Recent content by Bao01

I'm typing this from a laptop while on vacation in Japan. Let me tell you, with the amount of video encoding I've done in the past 5 weeks, a quad-core nehalem wouldn't be enough. Now, I know the market for laptop "power" users is small, but don't kid yourselves, wanting more laptop processing...

This is should not be an easy task to complete. You've probably realized there might be one or more problems with more than one possible cause. Many of the problems just come with age. An old power supply, dust, wear, or just age could have damaged any number of components. Further, hard...

I find xtreview.com lacking in credibility. They are plagiarizers. Here's an article they stole from Xbitlabs: http://xtreview.com/review134.htm http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/power-noise.html Just as well, they can make things up on a whim. Regardless, there is no...

Wow! This is the phantom chip AMD had promised 2 years ago. Never tried to buy one as it has always been expensive. Here's the one site that's supposedly still carrying it. $357 http://www.memory4less.com/m4l_itemdetail.asp?rid=fd_10&itemid=1439908571 If it lands at Newegg for 50...

I bet if they stick two E5200s together, clock them down to 2.4, up the bus to 1066, and price them at $160, they'd sell like hotcakes. Well, more like hotdogs. But, that's just me.

Sure, Nehalem will be awesome. But then, should you go for 10x your current performance now or 15x next year? That's the question you need to ask yourself.

Here's the CPU support page. Itchyeyes: As far as Q3 prices go: from VR-Zone http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Intel_Upcoming_Desktop_CPU_Price_Cut/5787.html If this roadmap holds true, you'll find the Q6600 will be priced at $203. This is a $21 price drop, though you could find...

Uh yea. Intel was founded and has been led by giants who can claim to have created the first microprocessors and without whom semiconductors and technology would not be where it is today. Companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Yahoo, etc. wouldn't exist if not for these guys. AMD was...

If Intel could make a convincing rebuttal 3 years ago that AMD's failure to win market more market share was due to a lack of foresight to expand capacity when they had a superior product, you can bet Intel will mount a far more compelling defense now. In the last 2 years, AMD has run up $8...

Cheerleading is just bad for companies that screw up. In sports cheerleading helps morale resulting in better performance, one hopes. But, unlike in sports, cheerleading won't make AMD processors perform or overclock any better. Should we expect AMD employees and executives to be reading...

This sucks

Among AMD executives, Phil Hester has had my highest repects. This loss is greater than the loss of all executives, AMD and ATI combined, in the past two years. There few surer signs of a sinking ship than a CTO of a technology company bailing. I don't know the circumstances of his...

There are 4 common models used to approximate yields based on defect density and critical area. The "defect density" published by AMD is a summed factor of various defect densities as a function of various critical areas within the die. This makes it easy for others to do plug-and-chug...

Hi Kyle, According toTomshardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/intel_penryn_4ghz_with_air_cooling/page18.html The new boxed cooler looks nice. Did you guys also get the documents? and if so, does it say which processors will come with it? Would be nice to get that cooler...

The QX6850 measurement appears to be off. The data shows quad-core QX9650 draws as much power as dual-core X6800 which would agree with all the other reviews. Yorkfield Extreme Edition runs cool, no-brainer there. The bright spot here is Kyle's testing of Yorkfield at varying loads...