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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -
Patterson's driver, 60-year-old James Cram, a retired Michigan State Police trooper, was critically hurt in Friday's crash.
Patterson, 73, also was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. He underwent surgery Friday night. Auburn Hills police said Patterson suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Local 4 has learned he suffered a broken femur, broken wrists and a gash to his head.
Police say the county executive's vehicle, a black Chrysler 300, was traveling eastbound on Walton Boulevard about 4:45 p.m. Friday when another car, a blue Volkswagen Passat, which was turning left at the intersection collided with Patterson's vehicle. Patterson was in the front passenger seat of the Chrysler. The Passat ended up hitting a street sign.
The driver of the Passat, a 31-year-old Royal Oak man, also was hurt. His injuries were minor and not life-threatening. His passenger, a 51-year-old Fraser man, was seriously hurt but in stable condition Friday night.
Just the two cars were involved. The intersection was shut down for about 2 hours.
Cause of crash under investigation
There were reports of a power outage in the area, however, Local 4 is told the traffic lights were working at the time of the crash. The crash also happened during moments of on-and-off heavy rain in the area. However, police say the weather was not a factor in the crash.
A preliminary investigation suggests Cram was not at fault.
"Preliminarily, it appears that Mr. Patterson's car was on a green light and there was a flashing yellow light for the westbound lane," said Thomas Hardy, deputy director for the Auburn Hills police.
Auburn Hills police the South Oakland County Crash Investigation Team are handling the crash investigation. The Auburn Hills Police Department said alcohol and drugs do not appear to be a factor in the crash.
There has been an outpouring of support for Patterson. A spokesperson for Patterson says so many flowers have been received that there isn't anywhere to put them.
Instead, if you want to show your support for Patterson, you're asked to make a donation to the Brooksie Way Half Marathon and 5K, which is named after Patterson's late son. The event is taking place in September at Oakland University. For more information about the event, click here.
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Google released its biannual transparency report last week, which details requests government agencies around the world make for user data from Google as well as demands to remove content from its services.
In short, the sort of private information about a person that takes more than googling their name to discover.
The most recent report on user data requests includes information on 31 countries including Australia, the United States, Britain, France, India, Russia and Brazil.
In total, these countries made 20,938 requests for data from 34,614 Google account holders in the first half of this year, up from 18,257 requests for 28,562 users in the second half of 2011.
Almost two out of every five requests were from the United States. Google received 7969 requests for data on 16,281 users from US authorities, of which 90 per cent were granted, more than any other country.
Turkey, Hungary and Russia made 112, 92 and 58 requests, respectively, but Google complied with none of them.
Australian government agencies made 523 requests for data from 841 Gmail and YouTube users in the first half of this year, compared with 444 requests for data from 496 users the second half of 2011.
Google complied with 64 per cent of requests from Australian agencies, down one per cent on the second half of last year.
User data requests in Australia have increased year on year since Google started its transparency reports, climbing from 155 in the second half of 2009.
Of the 16 countries who have had their data disclosed since the first report, seven – including Australia - have seen year on year increases in the number of takedown requests with each report. Authorities in the US, Germany, France, India, Japan and Belgium also have an increasing appetite for Google user data.
Australia has seen a 237 per cent increase in the number of requests since the Google started the transparency reports, one of the highest increases of any country.
We've taken the data and put it in a Tableau Public dashboard, which lets you see how the number of requests from different countries have changed over time.
The report itself can be found here. Google has also made the raw data available, fittingly, as a Google Spreadsheet.


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The human rights advocate, campaigner for social justice and indigenous elder Tom Calma was named ACT Australian of the Year at a ceremony at the Hyatt Hotel on Wednesday evening.
Dr Calma said he was surprised to receive the award and hoped it would encourage other people to take on leadership roles.
He wrote a landmark report in 2005 calling for the 17-year life expectancy gap then between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians to be closed, which sparked the "Close the Gap" campaign.
Dr Calma said the campaign was a work in progress and involved looking at how employ-ment, education and housing affected people's health.
"Governments have got to get away from thinking about just delivering services, to thinking about how do you deliver services, and at the same time transfer knowledge and skills to the community, so they can take control of their lives," he said.
Julie McKay, the 29-year-old executive director of UN Women Australia, received the ACT Young Australian of the Year award.
Ms McKay said her organ-isation's fund-raising efforts were focused on improving the lives of women in Australia, the Pacific, and east and south-east Asia.
Domestic violence was one of the biggest challenges they faced, she said.
"The systemic discrimination and under valuing of women's roles is something we need to work to challenge.
Dr Jim Peacock, Australia's chief scientist from 2006 to 2008, was awarded ACT Senior Australian of the Year for his work in agricul-tural science and promoting science education.
Francis Owusu won ACT Local Hero 2013 for using dance to inspire and motivate young people through his not-for-profit organisation Kulture Break.
Dr Calma first moved to Canberra from Darwin in 1992 and was appointed to diplomatic postings in India and Vietnam in the 1990s.
He is deputy chancellor at the University of Canberra and adjunct scholar at the ANU's National Centre for Indigenous Studies.


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BWW's Top South Africa Theatre Stories of 2012
BroadwayWorld brings you the Best of South Africa in the year 2012. Check out the Top Theatre Stories from each month during in the year 2012. We look forward to another exciting year of theatre in 2013!
STAGE TUBE: Behind the Scenes of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA South Aftrica
Broadway's longest running musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has experienced sell out seasons around the world, and just made its long awaited arrival in Cape Town at the Artscap... (read more...)
Barnyard Theatre Presents SIX OF THE BEST, et al. 2/12-4/29
The Barnyard Theatre presents three varied shows this month, beginning with 'Six of the Best' tribute show and concluding with 'Sultans of Swing,' another tribute show.... (read more...)
STAGE TUBE: Talking With the Cast and Creative Team of South Africa's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Broadway's longest running musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has experienced sell out seasons around the world and made its long awaited arrival in Cape Town at the Artscape Thea... (read more...)
Barnyard Theatre to Open Rivonia Venue for SIX OF THE BEST, 3/20
The Barnyard Theatre has announced that its Rivonia venue is now open for bookings for its first show. This new 500-seater theatre will open its doors to the public on 20 March 2012 for SIX OF THE BES... (read more...)
ROCKY HORROR PARTY & More Set for Barnyard Theatres' Feb-March Program
The Barnyard Theatres have announced its programme up until March 26. Highlights include THE ROCKY HORROR PARTY and MOONSHADOWS.... (read more...)
Cape Town's Artscape Theatre Centre Reworks ABBA, Shakespeare and More, 23 March-11 April
The Artscape Theatre Centre offers Easter entertainment over the school holidays. The program for the next two weeks includes an ABBA concert, intriguing drama, ballet and children's theatre.... (read more...)
DANCING IN THE STREET to be Featured at Barnyard Theatre's Easter Special
Dancing in the Street, the current show featured at the Barnyard Theatre, gives you the opportunity to party all over the world at various famous carnivals, celebrations and festivals. It will criss-c... (read more...)
ARTSCAPE Hosts Dramas and Operettas April 25-May 9
The Artscape Theatre Centre celebrates local creativity with several home grown presentations in its upcoming line-up - three dramas and an operetta. The programme for the next two weeks also includes... (read more...)
Andrew Lloyd Webber Works to be Licensed by DALRO in South Africa
DALRO has received the sole mandate to licence major Andrew Lloyd Webber works to schools, universities and amateur dramatic societies.... (read more...)
Barnyard Theatre Presents Music Celebration THE FINAL COUNTDOWN in Rivonia, Now thru 6/24
The Final Countdown is a musical journey that takes the audience on a ride through 6 decades of fashion, radio, music and above all "Rock 'n Roll.'... (read more...)
Barnyard Theatre Presents BIG TOP ROCK in Capetown, Now thru June 24
Big Top Rock is a Barnyard Theatre rock concert with a difference and is the sequel to the very popular show The Rock Circus. The show includes music, aerial acts, jugglers and a circus atmosphere tha... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: THE BLUE IRIS Disappoints and MIES JULIE Thrills on Cape Town stages, July 2012
A decade ago, I attended a lecture that addressed the need for South African theatremakers to tell their own stories. The idea of mounting plays by international playwrights was dismissed completely a... (read more...)
