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Reasons not to go on the USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps now, especially on P55 chipsets
1)USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps is not native to P55 express chipset.
From what I know, USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps are currently available on some on the Asus and Gigabyte boards. They uses 3rd party party controller and chips from NEC and Marvell. Both Asus and Gigabyte have different ways of adopting USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps onto their board. Asus uses a bridge chip which makes use of 4 PCI-E 1.1 from the ICH10R providing the bandwidth for SATA 6Gbps(Mainly talking about SATA 6Gbps first). A bridge chip means more cost for the manufacturing of the board itself. Well on the Gigabyte side, they used an PCI-E x16 lane from the integrated PCI-E lanes in the processor itself, which means if you're using powerful graphics card on your PCI-E x16, there most likely will be a bottleneck. The technology on the P55 chipset motherboard is not perfect. So why pay for something that won't work well compared to say something that will be cheaper in the near future which makes all USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps native to the Intel chipset?

2)USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps are not mainstream. Of course USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps is blazingly fast. I'm very sure that with USB3.0, you can say byebye to firewire, the older USB 2.0. But with new revisions on the USB, version 3.0 needs new cable. New interface on the hardware side. This means your external hard disk drive need to be USB 3.0 compatible and currently on the market right now(when I'm writing this) , there is only ONE external hard drive that uses USB 3.0 interface. Other than that, is USB 3.0 really needed? Most conventional hard drives reads at maybe a speed of 200MB/s? USB 3.0 transfer data at 5Gb/s which is equals to 625 MB/s. See? No matter how fast USB 3.0, the maximum rate you're going to read from the drive will be 200MB/s. But from here, you can certainly see the huge difference compared to previous USB, the USB 2.0 which transfers at a maximum of 480Mb/s=60MB/s. Same thing for SATA 6Gbps. If you're not using extremely fast Solid State Drives that transfer at 250MB/s, no point getting SATA 6Gbps. 6Gbps=750MB/s. Who will reach that kind of speed? 100 solid state drives in Raid0?


I am starting to question the real need for SATA 6Gbps. I mean if everyone is going to use normal hard drives and get stuck there, SATA 1.0 is already enough for you. Come on people! Move on and get solid state drives! They are certainly worth the money now. It is future products that you are buying!


And by the way, in case you don't know, Intel is going to integrate USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps into their chipset only in 2011. AMD is coming up with their new chipsets very soon and I believe they will integrate USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps into their new SB chipsets. SB850 ftw! BUY AMD.

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New P55 1156 motherboards are leaving out the new USB3.0 and Sata 6Gbps revisions to the current USB2.0 and Sata 2.0, other than motherboard from asus(P7P55D-E) and Gigabyte(P55A) which uses third party controllers. Today, I'm not going to talk about the new features of SATA 6Gbps nor am I going to talk about how fast USB 3.0 is. Let's give a forecast and possibilities that may come in the near future with the new technologies available(based on competition between AMD and Intel)

It is rumoured that Intel will not feature USB 3.0 until 2011. That is most likely that SATA 6Gbps will not be featured in Intel chipset motherboard in the near future(2010). Is it a wrong step for intel?

Here is an example. Ati VS Nvidia wars. With the new product line of series that ATI(AMD) came up, the 5000 series line of graphics card, ATI has won many customers over from Nvidia. Direct X11. Eyefinity Technology. And what is Nvidia doing? Giving rumours after rumours? Letting people anticipating for their new graphics card codename Fermi? Can't you see that it's a way of strategy for people to still have a last hope for Nvidia? Ati 5000 series card would have been matured by the time Fermi is out on sales. Would people go for something that is new and more expensive providing same performance over ATI Gfx cards? Die-Hard Nvidia fanboys will. But it all depends on how powerful Fermi really is and how they are priced.

You may be wondering why so much talking about fermi from Nvidia and the 5000 series line of graphics card from ATI?
Could this be the same for the AMD and Intel War?

AMD is coming out with their new 890FX and SB850 chipset. Focusing on the southbridge, Sb850 from AMD, we suppose that AMD will adopt the new USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps. Rumoured from Fudzilla that the new motherboard equipped with the new chipset from AMD will be available in the market from April 2010 onwards, could it be a direct blow or a slap in a face to Intel? SSDs in raid are bottlenecking the Sata 3Gbps. We really need the 6Gbps. Compared to a third party controller that does USB3.0 and SATA 6Gbps, will AMD emerge as winner with their new SB850? SB750 is bad. Really bad based on performance compared to intel's ICH10R. Could this be a turning point for AMD? SB850, it all depends on you.

