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    AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier

    AMD's $69 2.8GHz Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU Reviewed (Verdict: Not Bad For the Price)

    Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates

    Thermaltake's Xpressar PC Case Uses Actual Fridge Compressor For Cooling

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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12:21 PM

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    While impressive from an engineering point of view (and a sheer "how badass can we get?" POV), the fact that they needed to use liquid helium to run the cpu at 7 GHz is more proof that we're heading for a massively multicore future - at least until another set of materials to replace silicon and aluminium gets in widespread use and which can run faster without getting hotter. I think we'll see 80-core x86 chips first, though.

    And daqman - I can sympathize! I worked in a plasma physics lab in college, and we used a lot of liquid nitrogen and helium both, and while liquid nitrogen was fun (a colleague froze a slug at one point, and I took a thermos back to a party to pour into a punch-bowl, etc), the liquid helium was tough to work with. Not to mention time-consuming, since filling a dewar meant a *massive* amount of super-cold "fog" coming out of that flexible metal pipe from the big tank, and then air was always freezing onto the rim of the dewar (and I got some pink skin a few times, but never actual frostbite, doh!)
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/14/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    EEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!! How did the spammers find this site? Eeek, kill it, kill it! #amd7ghz
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    12:06 AM

    @Software_Goddess: Working on it, working on it... #amd7ghz
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    01:15 AM

    @Rosa Golijan: Oh thank the maker. Can I get down off this chair now? #amd7ghz
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    01:18 PM

    @Software_Goddess: Yes, ma'am. Let me know if the vermin returns. #amd7ghz
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/13/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    Leave to an ad campaign to make nerds and very boring things look really cool. :P #amd7ghz
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/13/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    You see, this is why my heart belongs to AMD.

    <3 #amd7ghz
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    Image of Grinning Kestrel Grinning Kestrel
    11/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: Mine too, and I've never looked back. #amd7ghz
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/14/09

    @Software_Goddess: I've been solidly in the AMD camp for many, many years myself. I've never been anti-Intel, but I always appreciated lower-cost alternatives who tried harder to innovate. I even used to build my own systems with Cyrix processors, back in the day. #amd7ghz
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    11/13/09

    In reply to AMD Phenom II Breaks 7GHz Barrier
    So that's where the liquid helium for the LHC went! #amd7ghz
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    Image of twiner twiner
    11/14/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee: Apparently, but will a random bird also destroy this treasure with bread? #amd7ghz
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    Image of striker7717 striker7717
    11/14/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee: Yes! And they could have reached 8 GHz but i hear that a bird dropped some bread on there system to. #amd7ghz
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    04/29/09

    In reply to AMD's $69 2.8GHz Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU Reviewed (Verdict: Not Bad For the Price)
    That's too bad because although I have an Athlon system at home, I still have to update my mobo to accept DDR2. And now that the Athlon is the SUV of CPUs as far as power consumption, I think I'll have to move over to Core or i7.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/29/09

    In reply to AMD's $69 2.8GHz Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU Reviewed (Verdict: Not Bad For the Price)
    i have been toying with building a new rig and this gives me hope at doing it cheaply. i think my parents want a box they can put next to the tv as well. now do i have to overclock it to get good performance?
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    Image of Thanatos Thanatos
    04/29/09

    @Nick: No you dont i have the CPU that is a step below this one(see my post below) in a HTPC and it preforms great with no overclocking. And you can get a whole system up and going with a really nice videocard for about $500.
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    Image of Wireless Joe Wireless Joe
    04/29/09

    @Thanatos: So this with the $99 graphics card makes an ok game rig?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    04/29/09

    @Wireless Joe: Actually, yeah. You can pick up a Radeon 4830 under a $100 bucks and it's pretty good for medium quality 1680x1050 .
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    Image of Ryanraven Ryanraven
    03/02/09

    In reply to Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates
    Stay tuned for ASUS' next concept, a motherboard built in the shape of a giant fan, it cools itself!
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    Image of Nick Dina Nick Dina
    03/02/09

    In reply to Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates
    as i understand ceramic and its application on the shuttle -- it's not an insulator, but its properties associated with handling high temps and dissipation of that heat. so, like a heat sink. and it looks slick as snot. and just as green.
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    Image of PridgNYC PridgNYC
    03/02/09

    @Nick Dina:


    Actually you have it backwards. The shuttle's tiles are such great insulators that you can hold a red hot one in your hand without burning yourself. They are really poor conductors of heat. The heat sink idea was rejected due to the excessive weight required to dissipate the amount of heat generated during reentry.

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    03/02/09

    @PridgNYC: I have completely stopped bothering to point out when facebookers are wrong, it could be a full time job.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/02/09

    In reply to Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates
    They should have done this with a P6t6 WS Revoution, and not just because I have one. ;)
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    Image of marc_with_a_c marc_with_a_c
    03/02/09

    In reply to Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates
    SO-DIMM? Why in gods name? just for space savings?
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    Image of whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII
    03/02/09

    @marc_with_a_c: From my understanding, sodimms run cooler overall than standard ddr2/ddr3 modules. That seems to be the theme of the board.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/02/09

    @whiteknight89: They would have to, mounting them parallel to the mobo means there is WAY less airflow...
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    Image of Dave Lindsay Dave Lindsay
    03/02/09

    In reply to Asus Marine Cool Motherboard Fights Heat with Ceramic Plates
    Uhh... the ceramic materials used in military armor and the space shuttle are made to protect things from heat. They're some of the best heat _insulators_ in the world. In other words, pretty much the worst thing you could possibly use for a heatsink.


    My guess is that ASUS is using an entirely different family of ceramic and this Giz poster just chose some poor examples.

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    Image of irish_stickman irish_stickman
    03/02/09

    @Dave Lindsay: i think the ceramics in this are for heat tolerance, why cool it when you can make it work at hotter temperatures
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    Image of JDickson87 JDickson87
    03/02/09

    @irish_stickman: Huh? I think I must have missed your point.


    You always want computer parts to be as cool as possible, since it reduces errors and improves the lifetime of components involved. Just because it can work when it's hot doesn't mean it's a good idea.

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    03/02/09

    @jdickson87: I think what he meant (but poorly explained) is that the ceramic is used to shield the rest of the board from the parts that get hot (CPU, heatsinks/pipes, etc.). Not sure if that is actually what they are trying to do with this board, but I think that is what he meant.
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