Re: deciding on a new amd64 system
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:51:56AM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:05:42AM +0000, Sam Varghese wrote:
> > The Core 2.
>
> I am surprised if an Athlon 64 beat the Core 2 on video encoding.
> Weird. What codec and encoder program managed that?
I'm afraid I don't recall. I had two machines, one Intel and one AMD,
doing more or less similar work and the latter was a length ahead. I was
using some scripts from the Gentoo wiki to process video, I recall.
> > It's a little fan next to the graphics chip, comes on the motherboard.
> > Once it starts making a racket, you can live with the noise or else get
> > the board replaced. I chose the latter option.
>
> Do you mean the south bridge fan? Nothing to do with graphics. Aren't
> they usually just a 40mm fan? Can't they be replaced?
You are right. I have mixed up two boxes here - one which needed attention due to
the south bridge fan giving up the ghost and a second which had to be
tended to because a fan on a graphics card gave out.
You probably can source a replacement fan but if memory serves me right this
fan was riveted on to the board. Additionally, it was my own workstation
that I need every day so I opted to get a replacement board - though
having to put in a Gigabyte model to replace the A8N-SLI wasn't done with
any enthusiasm. I was on crutches at the time and only one person could be
asked to deliver a mobo at home - my dealer. The Gigabyte board was all she had
in stock.
> > My experience has been different so I'll agree to disagree.
>
> I have just seen many posts on this list where people ran memtest, found
> nothing wrong, but eventually swapped out the ram and their problems
> went away. memtest is good at telling you if you have a problem, but
> terrible at telling you that you don't have a problem.
You are probably right. But so far, whenever I've suspected memory
problems on any of the machines I've tended to and run memtest, it has
responded positively.
Sam
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