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<title>core 2 duo vs dual xeon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Question how does a dual CPU xeon which not sure of the model but between 2.80-3.80ghz compare to a E7800 c2d? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-29 11:23:46</pubDate>
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<title>Which motherboard with i7-3960x?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I currently have an i7-2600k with Asus P8Z68-V PRO and 16G of RAM (2x8G).

I am receiving a i7-3960x part and will need a motherboard for it. I will need a motherboard with at least 8 SATA ports (6GBps vs. 3GBps isn't a major concern).

I would like to keep the memory I have to keep costs down, so I basically just need a motherboard. I'm currently overclocking the 2600k to 4 GHz and have a Corsair H60 cooler - hoping to reuse that if I can get an adapter bracket (does such a thing exist to change it from 1155 to the new 2011 SB-E socket?).

I was hoping the X79 equivalent of the Z68 would be out. Anyone know when those are coming?

Budget wise, I'd prefer to spend $200 or less, but I know these boards are pricey, so I guess $250 would be ok. I'd like to OC the 3960x a bit if possible, so I'll need a motherboard with OC capabilities.

Thanks in advance!
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<pubDate>2012-02-10 20:23:35</pubDate>
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<title>LSI Raid</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26880465</link>
<description><![CDATA[So I need to add a SAS raid controller to my computer, but the problem is I'm running out of space (or out). The HD6870 blocks the x8 slot, and effectively blocks the x16 slot since the card would practically be touching the cooler. Any suggestions on how to rearrange things so I can make it fit? Note that the sound card can be nixed, but the PCI-e nic cannot.  

 Same system, minus the crappy cooler. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-11 01:28:59</pubDate>
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<title>Insane pc upgrade</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26862783</link>
<description><![CDATA[this PC upgrade is insane. $1,000 for a CPU what the hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRY1MfihwiE ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-07 01:02:21</pubDate>
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<title>New to SSD...Questions!</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26853961</link>
<description><![CDATA[Being a devils advocate here, and asking the question(s): 

Why not just put only the desired potentially speed-ed up PROGRAMS/GAMES on a small (64GB) SSD, and install the O.S. (and most everything else) on a much larger HDD?

I am aware of Intel`s SRT and using the SSD as a "Cache" in a RAID config, but here I am asking about O.S. installation location.

What besides crazy fast boot up times and a high W.E.I. are the main advantages of installing the O.S. (and a very few Programs) on a smallish SSD? 

Considering all the hoops necessary to jump through to keep the SSD from inexorably running out of file space, why not select just those Applications you really want to "speed up", 
and put those on the SSD? Wouldn't this be especially true if you already have kickass hardware?

Thanks ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-04 15:19:15</pubDate>
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<title>Finally got my new HP Phoenix h9t gaming pc!</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26872092</link>
<description><![CDATA[And it is awesome for a mid range gaming pc. I know HP and gaming might not go together for many. This is a new line of computers they have brought out just recently. I have yet to see a review for them. They been out about a month but evidently just recently started shipping. But, for what I got build wise. Not sure if I could have done better. I ordered mine on release day January 8th. It got delayed twice from a part "constraints" issue. Just received it on Feb. 1st. Have been putting it through the ringer for a few days. HP gave me a $30 dollar credit on the first delay. And on the second. Gave me 10% off the custom ordered pc. I got it for $1,033.99 shipped. First time I have also ever used or had a ssd. It came with a Intel 320 160gb ssd.  I also done a clean install with only the drivers and windows updates. Gotta love the 10 second boot time with the ssd! ;) I almost decided to cancel the order. I was interested in the Alienware X51. Decided against it though since it did not come with a ssd and bigger psu. HP also had the better warranty. 2 years instead of 1 with the Alienware. My new pc came with a 550 Ti. But, I took that out right away and popped in my Evga Superclocked GTX 560 from my previous system. And put the new 550 Ti in my old system. 

Upon ordering. The system automatically comes with a 600w psu. They even let you select a GTX 580 for a video card. So, I will be able to upgrade later on as well. Specs and pictures!

