jcarle

Any nVidia based video card that is connected to a flat panel display through a DVI connection can turn off display and adapter scaling simply by setting the options to do so in the nVidia control panel. I can even do it using my 8600GT and my two Samsung 226BWs.

The WMP11 package for x64 is different and not supported by my utility at this time.

no, the BIOS sets up the BrandString inside the MSRs of the CPU. Even if it did, the identification number for the CPU is still hardcoded within the CPU. Registers are just fast RAM (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_register and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_file). Turn off the power and it's all gone. Again, strings may be set by the BIOS but the BIOS cannot set the processor's ID.

To prevent hotlinking, the downloads are secured in a way that you must download the files from the download page. Perhaps something is acting as an intermediate to the download, try disabling your security software before attempting to download the ULs.

When it seems to good to be true, it is.

You can only WRITE to Flash NAND, a CPU is NOT writeable. What you're doing is modifying your system's BIOS. Probably using some sort of BIOS overlay to INTERCEPT the CPU ID and replace it with what you've selected. CPUs are NOT writeable.

AFAIK, processor ID strings are hard coded within the actual chip and cannot be modified.

I thought that discrepancy had been fixed, guess now. I fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out. The frequency at which ULs are updated are entirely up to the person who maintains them. We have a very good member who maintains all of the XP 32-bit, Windows Server 2003 32-bit and Windows 2000 ULs on a monthly basis, the other ULs have been contributed on a here and there basis. Anyone who's willing to maintain them can do so and send them to me for distribution.

And for nVidia to make an official announcement.

True, however if I recall correctly, I believe there have been SLI motherboard in the past released with x16 physical but x4 or x8 electrical slots.

It was implemented as a user request so that if you kept downloading updates from new ULs, it would remove superceded updates from the previous month. I'll look into moving the files to the recycle bin instead of permanently deleting them.

It's not a bug, it's normal behaviour if you have "Remove unlisted files" set to on. Uncheck this option and you won't have that problem anymore.

What about dead pixels?

You can see that there's significant overhead to SLI.

Anyone who believes all this gossip before nVidia officially announces anything is a fool. If you want to see something official WORTH speculating about, nVidia acquired Ageia. For those of you who don't know who that is, they developed the PhysX processor.

Upgrade to Tomato firmware, you'll have less problems.

All I've ever needed 90% of the time is a phillips screw driver.

Don't believe anything until you see an official annoucement from nVidia.

Why would you use anything other then a DVI to DVI cable?

Sure, but it may take that long for AMD to catch up to the whole Core 2 show.

Due to the sheer price of ECC memory, I'd get the 8GB version if you can afford it.

The colder electronics are, the better they perform. Less electrical resistance. Sometimes, on failing hardware, you can get it to live for a brief period of time by freezing it.

I've read that Intel's upcoming Nehalem and Bloomfield (due in Q1 2009) architectures are supposed to resolve this. On-die memory controllers with a 45nm process.

Have you looked at the Xeon 7300 series with the new APIC Task Programmable Register?

Try plugging it alone on a cable and setting it to master. Some drives are qwirky when trying to share on the same cable as another or sometimes the combination of jumpers can be iffy. (ie: not liking the cable select on one drive and the slave on the other, etc)