PC Specs

[Chewy]

CPUID Revision 00000FC0h Extended CPUID Revision 00000FC0h AMD Brand ID 0887h (Sempron
3100+) Platform ID CCh (Socket 754) IA CPU Serial Number Unknown ...

everest glitch, the 3300!

thanks uncasms

[UncasMS]

well the newcastle 754 core with 1800mhz would be an 2800+
the 2400 core would be an 3300+

of course the performance would be slightly different

let's not keep up the guess-work here but try to check the facts

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everest glitch, the 3300!

why is that, chewy?

the 256kb cache seems proof enough that we deal with the 3300+ here as there was only one newcastle core that had 256 and that's exactly the 3300+

[Derree]

ok sounds good...I will check that when I get home...so I guess we will have to wait till then....grrrr..If staples screwed me there is gonna be trouble..considering I work for them...

[UncasMS]

like i said: let's not jump to conclusions

maybe there's a simple explaination for all the weird info we're dealing with atm

[Chewy]

some guy name fiery from hungary, in the lavalys forum

guess work?

google

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/127

[Chewy]

Sempron 3100+ 1.80 GHz 800 MHz 256 KB 754

everythings fine derree! might be a bios issue like I thought at first,
but there are always bios issues.

[Derree]

so having the cool n quite running..is this good or bad? Would this be somthing that I could "easily" turn off? Or, since really the computer at home is just for 'entertainment' in that I don't use it for work at all should I bother? When I check to see if I need to defrag I am told that I have 86% of memory left and that includes the partitioned drive...so as you can see I definetly am not working at full load

[UncasMS]

ahh, that makes a difference, chewy

of course i thought we'd deal with an athlon64 not a sempron


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concerning c&q:
if you dont want to overclock i can strongly suggest using c&q as it will reduce power consumption and make the cpu run cooler

most of the time our cpu is not working with full load and thus it is not a bad idea reducing its core freq

the reduction happens in a fraction of a second and of course it will increase the core to the original freq whenever need be

i consider this option very useful and have it active most of the time as i only overclock my system for conversions, which i run at night or when away from that encoding machine

[Derree]

ok good...you guys had me worried lol...it was gonna make for a really long day waiting to get home to check it again..but I am glad everything is good! I think I got all 3 of you with some greens but I'm not sure...if I missed one of ya let me know!

[Derree]

So what do you guys think I could do to make my pc better?

[Chewy]

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00257657

lots of possibilities, looking at nero info tool, you do have a serial hard drive?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&lang=en&cc=us&product=443069&dlc=en&os=228

firmware??? 3.15 10-2005

System BIOS Date 10/29/04

yours

[Derree]

so I should definetly update my firmware is what you are saying? I have be meaning to do that...seen the threads about it...but never get around to doing it...I should try to do that this weekend....is it a difficult thing to do? I probably won't 'upgrade' the system..with kids its hard to have the cash for things like that..if it wasn't for working for the company I bought it from I would still be using the p2 400 I had...

[Chewy]

When your OS gets a litle older, a clean install and power user setup will
be a big upgrade. Still a second hard drive comes in very handy for video
work.

[Derree]

maybe a dumb couple of questions with a clean install, I would use my back up disks that I made when I first got my system right? would that mean I would lose everything stored on the computer? and what all are you meaning when you say 'video work'? btw Chewy You are the greatest!

[Chewy]

If you have 2 hard drives on seperate cables(eg, 2 serial hard drives) and you have decrypted files to one, then shrinking to another goes a lot faster
at no compression, likewise say you were reauthoring a flipper disk that had part 1 and 2 in seperate sides, then shrink could combine take compressed
rips from one hard drive and combine the titles on a second.
Having everything standalone masters is how I can burn 2 disks at once
with 2 different programs. Or copy on the fly!