More seriously, SLI is good because it protects your investment, but only if it really gives around 2x the throughput. Consider this: If you buy a single 6800 now and in a coupla years it cant keep up any more it gives you the option of buying another when they would be relatively cheap. I guess the only problem will be trying to buy *exactly* the same card twice with a 2 year gap inbetween.
Yeah I was wondering that too... White-light from a projector and ambient white light both contain red, green and blue components so there really isn't any difference.
was made by people who don't understand how bad long-term exposure to strip-lighting is on your eyes and mental health.
RIP OUT THOSE LONG WHITE NEON TUBES. Best replacement is daylight. 2nd best is to have all lighting from uplighters and desk lamps with individual controls and no ceiling lights.
No, I mean it would give future employers/clients looking for experienced Linux developers some additional indication that you aren't just another.NET hacker with no real Linux API knowledge.
... but what about stuff like my l33t gamerz PC with the newest amp-guzzling NVidia 6800 video card? (I read somewhere it requires a minimum of a 550 Watt PSU in the PC).
errrmm.. I think the wire guages might actually get larger....
If you decrease the volts by a factor of say 10 to go from 120 to 12v, you'll need a 10x increase in Amps (current) to get the same amount of energy (watts).
Isn't it just the transformer that makes the power supply ineffeicent (and also heavy)?
I've never understood why they don't just bridge-rectify mains to get DC, then feed the result ( via a suitable resistor and smoothing capacitor ) straight into some voltage regulators . Obviously the marketable version would require some safety mechanisms.
Can someone with more electronics knowledge than me (which is probably just about everyone) explain what the problem is with this approach?
Wouldn't it also approach 100% efficiency, assuming the voltage regulators were reasonably efficient?
>> Soon cellphone owners will be able to play games with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's...Well a 386 with a voodoo 1 maybe... I think it will be a while before we play Far Cry on our cell phones.
I did psychology as part of my degree and vaguely remember something like a human's overall perception is 96% from vision. that only leaves 4% for sound, smell and whatever else, so that's the reason we all focus more on game graphics than sound.
( Apparently a dogs perception is largely built on smell, so they would judge a game based on the odour of the box it came in! )
The major difference/benefit for gamers these days of having an expensive sound card over using the AC97 codec on your mobo is not overall sound quality, but to offload EAX/environmental audio calculations from the CPU so it maybe gives you 1 or 2 extra frames/sec.
Actually for games where it is useful to use audio for a positional cue of off-screen bad-guys, I find EAX just muddies it up. I get a much better idea just with clean stereo.
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actually it is. Many official studies agree too.
...then switch from Windows to a more secure operating system like Linux.
.. so what you're saying is replace all the microsoft stuff with their open source eequivalents then.
Why not just extend that to the OS itself, too.
...except framerate.
That resolution would kill the GPU's 3D rate deader than a very dead thing.
>> at the highest resolution dialogue boxes are ..So why don't you just set the system text font size to be bigger?
>> utterly unreadable
Bzzzt. Nope.
Its actually load balancing the top and bottom halves of the display, and cacluating the split-point dynamically for maximum performance.
Calling it SLI is actually a misnomer.
umm... what's SFF?
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The World's First Electronic Automatic Computer
*sigh* Yet another instance of the USA claiming they did something first when they didn't.
That would be Colossus: UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_compute
Other examples:
First powered flight: France (NOT Wright Brothers)
http://www.flyingmachines.org/ader.htm
Capturing the Enigma Machine: England
http://www.ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/Captur
how well does it overclock? :-)
More seriously, SLI is good because it protects your investment, but only if it really gives around 2x the throughput. Consider this: If you buy a single 6800 now and in a coupla years it cant keep up any more it gives you the option of buying another when they would be relatively cheap. I guess the only problem will be trying to buy *exactly* the same card twice with a 2 year gap inbetween.
..is why God invented handguns.
>> I could have sworn the motion picture projector was introduced by Lumiere.
Sorry, you obviously aren't aware that most American's view of history is that everything significant must have been done by an American.
Most also think London and Russia are 2 countries in Europe.
Yeah I was wondering that too...
White-light from a projector and ambient white light both contain red, green and blue components so there really isn't any difference.
huh?
In front-projector systems, the screen doesn't get burnt. If you have an after-image, it'll be in the projected image from the projector.
If you jiggle the projector so the image moves, you'll see the burnt areas will jiggle too.
was made by people who don't understand how bad long-term exposure to strip-lighting is on your eyes and mental health.
RIP OUT THOSE LONG WHITE NEON TUBES.
Best replacement is daylight.
2nd best is to have all lighting from uplighters and desk lamps with individual controls and no ceiling lights.
No, I mean it would give future employers/clients looking for experienced Linux developers some additional indication that you aren't just another .NET hacker with no real Linux API knowledge.
Celebrate that Fedora automatically detected and patched a security hole.
It would be nice if Red Hat offered a certification course for software developers.
not unless you also run windows... :-(
No linux drivers, stupid ATI
Yet another piece of hardware I won't be buying because it has no linux support.
Why do all these comapnies assume people with PC's don't ever run anything other than Windows?
... but what about stuff like my l33t gamerz PC with the newest amp-guzzling NVidia 6800 video card? (I read somewhere it requires a minimum of a 550 Watt PSU in the PC).
errrmm.. I think the wire guages might actually get larger....
If you decrease the volts by a factor of say 10 to go from 120 to 12v, you'll need a 10x increase in Amps (current) to get the same amount of energy (watts).
Isn't it just the transformer that makes the power supply ineffeicent (and also heavy)?
I've never understood why they don't just bridge-rectify mains to get DC, then feed the result ( via a suitable resistor and smoothing capacitor ) straight into some voltage regulators . Obviously the marketable version would require some safety mechanisms.
Can someone with more electronics knowledge than me (which is probably just about everyone) explain what the problem is with this approach?
Wouldn't it also approach 100% efficiency, assuming the voltage regulators were reasonably efficient?
>> Soon cellphone owners will be able to play games with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's ...Well a 386 with a voodoo 1 maybe... I think it will be a while before we play Far Cry on our cell phones.
I did psychology as part of my degree and vaguely remember something like a human's overall perception is 96% from vision. that only leaves 4% for sound, smell and whatever else, so that's the reason we all focus more on game graphics than sound.
( Apparently a dogs perception is largely built on smell, so they would judge a game based on the odour of the box it came in! )
The major difference/benefit for gamers these days of having an expensive sound card over using the AC97 codec on your mobo is not overall sound quality, but to offload EAX/environmental audio calculations from the CPU so it maybe gives you 1 or 2 extra frames/sec.
Actually for games where it is useful to use audio for a positional cue of off-screen bad-guys, I find EAX just muddies it up. I get a much better idea just with clean stereo.
Its bigger than a bazooka and it only has a range of 9 ft? I think it needs minaturizing before anyone will want to use it in the field.