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Thinking of taking the plunge. Does anyone know of any problems with the Tiger MP? I have seen a good price on one and might make the jump if there aren't any quirks. Do the CPU's have to be the same stepping? Does the USB work on the Tiger MP (AMD760MP - not MPX)? Can 64-bit/33Mhz PCI slots...

Nope! (Hopefully) not that stupid. I was actually concerned by the statements before I bought the 8KHA+, and specifically bought it to test my theory. But I was expecting a little more performance out of the box. The article I write should go into things in a little more depth. :)

CougTek, measure it, I don't expect to see it. AMD760 is faster in Q3A, KT266A is faster in ScienceMark. I'm just running the Winstone bench's now - appears to be a dead heat so far. 4-bank interleave is set. ScienceMark reports the memory latency and I can see that the KT266A is better -...

Crucial PC 2100 @ 2-2-2 timings for both

Hi all. Is there any secret to tweaking the KT266A chipset? I have been playing around with an EPoX 8KHA+ and can't seem to get it to go much faster than my 8K7A+. In fact, in Q3A, the AMD760 is faster! I have done things like upgrade to the latest BIOS, set the most aggressive memory...

No VIA for me (well at least not in the first pass). VIA does use HT and V-Link in it's chipset implementation. In traditional (VIA) chipsets, the north bridge (NB) connects to the south bridge (SB) via (ha ha) V-Link. Other makers use their own variant (SiS) or the PCI bus (AMD 760, ALi...

What I consider to be a fairly insightful look into ATi and NVIDIA http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002q2/ati-nvidia/index.x?pg=1 Notes (my analysis, not TR's): In the synthetic tests (3DMark), the ATi looks pretty impressive - mainly because 3DMark uses a lot of different texture maps...

Better late than never I suppose but... I initially used NAV from a motherboard bundle - it went OK until I had to re-install it due to trashing the OS. The "trial" NAV thought I was trying to pull a swifty and wouldn't install. So I installed another copy from another motherboard bundle...

Somehow I can't see Intel's compilers supporting x86-64 just yet. :) I was specifically referring to MS and gcc...

D'OH! Downloaded the patch for nothing :(

64-bit won't double the speed of your computer. In fact in a lot of cases, it might slow things down - as cas mentioned, if you start using a lot of 64-bit data constructs you can only fit half as many of them in cache - but then again, the cache of clawhammer is expected to double in size...

I'd be cautious about accepting such as statement Random chance says that the file level fragmentation could favour one particular drives file placement over another. IMHO, there are two few iterations of the test to be sure, but it could be verified. It's an interesting idea, but they...

I would have thought that this is a next to useless "benchmark" because there is no repeatability on where the files are placed physically on the hard drive. So one run might be with a less fragmented file system over another - and there is no way to know before hand or after, how this might...

Tea, go to the Promise site and get the latest BIOS and driver files -> this gives you 48-bit LBA in case you wanted to plug one of the 160GB MAxtors into it...

Sol, the way that t'bred is going, Hammer will be out first :)

Sol, if you really wanted to get rid of the Athlon, I'd be interested, and I'll cop shipping to Canberra - email me if interested

Handruin, I agree with you about the cables - should be a definite improvement, but I don't see any more speed coming done the pike. ..."I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around the city, keeping its SPEED over 50. And if the SPEED dropped it would explode. I think it was called...

Thanks Tony, it makes me ill seeing some of the cr*p in cattledogs that the uninformed consumer gets force fed - not that this is, this appears to be a simple typo. But I really wish people would buy from experts if they don't have the knowledge - but I guess glitzy marketing keeps the big...

Platform: 150MB/s over a point to point cable - Can you point me in the direction of an ATA drive that can deliver that? This will in the forseeable future mean absolutely Jack. The drives have to catch up first and the interface is no panacea. Barry, it was an either/or choice, not an...

Damn, forgot about SATA - but then I don't see it as offering any performance improvements over current PATA so it's not on my horizon. FWIW I use a Promise card as well as the onboard so only one device is connected to any one IDE port.

Sorry for so many options I've been reading the "Systems that sell" thread and it seems to have morphed into this question "What up and coming tech has your interest?", so I thought I'd poll you people. Do people really care about any of the new tech that's on the horizon or have we really...

I posted my take on these benchs on my front page but here goes: Now this (FEA benchmark) is both good and bad - good in the sense that this is yet another way to analyse performance - and in this particular setup, the Athlon MP and XP absolutely smacks the Intel offerings silly. Engineers...

Feels sheepish, vewwy vewwy sheepish :oops:

THG jumped the gun with their memory review http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q2/020501/index.html Here they are comparing DDR200, 266, 333, 400 vs RDRAM 800, 1066 and 1200. but they included results for Intel's i845G chipset (not yet released). Someone from Intel got upset and the...

Tony, I have an old Promise Ultra-100 PCI IDE card (non RAID). Promise released a BIOS for it last month that gives the thing 48-bit LBA so you can use drives > 128GB. I use it in my Athlon 650 - sorry 550 :) - box and it only adds a few seconds to the boot sequence. If you can find/already...

