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  1. Hard Ball

    So here it goes: possible beginning of the end for x86

    A couple of decades from now, 2011 maybe remembered as one of the titanic shifts in the chip industry. Not only with the success of iPad, the meteoric rise of Android in mobile, the rise of a number of ARM manufacturers (which include nVidia), and MS porting their main client OS to ARM, but now...
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    Recommend an HDMI to VGA adapter

    I'll need to make a presentation in a week's time, and the projector in the room only has VGA input; but my laptop has only HDMI output for an external display. Anyone knows where to buy a reliable HDMI to VGA adapter. This one would also need to be shipped quickly. Are there differences...
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    Report: Intel on verge of settlement with FTC and nVidia

    http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/19/intel.to.get.mild.regulation.in.ftc.lawsuit/ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-19/intel-ftc-said-to-be-close-to-final-accord-on-antitrust-suit.html http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-up-as-intel-reportedly-settles-with-ftc-2010-07-19...
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    Would Battlefield run on this system?

    I just finished getting together a system for my house. A couple people here would like to run a game called Battlefield 2 or Bad Company 2, or something similar; it's a very recent game, as it seems. I'm the system administrator, but I'm not familiar with this game or what type of...
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    Adding Radeon 4850 to a system on Antec Neopower 380

    I've purchased a second hand system from arstechnica from a trust-worthy seller (who's probably around here as well), it should arrive in a week or so; coming with the following components: ASUS M4A785-M Phenom II X4 945 (125W) 1X1GB + 1X2GB DDR2 500GB Seagate DVD-RW ATI Theatre tuner...
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    Intel charged of monopolistic practices: on account of both MPU and graphics

    Intel has been formally accused by the US federal government (in addition to actions by Japanese and Korean government, European Trade Commission, and AG office of NY) of being a monopoly; on accounts of both its general purpose microprocessor, mostly in reference to its allegedly unfair...
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    Future Microarchitectures

    I had a little time on my hand between busy spells, so I took a little time to draw up a rough design schematic for a future microarchitecture, which I originally posted on Anandtech a few days ago. Hopefull, I can spur up some good, in depth, and substantive conversations about...
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    HTPC build and Tuner cards

    Anyways, a friend asked me to help in speccing and putting together an HTPC for his place. Since I'm in CS, he assumes that I would know things that I actually have no idea about. I don't have any experience with setting up cable connection to an HTPC, or selecting the hardware software...
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    Second Life and graphics requirement

    I'll be building a system for my cousin in the next couple of weeks. She doesn't do all that much, a little video encoding and web surfing and such. But the most hardware intensive program that she runs is Second Life, and that's the main purpose of upgrading the computer. The thing is, I'm...
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    Cooler Master Case and CoolMax PSU

    I have a relatively simple question: I'm thinking about this case: http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/Products.aspx?pid=633 with this specific PSU: http://www.coolmaxusa.com/productDetail...tures&subcategory=green&category=green I intend to put the PSU at the top of the case; I was...
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    Good time to buy new LCD monitors--

    I will be rebuilding my desktop pretty soon, within the next couple of months. I'm contemplating of moving to a higher resolution screen from the current 17" SXGA screen. Is there any insight anyone here can give regarding the prices of LCDs in the next year or so. Would it be better to buy...
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    Someone should look at this post

    Here is the post from this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1999775&enterthread=y While I may evenly mild agree with some sense of this sentiment; this post simply goes way beyond what would be appropriate on a tech forum, IMHO. I simply want to bring...
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    4X4 News:

    Just when you thought that this 'QuadFather' effort couldn't get more haphazards and poorly executed, there is this in the news today: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35843 On the other hand, that aforementioned Asus board has apparently arrived in some reviewer's hand...
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    AMD 'K8L' roadmap clarified

    With multiple iterations of "K8L", being released at different times: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34433 --courtesy of Demerjian. So it seems that what we have been saying for a while has all but been confirmed. K8L will indeed launch at different times for different...
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    Dell Dimension with AMD inside -- coming in Sept

    http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/S...609-4C08-83C1-B0A5E77F4794%7D&keyword= http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/dell_q2_down/
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    Daily Tech: 4x4 is pointless

    http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3552 I tend to agree with them. 4x4 doesn't seem to serve any real purpose except as a short term stopgap in order for them not to look to bad in terms of gaming platform for this holiday season, prior to the launch of K8L. And it's really a...
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    K8L uarchitecture to arrive mid 07

    The official word is, and has been for a while (if you are not aware), that the plan for K8L launch is mid-07; which is also what I have been saying for a while. It's not Q1 07, or Q1 08, but middle of next year...
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    Please take a look at this thread

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1886950&enterthread=y
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    Please help my friend on a new system

    My friend seems to have a fried mobo/chipset, from a Dell Dimension series purchased in 2003; with a P4C 2.8. This came with mobo beeps on boot, constant lock ups, sometime HDD access hindered, and sometimes the entire system would refuse to boot at all; this came rather suddenly, since the...
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    Please take a look at all the blatant flamebaits in this thread

    Plenty of flame baits, and a number of direct personal attacks: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1858157&enterthread=y Mods, please take a look at this thread, try to tone it down, or put it down as a candidate for disabling further posting. We don't really...
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    Sticky problem with GRUB