MAKE WAY FOR NODDY, BURN THE FLOOR and More Set for Artscape's Cape Town Events, Now thru July 29
The Artscape Theatre Centre hosts two internationally acclaimed shows in Cape Town - a Ballroom spectacular and a home-coming debut of a South African soprano. The programme for the next two weeks fur... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: JUST BUSINESS Entertains and Stimulates at the Artscape Arena, July 2012
There is honour among thieves, they say. In JUST BUSINESS, playwright and self-styled cultural activist Mike van Graan says otherwise. A reworking of an earlier play, HOSTILE TAKEOVER, the text offers... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: Partly First Class, Partly Frustrating RAYMONDA at the Artscape Opera House
16 years since it was last seen on stage in Cape Town, Cape Town City Ballet has brought RAYMONDA back to the Artscape for a short winter season. It is a beautiful production of a ballet that is infam... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: Electric CABARET Lights Up Theatre on the Bay
KickstArt's CABARET, the classic musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff based on Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical GOODBYE TO BERLIN, has opened at last in Cape Town. A profess... (read more...)
Sullivan Summit Ends With The Spirit Of Malabo
Victor Mooney, AIDS activist and executive director of New York based - South African Arts International, Ltd. (SAAI) has pledged to keep the camaraderie alive; thereby, naming his Brazilian custom ma... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: Mesmerising Dance in BIKO'S QUEST at Artscape Theatre
Memory. Identity. History. Emotion. These are the cornerstones of BIKO'S QUEST, the newest production from Jazzart Dance Theatre, directed by Mandla Mbothwe and choreographed by Jacqueline Manyaapelo,... (read more...)
Jazzart Dance Theatre and Steve Biko Foundation Present BIKO'S QUEST in Cape Town, Sept 8-16
Jazzart Dance Theatre and the Steve Biko Foundation present Biko's Quest at Artscape Theatre in Cape Town from 8 until 16 September 2012.... (read more...)
Kalk Bay Theatre Presents SWOOP; Opens September 28
There's enchanting entertainment for all the family this school holiday with Swoop at Kalk Bay Theatre from 28 September to 7 October. Swoop tells the story of a young boy who embarks on an amazing ad... (read more...)
Improguise Hosts SA's 1st Live Improv Soap-a-thon to Benefit Rape Crisis at UCT's Little Theatre, 27 Oct
Improguise, South Africa's longest running, award-winning and hilarious improvisation company turns 20 this year. To celebrate, on 27 October, they invite you to the Soap-a-thon: South Africa's first ... (read more...)
Magnet Theatre Announces CHICKENS Creative Team
A stellar creative team will bring Gabriella Pinto's play Chickens to life when it is performed at Magnet Theatre from 25 October to 3 November.... (read more...)
Improguise Hosts SA's 1st Live Improv Soap-a-thon to Benefit Rape Crisis at UCT's Little Theatre, 27 Oct
Improguise, South Africa's longest running, award-winning and hilarious improvisation company turns 20 this year. To celebrate, today, 27 October, they invite you to the Soap-a-thon: South Africa's fi... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: Evocative and Memorable RED at Theatre on the Bay
When I heard that RED would run briefly at Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town after a successful premiere at the National Arts Festival three months ago, I made sure that I would be able to see it. And, ... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: Compelling Comedy with Martin Evans in FBPK at the Kalk Bay Theatre
As the opening of FBPK rolled around, I was wondering whether I needed a break from comedy. As it turned out, this show, by Martin Evans, turned out to be the best comedy show I have seen in the last ... (read more...)
Minnie And Johnson Come to Kalk Bay Theatre, Beginning 28 November
Darlings of the South African cabaret stage, Emile Minnie and Godfrey Johnson, join forces and hands to bring you an evening of fun, humour and fabulous songs.... (read more...)
Follow Spot Productions Presents FACE THE MUSIC 2 at Kalk Bay Theatre, Dec 12-Jan 6
Award-winning Follow Spot Productions presents Face The Music 2 to get the whole family into the festive season groove. It will be performed at Kalk Bay Theatre from 12 December until 6 January, with ... (read more...)
Kalk Bay Theatre Presents Jori Snell's KITCHEN FABLES IN A COOKIE JAR, 12/14-1/6
Jori Snell presents captivating family entertainment at Kalk Bay Theatre this holiday with Kitchen Fables in a Cookie Jar. It will be performed at 11am on December 14 to 18, 20 to 23 and 27 to 31, 201... (read more...)
BWW Reviews: So-So Retelling of Kipling's Classic JUST SO STORIES at the V&A Waterfront
JUST SO STORIES has the potential to be great children's theatre, but it is just so-so, falling short in both the scripting and performances.... (read more...)


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The Vaccines begin their UK tour on November 14. Frontman Justin Young talks to Andy Welch about the band's huge rise, their second album Come Of Age and their plans for 2013.
"Look at me, so ordinary, no mystery with no great capability."
So sings The Vaccines frontman Justin Young on their recent single Teenage Icon, a song written about the fact he's just another average Joe.
He's wrong.
The Vaccines - the group Young founded after he decided a solo career as Jay Jay Pistolet wasn't working out for him - have gone from strength to strength since getting together in 2010.
Their recent second album, Come Of Age, narrowly beat fellow Brit guitar band Two Door Cinema Club to the No 1 spot on the album chart, while the gigs they have booked in for the next six months would embarrass many more established artists. Ordinary Young is not.
"OK, OK," he concedes, "but the song is about the situation we now find ourselves in - I still go to bed and get up in the morning the same person I always was.
"What happens between those two things might not be as ordinary as it once was, but I'm still the same. And what is normal anyway? It's all relative I suppose," says the 25-year-old, shuffling around.
"It's weird, I mean, I guess some things we do in the band are extraordinary, but other times I feel like it's a job. Every day is different."
The band will tour France before beginning their UK tour on November 15, while the rest of the year sees them travel all over mainland Europe for shows, on to Australia and then the United States in the New Year. They'll return in May just in time for another UK tour.
Young doesn't mind the constant travelling, insisting it's one of the best things about being in a band.
"I love going to new places and meeting new people," he says. "I find it all so exciting. Sometimes we get a bit of time in new places. I've spent four or five days at a time in Tokyo, LA and Sao Paolo, but there are other places where you just roll in and roll out, and that's frustrating.
"Another thing - and I don't want this to be misconstrued as a moan - is that touring involves a lot of sacrifice. You never see friends, so even when you're free people stop phoning you on a Friday night."
So, the travelling is enjoyable - how about the actual performances? Fortunately Young loves those too, although that hasn't always been the case...
"I used to be so uncomfortable on stage," he says. "To counter it I just took myself out of the situation. I felt insecure and uptight, but then I thought that if I had been watching someone play to that many people, I wouldn't have enjoyed it if the frontman was uptight. Plus, I wouldn't have been stood there judging it on what the frontman was doing. I'd just be trying to have a good time, and hoping the band were too.
"It's not making being on stage look natural to everyone else that matters, but it feeling natural to yourself. I felt uncomfortable pretending to be happy on stage, but ironically it was when I learned that I didn't have to that I started feeling comfortable."
Once he made that realisation, Young says he's enjoyed each show more that the last, particularly gigs in New York, Paris, Tokyo and Stockholm. "Saying that, crowds in Scotland and the north of England are especially hard to beat. They're amazing."
This tour will see the band playing songs from their chart-topping second album Come Of Age. Now it's been released, Young's not that interested in it any more, saying that though he's "proud of it", he's moved on.
"We spent so much time on it," he explains. "It consumed us. We spent so much time writing and recording and arranging it, and now talking about it, it feels really nice that it's out there for people to love and hate as they wish.
"That said, now it's out, it feels a bit like I've washed my hands of it. I've done as much as I can for the album. A record's a snapshot of a moment, and now that moment has already gone. We're already a better band."
Of course, The Vaccines can only move on as far as their six months of touring will allow them - they still have to play the songs from their two albums each night, although Young argues by the end of the tour their music will sound far, far removed from the recorded versions.
"You breathe new life into a song each time you play it," he says. "When I hear a song from our first album on the radio now, it's like it's a different band, or like our demos. You make so many decisions after recording a song, about how you play it live and so on. It can end up sounding totally different."
The Vaccines are refreshingly ambitious with their approach to music, with dreams of selling out stadiums and being played on radio stations around the world.
Young says reaching No 1 in the album chart was a big deal for the band, although he's fully aware that the charts aren't the be-all-and-end-all they once were.
"It's just as important to stay in people's hearts and minds as it is to do well in the charts, no one wants to just come and go. And look at a band like Arcade Fire, who have never had a Top 40 single in the UK, but they can shift 80,000 tickets to sell out Hyde Park.
