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    July 22nd Intel Price Cut Chart

    can't wait for the Q6600 but any idea how long it'll take from july 22nd for the retail prices to come down?
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    P35 supports PCI-Express 2.0

    a lot of features the P35 northbridge has been overlooked by mobo manufacturers the P35 has native Gigabit ethernet but everyone uses marvell external controllers It has pci-e 2.0 but no one uses it I heard it can split pcie lanes into dual 8x but again everyone has decided to use 16x...
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    Trading a 1080p Sony XB3 46" LCD for Three 50" Plasmas ?

    ^^ thats a good point he cud just buy a cheap 1080p samsung easy I'd suggest u ask which model those 50 inch tvs are If they turn out to be good,go for it 3 TVS>1 But this whole story seems fishy(no offense intended)
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    DDR-3

    ATM don't bother with ddr3 the only decent one i've seen is the kingston ddr3-133 @ 7-7-7-21 timings which just abt matches ddr2-800 @ 3-3-3-8 Go 2 x 1 GB of DDR2-800 with cas 3
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    TechSpot's HD 2900 XT Review

    it cud be true cause with every driver release there were gains in performance and xbits reviews shows the HD 2900 xt beating the GTX occasionally or matching it while staying ahead of the 8800 GTS cards
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    Are the power requirements for video cards ever going to fall?

    i think power consumption will decrease once intel releases larabee its architecture is completely different from whats there now and its supposed to be 65nm right? also now that AMD has taken over ATI,power consumption shud go down(since anything other than that wud be against AMD's...
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    Worth it to upgrade with price drops?

    overclock ur cpu a bit and be done with it till Q1 2008 And if u ever upgrade to vista get another 2 gigs for 4gb in total Performance boost from ur current rig to C2D in july will be minimal
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    First Time Builder Seeks Gaming Rig Advice

    for now buy a core 2 duo E4300 and an ASUS P5K Deluxe Also look into the geforce 8800 GTS 640mb or the radeon HD 2900 xt And on or after july 22nd or l8r get urself a quad core intel core 2 quad Q6600 for about $266 The E4300 will act as an interim CPU
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    OCZ Acquires PC Power & Cooling

    PCP&C power supply with 120mm fan @ relatively cheap price=buy
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    Xbitlabs review is up

    also i'm pretty sure 360 ports will perform better(cept maybe lost planet as of now) on the HD 2900 xt than the 8800 cards
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    AMD is sandbagging

    i hope it will or atleast pull even with penryn i dont want intel to succeed to much nor do i want AMD to go down Us consumers need competition to get decent prices AMD for all we know might be sand bagging,but if they can bring out a killer chip,then the race is on,although intel will...
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    Xbitlabs review is up

    the HD 2900 xt in xbits review does quiet good(the wonders of drivers) It performs on par or better than the 8800 GTS cards most of the time and in some cases pulls ahead of the 8800 GTX But some games are massively bought down by drivers And sapphire said they plan to release the HD 2900...
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    Deciding between two 37" displays

    i say sceptre has built in tv tuner too at the same price as the westi
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    AMD Pushes Back Barcelona Launch till August...Sept??!!

    so on the current platform,barcelona scales with increase in cores well enough but not as much as expected But that shud be fixed when they release socket G?
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    AMD Pushes Back Barcelona Launch till August...Sept??!!

    @nemesis1-Why do u sound so eager to see AMD go down? If anything we shud hope AMD comes back stronger then ever,its after thanks to them we have core based processors and even nehalem at the end of the tunnel,and if they go down,intel and nvidia won't have competitors and we'll get...
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    Intel?s Price Reduction on July 22

    i can already see the Q6600 running in my computer with a P35 based motherboard
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    When are we expecting X38 (high-end Bearlake)?

    X38 is also rumored to have dynamic overclocking where it overclocks the processor automatically when the applications demand it
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    AMD\ATI Interview

    we really need AMD to survive,otherwise intel will turn evil again(evil in the sense,extremely high prices for every single processor) we AMD to survive,otherwise we'll end up getting crap like the 8800 ultra(crap in the sense,its overpriced and has performance of a GTX which is still amazing)...
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    R650 & R700

    Wasn't there some stuff on the inquirer about R700 having a modular design?With different number of units making up the high-end,midrange and budget segments? R650 may very well perform better than R600 but its gotta be cheap,quiet and power efficient to stand a chance against the nvidia card...
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    This whole R600/G80 benchmarks thing is nonsense.

