General hardware discussion

Lenovo ThinkPad series is the most well known in their NoteBook product line. Continue IBM prime design tradition, the X series NoteBook is still very popular for commercial users. Especially the previous X201 with CULV version, the price drops a lot. Even the budget concerned user also can have the good commercial grade quality product. The parity ThinkPad is more competitive. Besides the product C/P is enhanced, it also attracts the users sight. I still remember the year before, Intel NoteBook CPU almost are Core 2 Duo. The main models are TX00 and PX00 series. Also CULV CPU is focus on low clock and power consumption. After Q1 2010, you can see many br…

Got this baby today (NDA until 19.08.), but will do some tests today/tomorrow for GC... More here at AF... Will update soon with BIOS-pics...

Let’s have a initial look at the MSI R5870 Lightning, equipped with the fresh Twin Frozr II cooler with a total of 5 heatpipes. Let's start out with a look at the new Twin Frozr II; Let’s have a initial look at the MSI R5870 Lightning, equipped with the fresh Twin Frozr II cooler with a total of 5 heatpipes. Let's start out with a look at the new Twin Frozr II; The Twin Frozr II is quite impressive, both temp and noise wise, especially strong for 24/7 usage. MSI R5870 Lightning retail package with following protection; 1. Plastic top protection cover. 2. Custom cut foam to surround and support the card. …

Nvidia GTX 768, 1GB and SLI testing Nvidia GTX 470 CPU scaling - 10 CPU's

hey hey thought i best get registered and introduce myself Names Ryan aka Karma Live in Adelaide, Australia Run a small PC shop form home as well as work elsewhere I've been building a PC, Desk servers and network for my place Heres my list and links to my build albums to date Main Rig 1x Mountain Mods Ascension CYO tower gloss black 2x Enermax Revolution85+ CrossFireX™ 1050W 1x EVGA X58 Classified 4sli Motherboard 1x Intel Core i7 980 X 2x Corsair Dominator GT 2000mhz 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 4x Nvidia GTX 480 4x OCZ Vertex Turbo 60GB SSD 1x LSI 9211 8 port RAID Controller 1x miniSAS to 4xsata cables for raid card 2x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB …

Hi Boys! Did anyone know whats the special future of the Winki Edition from the MSI 790FX-GD70? Are they tested? Can i make a high Ref Clock with them? Or is the USB Stick with Linux the only "Future". lol

Antec 1200W non OC is the highest model available in my country. I want to buy it to replace the Corsair HX1000 for Gulftown benchmark (LN2, for sure). Does the bigest difference between us is Fan Control Knob/+12V Voltage Control Knob, not the clock of 980X? and any PSU recommend for 980X? Here is my best result with Corsair HX1000. sorry for broken English. Thanks.

Seems I have a revision 2 board , and for some reason it has a Rev 1 BIOS . Anyone know whats going on ? I cant flash a rev 2 BIOS , it refuses to do so .

Everyone knows that the es cpu''s better than the retail. that's very unfortunate for the league on hwbot. but the ES have also other cpu speeds 3.07 mhz and 2.04mhz the retail will be 3.33ghz how solves hwbot that ? sorry for me bad engels

I 'm upgrading to an 1366 chipset, i7-930 Bloomfield and an ASUS P6X58D Premium LGA 1366 with SLI and I wonder if I should hunt down another gtx 285 or just sell mine and replace it with a 5850. Any ideas. GTX 285's are hard to find and expensive. Are there any card close to a GTX 285 that will work with a 285 in SLI? I am not a big gamer(love BF Bad Comp. but not so good at it) so FPS isn't a big deal. I do use other 3d rendering apps thogh.

Sup everyone, As usual, the memory freak has another... RAM review for you today. It's about a relatively ( and very affordable in some places it seems ) affordable memory kit from Kingston, the HyperX DDR3-2000C9 ( part number... hold on....hmm... KHX2000C9AD3T1FK3/6GX ! woot I made it! ). Some quotes from the review: Grab a cup of coffee or your favorite drink and read the review now! :

Hello Friend What happens to the motherboard using nitrogen? Grateful :rose:

Hi, First time poster here. I recently got hold of a load of socket A cpus and one of them is an athlon 1300mhz on the thunderbird core, checking out all the other submisions they are all stepping 2 rev a4 but mine is stepping 4 rev a9. Just wondering if I have miss identified the cpu. I dont want to make any submissions in the wrong category. Thanks in advance.

