Apologies for the n00bish question on the front end, but what is the significance of a 90nm process? What exactly does this mean? Does this equate to number of transistors in a confined space of 90nm? Are there heat dissipation considerations? I continually read about this 90nm process, and I'm...

Hello group, i am using a amd opteron multiprocessor (numa) box with hypertransport interface & 8131 pci-X bridge.tunnel. my problem is that the efficiency of dmas on this box is very bad (~45%) & all my dma access (e.g.. mem write) are broken into 4word back-to-back chunks. the same card...

I just built my first system using an Athlon 64, it's a 2800 socket 754. I also got a Zalman 92mm cooler which is something I've always wanted to try. Let me tell you, this thing runs cooooool. I'm talking 26 degrees, people. And the fan is SILENT. I've built plenty of XP systems and the CPU temps...

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

64 bit architecture, multiple cores, it's all wonderful stuff. But as everyone probably knows, without a mainstream 64bit OS with solid drivers, without 64bit apps optimized for multithreading, it's all a bit premature. I know that this technology has its advantages now but when will it be...

Ed wrote: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_cpu.asp TOP SELLERS (06/30/2005 12:00pm CST) 1. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ / 2MB 2. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ / 2MB

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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...

ok my Tyan tiger MP dual XP board finally died (my brothers died over a year ago, we built identical twin athlon xp 1700's on the tyan tiger MP board) mine finally kicked the bucket so I just ordered a new system from cyberpowerpc.com it wasn't too bad came out to 565 (with shipping) for a MSI 939...

I currently have the following system specs that I built a few months ago: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Nforce3 mb socket 939 Athlon 64 bit 3500+ 1 gb pc3200 Corsair LL ddr ram running in dual channel ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb agp video card Creative Audigy2 ZS soundcard I have the system overclocked,...

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:39:06 -0500, Ed wrote: This SLI motherboard for Socket 754 goes under the name of EPoX 8NPA3J and provides users with the opportunity to get the increase in speed while saving some money by buying a cheaper low-end A64 processor, and the vast selection of Sempron...

Anybody can tell me about hardware compatibility, stability or other opinions about w2k3 64bit before I install it?

Hi I am shortly taking delivery of an empty Athlon 64 bit machine. I expect to begin with dual booting XP32bit and 64 bit versions So that I can get started is there anything special I have to do about loading 32 bit XPPro or does it just install as normal Roger Stenson

I'm planning on having a custom system built,primarily for gaming,internet use,and occasional CD burning.I was going to go with the 4000+ San Diego,but now that the dual core 64's are out,I'm starting to wonder if a 4400 would be a better long range choice.(I skipped the 4200 because for a small...

Is this the first system bundled with an x64 Windows option? Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050630_192018.html Yousuf Khan

Hi, I have just installed a new Venice 3200+ in a Asus A8N-Premium. I noticed recently that whenever there is very heavy disk use (copying over GBs, or installing software from DVD), the CPU useage will fluctuate very heavily from 30 to 100% several times a second, and the computer will...

Niether Microsoft, AMD, nor Intel are coming clean out to the public about what the conversion to 64bit architecture really entails for backward compatibility and performance degredation of existing applications. Backward compatibility has been the bane of CPU designers for the last 20 years. In...