Posts by uclajd

Yeah, I wanted to call BS on this too. Glad someone beat me to it. Just because a particular set of modules that happen to be 5300 don't work doesn't make it a 5300 issue. Quote: Originally Posted by Mr....

The Conroe ES's and first retail steppings (stepping 6 and below) also have multiple errata. Quote: Originally Posted by SSChicken I have heard the ES Merom chips have a flaw in them causing them to consume...

For the record, I think this rep point thing is the stupidest, most inane system I've ever seen on a forum. Seems like this is more of a popularity contest than a raking of who is intelligent, informative, and accurate. To make matters...

One possibility is that the best-overclocking ES chips were hand-selected by Intel from the bins knowing that ES's tend to end up in extreme overclockers' hands before retail release, and that early reports of awesome clocks would build...

While that might be true in some CPUs, at least with the Conroes the opposite has been true to date. The guys at Xtremesystems.org have been reporting that the stepping 6 retail Conroes aren't clocking as high as the ESs... Of course,...

Might be a great time to create an "upgrade your laptop to Merom" sticky. Tired of searching all the random threads...

Probably everyone who has a Merom right now has an engineering sample, which are unlocked. The retail versions are not unlocked (at least to higher multipliers - not sure about lower, as Conroes can drop the multi on some...

What a weird URL! Who woulda thought? Quote: Originally Posted by m94mni http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Actually, Intel has said that they [Meroms] were designed to be backward-compatible. Quote: Originally Posted by NightRaverX Hmm, cranking open your lappy to put a cpu which wasent originally designed for it, I'd say...

IT'S NOT UP TO DELL TO DECIDE AFTER THE FACT WHAT A USER CAN DO. A contract is a contract. Dell is not a jurist issuing a legal declaration. They are a party to a contract, just like I am. All sales of goods contracts in the US have a...