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    For you amd guys. Now don't get crazy guys.

    Even if it took this long, it still feels good to know AMD, in one form or another, is making progress with OC. The 45nm with a much bigger L3 still cannot come too soon though.
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    Anyone else considering upgrading from q6600?

    nope, not worth it. Considering the nightmare it is to get a heatsink tower off a LGA775 socket, 12mb Quads will have to hit $260 or lower for me to be bothered.
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    What is your VID on coretemp on Q6600 G0 stepping only

    G0 VID 1.2250 OC@ 3.2 1.235v load. edit; voted.
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    No hi-K (or MG) for AMD's 45nm

    All I'm praying for is that 45nm will scale with clocks quickly and watts the way process shrinks are supposed to, just not failing like K8 65nm did with the former. Hi-k or not AMD getting back to atleast neck and neck with Intel with this architecture, seem about as far flung as them...
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    Turkey Launches Incursion Into Iraq - Roughly 10,000 Troops!

    Not at all, a bit hypocritical until you realise that no one can pry Kurdish areas of Anatolia out Turkish hands. Kosovo on the other hand has not truly been in Serbian control for some 500 years.
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    F-22 Raptor: Nimble Air Superiority Combat Fighter Jet

    Yeah that seems about right. The problem is companies like Lockheed Martin are such money sinks. The government just needs to reform how it awards bids to contractors because the method now can hardly be called a method. Contractors should pay for working demos out of their own pockets, as well...
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    Kosovo Statehood

    This whole thing has made me glad for once the EU, USA and UN gave the general view of Kosovo among the outside masses the cold shoulder. Honestly I've never seem such a ill-informed moronic view completely detached from the actual situation be so widely believed.
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    Just a heads up for anyone in the 24" market. Not all of the LG245/246WP are created equal. I saw my first one in a bestbuy and was unimpressed but ended up ordering a 245WP just out of a disdain of input lag and TN style shift. I got mine last Wednesday and must note sitting next to my...
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    Horrible Temps with Q6600 + Tuniq Tower

    Those tuniqs are a nightmare to get on right. Those thumb screws (what a joke of a name :P) I needed a pair of pliers and about 30 minutes to get down tight, the backplate threads were soo tight that nomatter what I did, how many times I reseated it and took it apart, just would not turn...
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    QX6700 B3 or Q6600 G0?

    Actually, comparing how much power an X1900XT eats while folding, yes it is. For points SMP destroys GPU folding atm.
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    Amd K10 B3 stepping tanks.

    So when will we know how the B3 stepping clocks next to B2? Not like a socket AM2+ board will be doing much server work.
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    HDMI Video-IN for PC?

    yep, Well there still is a way around for what I want to do... And thats just getting a monitor with HDMI and a plethora of others, just switch inputs from when I want to watch TV or not. A decent S-IPS monitor that can do 1080p is just another $500 to save up for, and the extra money for yet...
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    HDMI Video-IN for PC?

    ohwell, guess I'll just have to buy it from overseas eventually if I still care when they do make them. Nothing to worry about if your not going to anything with it that could come back at you.
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    HDMI Video-IN for PC?

    Well still, seems like its one of those things that only be a matter of time. In time ATSC standard HD will be no different than NTSC and the orwellian media elements will have no more control over it than the past standards. With QAM cable we already have all the technical in place. I have a...
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    HDMI Video-IN for PC?

    Wow, that is stupid as heck but I was worried this was the case. Why would they even put S-Video in on these cards if having video-in is such taboo?
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    HDMI Video-IN for PC?

    Oops, well just meant a pci card that had HDMI input for VIDEO-IN.. Like say for a Satellite/Cable box or Blueray player. Would feel like a moron, but every internal card I've ever seen with video-in has has ALWAYS HAD A TUNER on it anyways. BTW, thanks heyheybooboo for the link. Seems...
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    HDMI Video-IN for PC?

    I'm only asking as my online searches have shown nothing, but I've been surprised out of the blue before. Would be really nice, as it seems to me that that all current HD tuner cards that I can find are made with the notion that people only get their channels over the air.
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    How low can you go?

    I can do 3.1ghz at 1.18v stable (stock), but run 1.25v at 3.22ghz. Temps stay at 104f/40c with my tuniq 120 with all cores flat out SMP folding with the room 68f/20c with the motherboard utility. I have Vista x64 and a USB keyboard, so its impossible for me to run coretemp on this machine and...
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    What's the longest "24x7 running" CPU Processor that you know of?

    My Q6600 did about 2 months overclocked running a SMP folder without so much as a EUE (early unit end) before I upgraded to faster ram yesterday :P Far from noteworthy, but it was flat out on all 4 cores and before this machine 6 hours was prob my record before shutting it down.
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    Core 2 Quad & Phenom 9500...

    haha, yeah. The only idiot-opinion fest on the interwebs that rivals youtube are the neanderthals posting product reviews on newegg.
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    I think I'm going to get the new AMD Phenom

    It being a sad fact is not enough to save you from being a fanboy these days :P Honestly the difference between Phenom and a Q6600 is not night and day. If you can get over being slower in this or that, any quad is still faster for such work than a dual core. Besides you already have an AM2...
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    Anyone here NOT use AA when gaming?

