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22. September 2009 @ 21:29 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
Seagate lover myself. Never had a failed Seagate drive but I have had 2 failed WDs so mileage may vary :P
@Sam
Yep I'm pretty sure it's a Northwood. It gets pretty hot but not too bad compared to what it was before. I want to see if the Laptop will take a Prescott Celeron D but I doubt it as it didn't work with my 2.8GHz HT Prescott P4. In fact I'm not sure if it supports Prescotts at all. I can't even find out the BIOS revision because there's a password set and AFAIK no way to reset it on this laptop.
Estuansis,
Just google the number off of the CPU. That should get you that information.
Best Regards,
Russ
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22. September 2009 @ 21:40 |
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Well it has 512K cache so I can only assume it's a Northwood. If I really cared enough I'd just use CPU Z.
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22. September 2009 @ 21:56 |
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
Well it has 512K cache so I can only assume it's a Northwood. If I really cared enough I'd just use CPU Z.
Which socket is it? 478 or 775? If it's a zIF socket, it's 478!
Russ
EDIT: According to the manual your Inspiron 5100 comes with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4. The next model of the series, the 5150 has a Mobile P4. The only Celeron D that I can think of that has a Northwood core is the Celeron D128, and it only has 128MB of L2 cache. The 512MB L2 only comes in a Prescott! I looked myself and it's socket 478.
Here's the manual for it! Specs are on page 114.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/sy...en/i5100-om.pdf
Russ
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22. September 2009 @ 23:25 |
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23. September 2009 @ 00:26 |
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23. September 2009 @ 09:44 |
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they've been going on about video transcoding off GPUs for ages, and I've still yet to see it properly utilised in practice...
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23. September 2009 @ 09:51 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
they've been going on about video transcoding off GPUs for ages, and I've still yet to see it properly utilised in practice...
What he said and on top of that I'm not spending $300+ USD to get my computer a little bit faster.. of course the "people" that do it for a "living" might think twice about it... :P Especially those crazy enough to encode Blu-Ray stuff!! ;)
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23. September 2009 @ 09:55 |
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23. September 2009 @ 10:24 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Those HD5870s are crazy cards though. Check this out:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphic...70-1gb-review/8
considering they're almost as powerful as a 4870X2, that's amazing stuff.
Sam,
Don't we know people that use their video cards for faster Folding? I have CUDA with my 9500GT, but I've never messed with it.
Russ
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23. September 2009 @ 10:26 |
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Folding isn't really related to video transcoding though. GPU acceleration is used for a few things, but video transcodes seem to have taken forever to implement.
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23. September 2009 @ 10:46 |
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Video transcoding can easily be done through Catalyst Control Centre but only if your using 32-bit which is........................................................ unfair "/
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24. September 2009 @ 12:03 |
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Quote:
Which socket is it? 478 or 775? If it's a zIF socket, it's 478!
Russ
EDIT: According to the manual your Inspiron 5100 comes with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4. The next model of the series, the 5150 has a Mobile P4. The only Celeron D that I can think of that has a Northwood core is the Celeron D128, and it only has 128MB of L2 cache. The 512MB L2 only comes in a Prescott! I looked myself and it's socket 478.
Here's the manual for it! Specs are on page 114.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/sy...en/i5100-om.pdf
Well I already knew for sure it was 478 as I've had it apart to clean it and re-apply thermal paste. Mine indeed comes stock with a 2.4GHz Northwood Pentium 4 with 512K L2. The 5100 had overheating issues due to dust buildup and its desktop chip. Though with proper care this is really a non-issue. The 5150 largely fixed this problem with reworked cooling and a mobile chip but I doubt you could still call it a "cool" running laptop. The Northwood Celeron had no D designation and had 128K L2. The Prescott Celeron D had 256K L2, was for both 478 and 775 and was almost twice as fast per clock as the Northwood chip. The last of the Celeron Ds was actually an LGA775 only Cedar Mill chip and that was the one with 512K. It actually managed to somewhat match a Northwood P4 in performance.
Keep in mind the Pentium 4s are an entirely different beast and the differences go deeper than just cache. They are based on the same tech but there are a few features absent on the Celerons. Though all of the LGA775 Celeron Ds do support 64-bit.
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24. September 2009 @ 12:16 |
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WTF AD is slightly wider then yesterday my "/ is no longer on a line all on it's own...
EDIT: and now it is again hmmmmmmmmmmm
I could put something funny here but I cant be arsed. Now GO AWAY!
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24. September 2009 @ 12:19 |
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LOL
that depends on the size of the window silly :P
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24. September 2009 @ 12:21 |
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Yeah but it was the same fullscreen window at the same res and the same EVERYTHING! Although come to think of it I did update to CCC 9.9 "/
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24. September 2009 @ 12:22 |
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Interesting, haven't changed the font size by accident have you?
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24. September 2009 @ 12:24 |
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No and if you saw my edit it's now gone back! It's some sort of conspiracy doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
I could put something funny here but I cant be arsed. Now GO AWAY!
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24. September 2009 @ 12:27 |
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I'm not using the same screen resolution as you - all of your post fits on one line.
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24. September 2009 @ 12:33 |
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24. September 2009 @ 13:01 |
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hmmmm there's something not quite right with Chrome here (possibly just the dev version)...
I refresh and about 2 in 5 times it's 1 line... Also it varies by browser:
1 line; Firefox 3.5.2/Namoroka 3.6, Opera 10 Beta 2, Safari 4.0.2.
2 lines; IE 32/64-bit
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24. September 2009 @ 13:40 |
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There's your problem Keith... STOP using chrome and start using FF3!!! :)
add: AND the other thing you can do is X out (close) the box to the left of the response section. :)
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24. September 2009 @ 13:42 |
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Hey hey hey! I like Chrome :( I suppose, to each his/her own though :P
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24. September 2009 @ 13:46 |
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Keith this is what I"m talking about.. next to the "Browse by topic" tab...
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24. September 2009 @ 13:47 |
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It's because of that light blue bar from top to bottom on the left of the page, next to the usernames. The light blue is so wide because you have the 'Topics' thingy open, see here ~
I always have that hidden as it takes up too much screen space..
edit- LOL at my slow reply, grabbing & editing images can be crap in linux sometimes.
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24. September 2009 @ 13:48 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Hey hey hey! I like Chrome :( I suppose, to each his/her own though :P
I used it for a while and went back to FF3... NOT that I really disliked chrome I just like FF3 and I think that chrome reports everything you do to GOOGLE.... I may be misinformed there but that's one reason for dumping it for me. :)
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