HP Pavilion HPE h9t customizable Desktop PC

    &#149; Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium [64-bit]
    &#149; 2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 processor [3.4GHz, 8MB Shared Cache]
    &#149; 8GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [2 DIMMs]
    &#149; 160GB solid state drive
    &#149; 500GB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
    &#149; No additional office software
    &#149; SAVE $20 on Norton Internet Security(TM) 2012 - 15 month
    &#149; 1GB DDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti [2 DVI, mini-HDMI. VGA adapter]
    &#149; Air Cooling Solution
    &#149; SuperMulti DVD Burner
    &#149; Integrated Ethernet port, No wireless LAN
    &#149; 15-in-1 memory card reader, 4 x USB 2.0 (front), 2 x USB 3.0 (top)
    &#149; No TV Tuner
    &#149; Beats Audio (tm) -- integrated studio quality sound
    &#149; Premium HP keyboard and optical mouse

Also wanted to note. The wires are not close to touching at all or in the way. The picture just looks deceiving. The system is also extremely quiet. I also like the little clear cut out window. 

 

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<pubDate>2012-02-09 03:06:58</pubDate>
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<title>Hard Drive Prices</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26486914</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone notice that hard drive prices are skyrocketing? You could buy a WD Black 1TB for 80 bucks a few days ago. Now they are $149 and you can only get one. A lot of hard drives are simply unavailable. This is a shortage that is going to last a long time. It is due to the flooding in Thailand. It has been reported that supply will not be adequate until the 2nd quarter of 2012. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2011-10-28 13:00:17</pubDate>
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<title>Intel Haswell In Bound for March-April 2013</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26872757</link>
<description><![CDATA[
 quote:As Intel's tick-tock CPU development Juggernaut rolls on, things seem very much on track, looking into the near future. Intel will launch its new "Ivy Bridge" 3rd Generation Core processor family in early-April 2012, which is a miniaturization of what is essentially the "Sandy Bridge" to the new 22 nm process, with IPC and instruction-set improvements, along with a faster graphics controller. The new process will also up clock speeds and overclocking headroom for chips that support it. What's more interesting, though, is that the architecture that succeeds Ivy Bridge, codenamed "Haswell", will be less than an year away in April...well almost.

A roadmap slide sourced by DonanimHaber pins the launch of Haswell to March-April, 2013. Haswell is a brand new CPU architecture that will succeed Ivy Bridge. According to the conventional idea of Intel's tick-tock CPU development strategy, it will be built on the 22 nm fab process, which will have gained some maturity by then. Intel follows a "tick-tock" product development model. Every year, Intel's product lineup sees either of the two. A "tock" brings in a new x86 architecture, a "tick" miniaturizes it to a newer silicon fabrication process. Earlier reports indicated that Haswell Core processors will be based on a newer socket, the LGA1150, and hence it will not be compatible with LGA1155 platforms.

http://www.techpowerup.com/160213/Intel-Haswell-In-Bound-for-March-April-2013.html

There is a Roadmap pic if you follow the techpowerup link.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-09 10:15:35</pubDate>
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<title>Laptop battery voltage question</title>
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<description><![CDATA[My 5 year old Toshiba laptop battery is on its last legs.  A charge lasts only about 50 min.  On the Toshiba site, the specs indicate 11.1v and 4400mAh.  Most of the aftermarket units are 10.8v with the same mAh rating.  Am I correct in assuming the voltage difference is inconsequential?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-09 08:56:28</pubDate>
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<title>How far can I push it?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ I got a heck of a deal on a Gateway SX2370 ($380 after tax and shipping) and want to use a ATI Radeon HD 5570 1GB card in it. I understand the PSU is only 220w and that this card should do ok? I already ordered 16gigs of ram for it from Crucial :-). I know this will never be an awesome gaming rig. I am not expecting it to be. Just want to beef it up to its max! Supposedly it is compatible to do a hybrid crossfire. Would the HD5570 be able to do this with the integrated HD6530D Graphics with the existing 220w PSU? Would it be able to do crossfire even if I upgraded the PSU?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-03 23:18:38</pubDate>
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<title>New Monitor</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26875644</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just ordered
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001431

MechWarrior Online should look good on that.
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<pubDate>2012-02-09 21:16:03</pubDate>
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<title>New Build - Thoughts?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26826897</link>
<description><![CDATA[So I haven't built a new computer in a few years now, and recently just hired so I am passing my computer to a employee soon, so I need a new one.  Whats your thoughts on this build?

