LostCircuits

LostCircuits http://www.lostcircuits.com Lost Circuits reviews start where other reviews end en-us Intel's SkullTrail Platform Intel D5400SX CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_skulltrail/ 8 CPU cores and SLI support February 10, 2008 AMD's Phenom 9900 and 9600 BE, Beyond Erratum 298 AMD Phenom CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_phenom/ Native Quad Core on a single die January 1, 2008 Intel's Yorkfield QX9770 at 3.2 GHz Intel C2 QX9770 CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_yorkfield9770/ 1600 MHz FSB for Intel November 25, 2007 Intel's Yorkfield QX9650 Processor Preview Intel C2 QX9650 CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_yorkfield/ Penryn dies in production Yorkfield Configuration October 28, 2007 Better By Design AMD's 690G vs Intel's 965G chipset Chipset / Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/igp_compare/ Integrated Graphics Perfornance Comparison September 4, 2007 Intel's Core2 Quad Extreme QX6850 and E6750 Intel Core2 Quad Extreme CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_c2p35/ 1333 MHz FSB for Intel CPUs July 15, 2007 AMD's Low Power CPUs: The BE series Athlon 64-BE CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_be2350/ Energy efficient Athlon 64 CPUs June 20, 2007 Intel's V8 System Dual Quad Core Xeons CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_8xeon/ An 8-core system with off the shelf components May 31, 2007 Penryn Performance Numbers Intel Penryn CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_penryn2/ 45 nm process with Hafnium-based Transistors April 18, 2007 The Big Bang For the Buck Sapphire RADEON X1950 GT 256 MB Crossfire Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1950gt/ Low Cost Crossfire solution with problems in Vista March 13, 2007 Putting the Metal Back into CMOS Intel Penryn CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_penryn/ 45 nm process with Hafnium-based Transistors January 28, 2007 The Dark Side of Power ASUS L1N64-SLI and AMD FX74 CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_quadfx/ What's in a 4x4 January 21, 2007 Whatever Happened to L2-Latencies AMD's Brisbane Core - The transition to 65nm Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_65nm/ Cache Mysteries Jan 5, 2007 The Proof is in the Frame Buffer Sapphire RADEON X1950 Pro 512 MB AGP Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1950proagp/ 512 MB on-board LFB Jan 1, 2007 Clocking Like a Banshee ASUS M2R32 MVP Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/asus_m2r32mvp/ The highest clocking AM2 Motherboard in the Wild Dec 19, 2006 Friends of Yesterday's Fast Sapphire RADEON X1950 Pro Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1950pro/ Performance on a Budget November26, 2006 We avoid temptation ASUS P5W64 Wall Street Qartet Professional Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/asus_p5w64ws/ Four PCIe Graphics Slots November 16, 2006 Codename Kentsfield Intel's Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6700 Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_core2quad/ Intel's new Quad Core CPU November 1, 2006 Foxconn 975X7AB Foxconn 975X7AB Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/foxconn_975x7ab/ Digital VRM and all October 22, 2006 Sapphire Pure Crossfire AM2RD580 Sapphire Pure Crossfire AM2RD580 Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/sapphire_pcam2580/ SLI Under Crossfire Oct 8, 2006 Media Encoding Performance: AMD vs. Intel AMD Dual Core, Intel Core2 Duo Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/encode/ CPU / Platform Media Encoding Performance August 28, 2006 Low Power and Energy-Efficient CPUs from Intel and AMD Core2 Duo E6300 vs. X2-3800+ (ADD) and X2-4600+ (ADO) Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/low_e/ Power vs. Performance for Intel and AMD August 20, 2006 Blinded by the light Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, X6800 Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_core2/ Intel's new Core2 CPUs July 25, 2006 The Way nVidia was Meant to Be Built Foxconn C51XEM2AA Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/foxconn_c51xem2aa/ The Best nForce 590 SLI Board on the Market July 17, 2006 BIOS Settings for the Athlon 64 Platform Optimization Guide BIOS http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/bios3/ AMD Performance Optimization June 19, 2006 The Long way to DDR2 AMD Athlon64-FX62, AMD Athlon64-5000+ Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_am2/ AMD's DDR2 entry May 23, 2006 And How Fast was it Really ASUS A8R32 MVP-Deluxe Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/asus_a8r32/ ASUS Crossfire R580 Solution May 7, 2006 Z-RAM - a Breakthrough in Memory Technology ISi Z-RAM Memory http://www.lostcircuits.com/memory/zram/ Capcitor-less DRAM March 26, 2006 Worthy the Upgrade Sapphire X1600 Pro Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1600pro/ The Last of the Bold and Beautiful March 6, 2006 Sapphire Radeon X1900 XTX Sapphire Radeon X1900 XTX Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1900xtx/ Quite Arguably Bold February 20, 2006 