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    939 - Buy Venice or wait for Opteron?

    if you guys are giong to spend a few hundred on a CPU then i cant see how you cant get dual core. i say venice 3000 and the next step is X2 3800, nothing in between.
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    Sun has a plane flying over Corp Dell

    i posted this but figured you'd never find it in there... iamwiz82, these are for x86 servers. they have OPTERONS in them. they're bad-ass. cheap, cool, fast, stable. the sparc stuff, might have been good for its time when there werent excellent commodity servers, but now there are. so...
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    Notebook for an Engineering Student...

    also, it depends which turion. check out http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Pro...ormation/0,,30_118_12651_12659,00.html you can see that the ML line is 35W and the MT line is 25W. unfortunately, it seems hard to find a 25W version. can't figure out why? everyone seems to be using the...
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    $250, circut city, sempron 3100, 256 pc3200, 60G, DVD burner

    oops, thanks this was the link http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/484824 but i guess you're right, there are better deals out there. just found something similar for about 100 dollars on FW. damn! i'm not going to lose any sleep over it though, i did well. so i guess my big point is that...
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    Notebook for an Engineering Student...

    agreed, this one looks real good. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm...957-64295-89315-321838-f33-471753.html
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    $250, circut city, sempron 3100, 256 pc3200, 60G, DVD burner

    if u want something out of the box, http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=1...key=y&keyword1=t3101 got it for my parents. its actually pretty good. and it comes with a dvd burner. needs ram though. the hard drive is LOUD! it uses a via chipset with integrated video. i...
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    Upgrading motherboard & CPU for gaming

    ummm, not sure if its the vid card or the chip. i'd look at some benches on the web for your platform, you could probably figure out where the problem is. if you decide to upgrade the chip, check out the venice core 3000 A64. its not a huge upgrade, but its a fantastic overclocker, so you...
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    POLL: Which processor do you use

    wow, there's an %80 market share for AMD on this poll!
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    AMD or INTEL for a laptop??????????

    there is a 25W amd turion part that should be really good. also, 25W for an A64 includes the memory controller which the centrino does not have on die. the mem controller isn't factored into the P-M's numbers, but will surely make its chipset work a lot harder, prob a few watts worth. so...
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    POLL: Which processor do you use

    old school style. K7, barton core, 2500. its fine for me, i run linux and don't play games. i'll let it run a few more years and upgrade it to some 128 core, 10THz, AMD K43.
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    amd mobile xp.. opinions?

    http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts...U&DNAME=Motherboard+Bundles+By+AMD+CPU i hope this link works but its for cpu/mobo bundles on mwave. you can pick up a socket 754 sempron and mobo, which should outpreform a athlon xp. its not 64 bit, but niether is the AXP. if you wanna be...
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    Who is planning to get dual core CPUs as soon as its released?

    http://theinquirer.net/?article=22289 it shouldn't be long! this article says you can get dual core opterons this month.
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    Looking to build a very low powered mini server...

    the geode, as far as i know is a business to business product. in otherwords, you're a company building a device using the geode, they'll sell you a thousand chips. its not neecssarily available in the consumer market. or is it? not really sure. but it is possible that someone is selling a...
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    Looking to build a very low powered mini server...

    yeah its really cool! fast and fanless, can't beat that! as far as how you can get it, don't know, but i wish i did. those sites all have info and links. i suspect that if you read all that and follow the links around, you'll find something. also read the comments on the anantech link...
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    Looking to build a very low powered mini server...

    check these out... you can prob do something with this... http://www.mini-itx.com/news/76391757/ http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=22942 these are fast as they are athlons, but only use 6W and 14W. the 6W version doesnt need a fan. sweet! there are probably mini-itx...
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    XPS-2!!! Best Gaming Laptop Evah!

    this is the greatest evah... http://www.voodoopc.com/sellPage.aspx?productID=1019
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    Looking to build a very low powered mini server...

    so if you use 2 sticks, you could get dual chanel out of it.
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    Looking to build a very low powered mini server...

    754 is single channel and 939 is double channel. if you have a lot of sticks around, 939 would be a better deal since you'd be able to use both channels. think about it. the 939 is pretty cheap and a great OCer.
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    a64, EM64T, itanium..

    yeah if you wanna overclock get a 3000 or a 3500 athlon 64. make sure its 90nm.
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    Looking to build a very low powered mini server...

    yeah you might not need 2 opterons. that might be overkill. however, if you do want them, you can get low power versions. i think they are called the HE or the EE, but you will pay for them. if you can, i think wisdomtooth had some good recs. i'd use an A64 3000 or 3500 winchester, the...
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    Do mac laptops get better battery life?

