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hmm... I wonder how your board performs then with the DXR bios on it...

If you want to make really sure you can look at a picture of the two boards online: 7DXC 7DXR In fact the DXC is just a slightly differnet version of the DX but the DXR is completely different from both DX and DXC. The DXR is newer and performs much better than the DX/C.

PCB = "Printed Circuit Board" - the big flat thing with all the little components stuck on it :)

If the PCB is blue then it's a GA-7DXR, otherwise a brown PCB means it's a 7DXC/7DX.

<< Well Oberon .. Your score is 1065. I'd have to say you're an 'underaverage' geek ... not quite there yet, but you're close. >> Sorry BenSkywalker, I guess I'm not 'leet enough to compete with your geekdom :D

I should probably also note that running w98se with DX8 appears to be a similar speed to with DX7, but I haven't got any scores for it.

A friend's machine dual boots between w98se and w2k. I put 3dmark 2000 v1.1 on both os's to do some testing. The important parts of the machine are as follows: ASUS A7V mobo Athlon 800 ASUS V7700 Geforce 2 256Mb RAM PC133 Drivers: w98se - NVIDIA reference 6.34 w2k - NVIDIA reference 6.34 (tho...

aargh! :| ignore this thread... :o

The first HD that I ever experienced dieing was a Maxtor. A friend had a 1.6gb and it died. He had it replaced and the replacement died soon therafter. The replacement to that died maybe a year or 2 after that. This I believe was in Maxtor's 'bad' period. This experience had led me to have a...

IaPuP: q3 is appropriate to gauge stability of one's 3d system, agp etc. - which is what I wanted to do. I have managed to find out how to do demo looping though. I can't remember the site I got it from (sorry) but here it is: I created a file called 'demoloop.cfg' in the 'baseq3' dir - I...

In my mind I like to think of Rambus kind of like Hitler, and many other ill-fated warmongers: they fight their battle on too many fronts. One can only hope that if such an analogy is relevant then it would mean Rambus would run out of lawers, money or both and be conquered :P

I doubt AMD came up with SIMD. I'm sure someone like DEC or IBM could have done that, or even a DSP designer like TI or something. The idea that the first person to use something has the right to sue someone else who uses it later is silly. In order to have a legal claim over a technology you...

Sorry for this aside: Sunny129 - is the reason you have a confused face next to << Pentium II 350 @ 350 mHz >> in your sig because your 350 MegaHz P2 is running at 350 milliHz? hehe, sorry - couldn't resist :P

Czar: I don't pretend to be a legal expert, and I don't know anything more about JEDEC agreements than what I've read online so I don't know what options are open to JEDEC or it's members. All I can say is that I'm rooting for anybody that goes after Rambus! They should go down in flames :|...

goofy2000: Don't get me started! :D Rambus didn't develop DDR! They were a member of JEDEC, a group of memory manufacturers, who developed SDRAM and DDR. Rambus is claiming they own patents pertaining to SDRAM - and since 'DDR' refers to DDR SDRAM their claim to SDRAM patents affect DDR SDRAM...