When there is new technology, you should adopt it. Yes Intel. I'm telling you this. With more new products equipped with USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps, and finding out that they are not able to utilise the full bandwidth on your chipset, they will think again before going to choose Intel for their next build. Corei7s may be a formidable force. But so what? For normal computing you do not need so much power. Gamers also do not need so much power from a corei7. What bottlenecking the whole computer system today is hard drives! And when talking about them you are talking about southbridge chipset. You should stop thinking about how Intel fanboys will be loyal to you because all technogeeks alike out there would go for new technology asap when they are out. Your delay in SATA 6Gbps and USB3.0 is a great mistake.

AMD seems to be a formidable force. A united and powerful force ready for any battle.
Intel? Nvidia? So what there is the codename"Power of three" platform. P55 CPU with a Nvidia graphics card for the best performance? HAHA. Think what Nvidia is doing towards Intel first! Comic strips laughing at Intel. Think about yourself first Nvidia! Disorganised! Who would go for the power of 3 platform when both Nvidia and Intel don't see eye to eye with one another?
AMD with ATI platform. Best up to date with "dragon" platform. Extra technology using Fusion technology. AMD overdrive... Other features that make AMD and ATI look so great compared to competitors. I have great confidence that AMD will emerge victorious. But it depends on their new CPUs and new chipsets. Performance wise and price wise, compared to intel's.

Yzuke

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Check out beonnan's computer!

Almost based on AMD's dragon platform technology(well, this computer uses a 4770 graphics card, not a 4800 series, so can't really call it dragon platform based. However a 4770 is about the performance of a 4850, so its actually about the same), Kyogre promises performance. It's a multitasker. A quad core CPU running at 2.6GHz. AMD processors from the Athlon II and Phenom II line are great overclockers. They do not run as hot than their previous generations and I'm sure that you can get at least 3.0GHz stable on this processor with the stock cooler. This build is also L3 cache unlocked, which means it is almost identical to the more expensive Phenom II lineup of CPUs, providing the identical performances if overclocked to the frequencies of respective Phenom II processors.

Kyogre is equipped with Biostar TA790GXE 128M Motherboard, 790GX northbridge chipset from AMD, together with 750SB Southbridge chipset providing the best performance for value. The motherboard is future proof with 2 PCI-E x16 slots and can make use of Ati Crossfire X technology if more graphics processing power is needed for the future. The motherboard also has 4 ddr2 dimm slots and currently only uses 2. Future memory upgrades are made possible.

The NZXT Apollo black Chassis needs no introduction. It really looks good. It can be equipped with 3 fans, one at the front,one at the back, and one from the side to cool your graphics card. It only provides one fan at the side panel and the rest of the two fans are optional.

Ati radeon 4770 is the world's first graphics card that makes use of the 40nm manufacturing technology. The die being smaller, it is overclocks very well as produces much less heat compared to the graphics card which is manufactured by a larger die size technology.

Kingston 800MHz DDR2 RAM 2GB X2- Best performance for the value with the skyrocketing costs of DDR2 prices as it's the time to change to DDR3s.

LG 22x DVD Writer- I really do mean it. There's nothing special. It writes DVD at 22x. It reads CDs and DVDs. It writes CDs too....

AMD Athlon II X4 620- At a stock frequency of 2.6GHz, you have the potential to go beyond the 3GHz barrier. Just a little bit of tweaking in the BIOS, L3 cache unlocked, meaning it is as good as a Phenom II line up of processor which is almost 2 times the cost of the Athlon II 620. Do you know that the Athlon II 620 is the cheapest Quad core processor in the market right now?

This is the first computer system that I've actually reviewed. More coming right up! Stay tuned!

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Using the Biostar TA790GXE 128M, I can unlock the AMD Athlon II X4 620 to enable 6MB of L3 cache on the processor.
6MB L3 cache unlocked= low frequency Phenom II
+ a little bit of overclock you are about to get a processor that is about one time more expensive that the Athlon IIs, the Phenom IIs.


www.techgeeksg.blogspot.com :"Check out the video on youtube I've made teaching you how to unlock AMD Athlon II X4 620 so as to get an extra 6MB of L3 cache! With an extra 6MB of L3 cache, you'll have about the same performance as the more expensive Phenom II line of products from AMD which are much more expensive. With a little bit more overclocking, you're good to go!"

