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Point-of-View GeForce 6800GT They used this for their test system: (nice to see a not-so-highend system) CPU AMD Athlon XP3200+ (11.5 x 200) Motherboard Abit NF7-S (NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400) Chipset Drivers NVIDIA nForce UDP v4.24 RAM 1024MB (2x512MB) PC3200 DDR400 RAM Video Point Of View GeForce 6800 GT Video Drivers NVIDIA ForceWare 66.51 (Non WHQL) OS Windows XP Professional SP2 DirectX Runtime 9.0c
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Hard Drives: ATA versus SATA "The future of SATA holds great things for those wanting even more speed, as drives with 300 MB/second transfer rates (SATA II) will be readily available in 2005, and by 2008 speeds of up to 600 MB/second can be expected. Those speeds are incredible, and are hard to imagine at this point. Another performance benefit found on SATA drives is their built-in hot-swap capabilities. SATA drives can be brought on and offline without shutting down the computer system, providing a serious benefit to those who can’t afford downtime, or who want to move drives in and out of operation quickly. The higher number of wires in the power connection is pa…
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High-Performance Power Supply Units "The new power supply standard ATX12V 2.01 necessitates a new power supply for PCIe systems, which is reason enough for THG to put the latest devices to the test. We are particularly concerned with efficiency values, an aspect that is frequently overlooked. The more efficient the power supply is, the less energy is converted to heat inside the unit. Less heat means the fans inside the unit spin more slowly while kicking out the same level of power, which translates into significantly less noise. Less heat also means that the components of the supply are under less strain, thus boosting the life of the power supply as well as that of…
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Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips "Apple has used IBM's PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel's chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006 and higher-end models such as the Power Mac in mid-2007, sources said."
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The Latest DVD Writers' True Speeds "So while the quick arrival of dual-layer writers has helped keep both -R/RW and +R/RW stay in the race, the + standard still has a lead. The + standard's writing performance also proved to be better, as you'll see later in our test results. With this in mind, we tested the writers with media that are actually available for sale to make sure our tests reflect actual conditions on the street today."
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System Specs AMD 3500 Venice Epox 9nda3j MB ATI Radeon 8500 64 meg--Ordered a GeForce 6800 GS yesterday. 1 gig Crucial 3200 ram 2 x 512 Antec Smartpower 2.0 450 watt psu 2 harddives--Seagate 160 Gig-- 4year old WD 40 Gb I need to replace. system would be silent if it weren't for that drive. It has a loud High pitch sound works fine still. Dvd rom Lite on DVD-RW BenQ 1640 I would also like to put 2 gigs of ram in system but I need to sell the ram I have currently.
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Steam System Survey Results This survey began on March 3rd, 2006 Always interesting to see what other peeps are using..... :bump:
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How Many Miles per Gallon Does Your CPU Get? "Sure, you could hold a thermometer to your CPU and run a billion calculations and divide one by the other, but AMD and Intel are going to start advertising these numbers, so they're going to have to figure out some industry standards."
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CPU-boundedness of the video system Part I - Analysis "To start with, we produce results in the game HALF-Life2 at 1024õ768 in the «maximum details» mode but with the antialiasing and anisotropic filtering disabled. There is contradiction here. The «maximum details» settings are in charge of the image quality, and the disabled AA/AF allow producing FPS values which do "rest against" the CPU performance. We depict the produced results on the graph, with the X axis denoting the CPU clock speed and the Y axis reflecting the produced values of the video card performance in FPS."
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PCI Express 225W/300W Graphics Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 0.3 Draft "PCI Express 225W/300W Graphics Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 0.3 Draft (1.10MB PDF): This specification is a PCI Express 225W/300W Card Electromechanical document that addresses graphics power and thermals greater than those supported by PCI Express CEM 1.1 and PCI Express 150W 1.0. Its purpose is to provide additional capabilities for PCI Express graphics within the existing framework of an evolutionary strategy that is based on existing motherboard form factors. This specification is primarily designed to deliver additional electrical power to a PCI Express gra…
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I decided I am going to send back the BIOSTAR TA690G AM2 AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard for the MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital AM2 AMD 690G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard. I would probably be better off with the MSI anyways. Not sure why I didn't see it in the first place maybe they were out of stock for a little bit.
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Interview with PC Power & Cooling Founder "That sounds reasonable. This is also for example how the single 12V rail got into place. Why exactly is one 12V rail better than separate rails, and why is this not a safety issue for the user? DD: One 12V rail is better because all of the power supply's capacity is available to the system. With a multi-rail 12V design, as much as 30% of the PSU's capacity can be trapped on under-utilized rails. For example, if one 12V rail rated at 18A is for the CPU, and the CPU only draws 8A, the remaining 10A cannot be utilized by other components in the system. That's true. I had an AnandTech reader writing me about a problem wi…
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