I did some research on optical drive transfer rates and the majority of the new optical drives are still ATA33 standard, including Plextor 740 and Nec 3550. The only dual-layer burners that are ATA66 standard are the Pionner DVR-110D and the LiteOn SOHW-1693S. LG also has an ATA66 drive but it...

Does anyone know where I can get the 64 bit Vista Beta OS? Richard

At this site, Motherboards.org, Asus has one of the worst performances from its A8N32-SLI board. http://www.motherboards.org/ranking/motherboards/AMD939pcix/0_8_2_100/ Check it out. -- Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939, A64 3500+ @ 2.29ghz using bios High Perf settings 2 Gig Dual Channel OCZ PC3200 Platinum...

Ed wrote: Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2 $1,236 Sempron 2800+ AM2 $67 Damn, that's just an unbelievable price difference between two processors that come from essentially the same core! Yousuf Khan

I'm sorry if this question has been asked and answered before, but what's the difference between the Athlon 64 4000 90nm rev and Athlon 64 4000 and is it worth the extra $36 (according to pricewatch.com as of 4/7/06)? Thanks!

Does anyone know how to disable hardware data prefetch on the Athlon64 architecture? I want to turn this feature off because I want to use software prefetching instructions to load cache lines from memory and I don't want the hardware prefetcher interfering with my software prefetch schedule. The...

I'm looking for advice on online retailers to buy from. Looking to get an amd x2 4400-based system, and all of the retailers from pricewatch seem to be a little shady (smksuperstore, supergooddeal, pcparts.com, magicmicro.com). Does anyone have any suggestions of reliable online retailers to buy...

I'm currently running an early Tyan Thunder motherboard w/two of the 240 CPUs, along with two 1 gig sticks of RAM and a 5200 NVidia video card. Since this motherboard only has PCI-X slots (which aren't PCI-Express), I've been very limited on how decent a video card I can buy. The 5200 seems to be...

They claim they will surpass AMD with new cpu's this year - more powerful CPU's with less power consumption. Do you think this is true or will AMD continue to stay ahead? Is Dell still using only Intel CPU's?

Just purchased a dual core 4600, is this cooler http://www.thermaltake.com/product/cooler/retail/a1838/a1838.asp ok for it? Dan

Am currently using the AMD XP2500+ and thinking of upgrading to the 64 series. Being a newbie, will there be a noticeable increase in performance please?

I just got a new AMD X2 4200 system... I've been looking for some kind of tool that gives me a bit of info about what each CPU is doing... IE if I boot up a few programs I'd like to see which CPU is doing what, how much memory each cpu is using, how much load each cpu is under... etc etc.... Any...

Does anyone know if dual-core chips (in my case an AMD) or Windows XP x64 or both tend to cause the main drive (C:) to run hot? I have a Western Digital SATA drive which I can easily get above 55 degrees C, according to the HD Tune utility. The utility's web site also says drives shouldn't be...

Hello, While reading this x-bit lab review/report I came across this interesting look tool. I was wondering if my cpu was overheating at some places... (because I was worried about a little bit of missing thermal paste material, which is probably no issue but o) I was also wondering if artic...

Hello, I'm considering buying a new AMD X2 processor. I've not made choice between socket 939 (which allow me save old RAM and pehaps 939 motherboard) and new AM2. But I want a CPU with Pacifica enabled. Where can we find information about avaibility of AMD processor with Pacifica, for AM2 or 939...

The CPU fan on Mom's Athlon XP 1800+ is beginning to make a horrible buzzing noise. If we put the heatsink & CPU fan from my Athlon XP 2400+ system and put it on that CPU (the 1800+), it would work fine, wouldn't it? (It's the stock CPU fan and heatsink.) I'm getting a new heatsink/fan anyway.

I am looking at about a 325 dollar budget for a new processor. I am looking at the x2 3800+ (Dual Core) S93.9 CPU and the AMD 4000+ (Single Core) s939 CPU. So far on various web sites they do not do a side by side or verses comparison with the AMD X2 and single cores (or at least these 2...

I'm seriously considering purchasing an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe, paired with an Athlon 64 4000 90nm rev. Before pulling the trigger, does anyone have any strong objections to this mobo? What about SATA2 support (and does SATA2 even make that much of a difference)? Thanks in advance.

Hi, How can you see what kind of harddisk you have (IDE,SCSI,SATA,SATA II? Different conections? Thx

I have an AMD 64 X2 3800+ processor with the stock heatsink, I need to RMA the motherboard but can't get the heatsink off. I can't boot into windows but I can boot from a floppy, can anyone recommend me something I can put on a floppy so heat up the CPU enough where I could get it off? I tried a...