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    SATA Lock ? What is it?

    err... so your tellign me that SATA port 2 is both locked AND unlocked on your PowerBook ? ? ? :confused:
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    Athlon64 939 - 754: help me choose!!!

    Here, copy my recent purchase and you *should* be ok .... <shameless plug> http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=28&threadid=1499117 To answer your questions Get a 90nm AMD64 chip (newegg tells you what nm size in their descriptions) this IS a Winchester. Get a 3000+ if you are on a...
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    SATA Lock ? What is it?

    so even though most AMD64 MB have PCI and AGP locks that seem to work... .... the SATA controllers are running off HT base frequencies? opps! a bit of design oversight! Does this happen to my board? (woudl be nice to know BEFORE I buy a SATA drive !) :confused:
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    NVIDIA nForce Professional

    Looks like a pretty amazing development. I think you have to hand it to AMD for going with Hypertransport. Looks like it is really working out well in the long run. At this rate there will be Hypertransport LEGO(TM) - just get your hypertransport CPU and hypertransport I/O controllers and...
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    amd choices

    I had to agree when I made my purchase: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=28&threadid=1499117 Let's hope I can do some serious overclocking. ;)
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    SATA Lock ? What is it?

    I read snipets of concern over SATA Lock and corruption of SATA drives.... but a search of the forums for "SATA Lock" only turned up this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...y=y&keyword1=sata+lock I have an Epox 9NDA3+ on order with 3000+ Winch. and I WILL be overclocking. - will...
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    To RAID or Not? / MB or PCI / New HD or Old?

    Ok - So I got the 250Gb W.D. 8MB 7200RPM PATA circuit-city offer today. I'm thinking I'm gonna end up turning my old hardware into a HTPC at some point and this will make a good movie storage drive if/when i move onto something SATA. :-)
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    To RAID or Not? / MB or PCI / New HD or Old?

    Thank you for all the comments. I saw the Raptor RAID 0 article but I have my concerns that since the drives are so fast that you are not seeing hte imporvements you would see with 7200RPM drives in RAID 0 vs. single. Hwoever I think I will go with the set-up above. With the 2x80Gb WD as...
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    To RAID or Not? / MB or PCI / New HD or Old?

    Ok, Just about to put together my new system when I get the parts in a couple of days. It will be for: * Windows XP (and typical applications) * Online Games playing (so quick level load a must to have a ?head start?) * MP3 / MPEG 2 / MPEG 4 encoding. * Reading and/or writing from/to...
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    Best 'budget' processor for scientific applications?

    Hey, If it's not too sectret why don't you complie a little .exe of you most common routines and ask a few people here to give you benchmarks on their systems? If you think that memory bandwidth might have somehting to do with your performaqnce on these maths routines then there seems to be...
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    Traveling faster then the speed of light?

    As f95toli pointed out I should have specifically said the speed of light in the medium. LOL - obviously not.
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    How many people still use floppys?

    Floppy drives in PC for as long as 1) Windows install asks for the addtional storage driver disk to be insterted into drive A: 2) Lab equipment has better USB/100BaseT/GPIB support to make capturing to floppy less atractive.
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    Traveling faster then the speed of light?

    I find it interesting to note that?. There are many places on Earth where particles are indeed traveling faster than the speed of light? What people do not distinguish is that special relativity states nothing can travel faster than the speed of light IN A VACCUM. So if you are in...
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    939 AMD64 new set-up - what would you buy on a budget?

    Well, It is ordered now :D I could have probably saved a few bucks by shopping around but I like the reliability of NewEgg so the list is: Compact Screwdriver GE506 AN N82E16800999208 1 $10.00 MB nFORCE3-Ultra EP-9NDA3+ EPOX RT N82E16813123222 1 $126.00 CPU AMD 64 |3000+ ATHLON...
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    939 AMD64 new set-up - what would you buy on a budget?

    Ok, after reading http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1475190&enterthread=y and working out that selecting memory clock of 166 or 133 (instead of 200) allows memory clock underclocking ... I now intend to go with vanilla PC3200 (400MHz) RAM and aim for 250 FSB (or HT?) for CPU 1.8Ghz...
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    amd xp-m 2400 + vs xp 3000+

    I have an XP-M on my KT266a. Although i have not / can not try faster FSB (than 266Mhz) I do not think it will be a problem as most XP-M are barton core (check www.newegg.com - they tell you what core you are lookign at) so should work at 400Mhz FSB just like other Bartons. The thinking is...
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    Where are the MP3 and MPEG 4 codecs that run on our GPU's?

    Aww shucks..... So still no software? :disgust:
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    939 AMD64 new set-up - what would you buy on a budget?

    I would like firewire - An I liked the Anadtech review of this board which showed good OC potential. 1 - It is OEM so I'm thinking of a Thermaltake Venus 12 CPU Cooler http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=23&manufactory=BROWSE 2 - great :-) 3 - I see one comment that this stuff : pqi...
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    Where are the MP3 and MPEG 4 codecs that run on our GPU's?

    <rant on> For over a year we have been told that the Nvidia 6xxx series with its true 32bit FP registers and programable shaders can run "programs" and do maths co-processing (vector / DSP work) at speeds x10+ that of our fastest desktop CPU's. Whare are the killer Apps ? Where are the...
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    939 AMD64 new set-up - what would you buy on a budget?

    I have read all the reviews and done as much research as possible to build my new AMD64 system. I am after the best bang-for-buck and with that in mind I intend to moderately over clock my system. I have a 6800 (vanilla) AGP board that I am bringing over from my old system. So I have...
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    AMD64 939 complete OC setup feedback?

    I very deeply appologise for the double post. Please see http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1499117&enterthread=y instead and get a moderator to delete this one???? Sorry!
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    Nforce2 Ultra - Dual PC2100 Benchmarks?

    Umm... the Nforce-2-ultra-400-gb has dual channel ram support and NO inbuilt graphics... http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...ts/showdoc.aspx?i=2051 So can anyoen with that style MB set thier ram to PC2100 speeds , with dual channel ON anddo a Sisoft-sandra benchmark test? :-)
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    3000+ Barton or 3000+ Sempron (Considering XP-M also)

    Get the slowest XP-M that is still a Barton Core (Newegg.com are good at tellign you what the core is). I have a 2400+ XP-M in my Abit VIA KT266A MB running at 2.133 GHz (133 / 266 x ???). the maximum multiply for my MB was 13x 133 so I used thin strands of wire dropped in the MB CPU Socket...
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    Nforce2 Ultra - Dual PC2100 Benchmarks?

    Good-Day Everyone! I'm looking at a performance boost for my current system and I am trying to find out 1) If Nforce 2 Ultra boards support PC2100 (266Mhz) DDR Ram 2) If there are any benchmarks of their performance vs. Single Channel PC2100 and Single / Dual Channel PC3200 ? I'm asking...