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Exactly. Who cares if it's a Turbocharged 3.6L V6 or a NA 5.0 V8 as long as they do the job at similar price points?

I reckon it will be more towards adding specific instructions (i.e. SSE etc) catered towards "anti-virus" software made by McAfee. I think there would still be software necessary, as in you still need to download the antivirus and have regular signature updates but when it runs it runs much...

I'd give it to my gf as she tends to destroy anything electrical and/or mechanical when she touches them! :p

Hello, Wow, all these vertex drives are on sale now, i think for the anticipation of the new Vertex 2's coming out? Anyway, the 60GB version looks just too good to pass up, I am going to hop on and buy this today. I have a Win 7 partition, about 20GB big. Do I need a clean install on...

err you could run 5 passes 100 times and pass only 99 times... Does that mean it's more or less stable than 50 passes? :p If it runs 99 times out of 100 50 passes it is a good indication that it is pretty stable. :D Especially when you said it would even fail at stock.

Different thoughts on this, I've read somewhere from 10 to 50 lol... Some even say that you can gauge 1 IBT run = 1hr of Prime. What I did with mine was when my prime was stable 3 days, I ran 50 IBT tests. Took a bit, esp with 8GB of RAM. Maybe run 10-15 loops. That'd probably be safe.

I agree, Q9650 was one easy OC to 4.0GHz :) Only thing I had to fiddle was the PLL and vNB, just a little patience and some trial-and-error. Run prime for at least 12 hours, and also try blend. I found that with my board, the CPU was OK but it was more strain on the NB and the RAM, having...

We hit the clockspeed wall full force head first with pentium 4s as they reached 4ghz at that litho level the TDP was just mentally high. So far rather than the clockspeed the limiting factor has been the amount of heat the transistors generated as a result of switchng them on and off.

This. The frequency of a quad core CPU will be the same as one of its core. If the four cores were employed at 100% at 4GHz it will be the same as a single chip being employed at 100% at 16GHz. Of course this is ignoring any of the "clock optimization" features of a chip. For example HT or...

Hyperthreading is not a physical "core" therefore a hyperthreaded core will still "oscillate" at 4GHz.

Meh, maybe just plain old odd numbers. :) it is odd, however, that Core i7 was named as such due to the fact that it is the seventh architecture. So what does that mean for i5, and i3? Going back in time? MEH!

Sounds like a power supply issue. What is your PS?

Well Let me be the first to say that if you require huge mathematical calculations you are better off running it at stock vice overclocked. After all one digit off means life and death in that field, no? I certain ly wouldn't rely on a "stable" overclock for those purposes.

just built a system a month ago to use it as a HTPC to play 1080p and it works great. If all you need it to do is surf web and word processing it should be more than enough. Just make sure to get 2+GB ram for it. Have not tried the VGA or dvi port but hdmi works fine.

Have you used windows ME? :)

I had the 2494HM before it blew up on my face :( But it was a great monitor, especially for my PS3. It displayed 1080p perfectly, no scaling issues or anything like that. For exclusive PC use I'd recommend 1200 but if you want to use it in conjunction with your console 2494HM is a good...

LOL that is your biggest concern at this point, in the midst of all this? :D

A very classic and tasteful case. Price is great too.

I was an arse and what I said in my previous post was unnecessarily hostile. Didn't know how to get my point across without venting like that. No I do not work for Dell or anything but working full time at a job where everyone lives and dies by technicality just did not help at all. Glad...

like what the heck? As you stated it was a 3 yr warranty not a 3 yr and 3 months warranty. You make it sound like your monitor failed on the hour on the minute of the 0000 hrs of warranty expiry. Life sucks but you had a good time with your 30 inch for 3 years. Don't blame Dell for it. Next...