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  1. Re:Design requirements by hawguy · · Score: 1 · on Valve Job Posting Confirms Hardware Plans

    I beg to differ. The basic design requirement of a wheel is that it's round and rolls, and I'll certainly grant you that this aspect of wheels hasn't changed. However, a rough-hewn wooden round, such as used in the simplest of carts, bears very little other resemblance to the three-spoked carbon-fiber performance bicycle wheels I see with some frequency on my morning bicycle commute. Sure, both are round and roll, but otherwise, there's thousands of years of difference between them.

    Right, that's so unlike the mouse where the first mouse:

            http://www.techdigest.tv/The%20First%20Mouse.jpg

    Looks exactly like a modern gaming mouse:

            http://tbreak.com/tech/2010/08/madcatz-shows-off-cyborg-r-a-t-9-gaming-mouse-at-gamescom/

  2. Re:Honestly... by KillShill · · Score: 1 · on ATi Radeon X1K Graphics Launched, Benchmarked

    obviously you missed the fact that when gaming at 1600x1200 and are using 4x antialiasing and 8x anisotropic filtering that the x1800xt beats the shit out of the gf7800.

    if you're buying a 500 dollar card, are you seriously worried about benchmarks that are run without aa+af? this card even does HDR (hi dynamic range) plus AA, something that the gf7800 can't.

    this card is way more sophisticated and highly refined that the brute force 7800. the 7800 isn't bad but that this card can do with 16 pipelines what the 7800 can't do with 24, says a lot.

    and that's just raw performance with todays games. never mind the fact that the 1800xt comes with 512megs of super fast ram... ready for well into the next generation of games, whereas 256meg 7800's are already obsolete for the high end of the next generation. sure 256 will be enough if you pare down the resolution and lower the texture detail. one example is the game F.E.A.R... on the 1800xt it absolutely trounces the 7800 in performance.

    my advice... read ALL the reviews you can get your hands on. there are too many discrepencies if you only read one or two. if you want to get a more full picture, get to reading.

    http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2552

    http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/r520/

    http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/r520reviewxvxv /

    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1867116 ,00.asp

    http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x18 00_xt_xl/

    http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/262/

    http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODIy

    http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603

    http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?article id=734&cid=2

    http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews /ati_radeon_x1800_x1600preview

    http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=172

    http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=407

    http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/8864

    and check out the wicked new 3d tech demos... both are very impressive but the toystore demo is jawdropping.

    http://www.ati.com/designpartners/media/edudemos/R adeonX1k.html

    wmv9 hi def format but plays fine in mplayer or VLC.

  3. Links to other "Reviews" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on ATi Radeon X1K Graphics Launched, Benchmarked

    Listed alphabetically so no preference to which site is good or not.

    http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/r520/
    http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/r520reviewxvxv /
    http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/262/
    http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODIy
    http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603
    http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews /ati_radeon_x1800_x1600preview
    http://www.noticias3d.com/articulo.asp?idarticulo= 527
    http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=172
    http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=407
    http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/8864

  4. Links to other reviews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on ATI Launches Crossfire... Finally

    http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/crossfire/
    http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/09/26/ati_cr ossfire_detail/1.html
    http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/crossfireatire viewxxx/
    http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODE1
    http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?article id=730&cid=2
    http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=168
    http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=404
    http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q3/ati-crossfire /index.x?pg=1
    http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050926/ index.html

  5. Re:Intel is Low End by Wiz · · Score: 1 · on Intel to Drop Low-end Chipsets
    You're trolling, but...
    Name people who manufacture higher end processors than a Xeon?

    Intel's FABs are very nice, so only really AMD & IBM I'd suspect as they are the only ones with the real drive to keep up with this sorta tech.

    I think you'll find AMD's processors have far lower leakage than any 90nm Xeon though.
    The combined market share of those doesn't touch the Xeon, and some of them may not even be as good, depending on what you're doing.

    So? Windows has the most market share in the OS market, and I really don't think you'll fidn that is the best either.

    The current Xeons are hot, slow and don't scale as well as Opterons (as the Opteron is NUMA). So why on earth would you want one?
    . Intel's dual core is not a joke, it was at market first before AMD's, and it's still in its development.

    Great! I'll go a buy a dual core Xeon! Oh, I can't, it isn't released till next year. Desktop only I'm afraid for the time being.

    And AMD's still isn't in development? Intel's dual core is a joke too - why? Because the chips can't talk to each other directly, they talk over the FSB. Which is really slow, and blocks memory access. AMD's solution, the chips talk directly and can talk to the memory at the same time. The effectives are dramatic:
    See how AMD & Intel's processors scale in dual core.
    Was the Pentium-III a joke? Everyone said it'd never catch on, because it was so pricey, and the 550 could scramble eggs. Boy, we were wrong.

    Considering how badly the P3 did against the Athlon, yes it was a joke. It couldn't scale against it, and Intel did several paper launchs to save losing face.

    Do you remember the 1.13GHz P3 they had to recall? It only came good when it became the Pentium-M, and it was redesigned.

