Blizzard usually does a very good job of making its games run well on slower hardware. I think it'll work fine. We'll see once the game is released, anyway.
Luckily, for people like you and me, there are cards closer to $70 than $170.
I actually read that Tech Report article earlier today, and I've read a couple of other reviews of the 4670. It looks really good, especially considering that it's a small card with no extra power connector.
Of course, my needs aren't very high- the #1 game I'm looking forward to is Starcraft 2- but I'd still like to be able to play at the native res of my 24" monitor.
That's it exactly. I still play SimCity 2000, Warcraft II, Master of Orion, and several other old games. I wouldn't be able to play them now if they had limited installs.
Hell, my (still hypothetical) children are going to be playing those games, too, because I'll be able to install them 10+ years from now. Anyone playing Spore in ten years will be playing a pirated copy.
But integrated graphics aren't about gaming. They're about driving a desktop display with minimal power, heat, and cost. Believe it or not, those three things are actually pluses for non-gamers.
So no shit, a Geforce 6600 (which is what, three years old?) outperforms Intel GMA. No one at Intel cares.
I don't have any trouble scrolling up or down with the mousewheel (Logitech cordless mouse), but I cannot scroll up using the right-side scroll area of the laptop trackpad. Must be something with the generic Windows drivers.
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You can't seem to change the default new page.
It's right there in the freakin' options. You can choose to use the new tab page or open any page you want.
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I've noticed that multiple Flash elements on a page- something that is unfortunately frequent with ads- can use a lot of CPU power.
My computer is pretty old (Pentium 4), but it still shouldn't be sitting at 70-80% CPU because of a few Flash ads.
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If it is open source, they may not have a choice. Someone will make an ad-blocking plugin for it.
My understanding is that the problem is exacerbated by heat, so notebook GPUs are more likely to fail. Desktop graphics cards have better cooling. Your 8600GT may well last until you "naturally" replace it.
Seems to me that this is a last-resort by Nvidia to stay in business.
1) Almost every hardcore gamer will be building an Intel Bloomfield/X58 system in the next 12 months (along with companies like Falcon Northwest that cater to hardcore gamers).
2) Many of the largest mobo makers refused to incorporate the nForce 200 chip in their designs, it's hot and adds costs and licensing restrictions.
3) AMD/ATI has just released new high-end graphics cards that are actually competitive, and that work in multi-GPU configurations on Intel chipsets.
Add those three things together, and you're looking at the potential for a huge swing in the high-end gaming graphics market away from Nvidia. And that's just in the short term, long term we have 4) Intel jumping into graphics in a big way.
This is the right decision. It's the only thing Nvidia could have done, really.
Space telescopes are useful, as you say, for wavelengths blocked by the atmosphere. But the parent is referring to seeing, which I think is exactly what this technology is designed to counter.
It's simpler than that: gravity pulls things straight down. An object might start falling on an arc- but over enough distance, that arc will flatten out.
A skyscraper is a constant battle against gravity. Weaken the structure enough, and it loses, straight down if it has room to do so.
Intel hasn't said much about the Nehalem processor with integrated graphics, which will be called Havendale. However, the one diagram I've seen on the internet shows the CPU and GPU as separate dies in an MCM arrangement (using Intel's QPI to communicate).
Frankly I'd be surprised if that GPU wasn't based on Larrabee, with only say eight cores.
What chips? Intel hasn't demonstrated any Larrabee hardware yet. They've published some specs, but we don't even know how many cores it will have or their clock speed.
My main concern is that the list is open to a lot of abuse. Journalists who have written pieces critical of the TSA have, suddenly, found their names on the list.
Forcing someone to show up at the airport a few hours earlier than they normally would may be small-time harassment, but a program like this must have some accountability and some recourse for people it improperly targets.
It's not a server, but the Dell Inspiron 530 board says "Foxconn" right on the northbridge heatsink. In fact, apart from the BIOS, it's an off the shelf mATX board. Dell certainly buys from them.
You can indeed buy a Foxconn mobo. They have decent features and I'm sure the hardware quality is OK. Their North American support division, however, is *one* guy who doesn't answer his phone and occasionally checks his email.
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But it is over-volted.
Which means it is crap quality RAM that failed to run at 1333MHz at standard voltage, and therefore should not be sold or purchased by anyone.
Blizzard usually does a very good job of making its games run well on slower hardware. I think it'll work fine. We'll see once the game is released, anyway.
Luckily, for people like you and me, there are cards closer to $70 than $170.
I actually read that Tech Report article earlier today, and I've read a couple of other reviews of the 4670. It looks really good, especially considering that it's a small card with no extra power connector.
