I built my current computer in the beginning of 2008. I went to New Egg today and I was very impressed with their new Phenom II cpus. They have pretty much every power feature you could want. So have they restored their reputation with gamers?

Yes, this is cross-posted, because IMO it deserves to be. This is a milestone in computing performance, thus, IMO, it should be as widely posted as possible. This isn't spam whatsoever, so if you want to get ****ed that it's a cross post, okay, just don't think it's spam. I posted about the...

Analysis PR teams gear up for carnage By Charlie Demerjian: Friday, 02 May 2008, 5:05 PM THIS SUMMER WE are going to see an large scale GPU war, something we haven't really seen for a few years now. Nvidia may have all the headlines today , but ATI has been plotting and rebuilding for the...

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...

Windows7 has an XP "compatibility box" included but I am told it requires a specific flavor of virtualization and the Intel Atom 500 CPU series was named as being compatible. Will AMD 64-bit chips run XP mode with Windows7? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/03/nvidia-admits-defeat-g92-vs Nvidia admits defeat in G92 vs. RV670 battle 3DMark wars By Theo Valich: Friday, 05 October 2007, 9:39 AM IN THE FAR EAST, 3DMark is everything. You can say whatever you want about canned benchmarks, but nobody...

I don't know if this is well known or not but AMD has used different criteria in giving the Sempron line of cpu's its PR numbers. So don't buy a Sempron 3100+ expecting it to be faster than an Athlon 64 3000+. Because it's nowhere close to as fast. AMD ommitted a bunch of the benchmarks used for...

I'm still running an ancient Athlon MP: http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/currentcpu.jpg I want to upgrade. I'm thinking about a Phenom 9100e, because I want the low wattage (65 watt vs. 125 watt). But that processor runs at only 1.8 GHz core, which is the same clock speed as my Athlon...

I have never used an Athlon 64 before... What are the procedures for installing one as well as the heatsink? Are there anything I need to watch out for especially when mounting the heatsink? I have always installed Athlon XPs in the past... I heard that the heatsink installation isn't as risky...

I am building a new PC, AMD X2 is the only thing I am sure of. As for mobo, probably Abit. What I am having the most trouble is pinning down exactly what memory I should put in this thing. First, let me say, I am not a gamer, so that is not a consideration. I do some occassional photo scanning and...

Does anyone here know what kind of thermal paste AMD uses on the pad on their latest heatsink/fans in the retail boxed CPUs? I picked up a retail boxed Athlon 64 3000+ CPU with a Venice core. The paste on the pad is silver and looks like it's either silver or aluminum. If it's already silver...

Intel has made over $500,000,000.00 investment in INDIA. NOW INTEL SAYS THE WORKERS IN THE USA WON'T WORK. INTEL is investing ANOTHER $1,000,000,000.00 THAT IS ONE BILLION DOLLARS in INDIA and is taking jobs from AMERICA WORKERS to India. Basicly, INTEL says SCREW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Got all my computer components today and built my pc. It failed to start up. No image or signal from the graphics card (Power Color Radeon 9800XT). Tried to reset CMOS - no result. Unplugged every component apart from the eesential ones (memory, processor, graphics card and input devices) -...

A friend just picked up a Socket 939 micro-ATX motherboard from MSI, the RS480M2 with integrated graphics. It has an ATI Radion Xpress 200 chipset. I'm not too familiar with this chipset, any word out there about its compatibility, reliability, and performance? Yousuf Khan

Hi I was stupid enough to buy this chip to upgrade my computer. Now after 3 motherboards I have had only partial success. This is like the PC deferred success (utter ****ing miserable failure). So far I have had one successful boot. I installed windows and installed the MB drivers but have not...

I have recently built the following computer : AMD dual core 64 bit 4200+ ASUS 8AN-SLI mobo 2 gig Hynix DDR ram 256Meg 6600GT Pcie vid card 250Gig SATA-II Maxtor HD (16meg buffer) Thermaltake 450 W power supply this sits in a Full tower case with a fan sucking cool air in at the front.

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=230 They tested everything from no case fans to 5 case fans, and the winner was the rear fan(s) only. Just amazing. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/

ok I was thinking of building an athlon 64 system then I found a site that sells barebones with custimization. I built a whole setup for about 600 (3000, MSI board, 2 80 GB drives in RAID 0, 256 PCI express card, 1GB fo ram in DUal channel mode, case and power supply. my question about this is...

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