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    Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

    You must be unfamiliar with VBA macros, as they also are all unoptimized. This benchmark is perfect as it represents exactly what is mostly ran on excel(Which is code made to just work, only sometimes optimized for speed). Someone who spends most their time working with these custom excel...
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    Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

    You show me anywhere where I can get a solid baseline comparison of single core IPC, this excel test is relevant as that is exactly what it shows(clock for clock). Looking for Ryzen IPC comparisons, few and far between, this has also been asked on hardforum.
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    Excel speed test comparison against an FX-8350

    We need Some Ryzen benches to show the IPC gain. AMD has been at the bottom for excel crunching for awhile, would be great to see those numbers as I contemplate an upgrade. Would love to see this benchmark get resurrected as it is still super accurate for excel workloads.
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    AM1 (FS1b) motherboards at Newegg!

    Waiting for the asrock board to appear on amazon(Gift Cards!). What a nifty platform, 4K out of the box on HDMI or DP1.2, Wish the DVI-D would support my 1440P monitor, but I am liking the options. Especially the DC input on the asrock board. It's a good excuse to obtain the new samsung monitor...
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    Save power by using low-power PCIe instead of IGP?

    Its possible, check your bios settings, if you have a card and kill-a-watt you can try it out yourself. You're talking pennies a year though so don't really see the point. At least for me it is .12 cents a kWhr. You could always just build a new platform to play with, the am1 boards and cpu...
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    First sighting of a Kabini mini-itx board

    With Japan getting ECS release of two Kabini boards tomorrow, we should see similar offerings here in a matter of weeks. I am guessing initially offerings of Jaguar based motherboards starting in September with more premium boards making there way here in the states in October. I know we are...
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    First sighting of a Kabini mini-itx board

    Those prices I posted are for Japan retail, which you should know is significantly more expensive then stateside volume prices(example- MSI R7970 BE: Rakuten(Japan) = $630 Newegg= $455) I would expect prices to start at $100 and for the more premium motherboards(onboard wifi,bluetooth, fancy...
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    First sighting of a Kabini mini-itx board

    Good news, looks like the first kabini itx motherboard should be on the market shortly according to this article(August 22nd). 20,000 JPY for the A6-5200 (or $205) itx board or 12,000 JPY for the E1-2100 (or $123) itx board I expect them to be significantly cheaper state side, can't wait to...
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    Mini Itx Jaguar based mboard for HTPC and more?

    Here is a review of an asrock motherboard(use google translate), I believe it will end up being the ASRock KA5200-ITX. Boards are coming very soon...
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    Mini Itx Jaguar based mboard for HTPC and more?

    With both desktop machines and laptops trickling on to the market, January is way too late in my opinion. No official released date is is out for motherboards(or for compelling laptops either) but I am expecting the first boards to come out in august to September time frame. I will buy the...
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    Bizarre dog-slow SSD

    That is a slow SSD. Not sure any of these tips can help all that much. I had the same drive in my last work laptop(Dell M4600). The write speeds seem a little lower than normal, but everything else you have posted seems to be inline with my prior experiences with that drive. Fastest way to...
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    Decide for me.

    Offtopic but, plenty of boards have 4 ports for kabini, see below. It may be limited to 4 but pcie sata cards can be found very cheaply. The Asrock KA5200-ITX has 4 SATA ports. Also Sapphire's IPC-FT3GT2 mini-ITX motherboard is sporting 4 sata slots.
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    First sighting of a Kabini mini-itx board

    If I had a choice right now I would probably buy the Sapphire Board But when it finally hits market its going to come to I/O and price for me( I'm only interested in an A6). Any of these Itx boards could be custom cooled and made fanless. Sure wish Kabini's launch was like Haswell in terms...
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    First sighting of a Kabini mini-itx board

    All I can say is I fear I may be waiting till September for any of these boards to hit market, I hate waiting...
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    AMD Develops NUC-Like Systems with Partners [XBL]

    The intel version is a two chip solution, the i3 (17W) and the panther point chipset (6.3W). Kabini is one chip with all those features. They could easily fit an A6-5200 (25W) in there. Its pretty comparable to the two chip solution. I just want an itx board, I sure wish they were on the...
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    Help, my CPU isn't cooling anymore

    Thanks for the instructions, I will definitely be doing a cleaning when I upgrade to either ivy or sandy depending on how patient I can be. Which orange cleaner exactly? Something like this?
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    Help, my CPU isn't cooling anymore

    New thermal paste did the trick, maybe I messed up the mounting the other times as well, but this time I disassembled the mount and reassembled it carefully. This Thermal paste is a crappy BestBuy Dynex silver compound, and it seems to be working great. At Overclock (CPU 1.55V) I am not getting...
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    Help, my CPU isn't cooling anymore

    the 965, I only used the 265 briefly to test why my system wasn't booting, Fixed that and then switched back to the 965, When I switched back to the 965, I cleaned off prior thermal grease. Using the 965 now. Mount seems to be fine, but I am recleaning and reappling new thermal grease, but it...
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    Help, my CPU isn't cooling anymore

    I installed the loop last summer,There is a MCP350 pump pushing water to an old Thermaltake cpu block, then going through a 3x120mm Radiator, then to a 120mm radiator/Reservoir combo, back to the pump inlet. Only cpu is being cooled. As for Hardware, this is a 790xta-UD4 gigabyte mobo with a...
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    Help, my CPU isn't cooling anymore

