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THG Looks at ClawHammer Mobo

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-want dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tom's Hardware Guide managed to get a first look at the new Socket 754 ClawHammer motherboard. While they don't provide the benchmarks that you might be looking for, they do an excellent job and providing pictures and an overview of the ClawHammer Platform."

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  1. Re:Interesting by dubiousmike · · Score: 5, Informative

    This might be ok for gaming, but having worked for a music software company in the past, we'd ALWAYS tell customers to stay away from mobos with onboard audio. Latency is usually very high which comes into play when recording and playing multiple tracks with live effects.

    Drop outs galore.

  2. Six more pictures by loomis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here

    Also has a brief blurb in German

    Loomis

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    "The television is the retina of the mind's eye" - Videodrome
  3. Older Link, Computex pictures by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mostly mockups, but here's some of what to be expecting in the future, at x-bit labs

    Over on the Enquirer, a correction was made to an article overnight concerning shipment dates for the Clawhammer, it will not be further pushed back, to first half of '03.

    Looking that stock quotes this morning I saw this: INTC INTEL CORP 14.0099 -1.5%
    I assume Yahoo stock reporting is still using one of those weird old Pentiums

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  4. Re:What are Vacuum tubes? by f97tosc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Out of plain curiousity (and probably because of inexperience) I'm curious on what exactly vacuum tubes are in relationship to sound, what advantages/disadvantages they offer and anything else interesting to know

    Vacuum tubes were used before the invention of transistors. They serve basically the same function, but are much bigger, draw more power and are slower in their response. For these reasons, they are hardly used any more.

    However, when they are used to amplify sounds, they give a somewhat different sound than do transistors. Many audiophiles argue that the vacuum tube sound is superior.

    However, and now comes my personal opinion, recently something of a hype has started around tubes. People who don't really know much about sound systems take tubes as a guarantee for getting superior performance. They fail to realize that the sounds are just different and which one is superior is largely a matter of personal taste - and what type of sound is being amplified. I am not at all convinced that tubes are better for sound effects in games, for example (as they have a slower response).

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