Overclockers Australia have opened up a 20.5GB 75GXP to see what made it die... http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_hdd_anatomy/ Interesting

Saw this on Ace's BB (originally from hardtechs4U) - release specs for T'bred 1800+ 1533 1.60V 0.13 56.9W 90 2nd May 1900+ 1600 1.60V 0.13 58.6W 90 2nd May 2000+ 1667 1.60V 0.13 60.3W 90 2nd May 2100+ 1733 1.60V 0.13 62.1W 90 2nd May 2200+ 1800 1.65V 0.13 67.9W 85 2nd May 2200+ is doing...

The only difference between 4.37 and 4.38 is an updated AGP driver...

Everywhere I've read (Reg, JC's, The Inq, AMDZone, TR) that has commented upon the demise of the Duron has said the same thing, but also ommitted something... They all say that the Duron is to be phased out this year Now for the ommission AMD needs two product lines (Athlon, Duron) to compete...

Why change the spec for Barton? I believe that AthlonXP is at its frequency limit without a major relayout/process breakthrough. 130nm isn't going to give AMD the big speed gains that Intel achieved with the move to 130nm. In fact the big speed gains came becasue of the use of copper...

Sorry CougTek (for not submitting). I'll try harder next time :)

So says the Wall Street Journal. Hitachi is supposed to be buying the unit. http://www.theinquirer.net/17040203.htm Didn't see that one coming if true...

Time, bought an Apollo Kyro II from GameDude and could not get it to run on an Abit KT7A (kept looping in 3D, corrupted icons in 2D) or on an FIC SD-11 (at all!). Worked fine on an AMD760 (EPoX) with a fair amount of stuffing around and ALi MAGiK1 (Iwill). GameDude exchanged it for a...

Giant, it was more than one G200 BIOS flash (and more than two or three as well)...

Interesting the number of comments about the Matrox G200 being a goodie. Ever try to get the thing working ona Super7 (VIA) board? I had no end of trouble with this little sucker and gave up in the end. I could get it to work by disabling most of the BIOS performance options, but system...

CougTek - yep, that qualifies :) Do I blindly believe Bus WS 2001's ranking? Nope? Using benchmarks is about finding the one that most closely resembles what you do with your PC - and then judging on that ranking. I don't do Photoshop, AVID cinema, POVRay or Dreamweaver. If I listened to...

How many people actually multitask? The closest most come is by running a virus scanner and audio in the background. Who recalculates massive spreadsheets in the background on a regular basis? Shit, with a top-end Athlon or P4 it wouldn't matter anyway it'd happen so fast :) Audio ripping...

Can of worms indeed! Disclaimer: I sometimes write for Realworldtech - I'm saying this upfront lest I be accussed of bias :) Tannin, I would have to say (on the face of it) that Business Winstone 2001 might be a better benchmark than you think (within it's limitations). I say this because...

Mercutio, one of the things I needed to do to get MoM to run under NT 4.0 was edit the "config.nt" file in the C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 folder, right at the bottom I needed to add (or uncomment) the "EMM = RAM" line. This added expanded memory support in NT 4.0 DOS boxes. I didn't have to do this...

James, why pay for RAM that your usage may never use? Like Tannin said about the price of RAM. I bought heaps last year when the prices were really low - 512MB in one machine, 768 in another and 640MB in the third - and I still have 256MB lying around. But I never use it. If you run W2K or...

O.K, I'm sure it has been asked before but... I want to bench some drives and I want to know what knowledgeable people think are good bench's. I currently have access to Winbench 99, and have *no* intention of using SANDRA. Unfortunately, the iPEAK stuff that SR uses is out of my league...

Mercutio, that's why I put "unless you have a burning need for the speed" :)

PC1600 and PC2100 are JEDEC standards. People have been abusing the PC2700 "standard" which until last week wasn't defined. PC2700 operates at 166MHz DDR (333MHz) frequencies. As the spec was only formalised last week, it will be a few months before official PC2700 becomes available - be very...

EverythingLinux is the place. You are right though, it would have been easier and quicker. Hindsight is such a wonderful thing :(

Upgraded to the latest Nero and it worked - 5.5.2.4 was listed as having a bug with some ISO images. Thanks to all

I'll have to check, couldn't do it last night as I went and watched LOTR

Thaks Sol

Hi, thanks for the reply. When I tried to open an image to burn (File | Open), Nero only gave me the choice of it's image files. Selecting the ISO manually (all files) only placed a single ISO file in the left hand pane. Burnt this and ended up with a CD with one file.

Not rreally sure if this should be in Tech Support or not, sorry if I messed up - but there seems to be a few Linux threads here so... OK, I've downloaded a Linux ISO (Lycoris - formerly Redmond) and now I need to burn it to CD - preferrably bootable. My burning software of choice is Nero...

Thanks for the reply CougTek. I don't expose the media to sunlight though.