    No, I don't have a flow indicator of any type, it was easier to tell when I had air in my system(see the bubbles in the tube). I believe it is flowing. It was working great before, but I may flush my loop. I just really don't want to if I don't need to.
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    Help, my CPU isn't cooling anymore

    I have convinced myself its the paste, so I am going to get some new paste, clean the block and processor again removing the radio shack gunk, and give it another try. If its not that thermal grease, it quite possible is the water block(not flat), or maybe I am not getting flow through my water...
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    Help, my CPU isn't cooling anymore

    So I have a watercooled setup. I was troubleshooting my main rig and I finally found why it wasn't booting,(stupid 1.8" IDE I was working on drive was holding up boot). In the course of troubleshooting I switched out my Phenom 965 with an Athlon 265, The water cooling was keeping the Athlon 265...
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    Ram Upgrade issue solved, Loving my AO-722!

    I have no trouble with 720p at all with Shark007 codec pack, Have you tried it? Still working on getting a 1080p mkv of the princess bride to work, Video is smooth but audio is not syncing properly, its a project, also I notice the AO722 has the pins on the board for another ram stick, I have...
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    Ram Upgrade issue solved, Loving my AO-722!

    Just upgraded the bios to 1.06, still at current speeds, I have never once found a spec sheet that states the c-60 supports 1333 Mhz ram. I am quite certain this is only a e-450 feature. The C-60 will turbo to 1.333 Ghz(1333Mhz) in CPU frequency but the MC(memory controller) is still limited to...
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    Ram Upgrade issue solved, Loving my AO-722!

    alyarb is right, you guys got it wrong, the C-60 can only run at 1066 Mhz speeds, just like the C-50 and e-350. Only the e-450 got the speed bump to use 1333Mhz ddr3 ram(and the HDMI 1.4a capability). I know as I am typing on a C-60 acer with DDR3 1333Mhz installed but only able to run at...
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    Caseless motherboard question

    Also you can easily pick up the switch(pretty much any momentary switch can be used) and LED's you would need from Radio Shack. You will have to wire it to the board, I usually just canabolize an old computer when I need wires/connectors, but you could jerry rig just about anything to make it...
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    Caseless motherboard question

    Cardboard's fire point is 258°C, Flash Point is 427°C. If the cardboard burns, it's not due to electrical components getting hot! Some possible causes for temperatures in excess of those would be the PSU blowing up on you or mis-wiring the SPDIF connector(Both have happened to me) or in fact...
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    Caseless motherboard question

    Awesome Ideas here. I was planning on just building a custom case with some standoff screws and some material I'll cut and glue together. It is ridiculous how much they charge for mini-itx cases. It's cheaper just to grab a standard ATX case with a crappy PSU than to find a nice small mini-itx...
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    AMD Fusion Netbook/Laptop For Sale Links

    E-240 single core 1.5Ghz E-350 dual core 1.6Ghz Both at 18wTDP(supposedly the big power draw is the GPU portion, which is identical.) Check passmark CPU scores AMD E-240 350 AMD E-350 770 Go with the e-350 every time if you have a choice.
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    LCD issue, Red dots on black images

    Moment of truth, guess I'll take apart and confirm this is the correct cable, http://www.amazon.com/Notebook-displ.../dp/B0049EXX9S Seems I can get one for about 22 off ebay. Thanks for the pointers.
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    LCD issue, Red dots on black images

    I have an Acer Aspire 7720-6569 which has a 17" screen at 1440x900, I have had this laptop for nearly 3 years. This problem appeared 2 days ago This is what shows up on the screen This is how it should look I tried to take a close up shot as well, but the camera does very poorly at...
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    Compatibility of modern graphic card with 3 yr old AM2 motherboard

    Questionable if his PSU can handle that card. Don't believe he has any PCI-e 6 pin, and while he could use a molex adapter, depends on how much faith he has in his PSU. The 8800/9800 GT consumes 125W. The Radeon 6670 consumes 64W . Half the power for nearly=on&prod[4582]=on"] identical...
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    Compatibility of modern graphic card with 3 yr old AM2 motherboard

    your right on track with GPU's, I put a Geforce 250 in my Athlon X2 4400+ but I have an aftermarket PSU in there. You should be fine with any of the cards you listed. Either a Geforce 240, A radeon 5670 or one of the new Turks Radeon 6570 or 6670 I think is the way to go. CPU will always be a...
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    How long before we see Mini-ITX boards for Zacate APUs?

    Asrock board is a great price agreed. I don't like the MSI board, I really don't see the need for a VGA port, at least from my point of view, I got a lot of DVI to VGA adapters if the need arises. But the lack of DVI on the MSI motherboard puts me off from that one. If the Fit-pc3 comes at the...
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    Help on a Motherboard

    Not sure on the weight, but this appears to be the gigabyte equivalent. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128441
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    How long before we see Mini-ITX boards for Zacate APUs?

    Just to update this, Newegg now has a second mini-itx board to choose from The ASRock E350M1 AMD Dual-Core Zacate E350 APU Dual-Core AMD A50M Hudson M1 Mini ITX $40 dollars cheaper than the gigabyte board for nearly the same setup(no usb3, 4sata+esata, Ram stuck at 1066Mhz).
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    How long before we see Mini-ITX boards for Zacate APUs?

    FYI: Gigabyte board for AMD zacate came up today on newegg Prior to this last week a micro-atx board was released and sold out the same day. For the ultimate form factor solution, I don't think you can beat a fit-pc3 though