From Digitimes

My stock overclocked XFX 8800GTS 320MB idles at 61C and rises to 68C while playing WoW. I don't think it topped 70C when running 3DMark2006.

For my Ninja Rev B and P5B-E build this past weekend - I had to dremel a bit of metal off of the Ninja bracket to clear the caps. Not a big deal.

my p5b-e came the same way. pretty solid, actually. more impressed by that then by newegg's shipping practices (styrofoam peanuts and bubblewrap - can you say ESD?).

no buzzing at 49% (my current setting). no buzzing up to and including 75%.

if the buzzing is related to the brightness, then it's probably the inverter/power circuitry for your backlight.

my 225bw is dead silent.

These people should be pissed at scanner companies, and not MSFT. He can find it "inexcusable" all day long, but it isn't going to make a closed-source, proprietary driver that runs on Vista pop out of thin air. I can now confirm that my scanner does not work Vista. I'm not personally mad at anyone...

Well, it's been known with DX9 that the GPU rules the roost. But, also that you need to have a bit of speed with the CPU due to the inefficient way DX9 works (lots of CPU calls). I was just suprised that the baseline cpu needed is still below the level of a standard clocked e6300. With DX10, the cpu...

Interesting article where the author runs tests with the 8800GTS and GTX at a fixed 1600 x 1200 resolution/AA/AF and then swaps out every core 2 duo available to him.

I thought it was a well presented paper. Over 100k drives is a nice population to draw from. The temp data was interesting as well as looking at the SMART parameters that serously affect the likelyhood of future failure.

I think May is a reliable date as well. DigiTimes seems to have their ear to the ground in Taiwan.

This thread cracks me up.

So much opportunity for bashing...so little time. Yep, the US Entertainment industry is out of control. They are dinosaurs sinking in a La Brea Tar Pit of their own making - rather than evolving with the times and technology, they utilize lawyers and lobbyists to strong-arm consumers and congressmen...

All sorts of reviews out yesterday and today. I'm probably going to get the XFX 320MB XXX version. Stock overclocked unit with faster memory, performs better than the 640MB at my resolution (1600 x1050), lifetime warranty, still has a bit of overclock room to go, and costs about $340US.

I've been holding off building a new system since last august...first waiting for conroe, then allendale, then lower priced 8800. I think I'm done waiting

cienislaw wrote:8600ultra with 200e price tag will be the best option for me, next month we will see how its performs, and what exaclly it will offer.

March and not April?

Anandtech review.

Tweaktown review

Why is it so damn hard to make a CPU which measures its temperature and sned the data to the mobo so the mobo doesn't have to interpret anything, just show what the CPU tells it to. Obviously it cant be difficult, so the manufacturers just dont want to do that, for whatever reason. Agreed. Disagree...

Point taken. I was more referring to future processors. AMD will be staying with the AM2 platform for which a while, though I heard that Intel will be changing sockets again relatively soon. I don't know if this is actually true though. Isn't AMD moving to AM2+ in the fall? So, while future mobo's ...

Regarding Aero: Wikipedia entry for Vista Note that ATI/AMD and NVidia are far behind on having stable/working drivers for many games under Vista. Before you take the leap, you might want to go to their support websites and check the current status for games you want to play. I'm sticking w/ XP for ...

Put a sheet of very fine sandpaper on a glass tabletop I understand, though it's not lapping in the strictest sense, lapping uses a paste in which the particles are suspended. Sorry for the nitpickeing, but I'm an engineering student and so I wondered whre to get lapping paste and if it's really a ...

Mescalero wrote:
BTW: Where do you get lapping-equipment from?

Put a sheet of very fine sandpaper on a glass tabletop - do a search for details.

Note that lapping your CPU will void the warranty.

This main machine will be for Vid Editing so I think I'll go ahead and stick with 2GB. This will be running Vista business too, which I have no doubt will be more annoying with memory than XP. Thanks for the suggestion tho belkincp... saving money is always good. Anyone have any idea when the E4300...

As mentioned, it might be a sympathetic resonance with another device elsewhere in the building... A couple of possible sources (and my current bane): - gas furnace hum - compressor hum from your refrigerator Tracking down low frequency sources can be a pain as they don't need to be direct/line-of-s...

Devonavar wrote:The +3.3V line is out of spec, but it's high, not low. You might want to double check it with a multimeter, as that could be the problem.

7.8% high is unlikely to be a problem that causes his boot sequence to stop. I think this is a non-problem.

it's certainly not a load issue - you probably don't use more than 100W.
(my 2800+, NF7-S 2.0, 6600GT, 1 HDD, 2 ODD, 22" LCD, cable modem, and router draw 130W idle/165W gaming).

my dog snoring.

Janzki wrote:

CA_Steve wrote:

qviri wrote:Aren't they going to have a new, more reasonably sized DX10 design out early next year?

Rumor is February for a 320MB version of the GTS for $300.

February 12th and $299, to be exact.

yay!

aristide1 wrote:The rumor I heard is that the next E6300 and E6400 will have 4 meg caches for the same amount of money, but who knows?

e6320 and e6420 will have 4MB cache

looks like it's only $45 or so shipped. woo.