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After the VRD, really. Any way, the board is now walking on 2 legs and before on 3, this is why it still works .

In the older P4 setups it was normal to use 1500uF rated at 6.4V; I don't think it can be build cheaper other than placing 1000uF capacitors. Note that most of those cheaper capacitors don't even hit the specs they should do, especially after a year or so and with higher temperatures. I don't know what the real reason is (I never build a motherboard myself so to say) that they use those capacitors, but saturation, discharge and charge, voltage leaks, temperature and some factors more have influence on them. You could say that theoretical it would be way to much but in practice it would be way off and just enough. I would guess that the voltage regulators aren't that precise so there could be peaks of 6v although it should output 1.8v.Any way, it's just a guess why they would use the specs that "high", but i can tell you it's from the 3-fase voltage regulator (or 2-fase with some extra filter over that circuit). Northbriges and memory banks use normally (say, on a 40USD end-user board like the Dell) one capacitor, one coil after the voltage regulator.

Yeah well, it's simple, although you see at the specs 6.3v, it doesn't have to say it isn't from the CPU voltage regulator that puts out some 1.8v tops or so and gets feeded from a 12V line. Note that first you have the voltage regulators lowering the voltage from 12 to some 1.8v and from there you will find the coils and capacitors to get the smooth output desired. To me, it's one capacitor of the 3-fase voltage regulator circuits, so it's not as stable as it should be, and I wonder if the other 2 capacitors are doing their job still. note that capacitors could pop underneath too and not only on top .

I wasn't joking, there is more to it than 1 and 0. What I mend was: You can access the drive but can't set some bits to 0 again. (that LoL sign is on the wrong side of the screen )

I don't think it's the drivers, but I would start with the memory first; again, Intel based boards are picky. Set timings by hand and use memtest86 to test it for example. PSU and the video card would be my 2nd and 3rd guess.

Overclocking, who said anything about overclocking? Are you sure that's what you want? You do know that it's already a kick a** CPU we are talking about? The MSFN gang would never overclock... ahum... Any way, take a look at this. Or better, don't look at it as it you will make up your mind faster . Ow, and if you don't like it, I'm willing to pay you the shipping cost to Mexico and return you a thank you.

The overheating wasn't AMDs fault but most likely you are talking about a HP with an nVidia (6100/6150?) chipset that you use now, however, HP could also have good models in the more expensive range. Lenovo would be my first pick when it comes to good build laptops.

Lower prices, not much, I would not wait for that. The AMD X6 and the 8x0 chipsets just came out and so there won't be much to wait for. if you need and want a new machine, I would go for it now .

Quick and dirty; it snapped right off!

I'm not using them so much lately as before, but do you really think I'm working on computers only? Some tools from them I have for 20 years.

A Virus (that did his work) or a half dead USB thump-drive that doesn't let you format it well. Now, remove the partitions with disk-manager and remove the drive from the PC, plug it back in and make a new partition, format it with fat32 or NTFS or so. now, let's see what happens.

That's the deal, CrazyDoctor IS having a repair business and he likes to learn how to run that, I thought you knew (What CSI are you? ). Seems like you know some mechanics yourself as not much people actually know Gedore, I have tools from them and they last for ever.

Now we are talking about AMD vs. Intel: Intel isn't planning on a USB 3.0 chipset any day soon (as in 2012), they want to push their Light Peak technology (release date in 2011) before native USB 3.0 support with their chipsets. It seems that NEC USB controllers are really overpriced, cost 15USD/pcs! , so motherboards for Intel will be more expensive although other providers will make USB 3.0 controllers soon for less.

I know but you are a pro, believe me, I've seen enough people messing around with external devices; they lost somehow power or broke the data transfer.Sure we have you here around to fix such data loss problems .

EOL= End of Life, so basically discontinued. Socket "R" 2011 will be released next year, official release date isn't set but it could be at the beginning of 2011.So, what software are you going to run on your new monster?

It's almost never safe to convert like that unless you know what you are doing and do it with care, just copy all to another harddisk and format the external drive NTFS and copy the data back. Now, when you use NTFS, you won't be able to use that on older OSes especially on Apple.

Biggest difference is the socket to start with , 1156 pins for the P55 and 1366 pins for the X58, dual channel memory for P55 and triple channel memory for the x58. Check out AMDs six-cored CPU with a 890 chipset too first as both sockets from Intel are going to be E.O.L. soon! What are you going to run on it?

On my public computers I let the computers go into sleep mode (S3) after 5 minutes, basically just keeping the memory powered. This will save me a lot on my power-bill plus they start up in a few seconds .

I don't think you will find all this info in one package, I would check each component step by step and use Tomshardware page for example for the benchmarks. Why is this huge amount of data needed? What are you going to do with it? Is this just to build one PC?

I know that board, but it's not for a AM3 CPU, I thought we were talking about that.

If you use an ATX case, why not buy something based on the AMD 880G with a low power AMD CPU?

Warn me next time you show a link like that. They never released it I believe...

Naa, what you guys saw was onboard video RAM DDR3 for sure, but not DDR2 and DDR3 support on the same board for system memory.

That they have to do any way .

Small chance I would say, 6 months is almost 25% of the lifetime of a laptop what I've seen.The video card is PCI-E so they can drop in any model, also they will have parts in stock that are for RMAs like yours although they don't sell that model any more. My guess is; you'll get the same model back but just refurbished/new. Any PC can die, any PC will cost money, why so angry at dell (that's what I read).