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Laptop Harddrive Speeds

Definitely worth the faster drive. Seagate (and probably others now) do a line with 8MB cache, and Hitachi now have 7200rpm 2.5in drives you might want to take a look at; the latter probably use more power but that may be OK in a desktop replacement. (A new 5400rpm will draw less power than an...
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- Post #7
- Aug 4, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Contemplating my new XPC computer specs **PLEASE COMMENT**

Doing a lot of graphics work doesn't mean you need such a monster video card, all those gigatexels/sec are only really useful for gaming with textures, so back it off to something which doesn't have (or need!) a huge heatsink or a fan. Also, the 3200+ probably (almost certainly) will draw too...
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- Post #16
- May 29, 2003
- Forum: Laptops
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Any AT'ers with the XP 1700+/1800+ T-Bred B's yet?

Guys, if you want to stress-test your systems, I'd recommend CPUburn * Use BURNK7 to see your Athlon's CPU temp go 7C higher than SETI or Prime95. (Sadly he's not done a customised P4 version.) Use BURNMMX to stress your Northbridge, most particularly the memory controller, and RAM. Once you've...
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- Post #871
- Apr 14, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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* * * Alpha PAL simple mod * * *

Was fiddling with my set-up this weekend. I've a Thunderbird 1333, Alpha PAL8045, Enermax 365xx. Previously I only had one fan, a Papst 8412NGL, the silent 19CFM fan, blowing on the HS, and the system ran warm (38C system, 60-63C CPU, under SETI@home). I turned the fan round, and the CPU dropped...
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- Post #14
- Apr 14, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Need info on upgrading an older Athlon CPU

XP will run fine on that if you've enough memory; it's usable, as a pure desktop setup (no IIS or anything) on a K6-II 450MHz or even a P-II 266 as long as you've more than 256Mb memory, so a 650MHz Athlon will be great. The thing is - you can get a modern mobo for £50, 256Mb DDR memory for £20...
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- Post #6
- Mar 30, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why Overclock, why not just build it to that speed?

They (Intel/AMD) don't hold back, they just mark down their CPUs; if the market wants 1 3GHz CPU, 2 2.8GHz, 3 2.6GHz and 4000 2.4GHz and they've 1000 that pass the 3GHz test, 2000 that pass 2.8GHz test and the rest past 2.6GHz then they'll ship 1 marked as 3GHz, 2 2.8GHz, 3 2.6GHz and 4000...
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- Post #15
- Feb 28, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why Overclock, why not just build it to that speed?

Right, people here o'c but can't complain if they can't o'c much, any other (corp or private) customers don't o'c but would complain - rightly - if their systems didn't work 100%... so Intel/AMD feed the 99.9% of their market! :D
- DoctorBooze
- Post #14
- Feb 28, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Overclocking beyond air?

53C/60C is normal with little or no case cooling, and is perfectly acceptable since even with under-read errors it's way below the tolerance. If you want to o'c, cool your case a lot; if you want your PC to stay quietish (i.e. not like Concorde taking off) don't and stay at stock speed/temp.
- DoctorBooze
- Post #7
- Feb 28, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What is the weakest link in overclocking?

Most often it's the luser trying to overclock, like THUGSROOK said; after that it's cooling, then PSU, probably.
- DoctorBooze
- Post #8
- Feb 28, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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nm im moving this is COOLING FORUM

No this is the CPU/PROCESSORS AND OVERCLOCKING forum, if you just moved in, what's your point or question?
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- Post #3
- Feb 28, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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P4 o'cs to 3GHz... duh!

Maybe I'm just a miserable old git, but... can we have a FAQ here? Doesn't matter what P4 you buy, with stock, air or otherwise sane cooling right now you'll get nearly 3GHz in most cases; T'bred 2700+, Palomino 2400+, OK this FAQ would change every month or so, but apart from the...
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- Thread
- Feb 28, 2003
- Replies: 0
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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>>> P4 2.0A C1 <<<

Well duh... what a surprise, you can get a P4 to just under 3GHz with decent mobo/chipset/memory. Shouldn't this be a FAQ?
- DoctorBooze
- Post #13
- Feb 28, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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PII-300 vs. K2-500 how much difference

The K6 series only sucked on floating-point stuff - that's why a P-II 400 whips a K6-2 550 by half a day on SETI. Otherwise, they're not much different; for normal use I'd expect a K6-2 500 to be slightly faster than a P-II 300. The K6-III, K6-2+ and K6-III+ all have L2 cache on-die that the...
- DoctorBooze
- Post #6
- Feb 27, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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why won't my K7N2 let me oc the memory?

Why did you get PC2100 when PC2700 is only about 2c more?
- DoctorBooze
- Post #2
- Jan 20, 2003
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD XP2800+

Yeah but anyone who wants a 2800+ right now presumably cares about a few percent...?
- DoctorBooze
- Post #18
- Jan 13, 2003
- Forum: Computer Building

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