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BillyBuerger

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  1. The connectors on there are DMS-59 which are used often with "professional" graphics cards. We have a bunch of nVidia Quadro NVS285 cards at work with a single DMS-59 connector. You can plug either two DVI or two VGA monitors to one connector. Unfortunately, professional graphics cards generally cost a bit more then your standard desktop ones. So as was mentioned, these could be great for business situations where multiple monitors are helpful but not a lot of 3D work is required. I currently have a AMD 785 motherboard and a HD3650 card for a total of 3 DVI (plus one unused VGA connector) on my work computer driving three monitors. The 3650 was on sale and was the cheapest fanless dual-DVI card I could find. I have had some minor driver issues with the two different GPUs. Having one card do this and for apparently much less than the professional cards would be a nice option. Other option for some of our PCs was to use old matrox PCI cards. They work off the standard microsoft display driver so there's no driver issues and can get up to 1280x1024 on a VGA connector. These things are from around '95/'96 and are still kicking. Unlike my collection of AGP cards that are useless.
  2. Dang, someone finally made a case similar to what I have been thinking for a while now.... Slightly different Case Design Big thing being the location of the PSU and then the ability to use large intake and exhaust fans. Oh well, not like I was actually going to sell anything using this concept.
  3. Saw another review (listed on the front page here) that comapred the 7750 to the X2 5000+ and 5050e along with others... Legit Reviews - AMD Athlon X2 7750 and 5050e Dual-Core Processor Review So it does perform a good bit better than the K8 CPUs around the same frequency. Good there. But they also measure the power consumption to be about 20W higher at idle and 40W higher under load. So as expected, it's a good bit more power hungry. Performance per watt is probably lower than K8 at this time. But I assume that will get better as they go and especially when they move on to 45nm.
  4. Seems the best thing to compare this to would be X2 5200 as that's a K8 running at the same frequency. Then we could see if the K10 really adds anything more than the K8 does at the same clock. Or better yet, the X2 5050e. It's only 100MHz slower but is a 45W CPU. Do you get anything extra for double the TDP? (And why is the 95W TDP listed here as if it was a good thing?) I seem to remember when the Phenoms first came out, the review seemed to suggest that in single threaded apps, they weren't any faster than K8. So why do we need to move away from K8? I personally think the 45W K8's are great low end CPUs. They perform similar to the low end C2D/Pentium that generally cost more and I like the AMD chipsets which are cheaper than similarly spec'd Intel chipsets. I'm waiting to see how the new 45nm AMDs are going to do, but don't see any reason to pick up a 7750 over any K8 at this point.
  5. Seasonic SS300SFD (300w) and dang proud of it.
  6. I'd still be interested to see if DDR2-800 would change the results at all. And don't forget that Socket AM2 was not really about increasing performance. It was mostly to update the memory controller to DDR2 (as that's becoming the new standard for memory) and to unify all of their desktop chips onto one socket. There's a reason why both the AM2 and S939 CPUs have the same model number of 3500. They're suppose to be equivalent in performance. Most of your benchmarks show very similar results. Which is to be expected. So there was never any reason to "Upgrade" to AM2. But if you were going to get a new CPU/MB, it'd be best to get an AM2. As even if you just got a cheap Sempron to start, you could later upgrade all the way to an FX-62 if you wanted. Oh, and a little typo. The title says "Amd Am2 3500+ Vs. Amd 939 X2 3500+ Review".
  7. I noticed you used DDR2-667 memory. I thought one of the reasons AMD held out on AM2 until DDR2-800 was out was because it needed the 800MHz stuff to keep the performance up to par. AMD CPUs like low-latency memory. Could you try the tests with DDR2-800 and see if it makes any difference?
  8. If I can make a suggestion, read the Power Supply Fundamentals & Recommendations article over at Silent PC Review. I realize this article is geared towards quiet PSUs. But it also has a lot of good information about how much power a system really needs. Looking at your specs, 500W sounds like it would be more than enough. AMD cpus these days are very efficient. And as far as future-proofing goes, even Intel is moving towards making more efficient CPUs. Down to about 65W vs. over 100W as some of their current prescotts are. These 850W and bigger PSUs are just for bragging rights or if you plan on heating your room with your computer. I highly doubt that 850W PSUs will become the norm. For example, I just recently upgraded from a Athlon XP 1600+ to a Sempron 64 2600+. I put it together with the same PSU. A generic 300W thing that came with the case I bought about 5 years ago. Booted right up with no problems at all. I also have a BFG FX5200 video card. It's by no means a power hungry system. But it is still easily handled by an old 300W PSU.
  9. No ghosts for me. I guess I'm a skeptic by nature. Just because there isn't an explaination for something, doesn't mean that it's a ghost or god or some other supernatural entity.
  10. As mentioned earlier, SilentPcReview is a great place to look. Here's a link to their recommended PSU list: Power Supply Fundamentals & Recommended Units The Seasonic Super series and Enermax Noisetaker are on the top of their lists. The important thing for a quiet power supply is efficiency. The more efficient, the less heat, the less airflow, the less noise. Although it's also important to have good case airflow. If the PSU also has to exhaust a bunch of heat from your CPU and video, even a good quiet PSU will become loud.
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  12. I just checked out the newest entry in the case gallery but the first picture doesn't show up in full size. It's url is: ...view=vader1036702372viper2000+.jpg&id=31 After looking at it I thought that the "+" looked suspicious. So I replaced it with the ascii value for "+". Viola! ...view=vader1036702372viper2000%2B.jpg&id=31 So it seems that a "+" in the image name doesn't get converted correctly in the link. Not URLEncoded.
  13. What makes them no good? I'd like to hear some reasons. And the commodore 64 was kick . at one time. I still have one in my basemant. Hell, it's still fun to play with once and a while.
  14. Motorolla has been making chips forever. Ever look inside a commodore 64? I forget exactly what chip it is but it's almost the exact same thing I used in college to build a programmable car. It was a 68HC11. We had to make it follow a black line or a light and avoid objects and some other things. Best class I ever took. My point is that motorolla has been making chips long before they made cell phones.
  15. I think CowboyCJ has some very interesting ideas. (and obviously some money based on his specs) Thanks!
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