Recent content by jhalada

Nox You must be imagining things. I never said that Excel overwhelms P4, I said it may make 300 or so MHz CPU look slow, in particular my Celeron 366, which is no longer stable at 550 MHz, and I have to run it at rated speed to avoid crashes. As far as P4 is concerned it is a good chip...

Wingznut PEZ: sorry about the tone of my message. I agree with you that you are not going to notice less 10% difference, but it doesn't mean the benchmarks are useless. The benchmarks links I posted to Anand's review of P4 are not synthetic. None of them. These are real apps. The Winstone...

Wingznut PEZ, "Boy, I sure wish my Excel spreadsheet would open faster. Maybe I should've gotten the *whatever* instead of this cpu." If you limit your use of Excel to opening and closing of worksheets, or recalculating the allowance you get from your parents, you are right, you...

Are benchmarks too difficult concept to understand? What do you want hear? "Pentium 4 is fast"? If you have a say sub 300 MHz processor, you will experience the faster processor with your own eyes, using programs you are acustomed to using. If you already have a say 800 to 1.2 GHz...

Imaginer, Most of the new motherboards do have the holes for the heatsink, and once the heatsink is attached to the motherboard, the weight is not a problem. As far as price is concerned, it's probably the most expensive heatsink I have seen. I am still waiting for some hardware sites to...

dew042, On paper, it looks like it is going to be the best Socket A heatsink. I am looking forward to some reviews.

KR, Isn't the way Tom tested the way people buy machines? Most people start with a budget, and try to get the best system out of the limited budget. Going with P4 blows a big hole in this budget, and you have to get crap for the rest of the system. P4 begins to be competitive only when you...

I came across a heatsink from Swiftech called MC462 It is an oversize heatsink that has the same format as P4 heatsinks, and fits only in motherboards that have the holes drilled in them for the heatsink - some of the new Socket A motherboards have them. The heatsink has a huge copper base...

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I just received the Enermax fans I bought from CrazyPc (before they run out of them), and I have to say they are very quiet. As far as the amount of air they push, it is less, but my CPUs are not any hotter than before.

cmv, You may want to look at http://www.bp6.com for more info. But as I said, at this time, I would not spend any money on BP6. If you have a single processor Celeron 355/550, the dual one is not going to give you that much more, and you will end up spending money with very little to show for...

cmv, that modification is way beyond what I am capable of doing.

I read somewhere that the simplest way to manually control the speed is to have a switch that decides between default 12V (12V and ground), 7V (12V and 5V) and 5V (5V and ground)

NovaZ, There was an article on the net somewhere about what you have to do to modify it. You will definitely have to visit a hardware store and get your hands dirty a bit. You may just as well go with some of the standard heatsinks out there and just get a quieter fan for it. My plan is to...

I have BP6, and at this point, most of the problems with it have been worked out. But the board went through a lot of growing pains and a few BIOS revisions. I am just wondering why you would get it at this point in time? It is clearly obsolete, compared to what's on the market now. The...