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Although it compares PC-5300 to PC-6400, with a bit of scaling with respect to FSB speeds, this may be helpful: http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=628 and http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=630

Lite-on is the OEM for amongst others Sony and HP DVD drives. So yes, they're a decent brand.

You may not have the option to fit only one additional module. The 975X is one of the few chipsets that allows 3 modules and runs in pseudo dual channel mode. I don't have a P965 to test and the Asus manual doesn't say you can, but it also doesn't say you can't.

The difference between the "good stuff" and the generic paste supplied with heatsinks is usually only a few degrees, and then really only significant on the hottest CPUs. That said, you can't go wrong with Arctic Silver 5, you can spend a lot more on some exotic compounds with little...

He probably meant VIVO (Video In Video Out) and not Avivo (the hardware video playback acceleration). VIVO just gives you some additional ability to capture video and is usually found on more expensive versions of graphics cards. It's not used that often, unless you want to capture video from...

If the card is less than a few hundred dollars, then it's little more than the same RAID chips (JBMicron, SI, etc) mounted on a PCI/PCIe card and won't give any performance advantage. These all use the CPU to perform tha RAID function in S/W. Promise, AMCC, amongst others make true hardware...

RAM is critical, as much as possible - Photoshop will use everything it can get hold of. 2 or 3GByte+ is good. Split the system into several hard drives (not partitions on a single drive). Put the OS and software onto one, along with Window's swap file. Place the images on another physical...

It's not a technical issue, nVidia just won't licence SLI for other chipsets. Some hacks may allow it to work, but the next driver release from nVidia then defeats it...

Without *actually* reading the spec sheets (It' Sunday afternoon....), usually the workstation motherboards have: 1. PCI-X slots (for RAID cards, network cards). PCI-X is usually found on server motherboards, seldomn on gaming/enthuast boards 2. Handle ECC memory for enhanced stability (a bit...

The PCIe x850Pro's are based on the R480 and the AGP ones are based on the R481 (both low-k 130nm), not the R420/423 (130nm), R430 (110nm) of the X800 series. That's why they can run a bit faster than the X800 parts. The X800GTOs are bit of a lottery being made of anything letf over that can...

I have both cards from Gecube, the X800XL is clocked at 400MHz and the X850Pro at 520MHz (507MHz stock) and I can't notice any difference. I can take the X850Pro to 555MHz core and 545MHz memory where the X800XL gets to 435MHz core and 520MHz memory (IIRC and not a lot of effort was put into the...

The conventional way to set up a NLE is to place the OS, it's swap file and NLE software on 1 drive and then use the others for the data. My system (I use Liquid Edition but I'm sure that the Adobe products would be similar) has a Raptor 36GB for the OS and LE software, another 2x160GB in RAID...

The "Supports Intel Dual Core" refers to the Pentium D 8XX devices, just as the hyperthreading refers to the 6xx devices. This board doesn't even seem to support the Pentium D 9xx devices, and won't support Core 2 Duo

Probably not as well as you'd like in games. The Netburst architecture is very sensitive to cache size, and that's where the Celerons are lacking. Legionhardware.com did an artcle on overclocking a Celeron 336 that showed fair performance in applications, but not in games. But hey, given the...

Only Rev -304, see http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20060425175704.html