The build process and thermal performance of a fanless Ivy Bridge HTPC was covered in detail last month. I had indicated that the piece would be the first of a three-part HTPC series. Today, we are looking at the second part of the series. My original intention was to present the HTPC oriented...
I recently upgraded from a 5400 RPM hard drive, to the 120 GB version of the SanDisk Extreme SSD. On my computer with a SATA 3 Gb/s configuration, my WEI score went from 5.7 to 7.7 and the performance gain is simply unbelievable. What's everyone else's experience moving from conventional hard...
I've just built a new computer.
Im getting Bsod's quite often.
I beleive it has something to do with my ram. (I've been working on overclocking them). Prime95 stable for two hours on blend. Yet, Bsod's after 20 minutes of playing skyrim.
I've also had it do this twice while moving files from 1...
Hello everyone, I'll start off by posting my WEI scores in Windows 8 build 7989 vs. Windows 7 SP1 and my hardware.
Hardware:
AMD Phenom II N970 quad core
4 GB of DDR3
Radeon HD6470m (mobility)
5400 RPM 640 GB WD hard drive.
Windows 7:
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Windows 8:
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The latest video release showcasing Microsoft Windows 8 benchmarks, and a quick press release by Emily Wilson at Microsoft, shows that Windows 8’s boot time capability will be superior to Windows 7. No, the system was not in hibernation; otherwise we would have seen the restore from hibernation...
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Hello everyone. This is Mike from Windows8Forums.com. We some very good news for Windows 8 enthusiasts, as new benchmarks have been released from Microsoft Corporation. These benchmarks indicate that Windows 8 boots significantly faster than Windows 7 in every possible realm. We have thirty (30)...
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Phoronix: The new benchmarks going out today on Phoronix are looking at the performance of Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics with the latest Microsoft Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux drivers.
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This forty minute video demonstration examines the impact of solid state hard drives on various laptops, new and old. A Dell XPS 15z and Dell XPS M1330 are compared through boot tests, benchmarks, and actual gaming experiences. A solution to a problem with SSD installations and Sandy Bridge...
So you're a Windows 7 user and you thank Microsoft every day for creating something that has gotten you off Windows Vista. Almost 18 months on and loads of little updates later, we finally find ourselves greeted with the first Service Pack for the operating system.
So it's got a list of...
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DonanimHaber have revealed early Link Removed indications for AMD's much anticipated next-gen Bulldozer architecture, in the form of Zambezi CPUs. The benchmarks were sourced from an official AMD document, in three categories, Media, Rendering and Games, and the Bulldozer 8-core sampled ended up...
NVIDIA is accusing rival graphics chipmaker AMD of optimizing default settings baked into the cards’ drivers to gain an unfair performance advantage for its high-end GPUs.
Nvidia cited the findings of several Web sites that conduct computer hardware reviews and testing, including...
We don't tend to look at NVIDIA drivers regularly. The main reason for that is because NVIDIA don't normally release major ones on a regular basis. Sure, we see a constant flow of beta and WHQL ones, but if we tested all of them all we'd ever be doing is testing NVIDIA drivers. Instead, we just...
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If the Link Removed due to 404 Error were a car engine, it would've been made by Porsche. With "only" six cores, each core in the new Xeon offers almost twice the performance of the competition. A 32nm CPU that only occupies 248 mm2 the Westmere Xeon EP embodies pure refinement and intelligent...
ElcomSoft accelerates the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and password-protected iPhone and iPod backups by using ATI video cards. The support of ATI Radeon 5000 series video accelerators allows ElcomSoft to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core...
This is an excellent article relating to both ATI and Nvidia cards.. Also worth reading if your a 5000 series owner..
Since the launch of Windows 7 a few months ago, graphics card vendors have introduced a handful of new GPUs, working to develop and roll out drivers for their products. Enough...
Not much apart from the graphs below is included in this report but i thought I'd post it anyway.. More is found here:
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So what's new in it for you?
1. Support for Windows 7 RTM, built and tested with the latest Windows 7 tools.
2. New OpenCL GPGPU benchmarks: complete set of OpenCL benchmarks in addition to the existing CUDA & STREAM versions:
3. New OpenGL GFX benchmarks: complete set of OpenGL benchmarks with...
I installed the new release last night (7048 x64) and ever since I am constantly getting disconnected from the internet. I have to go and repair the connection in order to get connected again. It's a random event nothing seems to trigger it. I left it on last night and it aparently stayed on all...