~El~Jefe~ wrote:this e8400 chip and the p3 Tualatin were the only intels i ll ever have again.

Again! You gonna buy another Tualatin in the future?

axsnetworks wrote:in short... yes

Thanks. I thought as much but someone told me otherwsie and I doubted them.

Are they all compatible?

So I bumped it back up to about 1.025V or so. But under load it dropped from about 71W to 58W AC. I would say that's worth something. I’m just building a system with a similar combo of CPU/Mobo and that sounds a decent saving. What application did you use to load the CPU when measuring power cons...

Carphonewarehouse have the UL30 for £399 delivered - CPW.
Not sure if they also have it in store which would be handy.

Most systems I have tested consume around 3 to 4W on Standby (S3 or STR) and about 1W less when powered off; with the power supply switch still on and the socket still powered.

I compared a CULV C2D in a laptop versus a desktop Pentium Dual Core E6300 that was under-clocked and under-volted to the same speed. The difference between the idle and full CPU load wattage was almost exactly the same for both systems. The choice of other system components would have more of an af...

Hi, if you install Windows 7 on a clean disk it creates a small partition for something. Even if you try to partition the disk as one large one taking the whole space it still does it as it needs it. Seb When I install Windows 7 on a clean disk it does not create the hidden partition. In fact it cr...

Here is my suggestion. Use free versions of Active Killdisk and Easeus Partition Magic. First use Killdisk to blank and initialize the volume. Second use Easeus Partition Master To create and format two primary partitions of the sizes desired and a third logical partition for data.. Next install xp...

I have a dual boot with XP & Win7 RC1 (XP = partition 0, Win7 = partition 1, Data = partition 2) and when I used the Win7 backup utility it needed to backup the whole of the XP partition as well as Win7 because presumably there are some system files on there that are required. I am now going to inst...

MtnHermit wrote:I ordered a Gigabyte MB because of many favorable reviews and a nice feature set. I've since learned their MB's tend to consume more power.

Asus have a bad reputation for excessive consumption with certain boards but haven’t seen any significant reviews suggesting that GB have issues.

qpc wrote:If the money is not the problem, is it P or H then?

H55 doesn't support RAID but H57 does.

the chipset part, and cpu partially uses the 24pin as power source and there is no telling exactly what is going to happen if you overclock and use 2x Video cards that also draw power from the 24 pin, wich has only 2pin 12v, is all that supposed to be ok, no by me. According to Xbitlabs only the GP...

The IGP has always been ‘free’ in the sense that integrated chipsets have never been expensive so I don’t see having it on the CPU is a positive from a financial point of view. Of course these aren't free, and they have real value. Putting together a headless server, only a few BIOS's will su...

The issue is that the GPU can’t be fully disabled as the memory controller for the CPU is on the GPU which seems a bad design feature affecting both performance and power consumption. I do not believe this is correct; do you have any actual reference to back this claim up?. I wasn’t clear in th...

qpc wrote:

Assuming you can live with the processor choices

They take i7, too.

and the i5-750.

One problem with these new dual cores is that if you use them with a P55 board you end up with a 32nm dual core that consumes up to 10W more at idle than a 45nm quad on the same board. I wonder how a H55 board with a discrete graphics card compares when using an i3 versus i5-750? You are making a s...

How do you think all those movies being illegally shared are produced? :shock: Aren't most group releases?. Maybe most of the ones that get shared the most are but there are many more being shared that are seemingly produced by individuals. As well as that there are a lot of people that like to RIP...

Anyway.. wonder if the h57 chipset can have as low idle watt usage as Intel's motherboard? That would make a great secondary system. No reason why not as the H57 and H55 are so similar in spec and they have the same TDP of 5.2W. The differences between the two are so small as to make it strange as ...

MikeC wrote:As for transcoding of movies, I just can't see that many people doing it.

How do you think all those movies being illegally shared are produced?

Most sites used the Asus P7H57DV-EVO which consumes a lot more power than the Intel H55 board that SPCR used – TechReport . It’ll be interesting to see what a decent low power H5x board can achieve when over-clocking or under-volting. The link you provided shows both the Intel H55 and Asus H57 ...

nice review. Yours shows much lower power consumption that on some of the other sites. Thank you for focusing on that aspect of the system. Most sites used the Asus P7H57DV-EVO which consumes a lot more power than the Intel H55 board that SPCR used – TechReport . It’ll be interesting to see wha...

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Why do you think so? What about one of the current Xeons? Intel® Xeon® Processor L3426 (8M Cache, 1.86 GHz) http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43233&processor=L3426&spec-codes=SLBN3 It uses the socket LGA1156 and costs ~ $300. I expect that the new L type 32nm Xeons will be similar to it. I'll ...

The photo looks a bit fuzzy as Photobucket seem to have reduced the quality:

Brand new in original packaging with booklet and COA sticker with unused Product Key. This is a 64 bit DVD only and doesn’t come with a 32 bit DVD. This is a Full License and not an Upgrade or Academic License. This is an OEM version and not a retail version. The cost includes 2nd class postage an...

abrakadabra wrote:I even don't know if it's for the correct socket.

They are for the dual socket LGA1366 platform. It’s the first time I’ve seen 32nm Quad cores mentioned at all and it seems strange if they turn out to be Xeon only.

The second x16 slot is only x4 electrically which is the same for many low end LGA1156 boards even the ATX ones. Probably not a big deal as I doubt if many people would run dual high end VGA cards on a mATX board and for lower end cards I’m not sure that x4 is such an issue. You can get mATX board...

I’ve seen numerous good reviews of the GA-P55-UD3R which put it top of my list of relatively cheap P55 boards. There is also the GA-P55A-UD3R which adds SATA3 and USB3 at a slightly higher price.

The trade-off between speed and latency varies depending on what applications you are using. In your case the DDR3-1333 CL9 makes more sense as it has a higher bandwidth and the ‘actual’ latency of the two sticks is very similar.