In the remembrance, the Core 2 Duo double-core processor was just announced by Intel at the Grand-Hotel in July 2006. After around a half-year later, Intel started Quad-Core era, which was following Core 2 Due structure to make Core 2 Quad CPU. After that, Intel launched Core i7 to enhance its performance with L3, HT and triple- channel functions in November 2008, even if Core i7 was based on Quad-core and simulated with Octa-core (eight-core) in use, but the market was still look forward to hearing from real Hexa-Core (six-core) CPU. After all, the real Hexa-Core CPU was released by Intel in March 16, 2010, meaning the generation was completed replaced b…

Any trick for a WPrime32??? http://hwbot.org/community/submission/999143_rbuass_wprime_32m_core_i5_670_7sec_703ms Does anyone know why wprime 32 ran pretty strong, but the time was worse than the guys who ran up to 350 mhz less? I used XP32 clean, with and without real time QPI 3200, 3800, 4266 and 4800 ... but times have not improved ... If anyone has an idea thanks in advance

Yes, it has finnaly come to this, after countless hours of work, the job is done. Up to 4 GTX480 team up their might to face up to 4 HD5870. Scaling, or not, CPU limit, or not, the massive 4WAY SLI review is finnaly up. And you don't even want to see the power consumtpion tests! GTX 480 4-way SLI meets the 5870's | lab501 (Google Translator romanian/english required).

Hello, i have just purchased a Nehalem A1 QCZN cpu and i'm kinda stuck on finding a right mobo to run it with. Tested on Asus P6T6 WS Revolution - no boot, diagnostic card show message "No-cpu" Tested on MSI X58 Eclipse SLI - no boot, diagnostic card show post codes 2 secs and after it goes crazy. Will test soon on Gigabyte X58-UD5... If anyone has run this cpu on a motherboard maybe he's kind to share the info with me. TY

Friends in HWBot, i would like some help from you. I am a new bencher and need help to know what is the best operational systems (to get better scores). Thats a benchs i want to know: CPUz SPi 1M Spi 32M Pifast Wprime 32 Wprime 1024 Aquamark 3DM01 3DM03 3DM05 3DM06 Vantage Are the benchs i wold like to run better; its sure i will need lot of dedication too p.s. i always used XP32 to 2D and Vista 32 to 3D, but i am not sure its the best. Thanks in advance

Hello. First post here in this forum. I'm using the hwbot to compare processor performances, but some of the results make me confused, so here comes the question: those results are from the CPUs at stock/default parameters (fsb, clock, etc.) or when overclocked/tweaked/whatever? Thank you!

Hey fellows, I know quite a few results have been posted lately with UD9, so I am not going to discover anything extraordinary with my 5,6GHz i980X "champ". However, even if some results have been shown, and some forum sneak peaks have been done, I though that a more "official" preview would not hurt anybody. So I did a nice, clean preview on our website. You might be asking what the heck is so interesting about that. Yeah...I forgot to mention...I did a small "4 x GTX 480 on Gigabyte UD9" preview on our website. Now it sounds more interesting, doesn't it? :yepp: Anyway, the 4WAY SLI is not the main focus here, I am preparing a massive 1,2,3,4 GTX 480 vs 1,2,3,4 H…

kingston hyper-x 1600 DDR3 and hwbot will not let me submit any maxxmem scores with it, what gives? this is the stuff here in this review...http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/kingston_hyperx_pc312800_2x2gb/

In the past as far as built-in GPU platforms were concerned, Intel usually used “G Series” to name its products. G45 or G41 as Intel’s main chipset were commonly seen in the market in the last generation. At the beginning of 2010, Intel released new “All in one PC” structure, and firstly introduced the new technology that GPU was directly built in the CPU. Moreover, Intel improved its CPU to 32nm process, and also released a series of CPUs that support the platform. At present, there are 6 CPUs in the market: low-level Pentium G6950; mid-level Core i3 530/540; and high-level Core i5 650/660/661/670. As to MB chipset, Intel released H55/H57 to support new CPU d…

First benching - AMD 6 core @ 6700 Mhz Thats my first Thuban benching The CPU haves a very nice performance and I could do the tests with only 1.7 V (BIOS); to CPUZ (from 6630 mhz to higger) was necessary to greatly increase the voltage to try a suicidal CPUZ screen. I know I could have achieved better results with a better operating system (my XP installation CD was defective and gave blue screen throughout the installation and Vista Lite corrupted in the first few minutes benching, then I turned to format my wife's Vista Home Premium without any Tweak at -18X C. The system was already in sub zero and LN2 in Brazil is very expensive then I could not wast…

I might be a tad late to the party, but I ensure you that it definitely is read-worthy for everyone, the average joe, the budget overclocker and well... the extreme overclocker too. I just finished and published the review of the newest mainstream Dual-Core processor from Intel, the Core i3 540. Some quotes from the review: To read the full review, just click here! The Extreme Overclocking page should be filled with contents this weekend, I'm getting ready to test the i3 540 and an i5 670 on LN2 ( might have a live stream as well )

New storage device, I believe most people will think of SSD first. SSD full name is Solid-State Drive. SSD is very popular in the past 2 years. It also breaks the performance barrier for NoteBook. Most SSD key features are light, power saving, higher performance and secure data protection. However, SSD price is much higher and less capacity than traditional HDD. I still remember that before 1H 2009, SSD focused on performance and capacity improvement. But the price was not big change. Mainstream 64GB SSD price was around 200USD. Also, the MLC performance was reading at 200~220 MB/s and writing at 150~180 MB/s. Recently, I saw some non-SAMSUNG SSD controller can…