Posts by MarshallRA

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/676?vs=102 here is the a8-5600k stock (3.6ghz) vs the 965 3.4ghz it manages to beat it at some things but its not that far off in performance from it in general

double post

If your motherboard can unlock disabled/hidden cores, some newer athlon x4 640's (E0 stepping, zosma core) can unlock to a 6 core and in some cases the l3 cache can unlock too.

2-3 compute units? so we will see a 6 steamroller core apu? that would be wicked

Neither of those processors can overclock (well. you can bclk overclock but that only gets you like 50 or 100mhz increase maybe, bclk overclock is basically non-existant on sandy and ivy.) You need a "K" chip to overclock well. (such as...

Quote:Originally Posted by pc-illiterate pretty normal from what ive seen. really depends on your ambients. in the room this pc is in the ambients are usually around 20 - 22c, and the humidity is around normal. i live in northern...

I have a i7 2600k, running at 4.5GHz and 1.36v (not the best oc'ing chip) This is being cooled by a corsair A70 (not H70, this is the tower heatsink with 2 fans), and these are my temps after 30 minutes of prime95 (just to make it hot,...

Quote:Originally Posted by GanjaSMK Fixed my problem. For anyone else having this issue - I was running Windows 7 in 'Windows Classic' mode, and by switching back to 'Aero' everything is working perfectly - no more screen tearing. ...

in, from canada. this would be sick for my tv pc.

Damn i think we're lucky, i ordered one at 159$ too and now its gone back up to 199$