Cool beans! Phenom II rocks… I have one too (but not overclocked )
DirectX
Just in case you wonder what features the new DirectX 11 brings and what DirectX introduced in the past I’m posting these videos. Personally I’m still happy with DirectX 9 but the new version looks interesting indeed. I’m sure I will upgrade to Windows 7 and a DirectX 11 graphics card at some point but [...]
New notebook
I got a new notebook from the company I work for. HP EliteBook 6930p. It’s fast… P8600 2.40GH dual core but then on the other hand it runs so much software in the background like the hard drive encoding software SafeBoot, Symantec Endpoint Protection and other crap that sometimes it feels like my old Celeron [...]
Go home Intel
Victory for Europe and the European customers! The one billion-euro fine on Intel by the European is based on facts. I wouldn’t be able to prove it but from what I’ve seen Intel really manipulated the market and tried to kill AMD and also Intel brainwashed customers – they now think Intel is really better [...]
Welcome Phenom II
The Phenom II (computer in the middle) joins my rack finally! First I thought I can use the Medion P4 PC-case that I got from a colleague but it turned out to be a Micro ATX format. So I took the ATX-PC-case of an old Athlon XP 2000+ that we used for watching TV (BTW: [...]
Finally
Finally I ordered the parts for my new PC! A very reasonable configuration – best value IMHO – based on the AMD Dragon platform. I’m going to put them in the case of an old Medion P4 that I got from a colleague. Will post more soon!
Details:
GFX-Card: http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/products/graphiccards/HD%204000series/4830.aspx
RAM: http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/zboard.php?&id=g_ddr2
CPU: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_15331_15917,00.html
Mainboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=AOD790GX/128M&s=AM2%2b
Infos about the AMD Dragon [...]
X850
I want to get a AMD Phenom II system soon and I checked some graphics card benchmarks to find a card for the new machine that would bring both performance and value. Seems the ATI Radeon HD 4830 is a good choice in the 100€ segment (http://www.hpm-computer.de/product_info.php?info=p9565_Sapphire-Radeon-HD-4830-Dual-Slot-512MB.html).
Usually when you check grahics card benchmarks you don’t [...]
Sinclair
Found some interesting videos about my first home computer on YouTube It was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. My mother bought it for me around 1983 in England and smuggled it in her handbag to Poland – through the airport control – LOL – impossible today but seems it has not been a [...]
Phenom II 920 Overclocked on ASRock @ 4GHz
http://www.asrock.com/news/20081216(AOD790GX128M).pdf
For me the moment of getting a new Mainboard/RAM + CPU is coming closer. The ASRock AOD790GX128M looks very interesting. It’s also cheaper than the Gigabyte 790GX GA-MA790GP-DS4H. Seems that over clocking is possible as well by tweaking the voltage of the 920 Phenom II. This guy managed it to run it @4GHz.
Source: http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/user-news/35363-deneb-phenom-ii-overclock-asrock.html (German)
Mobo-Specs: [...]
ATI Stream & Nvidia CUDA
There are many great things that can make your PC faster… but wait. There is a second powerful processor in your machine already that you might not be aware of. It’s the GPU of your graphics card. ATI & Nvidia are going the right way. There are so many things the GPU can do. I’m [...]