Needs:
Powerful processor
Lots of ram
SSD as main (240gb is smallest I will go), data on a separate.
Graphics Card is not super important but I do want it to do 2560x1600 for 2 displays (I run dual 30's at this res)
Room for more hd's.  

Coming from:
i7 920
12gb of ram
120gb ssd
few data drives
evga 250
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<pubDate>2012-01-29 08:35:06</pubDate>
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<title>Hardware I should have bought years ago</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26857482</link>
<description><![CDATA[There's a discussion in one of the other forums about tools and I thought we could have a similar one here.  What piece of computer hardware or accessory have you bought, and soon wondered how you had made it through life without?

I'll start.  I bought a NAS device last year and I love it.  I love it because it uses less than 10 watts of power so it costs next to nothing to leave on all the time.  Now I've got a massive amount of space that I can access from any computer in my house.  It doesn't have to sit in my office so I never hear it or have to see all the cables.  And running backups takes zero effort because I don't even have to plug an external drive in.

It's Linux-based, so I can write scripts for it, make it run Cron jobs, or use it for anything else that can be done with a Linux server.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-05 18:52:49</pubDate>
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<title>largest sized 2.5&#x22; drive</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26871770</link>
<description><![CDATA[in IDE for a laptop it seems to be 160GB?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-08 23:51:10</pubDate>
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<title>New Hard drive tech - using heat instead.</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26870323</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hard Drive Breakthrough: New Magnetic Recording Technique Uses Heat to Process Information Much Faster Than Current Technology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120207133506.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2012/02/120207133506.jpg

  quote:ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2012) &#151; An international team of scientists has demonstrated a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording which will allow information to be processed hundreds of times faster than by current hard drive technology.

The researchers found they could record information using only heat -- a previously unimaginable scenario. They believe this discovery will not only make future magnetic recording devices faster, but more energy-efficient too.

The results of the research, which was led by the University of York's Department of Physics, are reported in the February edition of Nature Communications.

York physicist Thomas Ostler said: "Instead of using a magnetic field to record information on a magnetic medium, we harnessed much stronger internal forces and recorded information using only heat. This revolutionary method allows the recording of Terabytes (thousands of Gigabytes) of information per second, hundreds of times faster than present hard drive technology. As there is no need for a magnetic field, there is also less energy consumption."

The multinational team of scientists included researchers from Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, Japan and the Netherlands. Experimental work was carried out at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Dr Alexey Kimel, from the Institute of Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, said: "For centuries it has been believed that heat can only destroy the magnetic order. Now we have successfully demonstrated that it can, in fact, be a sufficient stimulus for recording information on a magnetic medium."

Modern magnetic recording technology employs the principle that the North pole of a magnet is attracted to the South pole of another and two like poles repulse. Until now it has been believed that in order to record one bit of information -- by inverting the poles of a magnet -- there was a need to apply an external magnetic field. The stronger the applied field, the faster the recording of a magnetic bit of information.

However, the team of scientists has demonstrated that the positions of both the North and South poles of a magnet can be inverted by an ultrashort heat pulse, harnessing the power of much stronger internal forces of magnetic media.

I wonder when will this come out for us to play around with, and do you guys think this is the SSD killer? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-08 17:09:02</pubDate>
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<title>[crt/lcd] Witch HDTV Color Pixel Format should I use?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26851984</link>
<description><![CDATA[The AMD VISION Control Center is telling me that my Magnavox 47MF439B/F7 Has a setting for 4 different color Pixel Formats.
1) YCbCr 4:4:4
2) YCbCr 4:2:2
3) Limited RGB 4:4:4
4) Full RGB 4:4:4
Witch one is the right one to use???]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-03 21:33:40</pubDate>
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<title>[My Review] Just got a Bulldozer 6 core, it doesn&#x27;t seem so bad</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26846827</link>
<description><![CDATA[Today I picked up an AMD Bulldozer 6 core CPU with Gigabyte motherboard (the motherboard was $10 with a mail in rebate for $10 with purchase of the 6 core CPU). 