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My next rig is almost done! Shall show it to you guys out there once its completed. I said I wanted to go with Intel's core i7 but I backed out. Corei7... Futureproof? 1156 or 1366 already shows how intel's processors does not care much about backwards compatibility. AMD's am2 to am2+ to am3, all backwards compatible. Even their future processor, the 6-core thuban runs am3. Corei7's gulftown cpu on 1366? guess so..

Excuses but the real reason behind the decision on getting AMD's AM3 platform is because of crossfire. Dragon platform looks good. You can do pci-e 2.0 at x16,x16,x8,x8 with 790fx chipset=quadfire. I7? Really nothing much. 1366, x16,x16,x4(if i'm not wrong). Well its because I've got myself an am3 motherboard first, that's why I'm settling with AMD.

I believe everyone may have the problem of choosing processors. AMD or Intel? Cost for performance wise, I will go AMD. If what you want is performance and not care about cost, go for the i7s from intel. I must admit that Intel is able to get more people buying products because of their brand. Many have heard Intel, but AMD?

Specs for RIG
1)AMD Phenom II X4 965-C3
2)RAM-undecided
3)XFX Ati Radeon 5770 in crossfire
4)CM690
5)Creative titanium
6)Creative T6160
7)OCZ ModXtream-Pro 600

8) MSI's 790fx-gd70

9)CM V8

And so on...

Hope can earn more $$ finish the build first! HOHO

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The exams are finally over and I AM BACK WITH MORE GEEKY REVIEWS

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Gaming with 6 lcd screens. That's how you'll feel.

How about a paranomic view of google earth? Wave right up to the satellite camera and you may just see yourself there on your computer(provided that you have a really big hand)

EYEFINITY FOR THE WIN!

trip to sls tomorrow=D

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Thanks Liangyuan!

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I was at comex! Although it as like so long ago... But anyway, here's what I got! One step closer to finishing to new build.

Here are all the stuffs I got.

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Looking at the fact that the core i7 920 has got lots of headroom for overclocking, I have decided to base my next build on x58 chipset, Socket LGA1366 Core I7 instead of the AMD 790FX chipset. Firstly, ICH10R Southbridge chipset owns the SB750. Looking at the fact that I'm using 2 SSDs in Raid 0, ICH10R would be preferred.

The benchmark for I7 920 after overclocking could even be better than 965(which costs a bomb). I7 920 is just 30 over bucks more than the phenom ii955. Of course, I would go for the I7 920.
Why Rampage II Extreme? Simply because of one thing. The Supreme FX soundcard given with the MB itself would be good looking(with the blue led lighting it up) with the case-cm690 pure.

Both SLI and Crossfire enabled. Why not? But it's really costly i must say.

Just got myself the CM690 pure and V8 CPU cooler. The next build's going to be IMBA. Not yet decided on which graphics card to get. Let's see what the next gen of ati 5000 series card can do and how much they costs first. Coming out with Win7 I think. After I5 comes out with the 1156 processors and I5 comes out next week then i'll decide again. But its either lynnfield or bloomfield. BYEBYE AMD. Hmmm. Cool eh?

Pictures up next! goodies from simlim


Limited Edition CM690 PURE. Internal all black. VERY NAISE CHASSIS


ONE SICK CPU COOLER. V8! Named after that engine. Lols

ModXstream Pro. Modular Power Supply. from OCZ. One Solid PSU



Hmmm. OCZ Solid Series SSD. Entry Level SSD. Maybe changing to vertex. I dont know? See If i have the $$. LOL


That's all!

Coming up next(Soon)
Core I7 920 with D0 stepping
Asus Rampage II extreme
2x OCZ Vertex 30GB
Sapphire 4890(or a new 5000 series card)
OCZ XTC Cooler Rev 2
OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Platinum Triple Channel

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AWESOME!
2 SSD in RAID 0 ARRAY. =P
BET YOU CAN'T BE AS FAST AS MINE

(geeks are like that. they will get happy over these kind of things... which normal people don't understand why.)

