There's this application that comes with gigabyte motherboards specially for newbies (like me), it's called Easytune5. When you open it, it has two big buttons, up and down. Clicking up increases clockspeed in 1% increments. I upped the clock speed on my E6600 by 15% using this method and everything works fine. I could hear no fan noise increase and I am using stock cooler. Of coarse, you could tweak a lot more performance out of it, if you want to go mucking around with bios settings, but I just don't have the time for that.
Funny, what I find unnerving is the maths: "our 700W power supply wasn't up to the task of powering a Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire rig."..."Full Load: Radeon 2900XT Crossfire - 490W" am I missing something?
You're absolutly right XML does not bring any demonstable benefit, although I'm sure the author can fabricate some reasons to prove his point, the real reason is becuase everyone else is doing and he thinks XML is cool. This artical here really says it all: http://xmlsucks.org/but_you_have_to_use_it_anyway/ does-xml-suck.html
and who is your information source for that? Microsoft? I would like to see an unbiased report on how difficult it really is, of if it couldn't be some how hacked around.
No. If you really want fight back against Vista, just avoid buying DirectX 10 games. Maybe the game companys won't consider it worth their while doing directX 10 if no one is buying. Also, good would be if they make a OpenGL version that supports all the features of DirectX 10 (updated shader model, or whatever) and make it available on WinXP.
> Two companies have PRAM chips at 128Mb Well, if they are competing against current NOR flash, then they have a bit to go. Currently NOR flash is available at 1GB. Another thing they don't mention is if it's available in low power (ie. 1.8V), that's important if they want to target the mobile phone market. It does have the avantage of being faster and more reliable. I presume it will remain a niche product for a number of years until they can scale it up.
If you actually read the artical you will see the claims are rather vague. He says that the Nehalem may or may not have a memory control, but it depends and makes vague claims about a GPU (just because a GPU is on-core doesn't mean it going to be good, remember Intel already make crap on-motherboard GPUs). Most of the rest of the artical is just speculation by Jon Stokes. It seems to me that Intel have no clear plan yet, and they don't really need to. They have clearly beaten AMD with the Conroe and it seems they will beat the Barcelona with the 45nm process.
Normally I would agree. It's easier to form a cartel when there are only a few companies in the market (like what the telcos do), but it this case it's quite obvious that that hasn't happened. Intel and AMD hate each other and are currently engaged in a price war and a struggle to provide the fastest processors. That's good for consumers, we get cheap fast CPUs and this generally considered the way free market should work. Anyway's considering the humongous costs of developing a 65nm chip process it's financially impossible to have a hunderd companies competing in this area
MERCEDES-BENZ INTRODUCES SOLID GOLD S430 LUXURY SEDAN STUTTGART, GERMANY -- Citing their commitment to provide consumers in today's ailing global economy with the very best in luxury automobiles, DaimlerChrysler subsidiary Mercedes-Benz announced today it will offer a solid gold S430 touring sedan in model year 2003.
With a curb weight of just over 87 tons and an MSRP of $462,744,999, the S430 SGE (Solid Gold Edition) will be available exclusively to qualified buyers in Silicon Valley, Monaco, Montreal, and Saudi Arabia. In addition to the S430's standard 62-speaker Bose audio system, 22-position GPS-calibrated reclining heated leather seats, and lifetime supply of exotic swimsuit models or covert secret agents, the SGE will feature the powerful Pratt & Whitney V2500 dual-induction jet engine, capable of accelerating the monolithic vehicle from 0-60mph in just 36.2 seconds, and sustaining highway speeds up to 45mph.
Improving Mercedes' industry-leading automotive safety systems, SGE engineers touted the benefits of the sedan's solid gold body panels, claiming the soft metal will better absorb energy during a collision, and can later be easily hammered or smelted back into it's original shape.
If you read the artical a bit closer you will see this is about ordering a "naked" pc in UK. We all know that you can get a dell pc without windows, but that offer only exists in the states.
Doesn't say anything about the system software, which is probably the most interesting thing. Does it come with J2ME? Are there APIs that allow you write telephony applications?
"Rather, it would focus on the number of minutes or hours (not milliseconds) required to perform tasks that still fill me with dread, such as network printing, or power management, or burning a video file to a DVD that a standalone player can read." Well you are going have to use menus and the mouse to do those functions, so obviously it would be better to have the improved mouse accuracy/menu latency AND better usabililty in general
"piracy tends to be a powerful weapon against your competition: you might not make money from the lost sale, but (1) your competitors won't either (2) the pirates gain familiarity with your software, and are more likely to choose it when placed in a situation where they can't use pirated software, or recommend it to friends, and your competitors don't gain this advantage."
That arguement fails if the scale of piracy is so high that nobody is buying the product. His comments seem to indicate this:
"If this level of piracy continues, development will stop."
He wants HTML/CSS documents? Isn't this what Google docs do? Anyways sounds like a good idea to me. I often have to share documents and I don't like to have to force people to install a specific application just to read them.
No, Sabena was already in trouble when Swissair bought them. That was before the dot.com bubble burst when companies were habitaully paying billions to aquire worthless enterprises
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There's this application that comes with gigabyte motherboards specially for newbies (like me), it's called Easytune5. When you open it, it has two big buttons, up and down. Clicking up increases clockspeed in 1% increments. I upped the clock speed on my E6600 by 15% using this method and everything works fine. I could hear no fan noise increase and I am using stock cooler.
Of coarse, you could tweak a lot more performance out of it, if you want to go mucking around with bios settings, but I just don't have the time for that.
Depends which CPU the cooler is cooling.
I have a E6600 and it's barely audible with stock cooler.
