Originally posted by harvardguy:

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Wow - who knew it could be physically dangerous to work around computer equipment, what with fires, billowing smoke, and explosions! :P

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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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Russ you have changed your story and that's a fact!

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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Russ you have changed your story and that's a fact!

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As much as I hate that line when it's false, in this instance I'm pretty sure it's true. I've always tried to maintain a point of honesty on wide public forums, plenty of people who don't post will read - be honest, how many times have you needed to google something and found the answer in a discussion thread just like this one, but not needed to sign up and post?

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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I don't want to be stories the mud here, but from what I remember it was also the case of a cheap psu burning down the curtains.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Even though it was supposedly an ASRock motherboard burning the curtains? The plot thickens...

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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It's been a long time since I used Sandra. The last time I tried it, it caused instant BSODs on multiple known stable machines, so I abandoned it. The fact that the results varied with each version (despite the fact that you'd expect MIPS to be a constant value!) meant I no longer see it as being very relevant. Number-crunching benchmarks like SuperPi are better, although far from perfect. However, doing some rough extrapolations from how I know the CPUs to compare (using the Q6700 as a baseline) your score seems about what you'd expect from a 3.66-3.8Ghz Phenom II X6, so about right by the looks of things :)
I'd expect the i7 version of my CPU at its current clocks to come in about 89000-90000, but it being an i5 I imagine it will lose a little by comparison, so maybe 86000-87000, looks like our CPUs are about equal, yours perhaps a small margin faster :P

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Thanks again for the nudge Russ. 'MY' Laptop is working wonderfully now, thanks to the new LCD panel :D I finally have a laptop! And thank god it has 4Gb of Ram. CPU is a bit slow on some flashbased games. It's a dual core AMD APU. A whopping 1.3Ghz LOL! I'm sure an SSD would kick it in the butt ;) I plan on doing that later. I've wanted a laptop for some time now. It only cost me 101USD to repair it :p Not bad for a used laptop!

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