"There's a lot made about what's pop, and what's rock or indie, and I think we are all three, really - indie in the decisions we make and how we present ourselves, rock in the music, but ultimately we write pop songs. So much great rock 'n' roll is pop music and vice versa, so the two things aren't mutually exclusive.
"Ultimately, I want the band to become as big as possible, providing that we get better as we get bigger. I wouldn't want to be big and bad, or water anything down.
"With Come Of Age, I think we're on our way to achieving that."
Extra time - The Vaccines
:: The Vaccines are Justin Young, Freddie Cowan, Arni Hjorvar and Pete Robertson.
:: Freddie's elder brother Tom is a member of The Horrors.
:: Justin Young had vocal problems during 2011, undergoing three operations in nine months. Since then, he has had no trouble with his voice.
:: The band's music has drawn comparison to The Jesus And Mary Chain. Incidentally, Mary Chain's Doug Hart directed videos for the band's debut single, which was a double A-side consisting of Wrecking Ball (Ra Ra Ra) and Blow It Up.
:: The Vaccines are signed to Columbia Records.
:: The Vaccines begin their UK tour in Plymouth on November 15. Their second album Come Of Age is out now
Tour dates
15 - Plymouth Pavilions
16 - Cardiff University
17 - London Alexandra Palace
19 - Leicester De Montfort Hall
21 - Manchester Apollo
22 - Liverpool SU Mountford Hall
23 - Doncaster Dome
25 - Glasgow O2 Academy
26 - Glasgow O2 Academy
27 - Newcastle O2 Academy
29 - Birmingham O2 Academy
30 - Bournemouth O2 Academy
May 2013:
1 - Margate Winter Gardens
2 - London O2 Arena
4 - Carlisle Sands Centre
5 - Leeds Millennium Square
6 - Llandudno Cymru Arena


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Lashek Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg.com 4/15/2008 5:41:49 AM memory problems
Pros: superior porformace ,and bios menus 4 u overclockers .and easy setup
Cons: a) CPU multiplier likes to changes at will, causing an inability to POST after changing BIOS options. (Problem is likely linked to bad NVIDIA base code). b) Poor memory read performance above 475FSB unless you enable "P1" and "P2" which NVIDIA refuses to document operation of or provide information about. c) EVGA/XFX (NVIDIA reference design) lacks support for tRFC tuning - high density DDR3 configurations often refuse to work unless the module SPDs are tuned from the manufacturer. (This makes them needlessly slow in low-density configurations.) d) The chipset does not do a very good job of balancing read vs. write priorities with respect to memory access - copy scores lower than X38/X48. e) Regardless of what NVIDIA says, we think PCI-E 2.0 (and 1.x) implementation is still better on Intel's Express chipsets - give us SLI on Intel to prove it!!! f) Possible problem with NVIDIA reference design: sustained overclocked operation at >~1.9V for VDIMM may cause critical failu
Other Thoughts: buy asus striker Extreme board instead! Manufacturer Response:Those are unusual issues, especially the CPU multiplier adjusting. We do have a new BIOS that has just been released (www.xfxforce.com) also feel free to contact myself at firstname.lastname@example.com or the XFX Support staff at www.xfxforce.com / 800-880-3225 so we can help out
recneps77 - Friday, April 11, 2008 - linkSo was the Gigabyte stable @ stock?
Because I learned of all this AFTER my cpu had shipped..
its a 9750, 125W.
The board is back ordered, so I can cancel it if need be, but its gonna cost me a 'restocking' fee to exchange the cpu (such a rip).
Can anyone confirm this for me?
Gigabyte's site lists all of the B3's under supported, except the 9850 says 'unofficially supported' Reply
bobaboo - Sunday, April 13, 2008 - linkit will run it just fine
Visual - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - link[quote](4/9/08 Update - We will post an update to this article on 4/10/08 that addresses problems/concerns raised in this story, working with Gigabyte / ASRock on 9850BE certification tonight)[/quote]
I have been waiting anxiously for the update since yesterday... If I'm not hallucinating this text used to say the update will come on 4/9 and it now says 4/10, and the day is almost over...
I'm starting to wonder, maybe the update is up somewhere, linked between the 3.14-th and sqrt(-1) page of the article and I just didn't notice it...
LOL yeah, I know I'm not helping any, and I apologize for being so impatient. Of course, take your time and do things the proper way instead of rushing them. Reply
amdmobo - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - linkHi, you are not alone. I have been waiting the update since 2 days ago. Yeah, they delayed the date I guess. Reply
kzi - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - linkI'd like to run such a 780g board with two monitors attached to it.
So I hope you don't forget to look how good the display quality is in such a configuration. Reply
insider - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - link"check gigabytes website the 9850 is now supported on their cpu list for 780g platform.Bios f3"
can somebody tell me please whether it's safe to run a Phenom 9850 on this MoBo or not ??? Reply
Sb1 - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - linkI appreciate Gary and AnandTech for publishing this article.
When there are problems I think it's good that they get disclosed. It helps the consumers make more informed decisions and in turn shows manufacturers that they need to address the issue or issues. If they do not then people can take their business elsewhere. Because most people don't have time to read up on multiple forums, even if they are into technology. If they handle it correctly and fess up, it may still p**s you off but you can give them the benifit of the doubt because you know that there are problems in most everything. It's how it is handled that make up peoples real opionions over time of a company.
I was thinking of purchasing that Gigabyte 780G based motherboard and build it for a friend and possibly for myself once I sell two other PC's. Don't know if he wanted the newest 125w quad cores, but if he did and there were problems I probably would of not bought anything from Gigabyte once I found out on forums that they did not properly update their website for CPU support on this and the 680i based ones I luckily came across in the last few days. Now I am going to look elsewhere. I just bought an Abit IP35 Pro and was seriously considering a Gigabyte board, told my friend to get one for his Q6600 last summer and he did. Reply
duron266 - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - linkclick to view
duron266 - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - linkhttp://it.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3zQRILICo">http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3zQRILICo
take a few minutes time to watch and to learn about the truth of the advertised "fully support". Reply
strikeback03 - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - linkwhat is that video trying to show? Everything is so blurry I have no idea. Can't tell what units of temperature measurement that is - either the room temp is very low if Fahrenheit, or that board gets quite toasty if Celsius. Is everything just shutting down when screen goes blank, not a BSOD? Reply
Visual - Thursday, April 10, 2008 - linkI too have no clue... I watched it without sound because I'm at work though, and so didn't want to comment in case the important details were there.
It feels like it was filmed underwater for the most part, it is so wave-y. The poster's comments/description is not giving any details for the actual problem, and the last of his "(my thoughts)" blocks made absolutely no sense to me. The guy is also fiddling with the electronics out of the case, so who knows what he didn't plug correctly or shorted out with his meter or some other absurd user error...
And even if it's not a user error, what's his point? He might have gotten a faulty board or something, but that's not indicative of all the boards out there in general. So just return it and get a new one, and stop bitching about it...
But I'll watch it again, with audio, when I get home. Maybe I'm missing something important there. Reply
Bikerskummm - Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - linkLots more 790i corruption of data events being reported over at XS
The poll itself is a bit broken at the moment but a lot of the posts speak for themselves.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php...">http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php... Reply
Bikerskummm - Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - linkLots more 790i corruption of data events being reported here @XS
The poll itself is a bit broken at the moment but a lot of the posts speak for themselves..... Reply
deruberhanyok - Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - linkGary,
Thank you so much for posting this. It's great to see the information out there in the open.
I'd love to see an article about a motherboard that states "but we couldn't finish the review because the board exploded" or "and the hard drives are still showing corruption / totally unusable even after all these years" especially when explanations, like those presented in this article, are given.
You wrote: "We are hoping the short-term fixes occur quickly over the next thirty days" which is great, but the companies didn't want to wait thirty extra days to release the products and so they should be reviewed as-is, data corruption and all. Reply
bobaboo - Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - linkcheck gigabytes website the 9850 is now supported on their cpu list for 780g platform.Bios f3 Reply
insider - Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - linkwhat does this mean? is it just a software update that's needed in order to let this gigabyte mobo operate and sustain the 125w or is it done by changing also the hardware ??? Reply
bobaboo - Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - linkaparently they built the board with a 4 phase power setup but had to set up in the bios for the power distribution. Most people built this board with a 3 phase power distribution. Only Asrock built it with a 5 phase power setup and AsRock board is also saying their board supports the 9850. Reply
techflavor - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkThanks very much for the information about the mobos not really supporting the Phenom or 6400+ (125w).
However, I need some help locating a nice motherboard that will support these. There is one problem though... the motherboard I am looking for needs to be MicroATX and our company also requires an integrated Serial (COM) port.
