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Asrock unlocks fourth AMD core
A TREAT for the AMD fans, that’s what the Asrock’s M3A790GXH/128M is (a mobo that oddly reminds us of the Asus M3A79-series). Tested at OC Workbench, the mobo provides a nice little foundation for a Phenom II system, but with the added bonus of unlocking an X3’s fourth core...
Anandtech tests a full system, the Digital Storm Core i7-965. It’s a “dream machine” deal that costs almost $6000, but being powered by an overclocked Core i7 965, tri-SLI GTX 285s and lots of other high-end features has its cost.
Xbit Labs gathered four mainstream CPU coolers and put them through their paces. Apparently Scythe has a small lead, but no LGA1366 retention system, while the other three come a very close second.
Thrusted Reviews is testing the Asus RT-N11 EZ Wireless N Router. It’s a long list of shortcomings, if you ask us. Less-than-friendly WPS, poor documentation and sub-par wireless performance…
Frank at Think Computers is reviewing Crucial’s Ballistix Tracer Blue DDR3-1600 3x2GB memory kit. The RAM features some neat LED lighting for your rig as well as quality memory and overclocking.
Tech Gage is in awe of the Asus W90 18.4-inch desktop replacement notebook. Crossfired 4870s, quad-core CPU, HD display... what more do you want? Disregard the UPS-like battery life and it’s a winner.
Small Net Builder tests some networking kit for your Co-axial network at home. The D-Link DXN-221 and Actiontec ECB2200 show near identical performance but pricing will vary substantially.
Silent PC Review is looking at the Antec P183 enclosure. This successor to the P182 increases airflow substantially and tweaks some of the specs to match the Antec CP Series power supplies.
Notebook Review has that Gateway P-7805u gaming laptop on test. It’s a “budget” gaming laptop with a Core 2 Duo P8400 and a 9800M GTS GPU. The sub-$1500 price tag seems fine.
Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10e netbook gets the going-over at InsideHW. The price is right, if you don’t mind the ridiculously small trackpad... Big thumbs up.
Hardware Secrets has a go at MSI’s N260GTX Lightning Black Edition graphics card. Moderately OC’d in both RAM and GPU core and sports twice the RAM as the reference. It also features a handy front panel for overclocking.
Guru of 3D tests out the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU cooler. No extreme cooling on this one, but it handled the resident QX9770 running at 3.6GHz well enough.
Elite Bastards also upped its Asus Triton 88 CPU cooler review. The Triton is powerful in cooling, but when the heat is turned up, it becomes a bit noisy. µ
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Sorry, I was thinking of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU
I am dumbfounded people haven't worked out how to set the affinity on tasks themselves. There are a few ways to do it. Task Manager if you wish to do it manually, System Resource Manager found with Windows Server and then there are applications that work on all versions of Windows like CPU Control (www.koma-code.de).
I've got 4 cores here and have been utilizing them all with no problems.
That said, programmers just have to mod there applications to take advantage of the cores and how to use them correctly.
For example the program Speed Fan, is single threaded, but it doesn't hog core 0 (like most dumb apps would), it swaps between the cores itself! Now if only more apps could be coded by smart people :(
Warning about Crucial's Ballistix RAM. It has a lifetime warranty, but if it fails in 18 months time, when they aren't producing that RAM any more, then they will only offer you ordinary RAM as the replacement.
It doesn't matter than you spent 2x the amonth buying performance RAM, Crucial will only give you ordinary RAM.
I have been down this road with them, kindly asking in emails for either an increase in the ram from 2x1GB Ballistix to 2x2GB ordinary RAM (same money value). But they wouldn't do it.
So now I have ordinary RAM which cost me 2x as much as it should have. Just a warning to you all about Crucials "lifetime warranty".
Are Crucial another Nvidia starting to happen?
On asus Main, Most people think extra core is worthless or worse. NOT so, However, there are few software packages that will utilize ALL Four cores to better numerical test score higher rating than 3 core.
Some of Software You run may take incredible time to run. EG Virus scan, Defrag, etc. Those programs will run 25% to 33% faster with 4th core unlocked.
Seldom does program run slower, almost always 3 cores test exactly same as 4.
Software must FORCE 4th Core into usefulness for program,
most where one fly,McFly operations & took 2nd core with lust & third helped. yet four was too far out in exactly HOW to use it. Only 3 top games of 11 improve with fourth core.
Soon Most will be core hungry Mashers.
Its FUN concept to get core for free & learning experience, yet except under serve load, don't expect any return. heavy load will give FULL Potential of ALL Cores.
Signed:Open ALL Channels.
In reverse, programer can take ati gpu & stop 3x redundancy & do straight shot. Ends up just like Nvidia card of that lower useable tranie count. So Its Programers Game & NOT well Done for multi core. yet.Merely increaseing scores from poverty of single core code to date.
Don't Be Fooled, Synthetic Scores Will Also Increase in porportion to number of Cores, Automatically. Synthetic tests Is NO Indication of Usefulness of those EXTRA cores.