Recent content by Falkentyne1

!!!!!!!!!!! WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! about Tjunction. Tjunction is where the chip will shut itself down to avoid damage (unless you disabled these sorts of protections in BIOS, but the chip should still lock up hard anyway, as this is done within the chip and not through the BIOS). Tcasemax...

Well you didn't really answer his question. Basically, clock for clock, (disregarding SuperPi, which is more unbalanced), a Core 2 duo is twice as fast as a single core P4C running at the same mhz speed. As far as Prescotts are concerned, I don't know...but i suspect similar for single core...

Whiskey, You made a good rebuttal and I fully understand and agree with your points. And yes, a system should not crash under *any* circumstances @ stock, unless tjunction temp is exceeded. Of course we're talking windows here...under windows -anything- can crash and burn =)

Don't generalize. Someone on XS had a week 26 E6600 that required 1.575v for 3.0 ghz ! And everyone (except me and 1 other decent sensible person) blamed the P5WDH !! (since *cough* all chips should hit 3.5 ghz with some voltage *cough*, right?) And 1 chip later, we found that me and the...

Try actually -using- the computer with more real world applications or benchmark programs instead of running orthos, then see if it's stable. You may be surprised. Try running 2 games at once, a dual core chess engine (like Rybka), anything real world besides Orthos/Prime. A computer does not...

I think the followup to the followup to wolfdale will be the chip to have. . . . . . . . . DON'T YOU GUYS GET IT YET? THERE IS NO FREAKING SUCH THING AS A "CHIP TO HAVE". You same noobs were saying that the 486dx2-33 was the "chip to have". And what happens a few years later ...

Um...it was actually more than that back in those 486 days.... More like $100 per mb... I should know because that's when I got my first computer way back then. And yes, I'm 35 now.

Wow......those prices REALLY shot up. When I bought my RAM early in September (the exact same G.skill from newegg), it cost $239.99. (of course u add tax and shipping to that too). Now it's $60 more :( ...... Anyway, if the PC8500 is the same price as the 6400, well I guess its a no brainer...

Yep, indeed. I find that people who are not good at keeping junk off their computer, not mindful of the utilities and crap they install, nor who use decent antivirus and antispyware programs, and overall, inexperienced tweakers, usually are the ones who are the ones formatting. The more...

what do you mean by "you put the monitor directly to the computer?" Huh? You mean you have integrated video on it or something?

FEAR is running like crap probably because you are running out of vram. that always happens on 256 mb cards. The 1 GB of system ram isn't helping this at *ALL*, because as FEAR uses (I believe) over 800MB of system memory, hitting the AGP aperture is even worse as then even MORE swapfile is...

*warning* Doing this on X1*00 cards requires you to modify the vGPU voltage to match that of the 3D voltage. Make sure your program can set the voltages correctly without bugs, or else......

The SP-94 was a good heatsink a long time ago. But a little over two and a half years ago, it was replaced by the XP-90, which could save off anywhere between 3-6 from a SP-94. The SP-94 was fine for lower speed Northwoods, but once the A64s and 3+ghz northwoods came out, something beefier had...

Those clocks are right. You're in windows so the card uses 2d clocks. the requested clocks are the ones you're "used" to-3d. And btw, 775x2=1550.

A must to install 6.9's if you are playing UT2004. (even though I Got the 6.9 UT2k4 fix just by throwing the ati3duag.dll into the windows/system32 folder). 6.8's had a horrid stuttering bug in UT. And I could swear that Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's fps was pretty bad on 6.8 even when I...