Recent content by aviat72

I think the only issue is overall power consumption and reliability. Once the IvyBridge chipsets are out, perhaps time for upgrade. The chance of something failing will start increasing significantly after 4-5 years so if you can not tolerate downtime, it might be worth it to move up. Also you...

Assuming you used the onboard Intel raid controller it should be able to recover. Check out the Intel web-site and forum also. They may have some more instructions. http://communities.intel.com/thread/20735

Regarding the L3 cache, the newer reports area all saying 8MB so I was mistaken. Sorry for the confusion.

If you are going to get a degree (and not just take classes), try to get into the best school you can. You will be spending a lot of time on it so makes sure the name also adds value. A lot of top schools now offer online degree programs for working professionals. If you are company is paying...

1. Do you have to pay sales tax to Newegg? If Yes then consider Amazon, TigerDirect also. 2. If you have a Microcenter nearby their $280 on 2600K with $80 off a Z68 board deal is unbeatable 3. If you have a Micorcenter nearby go to that first and get a $2 can of air-sweeper while joining their...

The issues, if they arise, will occur over time; these are reliability related. IB is going down another node in size to 22nm so lower voltages become even more important. People are still running 1.65V because that is what they had. Intel was quite clear right from the word go that 1.5V...

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/microsoft-flight-simulator-x-soars-to-new-heights-with-multi-threading/

Not overclocking sandy bridge is like keeping a Bimmer in second gear so that the wear and tear is less. The CPUs are meant to be overclocked and run stable. Don't disable the C states and they will go down to 1.6GHz unless they need to the juice, when max turbo kicks in. And that max-turbo is...

Now if AMD can start coming out with a BD CPU + Mobo + Water Cooler for $175, all the haters will be very happy. PS: With the power consumption on OCed BDs, AMD may have to throw in a flux capacitor in the mix too.

BD is like a graduate school research project. You need to run simulations to figure out which combo works well for which load and what not. To make their engineering effort worth it, AMD should publish the internal architecture specifications in the form an architecture level simulator with...

I think you answered your question. With the cost of storage falling so much, RAID 5 is no longer considered useful on a system with a few number of disks. Just go RAID10.

V, PRO, and Deluxe have the same 12+4 power phases. The LE/LX have 4+2. For the purpose of overclock stability, the power delivery is one of the key factors. Think in terms of a V8 versus an inline 4. Both will run at highway speeds. But it is when you are passing and need to go from 60 to...

2700K has a larger L3 cache. So unless they also disable the extra cache on the 2600K this is a different tapeout.

What kind of latency are we talking here?

One caveat about memory benchmarks. Most of them measure the performance over a period of time. Very few measure instantaneous performance (it is hard to measure). The only place instantaneous performance shows up is in the extreme gaming examples where faster RAM may gave 5% faster frame...