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    Intel new SSD 34nm?

    The SSD market has been evolving so fast that we are seeing 2x the speed at 1/2 the price every 10-12 months. So when Intel releases their second generation drive with a 10-15% speed increase at a 10-15% lower price, you can expect a yawn. X-25 M drives are still crippled by a pathetic 80MBs...
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    Intel new SSD 34nm?

    Pretty weak results, new Intel drive posted 250Mbs read and 80MBs write. Not much of an improvement at all. Look for some enterprising 2nd tier players to take the enthusiast market this summer with PCIe SSD drives with 5x the read speed, 12x the write speed, 3x read IOPS and 30x the write...
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    Intel new SSD 34nm?

    I honestly think spending any money on current or future Intel SATA SSD drives is a waste. Don't get me wrong, I'm aware of all the Intel reviews and recognize it's the best SATA SSD drive - it's just that I think the enthusiast market is set to shift to PCI-e SSD in the next 6 months, with a...
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    Alittle help with i7 920 overclocking

    Pulled my CPU box from the basement - looks like the core i7 920 I got back in November of last year is batch 3839A, S-spec SLBCH (C0 stepping), packed on 11/19/08. 4.0GHz on air at 1.35v with HT for 4 months stable. If this wasn't my first overclock and I wasn't using this as my main HTPC...
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    Alittle help with i7 920 overclocking

    I'm using Mushkin 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 Triple Channel Memory. At the time I made the purchase (Thanksgiving of last year) it was one of the only 1.65v kits with tight timings. There were no reviews, but I took the chance and have been quite pleased. Advertised timings are 7-8-7-20, but at...
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    Alittle help with i7 920 overclocking

    Just checked the BIOS, HT is enabled (this was also the case when I ran Prime95 since it opened 8 threads).I don't know if it matters or not, but there is 1 other voltage I tweaked - I set the NB voltage to 1.29v. But as I mentioned, the real breakthrough that allowed me to go from an unstable...
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    Alittle help with i7 920 overclocking

    I feel pretty lucky with my setup - especially since this is the first time I've ever tried OCing. Currently am running my 920 at 4.0GHz (bclock 211 x 19x multi), which also means an OC of 1690MHz on my RAM (bclock 211 x 8x multi). I have never had a BSOD or any stability issues whatsoever (4...
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    New Fusion-IO drive for gamers

    With the upcoming 1TB+ PCIe SSD due from OCZ, SuperTalent, and G-Monster, I hope that Fusionio ^*@ts their pants and starts getting a bootable 1GB+ read/write drive out the door (didn't they say 1st quarter '09?). Regardless, some competition in this space is good, I see myself making a...
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    4870X2 Tri-Fansink

    Excellent, just what I hoped. Can't wait for mine to show up on Tuesday!
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    4870X2 Tri-Fansink

    Awesome, just what I was hoping!! Also, can't seem to find this anywhere, but is it a 2 or 3 slot design? Palit launched their own 4870x2 design and it's a 3 slot beast. Wondering how this compares...
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    4870X2 Tri-Fansink

    Awesome, I've been waiting for this card. Thanks for the newegg link, I'm now officially waiting for mine to arrive. Hope it delivers on the 24 degrees cooler temps and 29dba sound level!
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    4870X2 Tri-Fansink

    I've been following this card as well. When the heck are they going to release it!?! I've been waiting since they announced it in early November, now I have my core i7 build but no graphics card. I saw one on a European site a week ago, but still nothing here in the U.S. or Canada. Anyone...
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    New Fusion-IO drive for gamers

    I'm betting the person saying the iodrive performs like a dog is lying. Since deploying the drive in Feb/March, FusionIO has already racked up 150 Fortune 1000 customers. These customers don't throw money out the window, and they're paying up to $18k for a 640GB SSD to replace some seriously...
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    New Fusion-IO drive for gamers

    Some more ioDrive benchmarks: “With one ioDrive – unlike appliance vendors who claim their external rack-mounted box is a drive – we topped 100,000 IOPS read and 90,000 IOPS write speeds. When you RAID multiple ioDrives together, you can scale beyond anything else available today, as...
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    New Fusion-IO drive for gamers

    I'm not sure what the warranty is, but these things were built for the enterprise sector so they are built tough with excellent wear leveling algorithms. The spec sheet on their current drives states that with 1TB of write/erases per day the 80GB drive will last 51 years and the 100GB drive 101...
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