Recent content by leathered

clockspeed != performance I thought everyone had learned that by now?

I'd only be happy doing this if I had some sort of shim to protect the core, problem is I can't see how it can be done with all those surface mount components.

If an app is hogging your system simply lower its priority. You never notice folding, seti, dnet etc, progs that always use 100% CPU, hogging your system simply because they run at the lowest priority.

Players who have a system with one of these configurations will notice performance gains in QUAKE 4 of anywhere from 25% - 87% depending on processor type. http://www.idsoftware.com Anyone with an X2 - download this patch and post some numbers please, it could well be enough to convince me...

fwiw AMD holds some patents on SMT, and I believe so does Sun and IBM. AMD doesn't need SMT, there are too few 'bubbles' in the pipeline to fill and, even more so with PPC. Intel will eventually drop it when they move their entire lineup over to multi-core Pentium M designs. Dual core has...

From what I've learned AMD induce these shortages themselves, and not because they have problems with manufacturing capacity. The reason? Dumping by the big OEMs, AMD has been a victim of this practice for much of the K7 era and has become almost paranoid about it. If there is a lot of chips out...

If you're not prepared to use Linux then there is a hack which will enable WIn2k Pro / XP Pro to do RAID 5 just like the server versions. Google is your friend.

Larger hard drives have higher densities and are usually faster, i.e less head movement to pull the same amount of data off the platter. I say usually because it's GBs per platter that counts, e.g. a drive with 2*80 GB platters will generally perform better than one with with 4*40 GB platters...

Electrons hitting a fluorescent surface to produce light, so basically it's a CRT ;)

This is not the opinion of a FB, but I honestly can't see any reason why someone would want to buy an Intel CPU at the moment. Certainly they have some interesting tech that they will hit back with in 2006, but that is the future and this is now. All the old arguments about AMD's stability...

You honestly think they'd post some obvious internal marketing FUD on their website? Nvidia would sue their arses into the ground. whatever :rolleyes:

If true, that would explain a lot. Given the reports of choppy DVD playback and other perfomance issues I'm still not convinced that the 360 has anywhere near the horsepower of even a mid-range PC. 3*3.2GHz cores sounds impressive but you have to remember these are PPC cores that have been...

"Any time the action gets heated in a large or complex-looking area, the game starts to spin down to a surprisingly low frame rate, regardless of whether you're playing in HD resolution or on a regular TV." http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/quake4/review.html?sid=6140243 The fact it...

The TrueCombat:Elite mod for Enemy Territory is a must-play. http://www.truecombat.com/intro.php

I think it should be stressed that virtually all consumer level RAID controllers are software based and offload all of their calculations onto the CPU. In other words, they're no better than software RAID, with the added disadvantage that if the controller or the motherboard that it's fixed to...