I've found ~15 MicroATX boards with 4-5 of them with Serial ports; however, I'm not sure if they fully support Phenom (9600 for example) or the Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor (125w). Reply
LH2312x - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkImmediately after reading your news about 780G mainboard problems with 125W TDP CPUs I contacted Asrock about my new A780FullDisplayPort and also asked in Ocworkbench forum about experiences in running a phenom 9850 on an A780FDP.
Asrock has responded very quickly and their tech support stated that the A780FullDisplayPort mainboard is absolutely capable of running all kinds of 125W TDP AMD chips, including the Phenom 9850! They have implemented a 5-phase PWM on this mobo... phew, thank god I bought this one and not the Gigabyte just laying aside of it :-)
So, your assumption the Asrock A780FullDisplayPort would have failed also (in case you would have tested it) ist wrong!
TrueSport - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkwhat a JOKE!
when the Gigabyte, with high quality components, has to die.
The crappy Asrock can survive?! LOL LOL LOL Reply
TrueSport - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkjust checked out the asrock global site,
the 9850BE is not listed in the procesor support list, where 9750 and 9650 are there and OK.Also, asking the official Asrock media (ocworkbench), what do you expect to get, NO? no.
http://www.asrock.com.tw/mb/cpu.cn.asp?Model=A780F...">http://www.asrock.com.tw/mb/cpu.cn.asp?Model=A780F... Reply
LH2312x - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkIt's easy. Check the news front page on www.ocworkbench.com. It's there.
TrueSport - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkstop selling your site, it's damn disguisting! Reply
LH2312x - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkFirst of all, I don't need to "sell a site", since I'm far from being a fan boy like you abviously are? I prefer technical facts, no matter where they are published - as long as I can verify them. Besides that I own mainboards from MSI, Gigabyte, Asrock and Asus. Now THAT is what a call a biased opinion.
Second, I doubt Asrock would make a public statement like the one being published on OCW if they can't keep up with it. From a product liability stand point this is close to commiting suicide if it is not true - imagine all the people trying to run a phenom 9850 (or any other 125W CPU!) on their A780FDP and frying them... Reply
TrueSport - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkthe technical fact is, the asrock board only has 10 mosfets,
which is less than the Gigabyte's design.
it can boot into Windows doesn't mean it can run 24hrs a day, 7 days a week in a reliable and stable manner,
I'm sorry for saying that you are advertising that site, I apologize for that. It's my fault. Reply
LH2312x - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkSimply counting the number of MOSFETs actually doesn't help in determining what current this mainboard can handle (and at which level of stability).
Just for a quick overview about some basic facts I recommend this from pcper forum:
OK, enough for theory. Next week I will buy a 9850 and I'll see how it goes!
TrueSport - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linktotally agree with you, Prime95/Orthos/OCCT will tell us the answers.
Looking forward to your tests!
TS Reply
TrueSport - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkall of us will be glad to see you run a 24hrs OCCT v2 and get a pass with it.
seriously I will consider to buy one it is capable of doing so. Reply
braddy752 - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkSeeing this Gigabyte case has being flaming with gasoline.. Though the board maker should take certain responsibilites of having mistake information..
However, we all knew that from the starting point it's the chipset makers issue, delivering too aggressive assumptions on supporting processors which the chip maker had not validated. Not mentioning those buggy issues created by Nvidia.
Nvidia has been keeping quiet for those issues found by journalist or end-users, and making their so called partners (board makers) to deal with it.
So, who should be blamed for the faulty products? Board maker or the Chip maker? For me... I'll still trust the board makers who deliever good quality products, and blame the root cause to the chip maker. Reply
aguilpa1 - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkI approached Anandtech a looong time ago way back when Yorkfields first came out about 680iSLI not being compatible as I soon found out. They ignored my posts.
I had an EVGA 680i SLi and they provided their customers with a 780iSLI step up, which I am now running trouble free. Maybe you guys should have gone EVGA. Reply
Tanclearas - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkGary,
I'm not sure if you recall, but I was the one you helped get in contact with Nvidia regarding the nforce4 corruption issues related to the hardware firewall. I still have all of the email messages associated with that. You definitely tried harder than Nvidia in working with me on identifying the issue. I responded to the suggestions by the Nvidia rep quickly, and provided as detailed information as I could to them. I offered to completely reformat my system, and follow any specific directions they wanted, but their only suggestion for me was to install a driver that I had already tested with.
You followed up with me, and contacted Nvidia again, but they still never contacted me again. You eventually let me know that Nvidia's solution was to discontinue support of the hardware firewall, even though that was a major "bullet point" on the feature list of nforce4.
I won't go so far as to say "I'll never buy nvidia again!", but I definitely won't buy until the products have been on the market an extended period and there is reasonable confirmation about which "features" of their products actually work as advertised. Reply
chucky2 - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkGary,
Personally, I think instead of working behind the scenes with the mobo manufacturers, you ought to publish the review and slam them all for dying. The fact seems to be that these manufacturers will just not fix their ways until it blows up in their faces.
Maybe being embarrassed on the front page of AnandTech in a full out review will serve as sufficient embarrassment for them to put enough engineering into their products so those of us who buy a 125W Phenom and OC it (through the BIOS options the manufacturers themselves provide) the boards won't fry.
In college teaching the saying goes Publish or Perish...maybe for the manufacturers it should be Engineer it or be Embarrassed....
P.S. Now your 780G review will be further delayed because of their shodding underengineering....should give AnandTech time to review a couple of the past 690G boards to see how they compare and if they have the same problems. I just looked, and the Gigabyte 690G boards have the 6000+ and 6400+ listed as supported, and the 95W Phenom's as well. Should make for a good comparison.... Reply
whatthehey - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkI completely support your suggestion: reviewers should put the reviews out there as soon as a product is available on the retail shelves. By all means, go ahead and delay a preview or a first look while you wait for a BIOS respin, but when boards are available to the average Joe shopping at Newegg, it's time for manufacturers to put up or shut up.
I respect all the hard work you do, Gary, but I'd much rather read reviews of imperfect products than to wait (and wait... and waaaaait.......) for a review of an ephemeral "perfect" motherboard and BIOS.
As for the motherboards, I'd say you should stick to reviewing whatever CPUs they list as working and put in information about what CPUs *don't* make that list. Then let us know how the board works in practice. If it's flaky and your article ends up killing sales for a board, that's just too bad.
Finally, less time spent on extreme overclocking and more time spent getting articles out the door would be appreciated. I don't use water, let alone phase change or LN2, and I'm not going to push my system to the ragged edge. I'll take a reasonable overclock if it's easy to achieve. Spending hours/days/months tweaking and adjusting various BIOS settings to get the last .05% performance boost means nothing to 99.999% of people. Let the XS braggarts worry about the ORB charts! Reply
nubie - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkI don't know if anything I have ever seen on Anandtech qualifies as extreme overclocking (if you want that go to vr-zone.com and see Shamino or Kingpin), unless we are talking about 3.8+ Ghz air-cooled CPU's, and I guess that is a little extreme, but only as far as the retention mechanism goes. I don't recall any voltage modifications or phase-cooling on this site. (If you can buy it for $100 or less, and put it on the CPU in one piece, without soldering, vacuum pumps, or bleeding of coolant, and it fits in the case, I don't really consider it extreme.)
I think what they point to here is that general mild overclocking will completely destroy a motherboard with certain CPU's, CPU's that are supposed to be supported and should by rights have plenty of headroom for worst-case scenario running, and should thus be exploitable by their "best case" test methodology with a mild overclock. Reply
Dsjonz - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkI agree with whatthehey. "Warts and all" reviews TODAY are what many of us want. But despite the overclocked CPU limitations of the initial crop of these three 780G motherboards, I won't "waaaaait' for this issue to be resolved with more expensive board respins six months from now. I will be buying a 780G next week for my HTPC hardware refresh. Why?
I'm buying a 780G board today because they offer precisely what I have been waiting a long time for. All three deliver full-featured low-power MATX boards, all hitting the feature set sweet-spot for HTPC/Windows Home Server/general productivity use -- and all offered at the crucial under-$100 "single-spouse-decision" pricepoint.
Also consider what these 780G boards are NOT. They are clearly not oriented toward the "addled overclocker/uber-gamer/power-workstation" crowd. Yet, that's how they are being reviewed and judged. Am I the only one who is objecting to a prevailing pattern among many PC reviewers today to evaluate non-gaming/overclocking MATX motherboards only for their overclocking and gaming prowess?
