Ostriig on 6/12/2011 at 23:04
Yeah, it's a shame. I've seen people suggest that the next stepping of the processor is likely to bring increased performance, as is an updated process scheduler for Windows to better take advantage of Bulldozer, Microsoft's working on it for 8 at least, but I'm not overly optimistic about how much more they could squeeze out of the architecture. It's hit AMD pretty hard by the looks of it, I genuinely hope we see them bounce back, and soon.
lost_soul on 6/12/2011 at 23:44
From one of the above links:
"Yep. Like me. Why buy a BD when the X6 series pretty much equals it for half-price (well...Not exactly half price)? I guess AMD realized that."
Bingo!
"AMD is painting themselves into a corner by discontinuing the Thubans IMO. There is still money to be made on them. Glad I got my 945 and 1090T when I did. "
Double bingo!
june gloom on 7/12/2011 at 02:23
do you not know how to use the quote button
lost_soul on 12/12/2011 at 17:51
Do you not know how to punctuate a question?
I was recently in the market for a video card for a spare machine. I wanted something capable of playing TDM, but not really expensive. Instead of buying one, I managed to fix an old (overheated) 9800GT by removing the heat sink and using a heat gun to re-flow the solders. Works great after dozens of hours of gaming!
Fafhrd on 13/12/2011 at 08:47
Stop shitting in my thread, you two.
Okay, follow up question: Due to the untimely demise of IDE and my Windows XP install being on my IDE drive, I need to figure out how to move my XP install to another drive before i can put in the new PC guts. I have tried semi-successfully to use robocopy to do a straight mirror of the XP drive to a new logical partition on one of my SATA terabyte drives, and after then disabling the IDE drive and fucking around with the Win7 install disc and EasyBCD I've been able to get the thing to recognize that there's a second OS on that partition, but when I try to boot XP it hangs indefinitely on the welcome screen. I get the same thing if I try booting in Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last known good configuration, etc. It'll never take me to the desktop. WinXP recovery console doesn't recognize my drive configuration, so I can't do a repair install or fixboot, and I'm fairly certain fixmbr will annihilate my partitions.
Am I going to have to create new Primary Partitions on one of my drives to make this work, or is there something else I can try?
lost_soul on 13/12/2011 at 16:47
Why would fixmbr annihilate your partitions? Its not going to solve your problem though, because you are already able to boot (make it past the MBR loading stage).
I know Windows "marries" its self to your hardware when you install the OS. It uses a different kernel whether you have an I/O APIC or not, and it only loads the drivers needed to talk to your specific boot drive's interface. Thus if you clone from an IDE to a SATA drive, you will have problems booting. Just like it won't boot if you switch SATA compatibility mode in the BIOS to IDE from SATA. The usual result of this is a BSOD though.
Can you run a chkdsk /f? Also, check the s.m.a.r.t information to make sure there are no bad sectors and you could possibly try cloning with another program.
Fafhrd on 14/12/2011 at 04:07
Turns out it was a simple case of I R Dumb. Changing the drive letters in the Registry sorted it. New guts in. PC running good, no OS reinstalls required (thus far, anyway).
