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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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 Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: Droolage factor : 10 |
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The new Nforce 4 chipset with SLI:
Highlights: SLI (2 PCI express video cards working in tandem), 3GB/Sec SATA support, hard-wired firewall which protects even during the boot and shutdown sequences, "Ntune"; some serious overclocking options for all aspects of your system.
Lowlights: Immature chipset, not even in production yet. Samples show the same pattern of odd RAID behavior and some other small HDD quirkiness, legendary with the Nforce chipsets. However, time is on their side to iron these out.
Read about Nvidia's SLI here:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjMz
I am seriously going to have a good look at AMD on my next upgrade. I have used Intel for my entire computing lifetime thus fatr, and while happy, I am starting to think that I am missing out on some serious coolness taking place in the AMD/Via/Nvidia (and soon ATI) chipset areas.
Corsair PC5400!! That's DDR675 folks! Who said DDR1 was dead? DDr2 is looking moot. CL4 though. 
http://www.legionhardware.com/html/doc.php?id=352
They do have an exciting DDR550 at CL2.5 though!
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/news.html
Mozilla bugs: http://secunia.com/advisories/12712
So much for tabbed browsing for a while...I never use it anyways.
New Pentium M: Highlights: 2.1GHz, 2MB cache, improved power consumption.
http://news.com.com/Intel+releases+new+leader+of+Pentium+M+pack/2100-1006_3-5419443.html?tag=nefd.top
Dual-core CPUS! but not until 2006...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041019-4329.html
Empty your wallets! Get on the tech train!  |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thought this was another thread about women. |
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JAMZ
Joined: 18 May 2004
Location: Ori Station, Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| ok whats the difference between PCI express and AGP? |
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Kim Jong Jordan
Joined: 13 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I have an AMD 64 processor and nVidea 64 bit on my laptop, sweet. It's not the nVidea you are speaking of but these companies definately have the edge in future personal computing. I just got my laptop back in June but it is thus far flawless, no problems, only compliments. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:27 am Post subject: |
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| JAMZ wrote: |
| ok whats the difference between PCI express and AGP? |
PCI express moves twice as much data over the graphics bus than AGP can. Basically it means really fast gaming. |
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JAMZ
Joined: 18 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| what mobo model is that? |
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Demophobe
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
| PCI express moves twice as much data over the graphics bus than AGP can. Basically it means really fast gaming. |
While faster, currently nothing short of experiments like this require more bandwidth than what AGP currently offers. We won't see the benefits of faster gaming with PCI express for a while yet. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Noticable differences won't be seen for a while, but the PCI express versions are doing better than their AGP counterparts in synthetic benching, which says to me that there is a small advantage already.
Looks like the virtual window people would benefit more from SLI than anything else right now. |
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