-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGbH2RZyXhknb+33gRAqTaAJsFyM4+ss9kzlJxgvzjoZiKQeHLQwCfUerB 68wyZ/M50Kqee1MK+FO/WHw= =lJNK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]