Let's separate the issues. The beef is with the three motherboard makers who should have prominently listed support limitations for overclocked CPUs. It's hard to believe that all three deliberately under-engineered their products, but it's at all not hard to believe that rushed and inexperienced product marketing staffers at all three companies either ignored engineering caveats or were "out of the loop" about these issues and did a "cut-and-paste" of standard product requirements on the specifications section of the datasheet.
Unlikely, you say? I'm in the business, and it happens all the time.
garydale - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkNot quite what the originator of that phrase had in mind, but it makes me very happy I stayed with the lower power (95W) version of the Phenom. I have an inexpensive all-in-one mainboard that doesn't seem to be having any problems with the 9500 (B2). However, until reading this article, I thought I was just being energy efficient.
I'm also happy that we have sources like this to turn to. I've never paid much attention to CPU compatibility charts before, naively believing that if it was the right socket, at worst a BIOS upgrade would allow the processor to work. Now it seems I have another problem to worry about. Reply
Johnniewalker - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkSaved me lots of time and headaches! Reply
anindrew - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkI've been an avid reader of anandtech.com since 2000 or so. I am very impressed by how candid and gutsy your article is. Besides benchmark and real world tests, every user wants to know about issues with products. When issues this big present themselves, you are doing a great service by bringing them to the forefront.
I've been wanting to build a new system for about a year (since my motherboard had a bit of a heart attack 6 months ago). I've held off for a few reasons (mostly financial). If I built right now (which I'm not), I'd probably go for an X38 board and a Q9450. I haven't heard about any issues with that combination as of yet. Reply
haplo602 - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkGeee thanks for the 780G board info. I was just heading into the same disaster with my next platform upgrade ... thanks for the warning .... I will watch the amd board compatibility list and not the manufacturers specs ... Reply
perzy - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkSeems like power problems is THE mobo problem today.
I recently bought a AMD 5000+ Black edition for my MSI K9N Neo.
It was supported said the MSI webpage.
But, the bios have no multplier! I'm guessing the mobo cant take the power increase.
This must have happened to a lot of ppl that bought some black edition CPU's. Reply
Mr Fox - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkNVIDIA controls the content of the "COLATTERAL" that is put on these boxes this is another example of NVIDIA tieing their partners hands and insulating themself from the "Voice of the customer".
Every NVIDIA Chipset that has been introduced has had Data Corruption Issues.
It amazes me that a Company can Engineer such fine video cards can put out such Fecal Matter when it comes to Core Logic Chipsets.
Now I'm beginning to belive that the Marketing Department has run Amok when they Re-PCB (G92)-400-A2 crank the price $150.00 and call it 9800 GTX.
Just another example how lost their leadership is when this kind of activity is perpetrated upon your customer base.
nRollo made the bold statement to me about a month ago that nVIDIA was making record profits, and I reminded him that so was AMD Three Years ago.
Never a Dull Moment !!!
nubie - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkOuch, I just want to run a tri-core Phenom in my DFI Infinity II M2, I don't really know if that is going to happen now.
I also was planning on running a heavy overclock on my P5N-E SLi with a 45nm Dual Core, I guess it should be fine for that. (currently it is hosting a Celeron430 @3.17Ghz 33°C stable Prime95 loaded, haven't got enough fans on the HR-05 chipset cooler yet to try going higher, and I honestly can't see how to with this Sycthe Infinity hogging all the space, but it was booting fine at around 3.6Ghz before the NB was too hot, it doesn't help that there is no mention of the stock NB voltage, just 4 settings :?, and no granularity :( ) Reply
KillaKittie - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkThis is the first time ive heard of these problem's before and it sounds like your just mad and ranting which you are but let's keep it at that.
Im running the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G motherboard with a 125w X2 6000+ just fine and have been for the last 2 month's with zero problem's. Not only that but im also running 2 hardrives and an 8800GT with 6 80mm fan's sometimes running at 100%.
Ive had no problem's with system instability and have had no crashes and i play games like Crysis for very long period's of time. Reply
Zap - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkKillaKittie writes:
"Im running the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G motherboard with a 125w X2 6000+ just fine and have been for the last 2 month's with zero problem's."
In the article:
"Interestingly enough, Gigabyte has qualified the 125W TDP 6400/6000+ X2 processors on this board."
The review board died with a Phenom, not a 6000+ which according to Gigabyte is explicitly supported. Also, are you overclocking? That seemed to be what broke the Gigabyte board. Reply
Glenn - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkPerhaps Killa Kittie needs to let us know how much he has maxed out that configuration. After all it is an "Enthusiast" board! And BTW, I thought this was 2008, not 1998! Who has 6 80mm fans in one system nowadays? Reply
KillaKittie - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkI have no plan's to max any configuration i have here it's just fine how it sit's.I got the impression throwing any 120w processor will fry this board in minutes so im here to tell you mine has worked very well for what it is.
2x 80mm on the PS
3x 80mm in the back with an adjust screw
1x 80mm in the front wired to adjust screw in back. Reply
Jedi2155 - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkAnd, all those fans are powered through the motherboard headers? Reply
TrueSport - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkRe: KillaKittie,
post it on the AT forum,
before anybody is going to trust you! Reply
whatthehey - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkHard drives and GPUs and fans have nothing to do with the failures; it's all about overloading the CPU socket power distribution system. Considering Anandtech explicitly mentions the X2 6400+ and the Phenom X4 9900/9850BE, you might be safe. In fact, Mr. Key says something about the Gigabyte board working fine at stock settings with the 9900/9850BE, and it was only "after a short overclocking session" that the board failed.
That's pretty critical information for enthusiasts to have. Okay, the board works at stock. +1 to Gigabyte. Even moderate attempts at overclocking on quad-core CPUs could fry the board. -1. That's still better than the other offerings, and I think it's safe to say an X2 6000+ won't stress things as much as the 9850BE. You're probably safe, but don't push things too much unless you don't mind the risk of a dead board.
Or you could try to verify the problem by, say, overclocking and over-volting your CPU a bit. Heh. Reply
building - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkHere I am again, a day late and a dollar short.
I ordered the EVGA 790i Ultra board 3 days ago. Along with it a raptor 150 and an XFX 9800GX2, and I WAS planning to run vista 64 on it. Thanks for the good honest info in the article. Now I'm wondering if I should just RMA the EVGA board, and stick with th ASUS 680 I'm currently using. My main reasons for upgrading to the 790 were DDR3, and PCI-E 2.0, but if I can run that video card on a PCI-E 1 slot then maybe I'll just stick with the ASUS. DAMN IT!
Good article though, thanks. Reply
n7 - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkThis article is exactly the sort of honesty i like to see.
Over the years, i've become less & less reliant on official reviews, because all too often they skip mentioning the issues (if they even keep eyes open for them at all) & just focus on the postives.
Going into forums to read user experiences tends to be a more reliable way of gathering information these days i find.
But with you Gary, you make an effort to always paint the whole picture, regardless of how ugly that can be.
Again, want to say a big thanx for this.
I've always loved your reviews; & this is such a shining example of why! Reply
just4U - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkLooking at this article I keep thinking to myself ... DAMN. I'd go out and pick up a Matx motherboard (if I was so inclined) and pair it up with a powerful cpu in a heartbeat. Never realizing that perhaps I shouldn't do that. It never would occur to me and I'd be surprised as hell when it popped.
Killrose - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkSo what is going to happen to my 690G chipset based AM2 Gigabyte board when I drop a Phenom into it? Reply
TrueSport - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkat least 4 problems I've experienced with the GA-MA78GM-S2H so far!! :
1.) Badly attached Northbridge heatsink, overheated and either system reboot automatically or blue screen. DIY a heatsink solved the problem;
2.) Blue screen OR immediate system reboot when I played movies with PowerDVD v7.3;
3.) Incompatible with the Lite-on drive, LOL!!?, system reboot and reboot when accessing data from it, changed back to the old DVD drive and the problem gone;
4.) not working with the ADATA DDR2 800 memory, maybe it's ADATA's problem.
only problem (4) was solved by BIOS update. Reply
Ages - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkTrust & Integrity are two cornerstones that will be found supporting any successful business. At least any successful business that lasts the test of time. If you take away either of the two the business fails.
Annandtech has taken a courageous step forward by revealing what is going on behind the scenes. Again they have shown that the "End User" matters most. I sincerely thank you for standing up and telling the truth.
It will be interesting to see if these companies have the integrity to do what is right. Reply
TrueSport - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkWell done anandtech!
So glad to see you guys speaking up for the truths!
