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According to this block diagram http://icrontic.com/uploads/2009/09/P55-blockdiagram.gif p55 supports total of 24 pci-e lanes. However both the gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P and MSI P55-GD65 seem to use more the 24 lanes. the gigabyte states: 1 pci-e x16 slot running at x16 1 pci-e x16 slot...

The black sata ports are from intel southbridge the red ones are from jmicron chips. the only difference is varying levels of RAID support. (see page 8 on pdf) the NF200 chip enables three full speed x16 slots for 3way SLI.

I would say this is a normal CPu bottleneck there. Mostly because the HL2 engine is THE most CPU limited engines out there. The X2 6000+ has 1MB L2 cache per core vs 512kb per. which is probably the most significant reason for your varying results, not to mention the 3ghz vs 2.4ghz. Also...

I opened 25 tabs of youtube videos, they were all playing simultaneously just fine, each core was at ~50% usage. I set affinity to firefox.exe to cpu0, now one core is spiked to 100% and the tabbed videos are chugging. I thought Firefox was Not multi-threaded. Is the flash player...

some here have rev2's however, without quadcores... I'm wondering if someone posted pics of rev1 vs rev2. we might be able to see if the quadcore volt mod was added.

hi beagle, try page33 for teaming. Google worked fairly well searching this thread, for example I searched Teaming +site:http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=29&threadid=1978297

Aren't the 570 and 590 a different series from 680i altogether? If so, what do they have to do with the GA-N680SLI-DQ6? Is the 590 chipset's southbridge the same as the one in the 680i chipset? It's MCP55P according to the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 manual. The way I understand it is, the term "680i SLI"...

12ME-N680DQ6-1002R Rev.1 12ME-N680DQ6-2001R Rev.2 For those with the board, is this Revision code printed on the outside of the box??

If you receive a Rev.2 board, please post where u got it. Have they even shipped yet?

I'm interested in 22" Lcds. Does the backlight leak out from the edges and cast light on the FRONT of the screen?? Or is the light actually leaking THROUGH from the back??

in the bios, what's the difference between Sync, 1:1, and Auto under FSB-memory Ratio?

Check the ide cable for any damage, or loose connections on the connector. The drive could be slowly failing, make sure to backup all critical data as soon as you can. Heat makes metal expand, The freezer basically makes sectors easier to read by slowing this expansion on the platter.

Vista also has the same type of built in backup... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc...dowsvista/features/details/backup.mspx

The freezer trick has actually worked for some people. If the drive is still mechanically working, ie spinning up and seeking, then thats a good sign. I would keep trying to make the bios recognize the drive, the same symptom happened to me but i got the bios to see it after many attempts of...

Reguarding the PCI-E 2.0 standard for GPU power... Will there be a dual 6pin to 8pin Pci-E adapter?? is that possible or will I REquire a PSU with the new 8pin connector? And can someone explain the wiring, and how two extra wires doubles the power output?