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This is somewhat similar to the 'problem' I was having with my ATI-AIW 7500. Sound would only be on when I ran the initialization wizard. It would be off when tuned to a TV station. It turns out, I had a mute box checked somewhere in the ATI multi-media center. It wasn't the mute on the little...

I'm really hoping someone can answer my mobo - OS independence question, so I'm bumping...

You could disable ACPI in your BIOS. But then it's up to you to get everything right. I don't know what windows will do if it was installed with ACPI on, but I think it will boot. Have no idea what linux will do, if that's what you're running. Why do you want to do this?

You might also check that your CPU fan does not blow on to your PS. I had a similar problem, the computer would freeze when doing anything that demanded a lot of power, like a game. I put it together on a shoestring and the case was small. The problem turned out to be the CPU was partially...

I think my mobo is dead, but thought I would ask before I totally panic. You see I work from home, and this is my central computing center, if you will. The hardware is nothing, it's all the time I have spent getting everything correct. I have to get it back, and that means to hell with...

Oh my God. It's only a 250W PS. I'm hoping that this microATX MB needs much less power. I have not purchased a vendor PC in quite some time. But I was spending too much time building my own, so I went this way. I have been going for 350-400W PS's on my home-built systems just to be one the safe...

One other thing. THe smaller gate lengths inevitably lead to larger leakage -> higher off-state power. And in general for the high-performance transistors nobody cares, which is why these things are burning up. The M will be a lower off-state leakage by decreasing the short-channel effects...

I disagree. Why do you think they're more densely packed? It's because the gate length is shrinking. The speed (saturation current) pretty much scales as one over the gate length. This is true until we reach around 40-50 nanometer gate lengths, although other issues are coming into play also...

THanks mechBgon. So, is it that I had the drop in performance bandwidth according to Sandra because it averaged across the 3 chipsets? That is, two of them running DC and one of them SC? I think that would come out to about 33% drop. Yeah, I have another vid card to put in. Just haven't found...

Thanks 3chordcharlie. Looks like I'll be buying another 512 stick. I'll have to find another home for these 256 sticks...

Looks like I lost LTC8K6. Can anyone tell me: Does the matching only have to occur on the same colored slots? If I put 2-256 in the blue slots, and 2-512's in the blacks, would my performance decrease from the 2-256 case? I have obtained the best bandwidth performance with the 2-256, and I'd...

Good point Pariah. Nonetheless, faster transistors mean better performance. And faster transistors have generally been obtained via smaller footprint, which means higher density. My point is we're reaching the physical limits of speed, which is pushing for architectural changes... SkipE

calam63 Interesting. When I use the Crucial System scanner, that's what it says my MB is. The one I have is a microATX board, so perhaps it's the same as the p4sdx, only a micro form factor.

Light only travels about 3 cm on a board at these frequencies. That says nothing about the noise these signals generate at these frequencies. I think it's amazing we're at this blazing speed. Physics is beginning to dictate that we start looking for architectural changes for better...

Wow, thanks LTC8K6. Yes, I've got two blue and two black. And yes to the P4SD. But I couldn't find detailed info on it on Asus site. So, what happens when I have the 512 in a black slot and the 2-256 in the blue? Does this matching only have to be according to slot color? SkipE