Recent content by tallman45

When you say Video Encoding, What app do you use and how many hours a week ? That would be the only reason for a Quad, you are paying more for the proc initially and more for Power (all the Time) for that benefit. If you encode a little here and there, then its not worth the Quad

It has never been used for any purpose, he is just sitting on the name

Not entirely sure this the right forum for this but here goes I have a patent and a trademark on a name of a new product but the domain name is taken. The Domain Name has never been used and the owner has just renewed the name for 8 more years. I have tried to email them but no reply, he...

The last big improvement for me was when we went from OS on 5 1/2 floppys to a hard drive Green or Amber screens to color DOS to Windows The Mouse Token ring to Ethernet Novell to NT 386 to DX2 300 baud acoustic coupler to 9600bps dial up internet access (Bulletin Boards) any single...

How would you troubleshot differently had you bought at a store ? You would have went through the same diagnostic process. Its not the online stores fault the diagnostic process took so long It will not be any easier of a troubleshoot if you bought from a store, If you are suggesting you...

To many problems with CPU's ??? I have bought dozens maybe close to 100 over the past 3 or 4 years and not one CPU has had to go back, perhaps its not the store that is the problem !!

hands down the E8400 @ $139 Easier to OC, more cache, faster FSB, all amount to far more than a $19 benefit

Not sure if this is an option I now need to click on Just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 and all text is caps, even messages in Email I used to read stay in Caps and never un high light. This is in every thing I look at, even Ebay Opera and IE work fine.

open box = someone else tried it and something was wrong A few years ago I gave it a whirl and was DOA It cost me more in R/T S/H than if I just bought a new one to begin with Not worth the risk

XP or Vista knows to look for them, all 4 cores would be used, it does not depend solely on the app knowing how to use 4 cores

No all the time, regardless of the amount of cache so what you are saying is that with less cache only some cores are overclocked, the others stay at stock speeds ? That would be a No

Actually its a 200mhz advantage on all 4 cores

Software is available today, its been available for years to take advantage of Dual Cores, it called Microsoft Operating Systems Go to your active tasks, You will see approx 40 active processes running by the OS. Windows 2000Pro all the way to current will load balance the active tasks over...

there are many good ones Get one with a heatpipe cooling system for the NB and SB as they heat up a lot when you OC