I can't imagine why...




Haswell should be fun!

My original argument was that Bulldozer keeps your house warm in Winter; it is a superb space heater
-- and some of the posters actually use it as a "plus"

Here in Canada that would be alright, but I do most of my gaming over the summer so no thanks.

Where i live in the Southern California high desert, it is cooler rather than warmer if you take the entire year into consideration. We only get really hot starting in June and start to cool off in September.

i used to turn the back of the PC toward my feet to blow hot air on them on cold nights and mornings.

I could see a PC actually heating up a bedroom, but that's about all (for now).

Actually, bulldozer with quadfire could probably heat a small apartment.

With bitcoins it might actually be quite efficient.

That's what i used - HD 6970 QuadFire-X4 and overclocked FX-8150 - over 1700W


And i found out that my fans were reversed in my CPU cooler - still push-pull but not facing the right direction and sucking hot(ter) air into the cooler
- everything is about 4-5C cooler now


OK, you got your update... i'm back to work. Still benching the GTX 690 and writing the article
- it's going to be really late but i'll probably get performance charts up on time

Looking for it

This shows that 5GHz is possible..

I just got the hard drive (2TB Hitachi 7K3000 which is the densest and also probably the most reliable of 2TB drives after watching the newegg reviews like a hawk for so many months now - yet I still wish I bought it before the Thailand flooding for $60 less than I did now but was hoping for Samsung to do a 7200rpm 64MB cache 2TB drive with 3 platters like this one, which they never did). Also got 8GB DDR-2133 CAS9 memory in the mail today too, from Newegg! Now I have everything ready for a 3rd rig build!

But I was too busy to start building yet..

And I'd never have the time to really enjoy it like I did back in the college days when I could just indulge into it. Family (wife and 4 kids...).. oh well!!!!!!!!!!! And friends and stuff..

Why, oh why can't I change the days to 36 hours long, where I have 12 hours all to myself?

I don't care if the CPU fails with up to 1.5v under warranty, since that's what Intel officially states as the recommended "max" for the unlocked chip with good air cooling (actually up to 1.55v, right?)

I used to overclock the Barton (Mobile Athlon XP) chips like crazy, and also the Opteron 170/175 (Athlon 64 X2) sky-high too for many years, without any issues. The voltages were insane, and the "tweaked" cooler for the Barton oc'ed to 2.7 GHz was far better than even the best aftermarket cooler on the market!

It's the motherboard that I'd be more worried about when it comes to high currents, not the CPU itself.