ABout that recall :)

[IOU]

OK I have returned my FRIED 2600 . And now my pc store tells me there has ben a recall on them and I now have in store credit. It all sounds fishy I can't see any new's on the web about AMD ReCalls . I emailed AMD 24 hrs ago no reply . <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"><img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif" border="0"><BR>

[Colin]

Hey IOU! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0"> <BR><BR>Just to let the other forums know, AMD mislabelled a bunch of 266 MHz based AthlonXP T-Bred B's as 333 MHz parts. Obviously this is a problem so they issued a silent recall of all the affected processors. If you have one of the mislabelled CPU's, you're suppose to them back to your retailer.<BR><BR>IOU, how did you kill your XP2600+? <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">

[IOU]

Well to tell you the truth , I do not know . I"m thinking the heatsink was not doing its job or the chip was defective . All I know is I got as far as the A7N8X fancy post screen and it stopped . That screen now scares me on boot up <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> . DDR 400 shouldn't affect this board should it ?

[Colin]

<< <i>Well to tell you the truth , I do not know . I"m thinking the heatsink was not doing its job or the chip was defective . All I know is I got as far as the A7N8X fancy post screen and it stopped . That screen now scares me on boot up <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> . DDR 400 shouldn't affect this board should it ?</i> >><BR><BR>I think the chip got fried... If you no longer get anything on yoru display that's usually a bad sign. I've killed a few chips, it's never easy. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0"> But we're here for you if you need support to help with your loss! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>No, DDR400 wouldn't affect the board. That's a nice rig you got there! <BR><BR>Oh, btw make sure you post some benchmarks in our <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://bbs.pcstats.com/pcstats/categories.cfm?catid=69">Benchmarks</a> forum! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[IOU]

Thanks for the support and the compliment on my choice of PC . I topped it off with a 120 gig ata133/JB WD (210)/ GF4 a50 Ultra TD from leadtek and the tv2000 deluxe , the Ram is Corsair with heat speader and Antec 430 true power with alpha pal fan some mod lights and mod fans . 2 burners 16x 40x 8xdvd 52 x cdrom. Ect.... .

[Colin]

Hey post some pic's of your PC! It sounds pretty sweet man! post a 3dmark link too in teh benchmarks forum! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[IOU]

CPU 3516<BR>MEM 3056<BR>HD 869<BR><BR>Thats my PCMark2002 score if you have a link to the one u use please let me know and ill post my score in your forum . Thats with 1.3 athlon .

[Colin]

To be honest I'm not a big PCMark fan because I don't know how the benchmark runs (and my test rig doesn't really score <b>that</b> well). I'm more into 3DMark myself. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

My current PCMark benchmarks:<BR><BR>CPU - 5897<BR>MEM - 3942<BR>HD - 980<BR><BR>I did that with a few apps (including this window) open....I'll run the benchmark sometime with everything closed to see if I can get any higher

[Avid6eek]

Score Updates w/ No programs running:<BR><BR>CPU - 5898<BR>MEM - 3970<BR>HD - 1000<BR><BR>Where are your scores Colin.....this is clearly a benchmark Intel Dominates at!!!! Show us what you've got.

[Colin]

<br><br><< <i>Where are your scores Colin.....this is clearly a benchmark Intel Dominates at!!!! Show us what you've got. </i> >><br><br>Yes, that's one reason why I dislike that benchmark. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0"> Unfortunately FutureMark did not release any white paper explaining how PCMark works, but it's bias towards Intel systems has left a sour taste in my mouth.<BR><BR>When I get home (in aobut 8 hours <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">) I'll post a link for you guys... I don't remember exactly but I think I score like 8k something in CPU and 5k something in memory...

[Avid6eek]

Intel Wh0re! I saw the review of the Dual Xeon board on the PCStats homepage and I must say, One Intel CPU is bad enough, do you really need two?

[Colin]

Haha! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>It's a workstation or low end server board, so ya, two CPU's is really helpful. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>LOL, man when I was an AMD b1tch you should have seen some of the e-mail's I get... I guess I can never win. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

If you had 2 HT CPUs in that system I would assume it would see 4 Processors. I know WinXP can support 2, what about the other 2?

[Colin]

Luckily WinXP Professional differentiate between physical and logical processors so you don't have to worry about maxing out your processor license! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

Okay, I was just wondering. Now with Intels use of HT, software programs will soon be written to take advantage of dual proc. systems. This will hopefully allow Dual systems to show a noticable performance difference between single proc systems.

[Colin]

Yes, that's true... With more ppl jumping on the HT bandwagon, performance for regular dual CPU based systems should definitely improve as well! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[IOU]

CPU - 5593 <BR>MEM - 3828<BR>HD - 764 <BR><BR><BR>K this is with my new CPU 2700+<BR><BR>With :<BR>-132 k dl <BR>8 Internet Explorers<BR>4 Window Explorers<BR>media player9 open <BR>and note pad<BR>

[Colin]

Hmm... IOU, those numbers seem very low honestly. In fact, your CPU marks are quite a bit lower then what I got when I tested the <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1235&page=8">XP 2700+</a>. I hope it's just due to all those other app's open!

[IOU]

WHat do U think I should see ?

[Colin]

I would expect to see about 1000 points higher at least honestly.<BR><BR>Try running it again but this time wihtout all the other stuff loaded. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">