I cant believe in 11+ years of coming to xtremesystems I have never put anyone on ignore status, until now. Goodbye Tajoh. I wont miss you.
Mantle seems to be for real. I hope it keeps...
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I cant believe in 11+ years of coming to xtremesystems I have never put anyone on ignore status, until now. Goodbye Tajoh. I wont miss you.
Mantle seems to be for real. I hope it keeps...
I hope people are patient with Mantle. It seems to have much potential.
Opty chips have always been fun to play with. AMD might throw us enthusiast a Opteron toy to tinker with as they have done in the past. Maybe some beastly dual socket goodness! Time will tell.
Regardless of profit margins software sells hardware and vice versa. AMD is thinking long term. They are making some well planned moves to create sustainability and longevity. Something short...
Odds are the only things that will differ with these boxes will be the amount of installed ram and hard drive space.
The average Joe knows more then you think.
Price tags, salesmen and reviews will help the rest.
There is no debate this is a really cool item. I like the way it continues promoting varying hardware. IE the PC type platform but its wrapped in very user friendly shell. Its a very elegant way...
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
Ok good to know :)
Ive got the itch and i just landed a corsair 650D case on the cheap! SHould i switch my FX system to it or grab an FM2+ board now?
I hesitated, i did. However, its great news and should be shared.
http://www.zdnet.com/amd-q3-beats-expectations-returns-to-profitability-7000022098/
Even though im sure they still owe a TON of money out nice to see them in the +.
http://amdfx.blogspot.com/
We were the pioneers of tweaking pc's! Sooo many dead boards/cpus heheh
I actually enjoyed some very low level tweaks on the Ali chipsets but had the most experience with via for sure. I...
Mine was a Tyan with 1mb cache on board. I think I had a k6-3? 400 OC to 450 via fsb. My tribes ran awesome, I was hooked. Started overlooking video cards soon after and havent stopped since. ...
^truth and always fun to overclock! Intel never liked us tweakers at first.
K6-2 333 @ 400 oh yeah! anyone remember the onboard cache on mobo?
AMD slot A thunderbird with a insanely heavy panaflow cooler. The heaviest cooler ive ever used to this day yet extremely elegant and efficient. The Tbird loved it. Cache chips anyone?
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http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/9/10/amd-toys-with-intel-at-idf-2013-passes-out-potato-chips.aspx
to funny.
http://videocardz.com/45623/amd-hawaii-30-smaller-kepler-gk110
If its been posted sorry!
This cpu hack does wonders for my Asrock setup in sig. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
Vishera @5ghz is a great chip, no doubt in my mind. Kind of the number were all shooting for anyway. The wattage aspect has been done daily for years by many of us already as well.
So really...
some power usage test....
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?p=13313020
7850 installed, man what a great card. Anyway 5ghz is proving to be rock solid at 1.45v I think system may have some more just no time to push ATM.
Cinebench 11 = 3.29 @...
5ghz stable today @ these settings:
http://valid.canardpc.com/2777952
Have to wait till mid week to test 3d/cinebench after get vid card in.
Thanks. Looks like my day to day is gonna be 4.92 with 1.43v bios 1.45+ actual. Might try 5ghz again after a period of burn in and a good cleaning of the Radiator :)
No complaints good...