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[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

are you smoking 3 cigs in that pic? god damn son

lol naw i think one is a smoke, ones a sucker, and ones just light.

but i guess it is possible.. i mean i am wearing shades in the club and i'm pretty sure that means something about my pupils.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Asus and Gigabyte to get fixed Intel chipsets next week By Matthew DeCarlo, TechSpot.com

Published: February 14, 2011, 12:56 PM EST

Motherboard manufacturers were undoubtedly displeased with having to pull their Sandy Bridge products off shelves as part of the 6 series chipset recall, but Intel hopes to set things right. DigiTimes reports that the chipmaker has finished negotiating with its partners and has agreed to eat the production and shipping costs of defective motherboards. Despite Intel's commitment to cover certain losses, motherboard makers may still take a hit as the issue is expected to "seriously damage" PC sales in the first quarter.

Major players such as Asus, Gigabyte, ECS, MSI, ASRock, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba have issued recalls for affected hardware, which includes plenty of Sandy Bridge notebooks. Asus believes the mishap will cut into its first quarter revenue by about 2%, possibly making it the worst of the year. Nonetheless, the manufacturer notes that its second quarter results should prove better than expected because of the delayed demand.

Intel began mass production of its fixed chipsets today and expects to ship small orders to Asus and Gigabyte next week. Supply of B3 stepping Cougar Point chipsets should reach normal levels in April.

w00t!

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

While the Sandforce SF-2500 controller is already being reviewed in devices such as the OCZ Vertex 3, very little has been heard about Intel’s next generation of solid state drives, until now.
According to VR-Zone, Intel’s 510 series SSD, codenamed Elm Crest, may be making its public debut on March 1st, 2011. The drive will be the first Intel SSD to support SATA 6Gbps and is targeted at high performance users and gamers with enormous speed improvements over the previous generation. The drives will be available in a 2.5″ inch, 9mm thick form factor.

Up to 470MB/s Read; 315MB/s Write (128K Seq, 8GB span, QD=32) (Comparison: Intel X-25M 250MB/s Read, 100MB/s Write)

Up to 20,000 4K Rand Read; 5,000 4K Rand Write (8GB span, QD=32)

Compatible with Intel 6 Series Express Chipsets

Intel 34nm NAND MLC

The Intel 510 will come in two sizes; 120GB and 250GB, rumoured to be priced at $280 USD and $580 USD respectively.

looks good.

 

[Digital Designs 10+ year member]

I almost went Sandy Bridge, but chickened out because the rig would have costed about $150 more than the 1366 rig I put together //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Oh well, I dont need a 5ghz cpu to browse the web, lol. I dont even really need this i7 but oh well.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

I almost went Sandy Bridge, but chickened out because the rig would have costed about $150 more than the 1366 rig I put together //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Oh well, I dont need a 5ghz cpu to browse the web, lol. I dont even really need this i7 but oh well.

thats liek saying "i dont need two 15" to listen to music"... of course you dont but it's awesome if you do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

I almost went Sandy Bridge, but chickened out because the rig would have costed about $150 more than the 1366 rig I put together //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif Oh well, I dont need a 5ghz cpu to browse the web, lol. I dont even really need this i7 but oh well.

thats liek saying "i dont need two 15" to listen to music"... of course you dont but it's awesome if you do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Heeltoeclutch 10+ year member]

uh-oh... them some hot bridges of sand. hope that thermalright is up to it.

 

[Digital Designs 10+ year member]

Should have went with this Newegg.com - Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Should have went with this Newegg.com - Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler

That was the runner up. Depending on what review you read, the SA either bests or is extremely close to the d14 in performance but substantially quieter. I'm going for quiet build.