Recent content by duostrike

Regular people are buying low power devices at the expense of speed. People that want speed at the expense of power are willing to pay for Xeon. This has nothing to do with AMD. Go boost sales of high powered desktops and Intel will happily make your chip.

It looks like a test socket not a processor, and it looks quite old.

To sum up the review: Pros ------- Quiet Low power consumption Cool Cons ---------- Slower For a mass storage drive this looks to be very nice (for my needs at least). I'm putting together a new system with 2 of these for data with a different OS/Program drive.

Stopped by best buy locally. The guy said internet only and was surprised when I told him that the web said the store had them in stock. He checked the back and sure enough they were there and he was surprised. Moral of the story is that you might want to bug the best buy clerk to check if...

Check out the processorfinder page http://processorfinder.intel.com/List.aspx?ProcFam=2774&sSpec=&OrdCode= SLACR and SLACQ are G0 steppings. SLACQ being the 2.66GHz part (Q6700). Interesting differences between the steppings regarding power. As far as putting SLACR on invoices I think that is...

It would also seem that Vista supports GPT though I wouldn't recommend putting it on a fileserver though.. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/a_reason_to_finally_use_vista