but they are mainly testing the waters first to see how they sell, rather than go nuts and release some really high-end product that no one wants. Personally, I think it's a cool product, but it really has no relevance to gamers. EVGA is clearly interested in branching...

Hi Unregistered: Thanks for the nice comments! Overclocking in general is one aspect of our content that I'd like to up a little bit, but I'm working to figure out how to best handle this. In some of our recent GPU content, I've included a page dedicated to overclocking, and then showed the...

I agree... and the reason as to why that's the case is something I want to figure out. This limitation is worse on i7 since it's effectively getting only one real CPU core. Odd how that works, huh? The EPT advantages have me really wanting to upgrade to i7 though... I rarely ever need more than...

No idea, I can ask.

That... and the Xeon's cost a little bit more than the i7 counterparts, which is too bad. But still... to have an eight core / sixteen thread machine at a reasonable cost, is just insane. 2 x Xeon W3520 2.66GHz = $620 + $260 motherboard = $880. That seems damn good to me... after all, we're...

Something tells me that the real voltage difference is larger than that. It would be very unlikely that 0.02v would cause the CPU to go from unstable to stable... just doesn't make sense. What I find a little bit odd is that on our RIIE motherboard, even if 1.65v is selected, the real value is...

I'm also curious about speeding up the boot sequence, because you'd imagine it would have been done long ago. Removing the need to scan the RAM each time is a good one, but that accounts for only a few seconds. Quite frankly, boot time doesn't bother me too much... 2 minutes is plenty of enough...

I don't think "big" computers will <em>ever</em> go away. They'll always be cutting-edge and have their place. Not everyone wants a small computer that fails to handle the latest games at killer resolutions. There's certainly a market for both, and I don't see that ever changing. For regular...

Kougar, you are really passionate about Folding! That's a lot going on at one time. Folding is an idea I considered with a machine like this, but it's a good one. But, Folding is one scenario where people are purposely pushing their machines to the brink... I'm wondering about a non-Folding...

Mark's (Merlin) mother passed on June 10th at the tender age of 78, so he'll be offline for a little while. Mark, on behalf of the entire staff, we send along our condolences and thoughts to your and your family during this difficult time. Keep thinking of all the good memories... seems to be...

I'm craving a new SSX game in general... loved all of them so far.

That sounds like a sweet deal, but I am not familiar with those cans at all so I can't comment. This idea didn't happen just due to time... it was impossible to come up with this idea and get in what I needed in that amount of time. My next long flight will be in September, so mid-August I'll...

I concur... 4GB is fine. By the time you'll see the need for more, you'll probably want to build an entirely new machine. Not to side-swipe the convo... how are you liking VMware, or virtualization in general?

Whoa, that's the kind of response to exceed expectations ;-) I'll tackle that when I get home, but for now, come on people! Input, input, input!!