Recent content by GundamF91

Just wondering if anyone reuses old CPU/systems. I still have a complete set of Pentium II 223 and its board and parts, as well as a complete set of Athlon XP-M "Barton" with its Socket A board. I have lots of fond memory using them: all those nights of college papers on the Pentium II, and the...

it does look like that 25nm NAND is actually physically less capable compared to 34nm. This is a shame as normally the die shrink meant more efficiency, but here it's the reverse.

I sure hope OCZ recovers from this, or maybe this is a problem across all SandForce based drives. I think reliability is the one major thing that's been overlooked by everyone looking to SSD saturating the I/O performance. I mean how often do you hear about HDD failing after 1 or 3 months? It...

$1/GB.

They're both low level cards, but the 4350 is a perfect cheap HTPC card, low power, and good enough for 1080p.

Mine was Pentium II 223, I think bought bought back 1997. Those were the days. The DOS memory problem was a PITA to deal with when trying to load games, had to keep adjusting Himem.sys and getting rid of TSRs. They sure have come a long way.

Yeah, it sounds like Bootmgr that's having corruption, which could happen to HDD as well. It's more likely of a problem within Windows OS. But this would make me feel iffy about using this particular SSD.

I'm almost ready to get an SSD, and was looking forward to some nice performing SSD using the new 25nm NAND, but now I'm reading that 25nm is less capable than 34nm ones. But why isn't the price reflecting this? Things have remained largely for past 4 months or so. For one thing, switching to...

For dedicated machines, for gaming or video rendering, you're going to be able to do 8core or even 16, but 4 is a pretty sweet spot and plenty for normal use. But Quad core obsolete? No way! Not even single core is obsolete, the reason is that the concept of computing is changing...

it's just standard AMD Catalyst suite, nothing special between 58xx and 57xx. My 5870 idles around 54c, so maybe your case?

By the way, if you quiet the CPU fan down, your wife will probably complain about your case fan next. So be thinking about which case you want. :P .. after that...do something about the power supply fan too! :D

I say go with Hyper 212. I have the HyperTX2, it works great on my AthlonII X4. Also I have water cooling on my Penryn, it's working great if you keep it maintained.

they made better memory than OCZ too! But does 25nm NAND chip mean less write resistance? I thought it wont' have as many write cycles.

Could it be memory? best to run Memtest to isolate the faults to either memory or CPU (or the board connection to either). If your chip is getting same temp, I'd suspect its' due to other parts of the computer. What about the GPU? it could be faulty if screen locks up.

The speed of Watson in researching the answer also factor into his response time. If Watson couldn't complete the query as fast, then it could not beat a human buzzer, despite Watson's quick electrical buzzing. We saw several times where Watson had the right answer but was beaten by human buzzer...