Recent content by _Silk_

Why does everyone think the nForce will be a success?? Simple. 1) Previous Experience: This is their second mobo chipset, not their first. They have three chips in the XBox, and I'm sure they would never have got the contract if they couldn't prove to Microsoft that they could create a high...

hehe... 'Fosters' - It's Australian for beer. I wonder if Intel is selling them in six-packs??

Has anyone solved this problem yet?? I seem to have the same problem. I have a 1Ghz Athlon, 256MB PC133 DIMM and an Asus A7Pro. The A7Pro is basically the same board as the A7V, minus the Promise IDE controller. I am using the latest BIOS for the A7Pro - 1005D. Almost every time I turn the...

There is nothing 'new' with the latest announced TBirds. They are simply set for a lower multiplier, that?s all. The chipset and board design is what was preventing over clocking past 110Mhz DDR. Its been known for sometime that the ev6 bus is designed to be able to run up to 200Mhz DDR...

Uhh... For the most part 256bit memory bus does indeed mean adding 128pins to the processor. Actually it would be significantly more than that as you would also have to add additional control logic lines and several ground lines to maintain a clean signal. If a memory interface runs at 250Mhz...

Who ever made those specs up, is laughing his a$$ off right now watching this. A 70+ thread based on lies... The 256bit bus is enough to proof its false. nVidia themselves said in several interviews that it would not be economically feasible. You would have to add 128pins for the data path...

I am 99% sure that those specs are faked/wrong - as well as that ridiculous price tag. I think we already heard the real specs earlier. 300Mhz 4 Pipelines 2 TMU per pipeline 1200Mpix/sec 2400Mtex/sec With Hidden Surface Removal (HSR), assuming an overdraw factor of 4, they call it 4800Mpix/sec...

Another vote for the BoomSlang 2000 I've had it for about 6-months now, and love it for games of any sort. Extremely smooth, and extremely precise. It does have several cons tho... -The design is very radical, and may not fit all hands comfortably. In general I think it just takes some...

I've read that Epox is supposed to build a dual i815 board, but I'll believe it when I see it. ixbt-labs posted a list of boards that Epox is working on and the dual i815 board was listed. They claim they got the info from a reliable source.... but I'd say take it with a (large) grain of salt...

Your right - The Mustang itself is indeed a server/workstation chip. I should of been more clear and stated the new chips will not be based on the Mustang core. AMD will eventually be releasing three chips, all based on the Mustang core. One is currently being called the Mustang (aimed at...

The 1.33Ghz Athlon will be intended to run an a 266Mhz FSB (133Mhz Double-Data Rate). It will be released to coincide with the AMD760 DDR chipset. So yes, it kind of will need a new mobo. However, you can always unlock the chip and run it at whatever speed you want. However, the 1.33Ghz chip...

I think Whitedog has got it right. AMD is currently on track to double shipments of K7 processors every quarter. They plan to sell twice as many Athlons this quarter then last. To do so they need to take market share in the high-end away from Intel - thus lower prices to make sure OEMs stuff the...

DDR memory does indeed have the same latency as SDRAM. Or fairly close. (I believe PC1600 has the same latency, while PC2100 will be slightly higher) The difference between the VIA133A and i440BX is due to the memory controller in the chipsets. The i440BX has a great memory controller that is...

Its NEVER fast enough.... :-) The Need for Speed

I'm looking to get an i815 mobo, but am unsure which. The main choices are the MSI i815 Pro or the Asus CUSL2. I am leaning towards the MSI because I have heard about several problems with the Asus. However there really isn't much info on the MSI either. My main problem with the ASUS, is that...