Recent content by Brain_ReCall

Wow, depressing. I was really expecting better, in terms of stability, from Intel. I knew the overclocking wasn't going to be good, but to see it crash and burn rather easily is depressing. I'm glad I opted to skip this mobo in my new build (see sig) and go straight for an ASUS P5E64 WS...

Simple: Logitech G5

Here's my new system, MONOLITH, built around the Lian Li PC-A71B. The case is a dream to work with. It's amazingly large, not intended for the LAN-party box. Exterior: You can see my old system, Kool_Killer, based around a Koolance PC-601BW, sitting next to it. The Lian Li is bigger in...

My new build, see here for full specs and more pics. The backside:

That won't work. Those motors are stepper motors, so you have to provide it a PWM train in order to get it to even spin. It's certainly still possible, with a half-decent microcontroller, a spec sheet, and some time. Besides, these are low-torque high-RPM motors, so as soon as you try to...

One bad experience does not mean a technology is worthless. The Radeon 4870 uses digital PWM, and they are having extremely good overclocking results. Presence or lack of a PCIe switch chip doesn't imply the Crossfire system. Two devices on one PCIe slot still need access to the slot, so a...

That sounds like a very rough translation of "Return of The Jedi". That seems to be fairly accurate. :) I was an early adopter of the Radeon 9700 Pro, and the way things are going a Radeon 4870 will be gracing my next rig.

I would like to also know the status of this review. I can understand if you can't review every product that gets thrown at you, but to tease us is just downright inhumane :p

Wow, interesting "device". This could only be remotely useful for analog systems in your PC, such as an analog TV tuner and maybe (to a far lesser extent) a sound card. Essentially all it is a grounded plate between a huge EMI producer (such as a top-end video card) and some other device. It...

Re-read your linked page. They say it was a 4850, which is spec'ed for GDDR3. GPU-Z uses a database for a lot of information (especially on an unreleased card), so it may only be listing GDDR5 for the generic "ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series" that they list the card as. GDDR5 is most certainly DDR...

GDDR5 is the key to this. Here's a nifty quote from this paper: The address and command buses will be shared between the two RV770's. Each RV770 will have it's own data bus to the RAM. There are some questions as to what this would do to it. Shared RAM should make Crossfire far more...

Nehalem will be first on a X58 chipset, triple-channel DDR3, with LGA 1366 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_X58 ). Later on, you'll see the mainstream PCH chipset, dual-channel DDR3, with LGA 1160 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_Controller_Hub ). The socket will be...

No, never, not a chance. Totally different. Nehalem will bring an integrated memory controller with triple-channel DDR3 on LGA 1366 Socket. There will probably be a dual-channel version (akin to the Socket 754/939 separation with AMD), but there aren't any details thus far.

I haven't seen any retail cable passthrough like that. Most people only have one computer per case. :) You could, however, take this gem and perform some dremel surgery to a standard blank cover and get similar results. As for power, you should be able to restart each system independently...

I won't move until I see benchmarks, costs, power figures and temperatures from both. My current 7800GT is very long in the tooth, and I will be upgrading come mid-June. For me, which card I go with is going to have to be a balance between performance, cost, and heat.