    OSX rocks. its super secure and has lots of apps.
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    Looking to build a very low powered mini server...

    check out this thread. very similar. http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/77909774/m/647007920731
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    Which of these notebook should i get FOR GAMING?

    A64 for gaming and #3 looks pretty good.
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    SSF

    amdboard linked to this a few days ago, this is where i got the idea. http://babelfish.altavista.com...9%2fetc_geodedual.html
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    SSF

    here's an idea... http://www.amd.com/us-en/Conne..._10837%5E10858,00.html little description. these are AMD geodes, but they are geodes based on the mobile athlon, so they're basically underclocked and rebranded (i think). these would plug into socket A slots. the 1ghz version uses 6...
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    I'm going to order a gaming rig...

    agreed for gaming get an AMD athlon 64. compaq has a gaming rig too. there are also a bunch of smaller companies like ABS, northgate, polywell. dont really know anything about them, but you should check them out too.
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    1-25-05: 64bit < HT ?

    hey, 64 bit isnt useless if you use linux! also, vian, check out my earlier post about HT and another thread about HT, http://forums.anandtech.com/me...adid=1504149&forumid=1 point is, i contend that HT wouldnt help AMD because AMD has a short pipeline that is getting enough data. if it...
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    1-25-05: 64bit < HT ?

    agreed on the increase in surface area. i don thtink its a 75%, it should be close to 100%, sinec i do believe that they are just 2 plain old cihps. also, according to the inquirer who i think borke the story, HT will be disabled, because with HT the chips were getting too hot. i really...
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    Hyperthreading - is it a big deal?

    i just posted this in another topic... HT isnt the end all be all. it helps the P4 because its pipeline is like 34 stages or something. one branch misprediction and the whole thing is empty. big bubble. so since the whole huge pipeline was empty all the time they tricked the OS into giving it...
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    1-25-05: 64bit < HT ?

    HT isnt the end all be all. it helps the P4 because its pipeline is like 34 stages or something. one branch misprediction and the whole thing is empty. big bubble. so since the whole huge pipeline was empty all the time they tricked the OS into giving it 2x as much data. if HT is the end...
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    AMD vs. Intel Processors

    i think he meant it the other way around.
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    Sempron or Celeron?

    sempron is my vote. there is a difference b/n the socket 754's and the socket A's. of course the 754's are entirely different chips and are really much better. in those cases, the athlon XP is cheaper, and you mgiht want to use that as a middle ground b/n the A's and the 754's.
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    Difference between P4's for OCing

    i think you could get more milage out of a 90nm A64 3000. they can go from 1.8ghz to 2.6ghz, at which point it will handily beat a 3.5ghz P4 (which seems to be the max of what people are getting on the 2.4 p4, with the norm probably around 3.2) the A64 is also 64 bit, it stop some viruses...
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    Athlon xp 2500 mobile

    congrads bde. as5 should give you a few more degrees. it shoudl only run you a few bucks too. something you might want to think about. read some of the reviews. they should compare as3/5, see how much it will get you. but at least you have an idea of what was wrong.
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    Athlon xp 2500 mobile

    BDE, your persistance is admirable. certainly you didnt waste your time, you learned lots. next time you'll get it right. in the mean time, i think you're right to sit back and enjoy your 2800. Barkingmad, i think its time to let the K7 die and move on to the A64. the 90nm A64 3000 has...
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    Which is better for my purposes?

    way to go! you did well. i'm completely video defunct, so i have no idea how big your vid card is, so really don't listen to me on this, but i think that 350 watts will be more than enough. the A64 winchester is realtively efficient, it should still use more than the GPU, so i think u...
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    Are Pentium 4 Processors Still The Processor Of Choice If You Do A Lot Of Encoding?

    overclockign really isn't such a big deal, it can be, but especially when a chip is as overclockable as a 3000 winchester, or a 2500/2400 mobile barton or a 2.4ghz P4, it gets even easier. you like that? i mentioned a P4? ;-) anyway, can you post a link that that comment on TOMS? i just...
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    Are Pentium 4 Processors Still The Processor Of Choice If You Do A Lot Of Encoding?

    the 3.8 sucks 115 watts. thats way to many. http://processorfinder.intel.c...Spd=ALL&amp;CorSpd=ALL its also $795 http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=19-116-190&amp;depa=1 if youre lucky you might be able to overclock that thing to 4ghz. that will put it over 120 watts. prob need a 2+ lbs...
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    Are Pentium 4 Processors Still The Processor Of Choice If You Do A Lot Of Encoding?

    check these benchs http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=65000326