General hardware discussion

Kepler crush them in every benchmark and test! I spoke with some guy from NV and Kepler is as groundbreaking as the G80 GPU was. The enormous power, higher than the 7970 OC, a completely new architecture, no hotclock, many new features, gaming GPU only (Full big GPGPU chip will be released later), not a tuned Fermi but a completely brand new architecture. Now is starting manufacturers sampling phase, after Chinese New year we can expect first real leaks from chinese factories ... launch April.

In 2011, Intel and AMD both launched native SATA3 supported chipset. SATA3 strength is 6Gb/s bandwidth that is double of SATA2. It brings Solid-State Hard Drive performance into new competition stage. SSD performance is combination of controller chip and NAND FLASH. NAND FLASH also divides into SLC and MLC. Now the mainstream market is MLC. Nowadays, MLC performance is not much different with SLC. MLC writing life cycle is also improved by new algorithm technology. Of course, MLC market price is much lower than SLC, the future trend still go this way. Last year, best SATA3 controllers were SanForce and Marvell. Intel 510 Series SSD also used Marvell. This S…

Hello, What is the best motherboard socket LGA 2011 with PCI-X slot ? Thanks in advance

Is this board a gem or a Lemon? Many folks seem to have had major problems with the early BIOS, including hardware damage. That may (or may not) include me. I'll post more about that later. The feature set is really great for me, but I'm getting no love overclocking, and given the price, I'm seriously considering returning it. Charlweed

I'm looking to buy a Pentium D965 extreme to play around with, but I do not know if my motherboard will support it. I have a Maximus extreme ,P5E3 deluxe and an xfx 790i ultra laying around for S775 but no clue if they will accept this processor. The highest pentium D supported cpu for the maximus is the 960 but nothing higher is listed, this 960 has 800Mhz bus and the 965 1066Mhz. Does anybody has an idea if this will work out? Link to cpu specs: http://ark.intel.com/products/27615/Intel-Pentium-Processor-Extreme-Edition-965-%284M-Cache-3_73-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB%29 Link to maximus cpu list: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/Maximus_Extreme/#CPUS

I don't belong to any website (freelance), I haven't signed any NDA and I came across this paper so I chose to publish it here. Technically and officially this paper comes from the husband of the cousin of the sister of the gardener of my grandma's neighbor who found this paper in a bunker deep in the mountains of Russia. So it's just journalism to publish it. I just relay the info. Enough talking, here we go: -snip-

Hey all, So, in the past couple of weeks I've been running a lot of multi-gpu configurations here to look into the scaling in different benchmarks. I'm too tired to make a really big text about it, split all the charts into single benchmark scaling charts and pretend I've got 20-pages of content. Instead, here are three long-ass charts. By the way, I'm now running the putting through the 7970s on different platforms to check for scaling. SBE and GT platform are done, two others still to do ... coming soon later this week I hope. Configuration - Core i7 3960X - Rampage IV Extreme - 2x 2GB Gskill RipjawsX - 2x 2GB Gskill Flare - 4x MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lig…

Hey guys. I just finished my latest review on some of Corsair's finest.....thought it might be helpful to any of you who may be considering high speed memory Continue reading here :up: http://www.techreaction.net/2010/10/23/review-corsair-dominator-gtx3-2400mhz-absurd/

Two icons of CPU history, 6 years of progress, 2 top of the line CPU's from today. From an overall point of view, or clock/clock, core/core with the ancients, how much do you think AMD and Intel progressed in the last 6 years? 4 CPU's, two different approaches, a test of epic proportions! Epic CPU battles of history: Athlon FX-55, Pentium 4 EE, FX-8150 and Core i7 3960X | LAB501

Here is the Asus Tool Kit to remove the extra pin from AMD Bulldozer CPUs

Three motherboars in test: Asus Crosshair V Formula, MSI 990FXA-GD80, Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7. My third ES Sample. I am 99.7% sure this new-one is based on complete final silicon. First sample i had was crap, like many others on taobao/eBay/chinese forums. That chips has serious problem with L3 cache with drastical impact to performance. They are good clockers, but its wasting of time because performance. Part 1 Motherboard support: Asus Crosshair V Formula: Tested BIOS 0009/0027/0028. Absolutely great FX support, in first BIOS fully works Turbo, CoolnQuiet, Changing CPU multi, Overclocking. OC Button is working too. Everything works fine with no probl…

is this board with the Nforce 4 chipset? Looking for testbed for older SLI-cards (7800GT DUAL e.g.)

what rev. 1.0 or 2.0 is the best on this board? reading up, i noticed that the only difference between the two is the manufacturer of the individual components. does one clock better than the other though?