The CPU cost $140, my 500 watt power supply was $45, my case was $42, Ram cost $35 (8 GB on 2 sticks) motherboard was $10 with a mail in rebate to make it free. DVD burner and hard drive were laying around. 

I've got Windows 7 Pro 64 bit installed, and for a budget PC this doesn't seem half bad. I have an I7 4 core HT PC, this is a low cost backup PC.

The only problem will be finding a low cost single slot graphics card that can play online games. 

I considered an I5 or I7, but the cost of this CPU / motherboard was tough to beat. I was very concerned based on reviews of Bulldozer, and haven't run any benchmarks, just installed Windows, and some basic extras (AV, alternate browser, Secunia, flash player and what not). 

The system is quiet, and overall this seems like a decent purchase.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 19:02:23</pubDate>
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<title>Can someone explain why GPUs work better for BOINC?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26867257</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've started to get back into distributed computing again (now that I finally have decent spare PCs).  I've done some reading on it, and many people exclaim that GPUs are awesome for distributed computing - way better than CPUs.  I don't completely understand why.  I've read articles about why they are better but don't fully understand it.  It just boggles my mind that a piece of hardware intended to produce video images can be so great at crunching raw data.

Can someone explain the why of this in layman's terms?

edit: mods, please do not move this to the distributed computing forums, they are not exactly burdened with an abundance of activity, and this forum has many people well versed in computer hardware knowledge.
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What smells like blue?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-07 23:32:24</pubDate>
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<title>Need help looking for an UPS</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26866340</link>
<description><![CDATA[I would like to get an UPS for my computer. It would have to allow up to 5 minutes of run time on battery power if the electrical goes out from a black out. Also it would have to protect it from brown outs and surges. My budget is up to $200. Any help would be awesome.  :)
My system has; Core i7 920 CPU, a 1TB 7200 RPM SATAII HDD, 1 DVD-ROM, on-board audio/network/usb/firewire/esata, Radeon HD4850 PCIE x16, and a 480W Power Supply.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-07 19:39:34</pubDate>
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<title>Need Laptop Advice.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm looking for a higher end laptop that has some horsepower in the CPU and GPU department. I asked in another forum but thought asking here may help too. Buying a videocard is labyrinthian to a guy like me who doesn't keep up with specs.
Anyways-----I was set on this MSI, but the price is steep for me.
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=64207&vpn=9S7-16F211-473&manufacture=MSI/MicroStar
MSI GT683DXR-473US Intel Core i7 2670QM 12GB 2X500GB DVDRW 15.6IN NVIDIA GTX570M 1.5GB W7HP Notebook 

This Asus looked fast too with the 560M GPU
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1219120&CatId=4938

ASUS G74SX-TH71 Notebook PC - Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.2GHz, 12GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, Blu-Ray Player, 3GB Nvidia GTX560M, 17.3" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Black

This Lenovo has a SSD hard drive but a GT555M GPU and smaller screen ----but is 200 bucks cheaper 
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_369&item_id=042462

Lenovo IdeaPad Y570, Notebook (Dusk Black) - Intel Core i7-2670QM, 15.6" HD LED-backlit, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD + 64GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 1GB, Blu-ray, Wireless 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, Intel WiDi, 2.0MP Webcam, HDMI, USB 3.0, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Last is this Acer that looks good to me for 860 bucks. A little slower CPU and has a Radeon 6850HD GPU. I have no idea where it ranks in speed.

http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_821&item_id=038628

Acer AS7750G-9656, Gaming Notebook (Black) - Intel Core i7-2630QM, 17.3" WXGA LED, 8GB RAM, 500+500GB HDD, Super Multi DVD-writer, AMD Radeon HD 6850M 1GB, Wireless N, GLAN, HDMI, Multi Card Reader, USB 3.0, Webcam, 9 Cell, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit (LX.RB102.074)

If you're a cheap guy like me because of a tight budget which would you buy? Which is fastest to slowest all arou nd? Which is the best deal? Thanks for looking.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-28 01:34:45</pubDate>
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