Actually even if all cores are on the same silicon, inter-core communication is not as good as it could be. This artical has some interesting information on the topic:c ore-dtr-analysis_12.html
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/dual
Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't work.
I installed that plugin and http://www.reuters.com/ still refreshes
Dell has being offering Windowless PCs for a long time, but only from their US website.
Just wondering if this is also the case for the Ubuntu deal?
Funny, what I find unnerving is the maths: ..."Full Load: Radeon 2900XT Crossfire - 490W"
"our 700W power supply wasn't up to the task of powering a Radeon HD 2900 XT CrossFire rig."
am I missing something?
You're absolutly right XML does not bring any demonstable benefit, although I'm sure the author can fabricate some reasons to prove his point, the real reason is becuase everyone else is doing and he thinks XML is cool. This artical here really says it all: http://xmlsucks.org/but_you_have_to_use_it_anyway/ does-xml-suck.html
and who is your information source for that? Microsoft?
I would like to see an unbiased report on how difficult it really is, of if it couldn't be some how hacked around.
No. If you really want fight back against Vista, just avoid buying DirectX 10 games.
Maybe the game companys won't consider it worth their while doing directX 10 if no one is buying.
Also, good would be if they make a OpenGL version that supports all the features of DirectX 10 (updated shader model, or whatever) and make it available on WinXP.
> Two companies have PRAM chips at 128Mb
Well, if they are competing against current NOR flash, then they have a bit to go. Currently NOR flash is available at 1GB.
Another thing they don't mention is if it's available in low power (ie. 1.8V), that's important if they want to target the mobile phone market.
It does have the avantage of being faster and more reliable.
I presume it will remain a niche product for a number of years until they can scale it up.
I hate all that stuff too. I prefer not to have any microprocessors in my automobile. Does anyone make low tech cars anymore?
If you actually read the artical you will see the claims are rather vague. He says that the Nehalem may or may not have a memory control, but it depends and makes vague claims about a GPU (just because a GPU is on-core doesn't mean it going to be good, remember Intel already make crap on-motherboard GPUs).
Most of the rest of the artical is just speculation by Jon Stokes. It seems to me that Intel have no clear plan yet, and they don't really need to. They have clearly beaten AMD with the Conroe and it seems they will beat the Barcelona with the 45nm process.
Normally I would agree. It's easier to form a cartel when there are only a few companies in the market (like what the telcos do), but it this case it's quite obvious that that hasn't happened. Intel and AMD hate each other and are currently engaged in a price war and a struggle to provide the fastest processors. That's good for consumers, we get cheap fast CPUs and this generally considered the way free market should work.
Anyway's considering the humongous costs of developing a 65nm chip process it's financially impossible to have a hunderd companies competing in this area
Reminds me of a funny artical I once saw:
MERCEDES-BENZ INTRODUCES SOLID GOLD S430 LUXURY SEDAN
STUTTGART, GERMANY -- Citing their commitment to provide consumers in today's ailing global economy with the very best in luxury automobiles, DaimlerChrysler subsidiary Mercedes-Benz announced today it will offer a solid gold S430 touring sedan in model year 2003.
With a curb weight of just over 87 tons and an MSRP of $462,744,999, the S430 SGE (Solid Gold Edition) will be available exclusively to qualified buyers in Silicon Valley, Monaco, Montreal, and Saudi Arabia. In addition to the S430's standard 62-speaker Bose audio system, 22-position GPS-calibrated reclining heated leather seats, and lifetime supply of exotic swimsuit models or covert secret agents, the SGE will feature the powerful Pratt & Whitney V2500 dual-induction jet engine, capable of accelerating the monolithic vehicle from 0-60mph in just 36.2 seconds, and sustaining highway speeds up to 45mph.
Improving Mercedes' industry-leading automotive safety systems, SGE engineers touted the benefits of the sedan's solid gold body panels, claiming the soft metal will better absorb energy during a collision, and can later be easily hammered or smelted back into it's original shape.
If you read the artical a bit closer you will see this is about ordering a "naked" pc in UK.
We all know that you can get a dell pc without windows, but that offer only exists in the states.
...unfortunatly for the rest of the world it's still all Microsoft
Doesn't say anything about the system software, which is probably the most interesting thing.
Does it come with J2ME? Are there APIs that allow you write telephony applications?
Microsoft removed the coart case documents after it was settled.
I'm just wondering if anyone has posted them back up again.
How much were they charging so? I don't see that mentioned anywhere
"Rather, it would focus on the number of minutes or hours (not milliseconds) required to perform tasks that still fill me with dread, such as network printing, or power management, or burning a video file to a DVD that a standalone player can read." /menu latency AND better usabililty in general
Well you are going have to use menus and the mouse to do those functions, so obviously it would be better to have the improved mouse accuracy
what will they think of next? Apple using Intel chips, or Dell using Athlons?
"piracy tends to be a powerful weapon against your competition: you might not make money from the lost sale, but (1) your competitors won't either (2) the pirates gain familiarity with your software, and are more likely to choose it when placed in a situation where they can't use pirated software, or recommend it to friends, and your competitors don't gain this advantage."
That arguement fails if the scale of piracy is so high that nobody is buying the product. His comments seem to indicate this:
"If this level of piracy continues, development will stop."
He wants HTML/CSS documents? Isn't this what Google docs do?
Anyways sounds like a good idea to me. I often have to share documents and I don't like to have to force people to install a specific application just to read them.
No, Sabena was already in trouble when Swissair bought them. That was before the dot.com bubble burst when companies were habitaully paying billions to aquire worthless enterprises
Intel motherboards are just as cheap. ASRock and ASUS make several budget boards that got good reviews