http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/ This is the blog of Jean-Baptiste Kempf. I will share some info about my life, my works and my VideoLAN work en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:51:00 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2008/11/23/New-Machine urn:md5:d7422f0ddd554208fc735fe51454d3ed Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:10:00 -0800 JBK Geek & Computer ATIHardwareHD4670IntelMachineOSVista <p>In order to do some Windows development for VLC, I just bought myself a new machine:</p> <ul> <li>Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550</li> <li>Noctua NH-U12P</li> <li>2x2GB G.Skill RAM</li> <li>Asus P5Q-E</li> <li>Radeon HD4670</li> <li>Pioneer DVD-Drive</li> <li>Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB</li> <li>Sonata 3 Case</li> </ul> <h2>Issues</h2> <p>I had huge issues to make this working correctly.</p> <h4>Motherboard</h4> <p>First, my Asus board controller was completely broken... I couldn't boot ANY install CD and memtest was screaming so much...</p> <p>I went back to the store to change it...</p> <h4>Graphic Card</h4> <p>I initially had the gigabyte HD4670, with a native HDMI output.</p> <p>The fan was so load (100%) all the time that this was such a pain, I couldn't deal with it.</p> <p>I went back to the store, and they changed it to another Gigabyte that had the same problem. Therefore, they gave me a Sapphire and the card has been working great so far.</p> <h4>ATAPI CD-ROM</h4> <p>Finally, I couldn't boot the Vista 64bits CD because of some issue that made the installer crash. In fact, when trying to load a driver to run the CD, the Vista64bit installer from the CD was just crashing...</p> <p>I tried different stuffs, but my old DVD writer could get an improvement with the rest of the machine...</p> <h2>Impressions</h2> <p>The computer is very fast and Vista64 is not that bad... Windows still crashes way too much (one BSOD every 2 days or so, usually in USB driver or NTFS driver), but well, what did I expect?</p> http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2008/11/23/New-Machine#comment-form http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2008/11/23/New-Machine#comment-form http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/feed/atom/comments/164