    I don't know if any of you remember my last thread about troubles with WinXP file system corruption; thanks again to all those who replied. But to cut the story short, I have a dual boot system, but WinXP file system (NTSF) was corrupted on the entire Win boot partition, so I had to...
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    Poll: What would the price of Physx card have to be

    Just what the question asked; how much would be a reasonable price, according to your taste, to try out this new technology, and to see thousands of particles flying around after an explosion?
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    WinXP NTSF corrupted

    OK, Last night, on my workstation, which I have on dual boot between Fedora C4_64 and Win XP Prof something akin to hell broke loose. Here are the HW specs: Antec True550 Asus K8N-DL 2 X Opteron 275 4.0 GB PC3200 ECC Reg. GF 6800 NU 1 X 160GB SATA Hitachi 1 X 80GB SATA Seagate 1 X...
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    More Intel Illegal Dealings

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=947 This lends much more credence to the claim that Skype artificially fixed the table in Intel's favor with NO technical reason at all. Which may show that what Intel claimed to be code specifically written to run on DC Pentium machines nothing other...
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    You guys should seriously take a look at this thread.

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1805706&enterthread=y and the inflammatory remarks contained within, such as: This is beginning to get out of hand, and has been turned by this poster into prime flaming material.
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    FX62 to have L3 cache

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29738 This article from the Inq reports that FX62 and successors will have L3 built in at 4MB, to counter the large caches of the Conroe XE. Can anyone confirm?
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    What's the best place to buy AS5/ Is AS always better

    Does any one know of large chain stores that would carry Arctic Silver at a reasonable price, close to the price of on line stores? Is there any risk in not buying them from Newegg/Monarch/ZZF/etc ??
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    Poll :: New Case, or New HSFs

    I have been looking at getting better cooling for the first system in my sig; especially for the summer months, since I don't have A/C in my room. Thanks to all who answered questions about HSFs, and Cases in my three previous threads in C&C forum. Now I think my next purchase would be...
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    looking for EATX cases;

    I've been thinking about a move to EATX; although Asus K8N-DL can squeeze into my old ATX case; I've been pondering a permanent solution. Would would be the best EATX case under $200 and has good cooling, including a lot of places for fans (top fan a must); does something like this exist...
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    Would you recommend buying second-hand HSFs

    I'm eyeing a couple of Zalman 9500s for my dual system, to keep them cool in the summer months. There are some on Ebay for sale for significantly less than retail. Has anyone here had experience with second hand coolers; is there any downside to buying high-quality HSFs second hand?
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    Truly Momentus News: Quad Core on Current Platform

    That S940 would get the quad treatment; if that is the case, it would be royal, http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=177103857 If this is the case, then it would be 4-way computing on currnent single socket S940 system, and 8-way computing on current...
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    Zalman CNP9500

    Does any one have any experience with this HSF? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118223 Does it get the temperature down, and will it also cool RAM in slots around the CPUs. I have Asus K8N-DL in the rig in my sig...
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    NUMA and memtest

    I purchased a couple of 1GB sticks of ECC RAM from newegg recently, haven't gotten around to testing them until now. I just finished a 2 months long process of reconfiguring my main system (and the purchase of these RAM was an early part of this reconfiguration); and I tested these with...
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    Removing HSF from CPU with thermal pad

    Hey, guys, It's very likely that the main rig in my signature will undergo some major changes in configuration. I don't usually use thermal pads, since thermal grease usually offered better heat conduction; but this last time, about 6-7 months ago, the Thermaltake Venuses came with thermal...
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    Opteron 2xx OC

    OK, for the system in my sig, the dual Opteron one: I have tried to mildly OC it, I don't think that I should go too far for several reasons: 1) I need this system 100 percent stable at all times, it's mostly for linguistic computations. 2) Although the board supports OC to a certain...
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    Are UV lights and fans carcinogenic

    If any of you know the answer to the question, I would very much appreciate it. Does the UV rays generated by these computer case components belong to UVA or UVB spetra, and thus cause cancer ? I don't know if this question has been discussed before; does anyone have a good answer to this...
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    POLL: Decision on LCD looming:

    Here are several selections from Newegg. Which would be the best overall deal. This is for a gift, the recipient will do mostly surfing, photo-editing, and play SIMS2. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824009067...
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    Folding at Home question

    I'm new to this FAH business. I have heard rumours about Folding not optimally supported on AMD chips, because Intel Fortran compilers and libraries are being used exclusively, and the Intel code is written to run explicitly slower on AMD chips. First, are all these things true? And if it...
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    What's better for programming? UXGA vs. WSXGA+

    So what do you think would be the best solution if someone needs to do a lot of coding, and need to look at emacs, vi, idle, and other editors at the same time. What would be the most convenient format to work with?? (or for that matter, anyone who needs to work with large amount of text)...
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    Wrong forum -- please delete:

    So what do you think would be the best solution if someone needs to do a lot of coding, and need to look at emacs, vi, idle, and other editors at the same time. What would be the most convenient format to work with?? (or for that matter, anyone who needs to work with large amount of text)...