Forever supporting anandtech, especially for Gary Key! Reply
TrueSport - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkWell done anantech!
So glad to see you guys speaking up for the truths!
Forever supporting anandtech, especially for Gary Key! Reply
R3MF - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkwho is going to provide the mATX crowd with a decent high-end Phenom motherboard?
the whole situation is a disgrace, and i would not recommend AMD to any mATX'er until they sort it out. Reply
BikeDude - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkGary, I just sent you an e-mail detailing some of my woes with PowerDVD. I look forward to your coverage of this abysmal piece of software, and I hope you will do some digging into questions like 'why do they spawn all those processes?'. Does it really take 110MB worth of software just to play a DVD or blu-ray movie? (I guess they have to justify their $100 price tag somehow) Reply
Dobs - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkPersonally I find the AMD 9900/9850BE @ 125W killing mb's to be the biggest news in this story.... This is like a "Don't risk AMD" commercial for me!
Also this is the first I've heard about the X-48 8Gb issue???
"c) Haven't found an Intel X48 board yet that will handle 8GB of DDR3 properly..."
X-48 (P5E3 Prem.) and 8 Gb is exactly what I want for my next build (like now).. and this is the first thing I heard about this 8 Gb problem. Is it just a problem for particular boards or all X-48 ICH9R chipsets??? Can someone please point me in the right direction to research this problem more?? (links please)
Thanks in advance.
Oh and congrats to Anandtech for a seriously gutsy story - well done! Reply
Dobs - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkPersonally I find the AMD 9900/9850BE @ 125W killing mb's to be the biggest news in this story.... This is like a "Don't risk AMD" commercial for me!
Also this is the first I've heard about the X-48 8Gb issue???
"c) Haven't found an Intel X48 board yet that will handle 8GB of DDR3 properly..."
X-48 (P5E3 Prem.) and 8 Gb is exactly what I want for my next build (like now).. and this is the first thing I heard about this 8 Gb problem. Is it just a problem for particular boards or all X-48 ICH9R chipsets??? Can someone please point me in the right direction to research this problem more?? (links please)
Thanks in advance.
Oh and congrats to Anandtech for a seriously gutsy story - well done! Reply
lamikr - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkAt least I got from the previous 780G articles a feeling that these boards are designed for the people wanting to build HTPC systems with decent processing power of handling the encoding of full HD movies. And for this purposes the 780G boards are simply the best ones that have so far been released.
When one wants instead of using the CPU's with 125 W of power consumption, it changes the requirements very much.
(One starts talking from the CPUs which have 2-3 times bigger power consumption TPD compared to 4850e)
Therefore it is understandable that those systems will also need some other type of motherboard than mATX.
I however agree that the 780G board manufacturers should now start mentioning the maximum TPD that their boards support.
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BikeDude - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkDitto.
I have an old 4GB system now, and given the low price of memory, I'd certainly go for at least 8GB in my next configuration. Even my laptop has 4GB now. (I'd like more there as well, but it is hard to find laptops that offer more room for expansion, heck some are still maxed out at 2GB!) Reply
Tuvoc - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkWell on the Intel side, the ASUS P5N-E SLI is a budget board, with 3=phase power. Yet it has been running my 130w QX6700 for over one year now 24/7. So 3-phase power can cope with power hungry CPUs Reply
cjb110 - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkI was just wondering how much of the problem with the Gigabyte board is their fault? It sounds like the handling of the problem wasn't ideal, but from a technical point? Did gigabyte make the board badly? bad bios coding?
Surely nvidia have something to answer for? after all they made the chipset and provided the info (or not) as to how it works and what it can do?
Blazer7 - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkAll 3 680 based ASUS boards do support the QX6850 and Wolfdale. In fact ASUS released a beta that offers support for Yorkfield too but that works only when running @ stock. Any attempt to oc results in stability issues. Yet they did good on their claims for their boards and they also proved beyond any doubt that the problem lies with the design and not with the chipset.
On the other hand Gigabyte did advertise their board as one that featured "several next generation technologies including FSB1333 support for the record-setting Intel® Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors". Guess what, they didn't deliver. The board does not support a single 1333 Quad Core, Extreme or other. Not even Wolfdale is supported.
Kudos to AT for their stance on this one. It sure took a lot of guts to publish this article especially considering that Gigabyte must be spending quite a bit here @ AT for all these banners and ads. Reply
johnsonx - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkOn Thursday afternoon I left a new system build running at my office. It uses an X2-6400 on an ECS AMD770 board. Just like the 780 board you have, I see on ECS' website that they don't officially support the 6400 or any other 125W TDP processor. I didn't think to check, I just ASSumed that any new board that claims to be Phenom ready would support any current AMD CPU. I wonder what I'm going to find when I go back to the office? Stay tuned...
johnsonx - Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - linkWell, if anyone at all was curious, the system survived a few hours of Prime95, so I delivered it to the customer. At this point I'm ASSuming that the board can handle the X2-6400 just fine.
johnsonx - Monday, April 07, 2008 - linkAfter running for 4 days (not doing anything, just idling but at 3.2ghz - no CnQ yet), nothing appears to be wrong with that system. I guess the proof will come when I put it under a full load later. Reply
WW2Planes1 - Saturday, April 05, 2008 - linkPower moFSets?
other than that, good to know about the power requirements of the new Phenoms, probably wouldn't have crossed my mind when I go to build my new system. Although, after reading this, I'll probably wait a while at the moment. Reply
piroroadkill - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkI noticed that too, it should surely be MOSFET.. metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor. Reply
Glenn - Saturday, April 05, 2008 - linkGreat article and kudos for the honesty in the face of some hardware giants! In the end, hopefully they will appreciate it too!
I build and service alot of systems and have learned some hard lessons along the way. My philosophy may not work for others but it has certainly made my life easier. I quit using anything but Intel chipsets, which also required a shift away from using amd processors.
No matter how much good I read about Nvidia, SIS, ATI or other chipsets, in real world day to day use, there has always seemed to be hair growing out of something! My experience has shown that for every purported preformance or functionality promise, there has been a reliability tradeoff somewhere which I am ultimately responsible for. No Thanks! I may still venture away from that philosophy on my own system occasionally, but if it's built to sell, then its Intel! Reply
sprockkets - Saturday, April 05, 2008 - linkWHen you say you lost the HDD, did they just go corrupt or did they fail to work or be detected anymore?
Gary Key - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkWe have two 74GB Raptors that are basically dead, they will power up but cannot be low-level formatted. The WD 250GB drive basically had the same problem. The two 500GB Samsungs will power up and repeat a click-clack pattern. The Samsungs have been returned for analysis as will the 74GB Raptors.
I am getting ready to do the same for a pair of 150GB Raptors that I wrote off in December. However, those drives failed (no longer accessible) during RAID testing on the 780i board (usually I yell at myself when that happens as I have had far too many RAID 0 arrays drop a drive over the years). I did not think much of it until we started having these data corruption problems over the past six weeks.
Between Kris, Raja, and I there have probably been around 14~16 image reloads the past six weeks after overclocking. We fully except to trash the OS when exploring the boundaries of memory/fsb rates, but it might happen once or twice a month at best and is not limited to NVIDIA chipsets. However, all of these failures have been on the 780i/790i boards and we were not really pushing the systems except for two times when the drives failed or the images were corrupted.
The frustrating/perplexing problem is that the 790i testing with Kris resulted in some of the best overclocks we have ever experienced and they were 100% stable. We changed the settings to a normal overclock at 400FSB/1600 DDR3 and the images are corrupted or the drives went south. It is not repeatable. We have seen results like ours in various forums so there is something amiss here, just trying to find it right now.
In all cases, we have had the memory settings set at something other than stock/default. I am still working with Derek as he has experienced several data corruption problems during SLI testing the past couple of weeks. I did not mention that until we figure out if his problems are related to ours. Reply
TheBeagle - Saturday, April 05, 2008 - linkI was wondering (and hoping) if this article would ever appear. It took guts for Gary and AT to publish this article. We all know by the banners, etc on Anandtech that Gigabyte is a major advertiser on this web site. So for Gary to "tell it like it is" is truly a breath of fresh air. Gary was quite understated in his description of that FIRESTORM that is brewing against Gigabyte on account of its rather insane handling of this fiasco involving the failed N680i boards. In fact, this matter ought to be a case study on how to NOT handle a public relations crisis!
