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    New TH7-II Bios fixes the divider problem

    Umm wheres the BIOS update ? The link doesnt work :)
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    What is the Heat Producer in P4s ?

    Just wanted to know what the principle heat producer is in P4s for a safe overclock. I have a P4 1.5Ghz Overclocked to 1.8Ghz (nearly) 119 x 15 and the temperature is 38oC IDLE and 56 FULL load. The Voltage is 1.9v. I am using standard HSF. I dont want to risk burning my CPU out but Is it...
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    Thundrbird vs Pentium 4 in Emulation, P4 aint bad at all!!

    Yes this type of code should be the strong for the AMD since it has much larger cache size than the P4 and emulation is all about repetitive op code mapping etc. Probably a fluke the AMD does so well in PACMAN thereby pulling up its average :D some guy must have optimized the driver for pacman...
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    Thundrbird vs Pentium 4 in Emulation, P4 aint bad at all!!

    Well I thought the Pentium 4 would suck clock for clock vs AMD CPus but not so.. check this: http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/mamew_bench.htm I know they are not measuring clock for clock here because its an AMD1.3GHz CPU vs Pentium 1.5Ghz columns for closest match. But in the MAME32...
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    Strictly hypothetical question about CD burners...

    Your media is bad ... thats what those errors mean. :P
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    Buffer on DVD-Rom and Speeds

    No the buffer wont make much difference. There also isnt much difference between x 12 and x16.. Only on paper. Yup get the Toshiba cos its Clone CD compatible and the Creative drives are quite bad. Clone CD is a CDR program this enables you to make 1:1 copies of programs.. which may be copy...
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    DVD-R temperature problems??

    Does anyone know anything about heat 0-30c causing coasters on Pioneer 4.7GB DVD-Rs ? For more info see this: http://www.dvdwriters.co.uk