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I am trying to clone an HDD with Windows 7 installed on it on to a Samsung 850 EVO using the Samsung Data Migration software. Both drives are of the same nominal size (500 GB), and the same actual size (roughly 465 GB).The HDD in question is not entirely full, it's got around 428 GB on it as it...

I'm not after an exact value- just roughly as percentage how much of the power put into a CPU gets lost as heat to the environment, how much goes into actually powering logic.

No, I am not

Here's a rather technical question. I know for a fact that not all the power gets turned into heat in a CPU- some get is used to "actuate" the logic gates so they change states. Relative to the amount of power going into to a modern processor, how much of it is actually used to run the...

Most discrete graphics cards offer more performance than the Intergrated graphics offered by your APU... A HD 7750 or GTX 650 would be an large improvement. For Sims 3, you probably wouldn't need much more, though you could get a GTX 650 Ti or HD 7770 for a bit more head room. Just using a...

Games are probably going to become multicore, PS4 or not. Having a multi-core console might accelerate the process, adding incentive, but the PS3 and Xbox 360 were both multicore before; the only difference is that now they are x64, rather than PowerPC based. And why would the FX series...

The only downside with with that choice is it isn't future proof- the LGA 1155 socket is going to be phased out next gen. You'll have to get a new motherboard if you want that sort of an upgrade when Haswell comes out.

This probably fits the bill: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835114120 It doesn't look like it protrudes much over the processor, so you should be fine.

I did a bit more research on passmark and did a little math and got: Processor(all @ 3.5 ghz) --i7-3970x------|----i7-3770k--------|---i7-2700k Total Score --------------12,874 -------|---9,619 ----------|---- 8,959 Score/Physical cores-----2,145 per core--|--2,404 per core --|---2,239 per...

Hello, I've done a bit of research and as far as I can find the main performance difference between each tier of intel processors derives from either having a higher clock speed(w/ or w/o turbo boost), more cores, and/or hyperthreading. My queston is whether or not there is any diffrence in...