Recent content by farina

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    Does raising FSB speed use more power?

    Ya, that's also a good question...need to find someone who knows about this crap :)
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    Does raising FSB speed use more power?

    So, in the case of my problem, I need to find out the difference between an E6400 (2.13GHz clocked to 3.5GHz) and a E8600 (3.33GHz) processor. How do I determine if the new chip is killing my PSU...or if it's a software issue? Thanks
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    Is my PSU meeting the demand?

    Ironically Nvidia just put new drivers out. I'll test them when I get home. My only thought was that it might be the PSU as the Video card was running fine under the E6400. When I upgraded to the E8600 I started to experience the issue. I was wondering if the same 65W chip actually consumed...
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    Does raising FSB speed use more power?

    Interesting, so for example, a Core 2 Duo E8600 (TDP 65W) would actually use more power than a Core 2 Duo E6400 (TDP 65W)? Maybe in this case it's not the wattage that's the important part? This question relates to my other question here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2159012...
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    Does raising FSB speed use more power?

    This may be a stupid question, but when you're overclocking a Core 2 Duo and you push the FSB...does that in turn increase the chip's power demand? Assuming I'm not manually increasing the Core Voltage. Thanks.
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    Is my PSU meeting the demand?

    I've got an older system, and I recently upgraded my video card and CPU. The video card is now the Asus ENGTX560 (Nvidia GTX 560 Ti), up from a GTX 460SE. The CPU is now a Core 2 Duo E8600, up from a Core 2 Duo E6400. Ever since, I've experienced random game crashes, and odd render effects...
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    Asus P6...what now? A multi-part question.

    OK, you know when your motherboard says "ROM SIP Update, don't turn off the power??" Ya, guess what happened to me and my trusty Asus P5N32-E SLI... Long story short...I now have a lump of non-working computer parts and I'm presented with a few questions: de-solder, re-solder a new ROM...