What is even worse, is the equally asinine reported present requirement of Gigabyte that an owner of a failed N680i board has to actually own a QX6850 processor (and show a receipt and pictures of it) in order to get a replacement/upgraded motherboard. That is just NUTS! The N680i board NEVER supported that processor, although it was clearly and openly advertised on the web, the literature and on the board packaging to specifically support an "Intel Dual Core 2 1333FSB Extreme" processor. That condition concerning ownership of an QX6850 CPU is just a flat out slimy maneuver by Gigabyte to avoid having to replace these failed N680i boards!
I, for one, want to openly thank Gary and AT for their courage to disclose this matter in a published article - WELL DONE!!
Best regards to everyone. TheBeagle
gfredsen - Saturday, April 05, 2008 - link"it is discerning to us that this problem seems to be rearing its ugly head again." Did you mean perhaps to say disconcerting? I know how it is, believe me I know. Reply
Gary Key - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkSorry, I set the article to a post time that occurred before I finished my final edits and Jarred had the opportunity to complete his edits. It was disconcerting to me that I was still writing while the article was live. ;-) Thanks for the comments. Reply
corporategoon - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkI'll pick nits!
There are sentence fragments, incorrect words, wrong phrases (low and behold should be Lo and behold), and sentences that just don't make sense. Even without the missing word, "In addition, we will look at what we despise about the new releases of PowerDVD 8 and WinDVD 9, maybe it's not their fault but whose it." still isn't a proper sentence.
Great work on the research side - I'm guessing this was just a quickly written article to address these issues before the full reviews go up. Still... Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, April 06, 2008 - linkGary bypassed the copy editor, because I was busy being elsewhere. Consider him flogged. I'm now reading through it once and doing my best to vanquish any fragments, run-on sentences, or other miscellaneous typos. Any further comments on this matter should be directed to /dev/null. Thank you! ;-) Reply


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Inside 'Girls' Season Two
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By JARETT WIESELMAN
December 17, 2012
On January 13, HBO's deliriously brilliant Girls returns for a hotly anticipated second season and ETonline has a few new photos from the premiere episode!
VIDEO - Girls Season Two Trailer
Here, Hannah (Lena Dunham), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) and Marnie (Allison Williams) catch up at Hannah and Elijah's (Andrew Rannells) housewarming party in the first episode back, titled It's About Time.


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NETHERFIELD picked up their first win of the season as pro Cobus Pienaar struck an unbeaten century to deliver a maximum-point success over Preston.
It was a slow start for Field as number two Ben Haddrick was out for a duck, swinging and missing at Preston pro Lukman Vahaluwala's ball, which hit middle stump.
And in the seventh over Marc Brown was caught by wicket keeper Charlie Williams off Vahaluwala, leaving the home side on 23-2.
But in stepped Pienaar and he looked in great shape for his 100 before he declared in the 47th over, striking one of his two sixes nonchalantly to deep square leg as Netherfield upped the run rate in the 12th over.
Chris Williams run himself out on five to make it 57-3, and John Huck was caught by Sajid Nalaband off I Palidwala for eight with the score at 90-4 in the 21st over.
But John Mason and Chris Parry provided superb support for the South African as Netherfield posted a high score.
Mason contributed 60 and put on a partnership of 83 with Pienaar in a 48-minute stand, and Parry's 45 put Nethefield on 250-6 before the Netherfield captain was bowled by Vahaluwala.
Preston's 12 no-balls also contributed significantly to Netherfield's final score of 254-6, which was declared by Pienaar once he had reached his 100 in the 47th over.
Netherfield's bowlers proved too hot for Preston to handle, and by the 14th over they were reduced to 43-6. Stuart Nixon claimed the crucial wicket of Vahaluwala, with Brown catching him on 16 as Preston toiled to keep up with Netherfield.
A prolific three-over spell between the fourth and seventh proved to be the catalyst to victory, Chris Williams getting Nalaband and Shaukat Dukanwala out in the sixth over. The visitors during that period went from 10-0 to 20-4.
Preston's number seven batter Charlie Williams added 24 to the score, while number 10 Usman Alam posted 23, but the visitors had given themselves too much to do, and they were never going to get near Netherfield's total of 254.
Preston were all out for 113, Chris Williams notching up figures of 4/25. Mason will also have been happy with his bowling, he got three maidens off the three overs he was asked to complete for Field.
Meanwhile, Netherfield's match on Sunday was called off, with Freckleton conceding the game, so they travel to Leyland in round two of the ECB Kingfisher Beer Cup this Sunday.


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|Joseph Paul Forgas
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|Affective influences on social cognition and behaviour,
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|BA (Hons), (Macquarie University, 1974)
D. Phil. (University of Oxford, 1977)
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Joseph Paul Forgas[1] (Budapest, Hungary, 16 May 1947.) is a Hungarian social psychologist, currently Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He emigrated to Australia at the age of 22. He is married with two children, and lives in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
He obtained a First Class Honours degree from Macquarie University, and then received scholarships for study in Germany, and at the University of Oxford, where he obtained his doctorate. Prof. Forgas has been a consistently active and productive researcher, investigating the influence of cognitive and affective processes on interpersonal behaviours. He was among the first to apply multidimensional scaling to the study of cognitive representations of social interaction episodes in memory.
Subsequently, he pioneered the systematic exploration of affective influences on social perceptions and judgments, mapping the boundary conditions for affect priming phenomena. He developed the first integrative theory of affective influences, the Affect Infusion Model (AIM). His experiments have made an important contribution to our understanding of affective influences on many important real-life judgments and behaviours, including survey responses, stereotyping and prejudice, social influence processes, organisational behaviours, bargaining and negotiation, verbal communication and consumer decisions.
His work received uninterrupted support from the Australian Research Council (ARC), including an ARC Professorial Fellowship, the ARC's Special Investigator Award, as well as international funding from the German Research Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the National Institutes of Mental Health, USA.
Joseph Forgas has published some 26 books, and over 200 articles and book chapters, and his work receives a high rate of citations and references. He received the prestigious Doctor of Science (DSC) degree from the University of Oxford, and was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award by the Australian Psychological Society. He was elected for an inaugural Scientia Professorship by UNSW, and to Fellowships by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, as well as the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He also received the Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a Rockefeller Fellowship for work in the Bellagio Centre. In recognition of his scientific and social contributions, in 2012 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM).
Joseph Paul Forgas has initiated, and continues to organise and run an annual international social psychology symposium in Sydney, the Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology (SSSP), now in its 15th year. These meetings are held every year on a different topic, and bring together leading international researchers in a major field of social psychology[2] The proceedings of each meeting are published annually by Psychology Press, New York, as the Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology Series.
Forgas is also co-editor of an international book series, 'Frontiers of Social Psychology' (Psychology Press, New York). He has been Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion, and the Australian Journal of Psychology, and has been invited to the Editorial Boards of numerous leading journals. Prof. Forgas was Australia's Keynote Speaker at the International Congress of Psychology (Stockholm, 2000), and at the Conference of Italian Social Psychologists (Bari, 2003). His work is featured in many key reference books, textbooks and handbooks. Prof. Forgas is fluent in several languages (English, Hungarian, German, French), and he also maintains highly productive collaborative research links with leading overseas laboratories (Stanford, Heidleberg, British Columbia, Mannheim, etc.). His current project investigates affective influences on language and strategic interpersonal behaviours.
Books Since 2000Edit
- Forgas, J.P. (Ed.) (2000). Feeling and thinking: Affective influences on social cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Bless, H. & Forgas, J.P. (Eds.). (2000). The message within: Subjective experiences and social cognition. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
- Forgas, J.P. (Ed.) (2001). Handbook of affect and social cognition. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
- Forgas, J.P. Williams, K. R. & Wheeler, L. (Eds.) (2001). The social mind: Cognitive and motivational aspects of interpersonal behavior. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Also published in Polish, 2005).
- Ciarrochi, J.V. Forgas, J.P. & Mayer, J. D. (Eds.) (2001). Emotional intelligence in everyday life. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
- Forgas, J.P. & Williams, K. D. (Eds.). (2001). Social influence: Direct and indirect processes. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
- Forgas, J.P. & Williams, K.D. (Eds.) (2002). The social self: Individual, interpersonal and intergroup perspectives. New York: Psychology Press.
- Forgas, J.P. Williams, K.D. & von Hippel, W. (Eds.) (2003). Social judgments: Explicit and implicit processes. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Forgas, J.P. Williams, K.D & Laham, S. (Eds.) (2004). Social Motivation: Conscious and unconscious processes. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Williams, K.D. Forgas, J.P. & von Hippel, W. (Eds.). (2005). The social outcast: Social rejection, exclusion and ostracism. New York: Psychology Press.
