General hardware discussion

since u can use like cards in crossfireX so that u could have a 2900 and or 38x0 in xfire what card would u list for your bench mark sicne u can only select 1 card name sorry if this is the wrong section

:mad:Intel's holding back on the E8000 series chips to deplete the inventories of the E6000s. So we can all blame Intel for the Price spike and the unavailability of the E8400 and E8500 processors. http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20080130PD224.html

Last time I change Bios in my motherboard to 1009 version (latest is 1101 but "beta version"). In my BIOS appear new function: I. Memory configuration 1.Bank Interlearing auto/disabled 2.Channel Interlearing disabled/auto/address bits 6/ address bits 12/ hash*,XOR of address bits [20:16, 6]/hash*,XOR of address bits [20:16, 9] 3. Memclk tristate C3/ATLVID Disabled/Enabled 4. Memory Hole remapping Disabled/Enabled 5. Unganged mode support Disabled/Enabled 6. Power down enable Disabled/Enabled 7. Power down mode Disabled/Enabled II. ECC Configuration ECC mode disabled/basic/good/super/max/user User: 1. DRAM ECC enable disabled/enabled 2. DRAM scrub …

I have wonderful motherboard - Epox ep-8rda3i. Vcore - 1.4V - 2.2V Vdrr - 2.5 - 2.9V Vchipset - 1.6 - 2.0V Dual Channel DDR What you think about this motherboard?

I buy RAM - patriot DDR400 256 MB ($25). Overclock: DDR500, timings - 2-3-3-5 up - unstable work.

Has anyone had any experience with this mobo? I bought one and it arrived DOA. Any help will be appreciated.

Is it me or is the 3x LDT multi screwed?

Ive been going over this in my mind several times and looking over different sites for comparison, but here is my question: Which one would be more suitable for my system: the 7900GS 450/1320 (256mb) agp or the 7950gt 550/1300 (512mb) agp? Here is my system config: Pentium 4 (Northwood - Socket 478) 2.8GHz (FSB = 533MHz L2 Cache = 512k) Memory = 2GB PC2700 Two Hard Drives (120 GB each - 7200rpm) 450 W Antec Smartpower 2.0 PSU (32A on dual 12V rails) one 80mm Vantec Tornado 5700rpm case fan Motherboard is the Intel D845GRG Micro ATX Right now I have a Geforce 6600 GT (128MB) Dual DVI with two LCDs... Viewsonic 20 inch (1600 by 1200) and 19 i…

Anybody else experience a low OC with this card?

Hey Fellas Since I have a job now and awaiting some money, I thought, why not spend it on some new hardware. I decided therefore that my new system should be SLIx32-ready and include an Intel Quad Core CPU. So I whent motherboard hunting. What catched my interessed was XFX's 680i SLI boards, but I didn't understand why there is 2 different models and more importantly, what the difference is. So therefore this thread. Can someone explain to me what the difference is and is it a different design compared to the nvidia reference board? Thanks a lot. Oh! And in case there is another 680i SLI board far better in overclocking capability and performance…

Thought some folks would be interested in running some SuperPi 1M and 32M becnhes for a chance to win some cool prizes from MountainMods, OCZ, CoolerMaster, Alpha, and Noctua. The prizes are randomly drawn from ballots your system receives for improving your SuperPi times over stock. Come take a look Link BTW you do have to registered with BleedinEdge's hwbot team but afaik there's no problem switching teams (to or from). TY

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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120598&page=6 edit i think the post has now been pulled

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=606362 now thats extreme

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6634

"From DH: The good news for people who own an X1900 Crossfire Master card is that it is possible to add a X1950XTX to the system and Crossfire works. In fact crossfire works much better than expected with the X1950/X1900 mixture. We had expected scores from the mixed card CF to be almost the exact same as true X1900 crossfire however the mixed card system provided some excellent increases, especially in Oblivion." extract from a thread link on xs http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X1950XTXreview/

strangely enough the pc 10000 is not available yet, i bet they have problems getting it to run stably at those frequencies as on most conroe boards even getting 1066 is something of an achievement , i like the heatsinks on these though, and the fan cooling looks quite decent , but i must admit i think a 120mm fan over does the same job, the sweetspot on conroes seems to be between 420-480mhz (840-960ddr) on the memory , so i think they'd be better concentrating on that on tightening the timings up , but maybe on future conroe boards pc10000 will be possible with a high cpu speed http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Corsair_XMS2_Memory.html#amy_2d118_2dcs

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=606238 first ones i've seen for sale looks like a good quality piece of kit, but with 2 of these cards in you need plenty of space between the cards

i have this board and its been troublesome right from the start fsb wall of 380 unless a 4;3 memory divider was used then if your lucky you'd get to 400, i have just corrupted the bios chip on mine when i tried a beta bios in search of an update i was just about to take the board out and put it over my knee when i saw this on xs http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=111725 it appears the bugs have been ironed out now and the dfi definitely has the best range of voltages of any other conroe board 2.65 memory , 1.9 i think vcore and 1.75 nb volts and even with it at 400fsb and 4;3 memory divider it was still quick, so i have ordered a new bios chip with o…