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? do ATI cards work with Intel mobo + cpu?

PCI-Express 2.0 cards are backwards compatible with PCI-express 1.0/1.0a slots. However, this doesn't always work perfectly, and some chipsets are more broken than others (VIA comes to mind). The P35 is generally fine with 2.0 cards. Anecdotally, my 8800GT works fine in my P35 board.
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- Post #5
- Jun 20, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Calling all engineers

No, I write Verilog for synthesis of the digital portions of mixed-signal systems. A delta-sigma ADC, for example, uses a digital decimation filter for the bitstream, so in designing the ADC I might also have to build the decimator if I can't steal a CIC or get someone else to write it for me...
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- Post #46
- Jun 20, 2008
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Calling all engineers

A bit of everything. Analog/power by training, though, which means that my Verilog scares the digital guys.
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- Post #43
- Jun 20, 2008
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Motherboard power, 8-phase, 16-phase power?

I'm talking about both, because fundamentally they are identical pieces of technology. beray, you're welcome to believe whatever you'd like. From what you've written it's clear that your experience in the matter clearly outpaces my own meager understanding of the field. Strange, considering...
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- Post #8
- Jun 20, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Motherboard power, 8-phase, 16-phase power?

Okay, maybe "all else equal" this is a true statement, but in the real world any sane person designing a 2N-phase supply will be using components each rated at half of those that would be used in an N-phase supply satisfying the same specifications. When you designing a power supply, the...
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- Post #4
- Jun 19, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Calling all engineers

>Discipline: mixed signal integrated circuit design engineer >Years of experience: 6 >Company: small-to-mid-size public company >Rating of job experience (scale of 1 to 10): 9ish? It'd be 10 if it weren't for marketing... >Average salary for someone of your...
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- Post #41
- Jun 19, 2008
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Motherboard Suggestions

Using newegg's Power Search feature you should be able to get a great idea of what's available meeting your specifications. You should have no problem staying under $200 if you stick with an Intel P35 chipset, the only downside of which is that you'll only get PCI-express 1.1 support.
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- Post #2
- Jun 17, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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Intel branded P35/X38

Depending on the mobo, you may have to flash the bios to get the 45nm processors to work. In the abit IP35-PRO, for example, you need v16 to use Wolfdale or Yorkfield processors.
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- Post #2
- Jun 17, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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New Computer Build ? Big monitor problem

Okay, see here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...owthread.php?p=2891527 Looks like it's possible that ExpressGate is your problem. Use the BIOS reset jumper, go into the BIOS, load setup defaults, disable expressgate. Hope this helps.
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- Post #6
- Jun 17, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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New Computer Build ? Big monitor problem

Use the BIOS reset jumper to get yourself back to sane settings. Pull out all the expansion cards and the RAM, make sure you get the correct beep code from your mobo when it's just the processor. Add the RAM and you should get a different beep code. Finally, when you get satisfactory results...
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- Post #5
- Jun 17, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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XP SP 2 will not install - blue screens during installation

Can you disable the JMicron entirely?
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- Post #8
- Jun 17, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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XP SP 2 will not install - blue screens during installation

Your motherboard has a JMicron PATA/SATA controller supplementing the southbridge. Are you plugging your HDD into one of the southbridge's ports, or into the JMicron? I have heard (though never personally experienced) that the JMicron controllers are absolute crap and can cause issues like...
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- Post #5
- Jun 17, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards

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