I am presently running an X64 Venice 3000 (overclocked) on an MSI K8N Neo 4. I am looking to upgrade. I have about $1000 to buy a new CPU, cooler, mainboard, memory, case, and video card. Of course I do like to overclock so what is the CPU/mainboard combo that holds the best bang for the buck...

System specifics: AMD x86-64 128 GB of physical memory Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 - 64-bit kernel 2.4.21-47.ELsmp x86_64 8 cpus I am trying to run a Java program that will take a lot of memory. In one instance I give the system 90GB of heap space with:

Hi, I bought a new computer last month, and It seems like if he was overheating. Games were crashing often, and more often after a crash. I changed the fan for a Zalman last weekend and it didn't solve the problem, but it helped. Now my CPU temperature is near 40 on idle, it was near 50 before I...

Hi, I own an Athlon x2 processor (4400+) and I'm currently running Windows XP Pro sp1 x64. My system specs are as follows: Asus A8n32-SLI Deluxe MB Asus EN7800GTX Nvidia 256 Mb video card 4 x 512 mb PC4000 OCZ Gold Rev. 2 Ram

I would like to know my options (if any viable one’s exist) to upgrade my AMD Athlon processor. TweakNow PowerPack 2006 reports the following information about my System: Mainboard Model: NF7-S/NF7 (nVidia-nForce2) 5 x PCI: 32 bit 1 x AGP: 32 bit

Hello, What are the warning and peak temperatures for retail AMD Athlon 64 X2 3200+ 939 CPUs with their regular stock fans? According to http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/30430.pdf .... 140 F degrees is the warning start and 158 degrees(F)/70 degrees(C) is...

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/242 Larrabee: 16 Cores, 2GHz, 150W, and more... Friday 01st June 2007, 06:08:45 PM, written by Arun It is amazing how much information is out there in the wild, when you know where to look. TG Daily has just published an article partially based on a...

Ricky Morris, DIGITIMES, Taipei Sources from multiple graphics card vendors have confirmed that Intel has approached them to lay down plans to enter the discrete graphics card market for desktop PCs. The new products from Intel would be positioned as direct competitors to AMD's ATI Radeon and...

I have a baffling problem with a computer I built about six months ago, based around an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. After a series of problems (see history, below), this computer ran fine for several weeks. Then, a couple of days ago, after several hours of heavy use, when I exited a game,...

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 6:07 AM Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring includes the latest software (KDE 3.5.6, GNOME 2.18, Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0) and several major new features: * Metisse, the most innovative accelerated 3D desktop technology; * open source telephony with WengoPhone;

Does anyone have a pc with two FX-74's or is there one for sale anywhere? Are there any reviews of such a PC? I went on the Alienware web site and their top PC only has FX-60- something and they don't give you the option to get the FX-74.

Is there any instruction (or any way) to generate an SMI from user mode? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Everyone thinks that Lincoln freed the slaves. What actually happened was that Congress created a new class of slaves known as U.S. citizens and

Hello Everyone I am not sure where to post this but I could not find a news group for hard drives. I have external usb drive which the drive is an IDE I used Partition Magic 8 to perform a change of cluster size so I could merge the two partitions but the Partition Magic hung that is does not...

Could someone please tell me which socket is newer, AM2 or 939?

My daughter's computer uses an ASUS A8V motherboard and W2K SP4. It was using a Venice 3000, but this morhing I finally got around to installing the 3800X2. The motherboard detected the new CPU OK. The O/S didn't seem to notice any difference. Everything is working. System Properties...

Like a real 4x4, this was intended to be a strong performer, only AMD would be relying on two processor sockets to achieve this performance rather than one. http://tophardware-news.blogspot.com/search/label/CPUs

I ahve an old northgate 486 computer that still works even after 15 years of on and off service, but I notice that if I don't start it up every few weeks that I lose all of my CMOS settings and it never seems to keep the right date and time even when running a few days in a row - I'm assuming it...

I got a new amd processor I want to install in a Dell e521 computer,it is a retail version,Dell has a oem version with a large heat sink,I want to remove the fan-heat sink from new processor and just use Dell's heat sink,how hard is it to remove the fan-heat sink from the new processor,I really...

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/230 NVIDIA confirms Next-Gen close to 1TFlop in 4Q07 written by Arun In recent analyst conferences that were publicly webcast on NVIDIA's website, Michael Hara (VP of Investor Relations) has claimed that their next-generation chip, also known as G92 in the...

I'm trying to repair an Iqon computer (bought from Tesco's) that will not boot, motherboard is an MS-6741. There's no image on the monitor and I've been through loads of testing and swapping components and I even bought a new duplicate motherboard (MS-6741) but this machine still won't produce...