    Intel's Pentium-M is a fine chip, as it the Itanium 2 in it's own way. In the middle though, Intel has fallen behind AMD in several areas.
  6. More Links by JaF893 · · Score: 5, Informative · on First Looks at Athlon 64 4000+ & FX-55


    http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?article id=592&cid=1
    http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/athlon64-fx55 /index.x?pg=1
    http://www.bit-tech.net/review/364/
    http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=266
    http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1 666
    http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=331
    http://www.amdreview.com/reviews.php?rev=fx-55-400 0
    http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/processors/amd 4000_fx55/
    http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njc1
    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlo n64-fx55.html
    http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=614

  7. Been there, seen that. by eddy · · Score: 3, Informative · on Olympus Preps MP3 Player With Cam & Color Display

    MP3 player + camera + color display. I think iRiver already did that.

  8. Re:Dusty by Fweeky · · Score: 1 · on The History Of Pentium
    "Thing is, why do most of us need all of this power?"

    Games? When you're splitting your CPU power across hundreds of entities with AI, sound, graphics, damage models etc, CPU can quickly become a major bottleneck.

    Audio encoding and processing? I store my music as FLAC; before I transfer to my iPAQ, I want to encode it as low bitrate Vorbis; I'd *love* to have the CPU power to do that as fast as IO will allow (as it is I'm lucky to make 5x real time at -q-1). Equally I ReplayGain all my music so I don't need to constantly reach for the volume control; not having to wait around for a scan of an album every time I get something new would rock.

    Video decoding and encoding? Very high bitrate MPEG-4, especially with some of the more exotic features of the standard, can bring a 3GHz P4 to it's knees just decoding. It takes about half an hour to transcode a DVD-8 to DVD-4; overnight isn't always enough to encode a high quality XviD, and this with a system that's probably about 70% of the way towards top end single CPU hardware.

    Image processing? I don't want to have to wait whole seconds for a photo to render every time I alter the settings in a fixup filter; I want immediate feedback. And of course more power in my desktop probably means more power in my portable devices too; agressive lossless compression in my digicam without it locking up for 45s? Please!

    There are a few reasons at least *some* of us "need" more computing power; I've not even mentioned the geekier ones which *I* want more for. Certainly the whole human race can benefit from having more computational power to it's name, even if only a few groups of people can really harness it.

    Ditto storage (I want my entire DVD collection on my workstation; I want to keep a versioned history of every file I handle; I want to back up every bit of data I own to a single SD card; I want to grep my entire 5GB of mail in a fraction of second without special indexing software).

    Ditto graphical power (I want Far Cry to look like THIS damnit!).

    Ditto network bandwidth (I want to access the stupendously fast, huge mass storage devices on my server 400 miles away like it was installed in my own computer; I want to migrate large processes across machines as easily as changing CPU affinity on an SMP system).

    But that's just me. I'm rambling even worse than you now, *ahem*.
  9. Hitachi Drives... by OneFix · · Score: 2, Informative · on 12GB CompactFlash Cards Coming Soon

    Watch on these, I see from some other posts that the new units don't even have the CF drives in them...

    However, that's not what I was going to mention...

    Look at this image from one of the linked articles...

    The Hitachi drives are CF Type II, not Type I...Most consumer and even some "prosumer" digital cameras only take CF Type I cards. This is also the big difference between the 12GB CF card and the 4GB drives...

    The article isn't really clear, but from the picture in the article, it looks like it will be a CF Type I device....

  10. Re:4GB Compact Flash for $200? by fredu · · Score: 1 · on iPod Mini Sells Out

    Has anyone been able to use the 4gb memorycard from a MuVo2 actually inside a e.g. Canon Powershot 400? Just wondering, because this article's second last picture shows that it's a little thicker than the normal one...(?) Any experience?

  11. Re:4GB Compact Flash for $200? by fredu · · Score: 1 · on iPod Mini Sells Out

    Has anyone been able to use the 4gb memorycard from a MuVo2 actually inside a e.g. Canon Powershot 400? Just wondering, because this article's second last picture shows that it's a little thicker than the normal one...(?) Any experience?

  12. Ogg ogg ogg by jt007 · · Score: 1 · on Nomad Jukebox 3 Officially Out
    For all those who are banging on about ogg here is something intresting that is mentioned in the review by T-Break.com

    "Another good thing going to the Jukebox 3 is the upgradeable firmware meaning possible support for more audio formats like Ogg Vorbis."

  13. Nomad 3 Review by asv108 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Nomad Jukebox 3 Officially Out

    The first hands on review of the nomad 3 is available here.

  14. Re:What the hell is SB1394? by asv108 · · Score: 2 · on Nomad Jukebox 3 Officially Out

    Well according to the first review it works with other firewire adaptors as well.

  15. Alternative third-party software for the Jukebox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Nomad Jukebox 3 Officially Out

    A lot of people who have used the original Nomad Jukebox do not like the software that comes with it called PlayCenter. An alternative that has become very popular in the Nomad community is Notmad Explorer.

    It provides full Windows Explorer integration, access to the Jukebox via a built-in webserver, and search and report generation features using a built-in SQL database.

    There's a free trial version. Notmad Explorer is also mentioned in the first full review of the Jukebox3 at TBREAK.com.