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    Power supplies repeatedly failing

    My systems psu have been repeatedly failing. I've a 9 yr old p4 which I didn't replace since I dont do much intensive computing. The electrician says that my house's old wiring might be damaging it . My 15 year old tv has gone bad too recently though the lights and fans run fine for a long time...
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    How much can HKMG help AMD?

    But AMD's potential clocks seem tremendous compared to what Intel has achieved. Even if the improvement is 25-30% at 32nm, it's quite high. Even that much can give a 80-90% improvement in performance at same power vs 45nm no HKMG. Intel's 32 vs 45nm is not that radical though. If all goes well...
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    How much can HKMG help AMD?

    Sorry if this question is a bit late but really according to IBM http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23901.wss apparently using HKMG can give a 40% boost. Does that really mean you could get a 4ghz + Phenom II at 45nm? that might even beat Nehalem at the same Power Consumption. But...
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    The Geek Dictionary; for All Your Weird Words

    Ripoff of urban dictionary?
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    Core i5 Cranks up to 3.6 GHz?

    The *2.93 ghz coming at $562 and the 2.66 at $196 makes it sound a bit fishy... Wonder what the 2.8 ghz one costs though (maybe around $300)
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    Report: Intel SSD Price Cut on April 26

    It might take another five years for them to match current HDD prices $/GB at this rate until a revolutionary and surprising cheap product comes up...
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    DX11 cards coming in August?

    I really don't care much about DirectX 11(only perhaps if the equivalent instructions were put in OpenGL) but I would like to know how RV870 does. They said it'd be 30% improvement over RV770 consuming same / less power and be a 'completely new architecture' or something like that... Nice find...
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    Intel's 6-Core CPU Possibly Delayed

    Umm when did they say the hexa core 32nm would come in q4? Didn't they already say dual cores 32nm in q4 and six core processors in H1 2010? And H1 2010 = q2 to q4 2010 usually... There are plenty of things that will be using this... Mainly help for more multitasking... A lot of apps like video...
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    QOTD: Do You Want Reader Submitted Content?

    Yes we have the forums for that. So even if somebody writes something idiotic we need not take it as written by someone from Tom's if it's written in the forums. Please it's a useless idea...
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    Intel Sending out 32nm 'Westmere' Samples

    Looks like there's some error(?) in the software that breaks comments when typing the less than sign or something else. Very sorry for the "spam" And that'd help Phenom II outsell Intel in the (less than)180$ mark. If Bulldozer comes out as Conroe, Then we can expect a large scale turnaround in...
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    Intel Sending out 32nm 'Westmere' Samples

    WTF why did my message get posted four times and didn't even get posted full?! Sorry can't delete the comments... (And that'd help Phenom II outsell Intel in the
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    Intel Sending out 32nm 'Westmere' Samples

    martin0642The foundry spinoff won't create a new processor design. I wish AMD well, but their getting hammered by Intel. Competition drives innovation, and the Phenom architecture was less than phenomenal. It just seems like if you state the true state of affairs that Intel is doing much...
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    Intel Sending out 32nm 'Westmere' Samples

    martin0642The foundry spinoff won't create a new processor design. I wish AMD well, but their getting hammered by Intel. Competition drives innovation, and the Phenom architecture was less than phenomenal. It just seems like if you state the true state of affairs that Intel is doing much...
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    Intel Sending out 32nm 'Westmere' Samples

    martin0642The foundry spinoff won't create a new processor design. I wish AMD well, but their getting hammered by Intel. Competition drives innovation, and the Phenom architecture was less than phenomenal. It just seems like if you state the true state of affairs that Intel is doing much...
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    Intel Sending out 32nm 'Westmere' Samples

    martin0642The foundry spinoff won't create a new processor design. I wish AMD well, but their getting hammered by Intel. Competition drives innovation, and the Phenom architecture was less than phenomenal. It just seems like if you state the true state of affairs that Intel is doing much...