Recent content by jwlangs

No reviews, just buyer feedback on newegg and amazon, for example. I have 1 TB Seagate internal and external drives, but the external is really just an internal SATA drive with a USB adapter and a crappy plastic enclosure. I figured they were all internal drives, really. Me too. The 80...

I get the feeling reading reviews from several different online retailers that large capacity (read 1 TB and above) HDDs have a significantly higher failure rate compared to those with lower capacity. I've got a 1 TB Seagate external drive that is starting to worry me. I'm wondering who...

+ 1 for this board. I built my current desktop around this about a week ago and am running Windows 7 64 bit. I transferred several internal 3 Gb/s SATA HDDs and my Phenom II X4 955 from a DFI LP UT 790FX M2R (running Windows XP SP3) to this Asrock board. I'm sure there are a number of...

Looks like its already been posted. My bad.

2 triple cores and a quad. :D How do you think these prices will translate to USD?

+1 AMD should be careful marketing this chipset as part of the Spider platform. These boards are for HTPCs and pair absolutely perfectly with a 45W BE (not black edition) processor.

I would get yourself that 5000+ BE since the price is dirt cheap for the performance you get out of it, and then pick yourself up a board with one of AMD's most recent chipsets (790FX, 770, 740G, etc. - these are all AM2+ boards). Then upgrade your cpu when 45 nm quads come out. As for AM3...

Dude, at least link to some porn or something. That's just mean...

Make sure you are using the latest AOD, 2.0.17 before you decide it doesn't work. That being said, brisbane temp sensors are notorious for just flat out NOT WORKING! Also, the 5000+ BE is rated at 1.35V. Unless you adjusted the cpu voltage intentionally, I would lower it a bit. This should...

I know, it's Fuad, but it's still an interesting prospect. If it's pulled into Q3, I bet it will be here before Shanghai.

I get the feeling this is exactly what they're doing. Heat, power, and size ended up being bigger issues than were expected, I think. I bet 45 nm will be on time (by X-mas, anyways), and this will be when we start seeing real volumes and varieties of quad core AMD cpus.

Any board with the 790FX chipset is an AM2+ board, the folks at newegg are just dumbasses. They'd probably sell more of them if they'd just put it in the right place. Go ahead and get an AM2+ board so you can take advantage of the extra bandwidth when you drop a 45 nm quad core in at the end...

I can't be sure about AM2/Phenom compatibility with AMD Overdrive, but you might be able to disable the TLB fix on your current system this way. Apparently, there's a way to disable the fix through CrystalCPU as well.

The M3A32-MVP was one of the 1st 790FX boards released, and none of those boards had the TLB fix in their original BIOS. So unless the newer boards are shipping with more current BIOS revisions, they won't have the fix either. Even if they do, both the BIOS and AMD Overdrive give you the...

80-90 degrees C under load is pretty standard without manually changing fan speeds or installing an aftermarket heatsink.