    only thing the 2900 xt wins in by any sort of significant margin is the COH even against a 8800 GTS cud be bad drivers or cud be just plain a bad card
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    Gigabyte Bearlake Motherboards Arrive!

    any idea how many SATA and USB ports the ICH9 and ICH9R proivdes? Also will there be any new options as far RAID is concerned? I'm lookin forward to it especially if the northbridge and southbridge are manufactured on 65nm,power efficient computing But the heatpipes seem to indicate that...
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    Forget John Romero - XBox360 and PS3 ARE *Doomed*

    DVD playback on the xbox is terrible but i'm sure it'll get better with the spring dash board update HD-DVD quality is good and so are the downloaded videos
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    Random parts of the mobo fail and general instability

    u cud do away with ur overclock and check if things get stable again try running everything at stock and check for stability if it still doesn't work RMA it
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    Clock for clock, how much faster is Core 2 Duo than AMD Athlon 64 X2?

    flight simulator X only uses 1 cpu core hence even if u throw in 4 there won't be any improvement and games coding isn't exactly stellar,even the 8800 cards struggle with it i heard a directx 10 match wud be coming out for it soon though
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    It's May 2nd. R600 Review today?

    8800 ultra benchmarks are basically a 8800 GTX overclocked benchmarks so that shudn't be too hard to bench but the real performance of R600 is what i want to see
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    Could this be the end of the beginning or beginning of the end for AMD?

    AMD made its biggest mistake buying ATI if they coughed more dough,they coulda bought nvidia which wuda given them pretty much instant profit and timely product launches But im sure they'll find away out of the hole they have dug,without them we wud still be having power hungry prescotts...
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    XBox 360, maybe a better choice?

    PS3 supports keyboard and mouse for web browsing and chatting The 360 does the same minus web browsing Halo 2 will be the first game to feature PC live and more will come My suggestion is Xbox 360 premium + HD-DVD player or XBOX 360 Elite + HD-DVD player PS3 aint a good option IMO since it...
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    wireless router suggestion

    okay then buffalo it is its much cheaper than the d-link model too and data rates are higher thnx
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    wireless router suggestion

    Planning to buy a wireless router I have 2 pcs,a laptop,a 360 and a DS which will be running of the router riht now the pcs,laptop and 360 is connected to a regular router using good ol' cables I got 2 options: 1.D-Link DGL-4300 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833127158...
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    c2d motherboard recommendation please !!!!

    get the gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 and if u can get the rev 2.0 version
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    K10 Barcelona 50% faster than Kentsfield ?

    barcelona may well be faster than intel processors(conroe and penryn) but the crucial factor will be price with intel making quad core mainstream in Q3 with the $266 Q6600,u have to wonder, does AMD have anything to offer in that region while having some sort of profit margin?
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    HD 2900XTX Benches

    hasn't anyone considered the possibility of poor drivers which is making performance seem like crap? maybe by release time drivers wuda gotten better
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    Anyone know exact date for Intel Q3 price drops?

    AMD will weather the storm,even if it has a 2 billion dollar debt otherwise we'll be seeing really expensive penryn/nehalem chips i wonder what AMD will have in its product line to counter the $266 Q6600?
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    DRAM prices to fall further ...

    i'm likin it and i hope it stays on this path by the time P35 chipsets come out 4GB DDR2 will be affordable easy
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    Catalyst 7.4 is out

    do these drivers support folding@home?
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    x1900xt to 8600gts.... bad move?

    don't do it extremely bad move performance difference is vast in directx 9 apps u'd be better off getting a 320mb 8800 GTS later when the price drops(shud happen as when ATI releases their cards)
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    CPU life expectancy

    i have a wilmette which i bought in 2003 it's still workin fine can't overclock cause its stuck on a via motherboard
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    ATI Releases More "R600" Details

    i'm sure it'll be 320 scalar shaders making 320 vector shaders woulda been really expensive so raw specs wise ATI is ahead,lets just hope the drivers don't dissappoint
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    Core2Duo / Core2Quad s775 CPU Roadmap! [UPDATED April 17th]

    I can't wait for Q3 I don't see any reason why anyone would buy the E6850 over the Q6600 Sure all apps don't take advantage of quad core but its nice to have especially with games like Sup Com and others comin up
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    X2 5600+ vs Core 2 DUO E6600

    If u go the intel route now with a decent motherboard u can get a quad-core Q6600 for $266 in the 3rd quarter of the year I don't think AMD has a barcelona based processor in that price range like i said earlier right now only reason to buy an x2 5600+ and motherboard is if ur on a budget...