Pushing the Professional Envelope with SLI nVidia Quadro FX 4500- SLI Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/quadro_fx4500/ Professional SLI February 1, 2006 At the Turning Point AMD Athlon64-FX60 Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_fx60/ The Last of the Bold and Beautiful January 10 2006 A Giant Leap For Intel's Process Technology Intel ExtremeEdition P4 955 Microprocessor http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_p4-955/ Presler Core December 27, 2005 Something we meant to say --- but then we forgot Sapphire Pure Crossfire A9RD480 Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/sapphire_pc-a9rd480/ RD480-based Crossfire Platform December 22, 2005 And Then We Modded for SLI DFI LAN Party UT NF4 UltraD Motherboards http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/dfi_lp_nf4ud/ Modding the Ultra Chipset for SLI December 4, 2005 High End On a ShoeString ASUS GeForce Extreme n7800GT Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/asus_n7800gt/ SLI Power November 28, 2005 Time for a Treasure Hunt Sapphire RADEON X800 GTO2 Graphics http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x800gto2// R480 Core in Disguise November 2, 2005 They Created A Monster Foxconn NFPIK8AA-8EKRS Motherboard / CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/foxconn_nfpik8aa/ Low Cost High Power Server / Workstation October 16, 2005 The Mancunian Candidate AMD Athlon64 X2-3800+ CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_x2-3800+/ Lowest Power Dual Core CPU September 20, 2005 Intel's P4 670 and 820D Intel Pentium 4 CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/p4_820/ Dual Core vs. High-Speed Core September 3, 2005 ASUS K8N-DL ASUS K8N-DL (Dual Opteron) CPU / Motherboard http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/asus_k8n-dl/ SMP Processing August 8, 2005 AlphaCool NexXxOS AlphaCool NexXxOS Watercooler Cooling http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/alphacool/ Advanced WaterCooling July 21, 2005 AMD Athlon64 FX57 AMD Athlon64 FX57 CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_fx57/ The Fastest Single Core CPU todate June 27, 2005 Intel Pentium4 840 ExtremeEdition and P4 840D Intel P4 840 EE and P4 840 D CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/p4_840/ Dual Cores with Hyperthreading and Huge Power Consumption June 20, 2005 Sapphire RADEON X850XT Platinum Ed. AGP Sapphire RADEON X850XT Platinum Ed. AGP Video Cards http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x850xtpe/ The Fastest AGP Card out there May 30, 2005 DDR2 Roundup -- Budget vs. Performance Double Data Rate Memory memory http://www.lostcircuits.com/memory/ddr2comp/ DDR2 gains market share May 19, 2005 AMD Athlon64 X2- 4800+ --- Dual Cores on a Single Die AMD Athlon64 X2 "Toledo" CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_x2/ Dual core CPUs allow Symmetric Multiprocessing on a single CPU. May 9, 2005 ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe -- Abundance of Everything ASUS A8N-DL Mainboards http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/asus_a8nsli Among the first to market with the nForce4 SLI chipset was ASUS with their A8N-SLI. Packing a full punch of features along with the almost proverbial ASUS quality, the A8N-SLI is a mainboard geared especially towards the high-end gaming community. April 3, 2005 Licensing Strategies --- Avoiding Death by Profitability Patents Intellectual Property http://www.lostcircuits.com/patent/patent3/ Intellectual Property is becoming the currency of the 21st Century March 7, 2005 P4 64-bit Performance - Panorama Factory Revisited Intel P4 660 CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/p4-600-64/ Intel's EM64T adaptation and the performance in Windows XP-64 March 2, 2005 Intel P4 600 Series - Meet Scotty 2.0 Intel P4 660 / ExtremeEdition 3.73 CPU http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/p4-600/ The new 600 series features Enhanced Speedstep Technology and 64-bit support February 21, 2005 2005, the Year of Patent Wars Patents Intellectual Property http://www.lostcircuits.com/patent/patent1/ The year 2005 has been projected to become the year of patent wars. Rambus against the DRAM manufacturers is just the tiniest tip of an iceberg of gargantuan proportions. February 7, 2005 Sapphire HYBRID X800XL PCI Express -- Romancing the HYBRID Sapphire Hybrtid X800XL Video Cards http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x800xl/ A new core with low power and high performance. February 1, 2005 eVGA GeForce 6600GT and SLI -- A Match Made in Heaven? eVGA GeForce 6600GT -SLI Video Cards http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/6600gt_sli/ The resurrection of SLI, made possible by PCI Express offers new dimensions for 3D processing - in both performance and price categories whereas the upper midrange of the price range still faces a painful void January 25, 2005 DDR2 Double Data Rate Memory Memory http://www.lostcircuits.com/memory/ddrii// A walkthrough of the new DDR2 technology featuring a core running at 1/2 speed and some new command execution routines January 2, 2003