    I do sometimes on my mac as 1920x1200 is pushing it for a 7800GS, kinda a tragedy as LCDs 'need' AA far more than a CRT does.
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    CRYSIS was so awesome! (Got some screenies. Big 56K warning)

    Great game, nice and playable (ultra/8ax anis/1600x1200) until it lulls you into a false sense of security. The game's difficulty tends to skyrocker right at the same time as the fps bomb, not being one of those games where somehow you can still aim at 20-25fps. As such obviously a lot of online...
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    AT's Phenom review up (11/19)

    Ugh, this makes me sick to my stomach. I'm sure AMD would not go face down before yields are up, but what a mess. First time I've felt guilty for buying what obviously was the right choice.
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    Phenom X4 9600

    I'm pretty sure on the overclock boards, the Vcore being misread is the consensus. Would be nice but if Vcore will still be rocketing to +1.4v just to complete with Penryn.
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    Socket 939 upgrading

    Currently there's nothing worth upgraded to AM2 for an overclocked 939 rig, if you are going to have to pay for new ram and a new motherboard, an overclocked 6000+ X2 is hardly worth it in this day and age. Either go Intel or wait for desktop Phenom. 2GB of ram is plenty for Vista gaming...
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    POLL: AMD X2 vs. Intel C2D.........snappiness!

    Snappiness has allot more to do with how piggish the software is than the cpu speed (granted its over 2GHZ). Honestly, my overclocked Q6600 in Vista x64 ties with my X2 running windows XP. The fastest computer I own, as in the most instantaneous when starting up and opening programs, and...
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    Which Arctic Silver to use???

    some people really swear by the Céramique, I've just been using Silver 5 as I've had a tube of it for years.
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    Someone here refresh my memory!

    The cheaper 333mhz bartons were always green organic, where as the 400mhz 3200+ and 3000xp where in a brown organic package, mobile could be both. Older palomino XPs also where brown and some thoroughbreds were a beige brown organic...otherwise green being the common colour. Only going back...
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    CPU's you've owned and OC'ed ?

    First computer I overclocked was a powermac Blue and white G3 750 using the jumper method 350mhz>450mhz about 6 years ago. Did not do much so I upgraded it to a 1.1ghz 750GX G3 about 2 years ago The it was a G4 with the same method to achieve 533>667mhz(with a bit more tedium), still felt...
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    really true k10 breaks 30k 3dmark 06 with crossfire?

    Well, atleast will make for one heck of a laugh if there was drink before the viewing and these scores turned out to be 3Dmark05. Sure why not though, its not as if AMD has not put a mass of effort into this new architecture... I would hate for fanboys to have their blind faith validated :P But...
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    Opinions on new system build please

    As someone who just switched to an OC'ed Q6600 vista x64 rig, I concur with the above ideas as they have served me well. You're gonna want 4GB of ram, preferably 2x2 for flexibility and alteast DDR800 for future proofing. Switching to a 500GB to give you enough money for an 8800GTS 640mb is also...
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    What average speed is the Q6600 hitting when overclocked?

    My G0 Q6600 is orthos fine at 3.4ghz at 1.35v under its Tuniq on a P35-DQ6, however my 2x4GB kit of DDR800 makes it a trade off to run at those speeds(why does the mem-multi have to shoot from x2.4 to x2.0?). I just run it at 3.105ghz at 1.2v with the mem running at its pathetic OC at stock CL...
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    Penryn only 0-10% over Conroe?

    Much better as in competing on overall performance at stock speeds, sure why not. Still even after all this time Barcelona reeks of delay; Enough that I would not be surprised if AMD does not get a worth buying line until the eve of Penryn, by which time Intel will have yields atleast...
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    Q6600 owners... what is your VID

    VID is read as .8250v on my G0, which I'm sure is whack as Core Temp cannot get temp readings on my system somehow. another vista mystery. BTW, apparently Core Temp thinks I have an engineering sample from what I can gather.
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    Non-native resolution looks just as good

    Amen to that, absolutely blows me away how some people run their desktop at lower than native. I'm more optimistic about gaming though as I've played a few games that maxed at 1620x1050 on my 2407WFP that did not kill me to look at.
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    Sapphire 1950Pro, issues with monitor?

    If it doesn't even post with the X850pro.. its likely an effectively dead PSU or motherboard. Would rather its the PSU as that would be easier to replace. My sister and father both have X1950pros and both are happy on cheap ~420w PSU with single 14a 12v, but both are running barton era 2.3ghz...
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    HD2900XT and Final Fantasy XI on Vista

    hmm, thats odd as the cause seems to be the Nvidia drivers not sorting texture memory allocation and the drop is do to it overflowing to the point of HD swapping... Something that should take 50x as long to accomplish on a PS2 port than a newer game like Oblivion if it even still would. Still...
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    HD2900XT and Final Fantasy XI on Vista

    The drop is only due to high textures in graphically demanding games and if there's one thing that FFXI is NOT, its being graphically demanding. In fact I don't know how you plan to avoid bad textures being as thats all the game has. Still allot of newer state of the art games sure could have...
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    I know what I want, now where do I get it?

    yeah it was a typo, complete and utter to the point that I'm amazed you bothered to muse upon it.