Formerly, most ITX platform spec is always using NoteBook CPU and SO-DIMM. These components raise the system cost and the MB price is also much higher than ATX MB. In the past 3 years, HTPC market started to ramp. ITX products are easier to find now. In the past, AMD ITX platform is easy to find due to its high 3D performance IGP. Since Intel LGA 1156 IGP performance caught up AMD and Sandy Bridge is 3~5 times faster 3D performance. Many MB makers launched H67 or H61 ITX MB and the price is much lower. Mostly, the price is only a little higher than same level ATX or M-ATX boards. It can help HTPC buyers to lower their budget. So far, H61 is the lowest ch…

We have fought hard to promote the exciting art of overclocking in my country (Brazil). We've done many plenty of home sessions (with few people as the place where I live is very small). Also we do many overclocking sessions and presentations, in order to teach and grow our community. We just did more than 20 events in the last 2 years. I can show some of this pics below. Last Saturday, we did an event and this time the interest and the results for overclocking exceeded our expectations. We were able to teach st…

Maybe its time to start this thread here, i am not sure i can publish BIOSes, i will ask at first ... stay tuned.

Hi all !! I´m new here !! (i don't speak much English, but...) I think this best site to ask.. What is the better choice betwin : I don't will fix OC for all day, i will do it only wen i need !! (I will play some NFS Run, maybe Lineage..) Intel: 650€ Intel Core i5 2500K Asus P8Z68-V XFX HD6870 G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 2x2GB 1600MHz CAS9 1.5v Low Voltage Cooler Master 212 Plus XFX Core Edition PSU PRO 550W AMD: 450/475€ AMD FX 4100 Black Edition G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 2x2GB 1600MHz CAS9 1.5v Low Voltage Asrock 990FX Extreme3 XFX Core Edition PSU PRO 550W Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus PowerColor HD6790/ XFX HD 6850 Tell me if is better …

If you're a computer & gaming forums freak I'm fairly sure that you've seen people asking if buying a faster memory ( RAM ) kit will give them more fps in their favorite games, others asking how to overclock their Sandy Bridge 2500K to 5GHz for 24/7 usage in order to "remove" the bottleneck placed by the CPU and to "unleash" their graphics card's performance beast. Not to forget the infamous "HyperThreading myth", I'm pretty sure that you've seen people claiming that you should disable Intel's HyperThreading if you game because you're losing some performance, etc etc. I've seen every little thing mentioned as a "game changer" without any facts, no proof, no testing …

Ok, my wondering, for us OCers who do not have extremely deep pockets, and have to spend our money wisely to get the best bang for buck, is a 3960X that much better than a 2600K? I currently have a 2600K (5.63Ghz), on a Maximus IV Gene-Z and am wondering, should i be saving and scraping my cents together to get a 3960X??? Other than wPrime, vantage and AM3, Will it have that much of an advantage over a 2600K at the same clock? Should i rather spend some cash binning 2600K's for a 5.8+? Or how does the 3930K compare(at half the price of the 3960X)? Im also seeing the 3960X's are not Ocing as high as 2600K's, looking like 5.4 - 5.5Ghz is a good chip, whereas in 2…

Hi guys ! I recently opened up my own blog about video games and IT and I wrote an article about Windows 7/8, comparing performance (games, system, etc). Check it out: http://bionicgaming.com/. Thanks ! Dreadlockyx

can put out higher clocks then expected give me sum voltage tweek option and this board could rule and open FSB for more than 6.7 ghz can easily break 7.2 with its hit out put evan posible to go higher i think and put more solid capasitors for beter electricity flow could increase overall overclocking performance could be best h55 there is if these upgrades could have taken place not sure about this but it could work so intel if you watch this it is nice board just need upgrades

pushing my E6600 under LN2 this upcoming weekend. last session i couldn't get above a 550 FSB for the life of me! plenty of vMCH was supplied and VTT. it has me stumped past all research done on it! i haven't seen a UD3P that craps out before 560MHz FSB.

Solid-State Hard Drive has been launched for years and performance is satisfied with most users. In the past, it’s limited with SATA2 3Gb/s bandwidth, so the SSD performance hadn’t been improved for years. SSD max performance in the past few years was just over 200MB/s. During that time, there were many high end MBs supported SATA3, but the performance improvement was not much. SSD performance bottleneck started to change from Jan 2011, Intel Sandy Bridge native support SATA3. Although, AMD launched 990FX and A75 middle year also native support SATA3. It makes SSD own higher bandwidth. SATA3 supports 6Gb/s is 2 times faster than SATA2. Currently, SSD ha…

Hello everybody! Long time, no "see". How are you doing ? Hope all is well over there. Let's start November ( OMG, the winter's coming, nooooo! ) with a preview of the newest flagship processor of AMD's Bulldozer series, the FX-8150! In this preview we'll take a look at the specifications of the new processor and its performance in various tasks on Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Linux. We might release another preview covering some basic applications & benchmarks on Windows 7 before we release the full review ( 100's of benchmarks, lots of pages, architecture analysis, feature & future looks, etc etc ). Apart from the text, charts and comments, you'll also be abl…

hi in fact i got the same problems like this guy: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=210202 short description: im not able to install any other driver than the one, which came with the graphics card.(266.71) disp_inf of the new drivers eg. 285.62 contains the same device id like in 266.71, so this doesnt seem to be the issue. how to solve this problem? here a screeny of gpuz: and attached the nv_dip.ini of the only working driver if you want to take a look. (just rename from *.txt to *.ini) thanks for your help