Slow shut down uh? Maybe I can give that a good excuse. A valid explanation. Why? Because it's currently a test platform and I just downloaded and installed some software as well as undergone windows update. So it may take some time to shut down.

BOOT UP IMBA CAN LIAO. MUAHAHAHAHA

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Some tweaking and overclocking and wada! 5.4 base score for windows experience index! The Processor killed it.

Component Details Subscore Base score
Determined by lowest subscore 5.4

Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ 5.4

Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB 5.9

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 5.9

Gaming graphics 1791 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9

Primary hard disk 42GB Free (60GB Total) 5.9

Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium

System
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Manufacturer BIOSTAR Group
Model N61PB-M2S
Total amount of system memory 3.00 GB RAM
System type 32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
64-bit capable Yes

Storage
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OCZ SOLID Series SSD 30GBX2 in RAID 0
Total size of hard disk(s) 60 GB
Disk partition (C:) 42 GB Free (60 GB Total)
Media drive (D:) DVD-RW Drive

Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Total available graphics memory 1791 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1279 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.15.11.8618
Primary monitor resolution 1280x1024
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Network Adapter D-Link Wireless G DWA-110 USB Adapter
Network Adapter Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter

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“Discover Magic with HTC Magic. www.htc.com/sea”

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Specifications:
1)Biostar MCP6P M2+ Motherboard
2)AMD 7750 @ Factory clock of 2.7 GHz
3)Hitachi HDD 320GB
4)Samsung DVD RW
5)DAMN COOL CASING with power supply
6)Eagle Nvidia 9400GT(budget card- GPU costly uh! 9800GT that I have now still at 189 Cheapest)
7)Vista Home Premium

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I was watching YouTube videos this morning and came across "Hard Drive Speakers". Having some dead hard drives at home, I made my own hard drive speaker. Wasn't very loud, but at least it worked! Haha. Concept behind speakers is electromagnetism. Take a look! 运动员进行曲 Spent the whole afternoon doing it that I forgot to have lunch... Haha Maybe you can't hear anything at all!

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What's with the interest in computer?
When I was younger, I was stuck to a old celeron running at 366MHz running windows 98 in times of the pentium IVs. I had to work myself to get things compatible, get things done on my celeron machine. With internet connection, I started researching on things about computers and soon became interested about it. The interest grew as I got my new Tablet PC in 2006, which allowed me to run the most up to date programs at that time, and I was exposed even more to computers when I finally built my first computer in 2008. It was a Athlon X2 5000

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Feel free to email me

Yzuke: yzuke.mail@gmail.com
yzuke.techgeeksg@gmail.com

Do visit www.techgeeksg.blogspot.com

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Zhng My Com was actually a place meant to showcase the things I have done to show my interest in computers. It has now been also used by www.techgeeksg.blogspot.com to make things simpler.

Zhng in chinese dialect hokkien means to fix or to decorate.

Zhng My Com is created by Yzuke

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New LGA775 motherboard supporting pci x16, ddr2, and etc by gigabyte

Gigabyte's Mobo

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Check this out!

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Well, as you can see, I've get to sleeve the cables in the case yet. Also, the left side panel is still in school waiting to be cut. Haha. The piece of acrylic too. Still at home and yet to be cut. Extra 120mm fan to be mounted on the left panel. Have not planned how I should put it yet.

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Don't bother about the dates on the photographs.


Before putting the mod parts in. Already painted case black inside out
Before putting the system cooler
After putting in the system cooler
A blue 120mm LED fan was switched with the 120mm fan in the system cooler provided
80mm fan on the left, install sound activated module and ccfl.
What is looks like in dark without CCFL.Current state.

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Don't bother looking at the dates on the photographs. Date wasn't set resulting it to be resetted.


Got home yesterday and was surprised to see that the goods from xoxide.com had arrived! Was excited and got working immediately.

That is my posting address at california by vpost. The post forwarding system under singapore post.
Sticker on the box
The whole package
Consignment note from vpostBox opened! wth? nothing?
Ohhh. Its hidden beneath!
80mm purple quad led fan80mm purple quad led fan(out from box)
sound module for the cold cathodes
System cooler!
Yate Loon Blue LED fans 120mm
Cable sleeving kitDual 12" Cold cathode lighting! Blue
Blue CCFL
This is the invoice.

MODDING WORK UNDERWAY

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