Recent content by hermanocabral

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    Core 2 Duo or AMD X2?

    Im currently building 3 new workstatins for my company developers (mainly .net development with visual studio) and im considering buynig a c2d system, due to its current price. My main doubt is if the 2mb cache procs. like E6400 are really good or if i shoulb just buy an AMD X2. Since...
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    Home Server for simple tasks

    my desktop is a sempron 2200+, 1gb ddr400, 80gb 7200 hd on a a7n8x-x... i cant say its doing bad, but nowdays i do most of my development on my laptop, because when i have some load on my desktop pc (eg. 3 instances of visual studio, mysql/sql server, etc), he hangs up sometimes... and not to...
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    Home Server for simple tasks

    Hello folks! Im building a home server to perform some tasks that actually are being performed by my desktop pc... The setup: 2 X Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250820AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - $149.98 1 X ASUS M2N-E SLI Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI MCP ATX AMD...
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    Gaming Notebok - Such thing exists?

    yeah... i guess im going to buy one of the lenovo thinkpads and build later a decent gaming desktop...
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    Gaming Notebok - Such thing exists?

    lol... the problem is add more ram and replace the hd.... i guess that this is not an option to me
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    Gaming Notebok - Such thing exists?

    pretty good deal with 512mb of ram and 60gb hd.... what are we suposed to do with dual gpus and 512 ram?
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    Gaming Notebok - Such thing exists?

    alienware costs as much as the toshiba notebook and comes with less stuff. If i select a better model, prices go up as high as 3.3k usd.... i guess i forgot to mention that i only have 2k usd to buy this notebook...
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    Gaming Notebok - Such thing exists?

    wazzup!? im considering buying a notebook, but i would like it to be able to run most of today games, like bf2 (i have a monitor capable of 1600x1200, i would use it to gaming), hl2, etc. a friend of mine have this one: TOSHIBA Satellite P105-S9722...
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    multi-processor system

    what i want to say is that there is a difference between single socket dual core processor and dual socket single core processor... i just wanna know why having 4 processors on one machine doesnt speed up games... the real reason, not just "because they dont use it"...
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    multi-processor system

    i know that two or more processors doesnt make difference (two or more processors is different of dual core processors).. i just wanna know why
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    multi-processor system

    i just cant understand why multi processor systems are not better for games then single processor systems... the logic thing would be that if you have more processors, your system runs faster and your games run faster....
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    multi-processor system

    Why multi-processor systems are not better for gaming?
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    multi-processor system

    i always thought that dual processor systems wasnt best for agmes at all, and like Fullmetal Chocobo said, its even better to have a faster proc. and better video card... anyone knows why?
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    multi-processor system

    does this make sense: "games run using operational system resources. with more processors, the operational system will run faster. games will run faster."
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    multi-processor system

    is is true that if you have more processors (lets say, quad xeons), the games will run faster? for what i know, games dont make usage of more then one processor...