- Ciarrochi, J.V. Forgas, J.P. & Mayer, J.D. (Eds.). (2005). Emotional intelligence in everyday life. (2nd edition). New York: Psychology Press.
- Williams, K.D., Forgas, J.P. von Hippel, W. & Zadro, L. (Eds.). (2005). The social outcast: Ostracism, social exclusion, rejection and bullying. New York: Psychology Press.
- Forgas, J.P. (Ed.) (2006). Affect, cognition and social behaviour. New York: Psychology Press.
- Forgas, J.P. von Hippel, W. & Haselton, M. (Eds.). (2007). Evolutionary psychology and social cognition. New York: Psychology Press.[3]
References Edit
- ↑ Original name is Forgács József.
- ↑ [http://www.sydneysymposium.unsw.edu.au/ The Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology English:
- ↑ [http://www.google.hu/books?hl=hu&lr=&id=zYYt2qvKtg4C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=ForgasEvolutionary+psychology+and+social+cognition.+New+York:+Psychology+Press.&ots=G8NmtoUTf3&sig=EfjEQOIuweyeQu8W7lmXYQRdDLs&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Evolution and the Social Mind : Evolutionary psychology and social cognition English:
- Ki kicsoda 2000: Magyar és nemzetközi életrajzi lexikon, csaknem 20 000 kortársunk életrajza, főszerk. Hermann Péter, I–II, Budapest, Greger-Biográf, 1999, ISSN 1215-7066 – Forgács József Pál see I. volume 511. p. Magyar:
- [http://www2.psy.unsw.edu.au/Users/jforgas/ Joseph P. Forgas English:
- [http://mta.hu/members_of_has?PersonId=19031 Forgács József and Hungarian Academy of Sciences Magyar:
- [http://www.libri.hu/konyv/william_von_hippel.a-tarsas-kirekesztes-pszichologiaja.html Joseph P. Forgas's book in Hungarian Magyar:


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Qualcomm Demos Category 4 LTE (150 Mbps) running on Snapdragon 800 / MSM8974by Brian Klug on 1/11/2013 10:50 PM EST
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ssddaydream - Friday, January 11, 2013 - linkI would think that very limited markets will actually have 20 Mhz of spectrum available. Often times I get less than 2-3 Mbps on LTE on Verizon in some areas during the daytime. Even if that much spectrum was available, what about the backhaul? 150Mbps seems like a very rare case, is it really worth it? Reply
supert0nes - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkClearwire TDD - 40MHz+ wide channels possible.
Verizon AWS Thanks to the cable companies they have 20x20MHz AWS in like all markets.
T-Mobile with MetroPCS will have 10x10MHz + 5x5 AWS MHz in most markets. In some markets They have 20x20 as well. Reply
Doormat - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkThat is probably a lightly loaded cell so one user getting 150Mbps isn't likely (when was the last time you got 50Mbps+ on LTE?). User speeds are likely to double your speeds now - so 10-20Mbps.
The important thing with this is carrier aggregation, both intra-band and inter-band for max user speeds. It givens companies an incentive to use all the spectrum they own so they can be the "fastest" carrier in America. Reply
Brian Klug - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkThe idea is, as I pointed out in the Transceiver/Modem piece - http://www.anandtech.com/show/6541/the-state-of-qu... to do carrier aggregation of two 10 MHz LTE carriers and get to an equivalent 20 MHz carrier.
That's essentially AT&T's plan, and a few other operators in the USA (eg their 700 MHz band 13 or 17 + band 4) 10+10 FDD.
-Brian Reply
Sabresiberian - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - linkUnless they actually meant "miilibits per second", heh.
I tend not to correct a layman using the wrong symbol, but these guys are supposed to know what they are doing, and using the wrong symbol just isn't right. How are our young people supposed to grow up literate when the engineers pull crap like this?
Great tech, good to see it in progress, but I have to be honest, I get a little skeptical about the quality of the work when I see mistakes like this. Reply


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Difficulty Class (DC)Edit
Some skill checks are made against a difficulty class (DC). The DC is a number set by the DM (using the skill rules as a guideline) that you must score as a result on your skill check in order to succeed. For example, climbing the outer wall of a ruined tower may have a DC of 15. For your character to climb the wall, you must get a result of 15 or better on a Climb check. A Climb check is 1 d20 + Climb ranks (if any) + Strength modifier + any other modifiers that apply. This table shows some example DCs for skill checks.
|Difficulty (DC)
|Example (Skill Used)
|Very Easy (0)
|Notice something large in plain sight (Spot)
|Easy (5)
|Climb a knotted rope (Climb)
|Average (10)
|Hear an approaching guard (Listen)
|Tough (15)
|Rig a wagon wheel to fall off (Disable Device)
|Challenging (20)
|Swim in stormy water (Swim)
|Formidable (25)
|Open an average lock (Open Lock)
|Heroic (30)
|Leap across a 30-foot chasm (Jump)
|Nearly Impossible (40)
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HARD work, clean living and a good family have been credited for helping a doting great great grandmother reach her 103rd birthday today.
Hilda Floyd was born in Thorganby in 1911, a month after King George V was crowned king and when most of the country was perspiring in 80F (27C) temperatures.
One of five children, she worked on her family's smallholding at 14 and remained in agriculture throughout her life with her husband Jack, a farm labourer, whom she married when she was 18.
Her youngest daughter Wendy Fineron said: "She has done everything on a farm, except milk cows. She refused to do that!"
Mrs Floyd had eight children - Dorothy, Terry, Bill, John, Bernard, Ron, Alan known as Tut, and Wendy, outliving the four eldest, and has 15 grandchildren, five step grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, and seven great great grandchildren.
The couple lived in Thorganby until 1950 when they moved to Melbourne. They regularly attended Melbourne Methodist Chapel together, and Mrs Floyd still goes today. She is also in the Good Companions Club and Yorkshire Country Women's Association.
A sports enthusiast, she played hockey as a girl, and only gave up bowling at 97 due to ailing eyesight and now enjoys watching cricket, athletics and snooker on television.
"She has never been abroad in her life," said Wendy, from Stamford Bridge. "They just weren't interested. They used to go to the East Coast, usually Bridlington, or Scarborough for the cricket.
"She puts her long life down to hard work, never smoking or drinking and having a good family.
"She has always been a good mum. With eight of us we often said we didn't know how she did it. She says it was hard but that's what kept her going."
Mrs Floyd who still lives in the family's Melbourne home is having a party with well-wishers today to toast her birthday.


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New Work
Wayfare Magazine premiered its first ever issue in print. Beautifully designed by the talented Peggy Wong its side-sewn with black thread and offset printed. I was happy to contribute this shot of one my favorite coffee shops in Brooklyn, Troost.
Cereal Magazine, is brand spanking new magazine published in the UK. You would never know it was its premiere issue, the design is solid and the photography beautiful. I was happy to contribute this story on matcha. Its a real stunner, be sure to grab a copy.
I was in San Francisco back in October to shoot this special edition magazine for Wantful The magazine is entirely customizable just like most of their site. I captured five stories that were dedicated to the lovely products they offer. While this magazine isn't available to the masses and only to their premier customers. I thought I would share a few of the tears. A super fun collaboration indeed. You can also download their iPad app and see about purchasing a copy.
View more published work on my website.
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Amazing Work Nicole =)ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! I love seeing the different work you do.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous. Just some of the publications that I love to read, and would love to work for.ReplyDelete
Beautiful work (and a new coffee shop to try out)! I used Wantful for a gift for my friend and had heard about their iPad app. The products featured in the magazine tears look amazing.ReplyDelete
Amazing, I'm so excited to see Wayfare in print!ReplyDelete
Beautiful work, Nicole! Happy New Year to you!ReplyDelete
Such mouthwatering photos... the matcha green is so gorgeous, and I am in LOVE with the knives! As always, a pleasure to enjoy your work! Thank you so much for sharing!ReplyDelete
Congratulations for the fantastic work, Nicole. We follow you from Malaga, Spain.ReplyDelete
it all looks super! well done. especially loving the matcha story.ReplyDelete
so beautiful. your work is such an inspiration :)ReplyDelete
Fantastic work! Feliz Año Nuevo!ReplyDelete
Always such great light in your photos. Your blog is bookmarked.ReplyDelete
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congrats on all your published work in 2012! well done!ReplyDelete
Your photos are amazingly simple and beautiful. Must feel great seeing your work in print/digital media.ReplyDelete
You always amaze me! Really beautiful!ReplyDelete