Of course, my needs aren't very high- the #1 game I'm looking forward to is Starcraft 2- but I'd still like to be able to play at the native res of my 24" monitor.
A failure story? From a dictatorship's state-run newspaper? I doubt it.
1) the rocket explodes
2) there was no rocket
3) no step three, either
That's it exactly. I still play SimCity 2000, Warcraft II, Master of Orion, and several other old games. I wouldn't be able to play them now if they had limited installs.
Hell, my (still hypothetical) children are going to be playing those games, too, because I'll be able to install them 10+ years from now. Anyone playing Spore in ten years will be playing a pirated copy.
But integrated graphics aren't about gaming. They're about driving a desktop display with minimal power, heat, and cost. Believe it or not, those three things are actually pluses for non-gamers.
So no shit, a Geforce 6600 (which is what, three years old?) outperforms Intel GMA. No one at Intel cares.
They didn't mention that on the Discovery Channel.
I saw this on the Discovery Channel. The rotor-sails look very interesting.
One question for any Chaos Theory fans: what are the long-term effects of creating large, man-made clouds over the ocean?
I don't have any trouble scrolling up or down with the mousewheel (Logitech cordless mouse), but I cannot scroll up using the right-side scroll area of the laptop trackpad. Must be something with the generic Windows drivers.
You can't seem to change the default new page.
It's right there in the freakin' options. You can choose to use the new tab page or open any page you want.
I've noticed that multiple Flash elements on a page- something that is unfortunately frequent with ads- can use a lot of CPU power.
My computer is pretty old (Pentium 4), but it still shouldn't be sitting at 70-80% CPU because of a few Flash ads.
If it is open source, they may not have a choice. Someone will make an ad-blocking plugin for it.
AdBlock is the first one that comes to mind. I wonder if an ad-supported corporation will tolerate an ad-blocking plugin for their browser...
I think we'll find out soon.
My understanding is that the problem is exacerbated by heat, so notebook GPUs are more likely to fail. Desktop graphics cards have better cooling. Your 8600GT may well last until you "naturally" replace it.
Seems to me that this is a last-resort by Nvidia to stay in business.
1) Almost every hardcore gamer will be building an Intel Bloomfield/X58 system in the next 12 months (along with companies like Falcon Northwest that cater to hardcore gamers).
2) Many of the largest mobo makers refused to incorporate the nForce 200 chip in their designs, it's hot and adds costs and licensing restrictions.
3) AMD/ATI has just released new high-end graphics cards that are actually competitive, and that work in multi-GPU configurations on Intel chipsets.
Add those three things together, and you're looking at the potential for a huge swing in the high-end gaming graphics market away from Nvidia. And that's just in the short term, long term we have 4) Intel jumping into graphics in a big way.
This is the right decision. It's the only thing Nvidia could have done, really.
Space telescopes are useful, as you say, for wavelengths blocked by the atmosphere. But the parent is referring to seeing, which I think is exactly what this technology is designed to counter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_seeing
But, can you forgive the Klingons for what they did to your boy?
It's simpler than that: gravity pulls things straight down. An object might start falling on an arc- but over enough distance, that arc will flatten out.
A skyscraper is a constant battle against gravity. Weaken the structure enough, and it loses, straight down if it has room to do so.
Intel hasn't said much about the Nehalem processor with integrated graphics, which will be called Havendale. However, the one diagram I've seen on the internet shows the CPU and GPU as separate dies in an MCM arrangement (using Intel's QPI to communicate).
Frankly I'd be surprised if that GPU wasn't based on Larrabee, with only say eight cores.
What chips? Intel hasn't demonstrated any Larrabee hardware yet. They've published some specs, but we don't even know how many cores it will have or their clock speed.
What you're missing is that the hottest part of the northbridge- the memory controller- is now on the CPU die instead.
My main concern is that the list is open to a lot of abuse. Journalists who have written pieces critical of the TSA have, suddenly, found their names on the list.
Forcing someone to show up at the airport a few hours earlier than they normally would may be small-time harassment, but a program like this must have some accountability and some recourse for people it improperly targets.
I assume that's code for "Windows 98"
It's not a server, but the Dell Inspiron 530 board says "Foxconn" right on the northbridge heatsink. In fact, apart from the BIOS, it's an off the shelf mATX board. Dell certainly buys from them.
You can indeed buy a Foxconn mobo. They have decent features and I'm sure the hardware quality is OK. Their North American support division, however, is *one* guy who doesn't answer his phone and occasionally checks his email.