The proposed IEEE 754r standard for floating point computation states that the standard can be implemented completely in hardware, completely in software, or as any mix of hardware and software. The new standard specifies both 128-bit and 16-bit floating point data formats and operations. Is there...

Hi, Would an AMD Turion 64 be a good CPU solution for a HTPC, which obviously has to run cool and quiet, but which also has to run on a fair level of power consumption given that I plan to use is as a file-server for 24/7/365? Regards Anders

This is a copy and paste of an email I sent to ATI (which has gotten no response so far, big surprise there), NOT!! Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? thanks ====================================================== Hi, Last week or so I was having to turn the computer off then back on again 2...

Finally got a retention bracket for my AMD64 3000+ on a FIC K8-800T. Have installed Windows 64-bit on it. And I am currently burning Linux Mandrake 9.2 for AMD64 to CD. It is a board slightly over half the price of most other boards, and has allt he features one would want. 2x FireWire. 4xUSB 2.0...

Is there a 333MHz version of the 3200+? I thought the 3200+ was just a 400MHz FSB processor. I am always seeing adds in the paper saying that it's a computer that comes with an Athlon XP 3200+ with PC-2700 DDR memory... Now if it only comes in a 400MHz FSB version, isn't that ripping off the user...

http://www.expreview.com/img/news/2008/05/27/GT200-VS-RV770.png It seems Nvidia will have the advantage in TMUs / textures, and ROPs / fillrate while ATI / AMD have the advantage in shader and flops performance. This is not even concidering the introduction of R700 aka HD 48x0 X2 with dual RV770...

Hi , after flashing the BIOS of my K8V to Rev. 1003, which I hoped would solve my problems with getting CnQ to work, actually made my problems worse. Without CnQ, using QFan the MoBo runs quite well, but I´d like to get CnQ to work as the PC runs day and night and electricity isn´t as cheap as it...

I am looking for opinions regarding this notebook: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=product&id=1069301995506&skuId=6249703 (some selected text also pasted below) My questions. 1. General impressions of this notebook. Reliability, quality, etc. 2. I would like to immediately...

Hi all, Another temperature related question. Reading back through this group I can see there has been much discussion regarding this. Anyway I have an AMD 64 3200 with a Gigabyte K8NS Pro motherboard and the CPU runs at 60-65 degrees when nothing (apart from windows) is running. Give the CPU...

Hi I have just purchased an amd64 3200+ . My problem is when i want to delete a large folder the system hangs and take a very long time to delete. I have 3 disks 200gb 160gb and 80gb on the raid controller.. any ideas..

I have been reading the amd64 ABI document from the amd64.org web site, and it contains a supposedly english description of the rules for determining how to pass arguments to functions, but in fact rather than an algorithm or coherent description of some kind, it is actually a sequence of...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10005391-64.html Intel has disclosed details on a chip that will compete directly with Nvidia and ATI and may take it into unchartered technological and market-segment waters. Larrabee will be a stand-alone chip, meaning it will be very different than the...

Hi, I'm in the UK and am looking to upgrade my PC. But I've lost the link which allowed comparison of the UK prices of various components on the numerous websites available on the net. Could anybody tell me the link if you know it. Thanks.

Looking for recommendations of vendors who can deliver a fully built and tested dual opteron workstation. There are a lot of places that will build one for you, but I have no idea who will do a good job and have decent support afterwards. I would love to build it myself, but it would cost me more...

Has anyone gotten any benchmark software to work? I've tried 3Dmark2001se, aquamark3, Codecreatures, SiSoft Sandra 2004 Version, and GL Excess Version 1.2. The only ones I could get to run were Sis Sandra and GL Excess. Sis Sandra didn't detect most special features of my card (3D, Alpha...

Hi Does anyone know where I can get hold of the 64bit compiler and libraries for the AMD64. Unfortunately I don't have access to MSDN and for some strange reason microsoft is not making them downloadable. This seems a strange way to encourage people to port apps to 64 bit ? Paul

Hi all , I have a 3400+ on a ECS 755-a mobo and when I view the temperatures temp one is at 70 deg Celsius and I am not sure what part this is, has any one know what the three temp probes are monitoring? joseph

Does anyone have any numbers or information on a dual core processor stacks up to a pair of single core processors? In other words, would a 2 x dual-core processor be equivalent to a 4-cpu machine?

Hello! I cannot seem to find benchmarks, articles, stories, etc. on how high-end video cards (e.g., NVIDIA 8800 GT with 512 or so MB of memory) run on low-end systems like an Athlon 4600+ X2 system (nothing is overclocked) with Windows XP Pro. SP2 (IE6.0 SP2 and all updates). I am currently using...

The R700 - Radeon HD 4870 X2 product will be a single card that uses two RV770 GPUs. Unlike previous AMD X2 products which are CrossFire on a card, and Nvidia's GX2 products which are SLI on a card, the communication between the RV770 GPUs in R700 / 4870 X2 is *not* CrossFire. This will...