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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.

"Paper launch" came right from the term "press release." A manufacture shows some ReallySuperAwesomeExtremePlatniumUltraLimitedGamerProMaxEdition product. Journalists either get one-of-a-kind engineering samples to review or are spoon-fed facts and figures from the manufacture. They say it'll be...

Well, to be fair, that's not entirely correct. Standard incandescent lamps have heat-up and cool-down periods. The time it takes a 60Hz AC cycle to switch from current flowing in one direction to the other is far, far, far less than it takes for the lamp to cool down (and thus let off less...

Perhaps you mean "~1.0B and 1.4B" working transistors. They will most certainly be using the same core, with the 260 have a few things disabled thanks to some lasers and fuses.

Well, general short-story is something like this. Intel pulls out a new chipset for the Pentium 3 that supports this new type of RAM. Previously, it was only seen in devices such as the Nintendo N64. It promises huge performance benefits, and from synthetic benchmarks it generally appeared...

Well, I don't have that motherboard (willing to take donations, however :) ) or its wiring schematic, so we can only really stab in the dark here. My rough guess is it runs in parallel with its close neighbor, providing some filtering for the PCI-E slot above it. I imagine, if what I said is...

It appears they're finally moving to digital voltage regulation, much like Abit's later motherboards.

The DVI-D connector, which lacks the analog pins to the one side, is DVI-D1 (input 1) in the OSD. Other than that, no difference.

No. HELL NO. It's fast enough for you, must be fast enough for everyone! Stop the presses! Close up shop! That's it, go home. No more speed. No one will ever need more speed then we have now. Ever. :rolleyes: There may come a time when games and such become so realistic that further...

Short answer: no. Modern PC fans use brushless motors. The electromagnet remains attached to the frame, as a circular magnet moves around it. Brushless motors have to switch the current through the elelctromagent to reverse polarity, keeping the fan spinning. This is usually done with a small...

The render showed a 6-pin and 8-pin arrangement. They are seeing a large gap on the heatsink (which may look like two 8-pin arrangement) because they forgot about the SPIDF passthrough that the render showed to be right next to the 6-pin. It'll still be a 6-pin/8-pin.

People, this is an engineering board. It is not designed for practicality or aesthetics. It's intended to work, give access to low-level features for the engineers, and to test. Looks like they added a backplate to the socket, but not for the heatsink. We'll see if this changes.

Looks rather impressive. I got a ATi 9700 Pro when they first came out and I've been looking for a reason to go back ATi. Hopefully the performance numbers pan out. In terms of availability, rumor has it a late May launch with early June availability. Supposedly the first cards will be GDDR3...

Some quick measurements: Height to bottom: 3.25" with no tilt. Tilted all the way back it's slightly over 4". Height to top: 18.5" The stand has a circular base, about 11.5" circular. It's quite sturdy. Those worried about the stand should ask themselves, how often do you plan to adjust a...

Thats just a cover encase you only have 4-pin. You can pull it off and use the 8-pin if you have it with no problem. The same goes with covers that you may see on the 20/24 pin main connector.

I'm not sure who ACM is, but OEM cases usually lack all the features of any purchases case. Missing holes is not surprising. Depending on which wholes are missing, you can usually pick up some plastic motherboard standoffs and get away with those. See the bottom of this page for examples...

Wow, uh, the CPU probably won't even go in the socket correctly with bent pins. Remember, it's a ZIF socket (zero insertion force, keyword: zero), so don't go crazy on it. If you tried to even mount the heatsink with bent pins I would be suspect of that ever working again. For the record, you...

Pictures of the damage would greatly help the situation.

Very well done. A+ on the paint job. It's very easy to let the paint pool into those embedded numbers, but you got it down right.

Bah! How about 10,500W? Only $3,523, but it can power 6 PC's at once! http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=384

Are you talking about the 120VAC, main power fuse? Or does the fan have its own fuse? If you actually blew the 120, then check for shorts. There's no 12VDC fan on this planet that should blow a guitar amp's fuse. Fans will draw additional current during startup. It's not that significant and...

With dual-channel stuff anymore its hard to determine by the address which stick is causing it. In non-dual channel systems, you can usually tell from the address which is the offending stick (since the memory space gets added from the first slot on up). Generally, the best sure-fire way is...

Any word yet when this would be available?

Generally memory voltage runs by type. For example: SDRAM: 3.3V DDR-SDRAM: 2.5V DDR2-SDRAM: 1.8V DDR3-SDRAM: 1.5V Many different sticks, across multiple manufactures and even different models, need different voltages to run at their "specified" frequency/timing. They will/should run at...

That does. The Zalman's are even more restrictive. Thanks. Uh, wow, calm down man. Even *I* know not to anger Kyle. ;) This review isn't quite as high of a priority for me now since I'm waiting for a WD VelociRaptor.

Do you happen to remember the clearance on the back of the motherboard around the socket? The DX38BT had a few surface-mounted devices on the back that could get in the way of the backplate to the heatsink I want (Noctua NH-U9B).