I'm sure it's perfect for the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 as they are dual-core so there should be plenty of background CPU cycles to add in the head-tracking.
There are plenty of buyers of used video cards. The main places that people look to buy them are from the For sale sections of high-end hardware forums like EVGA forums or HardOCP forums. The highest-end cards do have the best re-sale values as well.
Yeah, its really meant for 3 monitors or an array of 3x2 for some types of games without a crosshair.
The drivers now even have bezel compensation that increases the resolution so it can render the scene where the monitor bezels are.
Of course the downside is it's more to render and also you can't see what is "behind" the bezel but in a game in motion and relatively small bezels, the missing pixels is minor.
The upside is that there is no distortion when graphics move across the bezels. For example, a diagonal line will seem to connect "behind" the bezel instead of "teleport" across the bezel onto the next screen.
If you run a 1920x1200 or higher monitor, especially 2560x1600 then much less than this card wont cut the 60fps that most gamers need to be able to compete well (thinking about multiplayer FPS games)
This card gets 64FPs average running a newer game like Metro 2033 at 1920x1200 with "very high settings". When you crank that up to 2560x1600, it only achieves 44.5FPS average and thats only a single 30" monitor.
I have more than one friend with triple 24" or 30" gaming monitor setups they would likely get 2 of these cards to drive new games at 5760x1200 or 7680x1600. Right now they use 3 GTX 580s which costs $1500. Even with 2 of these new cards, current games wont be able to run at high settings and achieve 60fps average.
Plus we haven't even thrown 3D monitors into the mix yet. Running in 3D mode takes about twice the power since it has to render the scene twice at different angles.
That audience is who these video cards are targeted at. People who have a hobby in computer gaming who want the greatest immersive experience possible and beyond outstanding graphics.
You have been living under a rug in terms of computer gaming I guess.
All games support these new multi-monitor setups because it's been built into the video card drives for about a year now. The drivers present the game software a single combined resolution which I've never seen any game not support. Yes even stuff like Quake 1 works across 3 monitors like this.
Also some people want to run 3D setups where it must render the game twice at different angles and it takes roughly double the GPU power.
The individual core temps for i7 CPUs are rated at Tjunc max of 100c or 212f before any thermal throttling takes effect.
212f sounds like a lot, but modern CPUs and GPUs can take the heat. GPUs often don't throttle until 115c (239f) or so. If it couldn't take that heat, they would set the Tjunc max lower. You can't kill a modern CPU with heat anymore. If it gets too hot, it throttles, if it gets a bit hotter, it shuts down completely. The only way you can kill a CPU these days is with too much voltage.
With more voltage, you are essentially moving the transistors faster and faster and eventually they just die.
No problem. It's a decent improvement over the old mobile quad core i7s.
The previous fastest was the Core i7-940XM at 2.13Ghz and it was $1096
The previous same-priced model was the Core i7-740QM at the same $378 and it was only 1.73Ghz. So this is about a half GHz increase and a new architecture that's somewhat faster clock-for-clock as well.
The fastest sandy bridge quad core i7 is the Core i7-2920XM which is 2.5Ghz. It's MSRP alone is $1096 because is the top-end extreme edition so even if Toshiba used that, there is no way the laptop would be anywhere close to $1200 let alone even under $2000.
Apple is using the Core i7-2720QM 2.2Ghz which has an MSRP of $378 already.
There is one processor in between these and that's the Core i7-2820QM which is 2.3Ghz and runs $568.
For all we know, this leak was intentional so they have something to blame poor sales and a poor console port for PC on.
An alpha build of Half Life 2 was also leaked nearly a year before release and look how that impacted it... It delayed it somewhat, but didn't really end up hurting the game. Hell, the Half Life 2 leak was of the source code even. This Crysis 2 leak is only an earlier build with lots of problems.
I was just illustrating that there are situations where smartphones are still financially feasible for some people. There were many posts that made me think people were making them out to never be financially feasible.
Perhaps I should created a new parent thread instead of reply.
There are 5 people on the "family" plan. Me, my sister, my mom, and 2 close friends.
Just because it's called a "family" plan doesn't mean all the people need to be in a family:) Or at least I don't think that was a requirement. When we went to add their lines all I had to do was be there as the account owner.
Also, it's not just as simple as dividing it up differently when you have less people because each additional line costs $10 to add to the plan, but it's close.
Essentially i'm paying $20 for voice and $30 for data. And there are some other little fees in there.
It's $60 for 700 minutes including the first line and $10 more per line. So with 2 people, it's $70 / 2 + 30 each = ~65. 3 is 80 / 3 + 30 each = ~56.6 4 is 90 / 4 + 30 each = ~52.5 And finally like us, 5 is 100 / 5 + 30 = ~50
Granted each person gets less and less minutes the more we split it. We could move to the 1400 minute plan for $20 more total but we have over 4000 rollover minutes on this family plan that can be used as anytimes.
Also we could jump from the $30 unlimited data to $25 for 2GB or $15 for 250mb, but we like our unlimited.
I started with an iPhone 3G which cost me $199 up front.
I'm on a family plan with my family and when you divide up the cost, I pay $52 a month for unlimited data, unlimited texting, 200 of my own anytime minutes (with rollover), unlimited nights/weekends and unlimited mobile-to-mobile.
This plan then cost me $624 for the year + 199 for the phone so 825 for the year.
After a year, ATT let me get a full discount for a new phone, the iPhone 3Gs which was $199 again. I sold my 1 year old iPhone 3G for $400 on craigslist and bought an new iPhone 3Gs.
That year was then again was $624 + $199 for the phone, but now minus the $400 I got for the iPhone 3G.
The total cost for 2 years is now $199 + $624 - $400 + 199 + 624 = 1246.
This is a total cost of $623 per year now.
Last summer ATT offered another incentive to upgrade at the full discount early if your plan expired any time in the same calendar year (which even if you got a new 3Gs you would be able to upgrade.)
I did the same thing again. Sold my iPhone 3Gs for $400 on craigslist and bought a new iPhone 4 for $199.
My total cost will now look like this by next July.
$199 + $624 - $400 + $199 + $624 - $400 + $199 + 624 = $1669 for 3 years so far, or $556.33 per year.
$556.33 per year breaks down to $46.36 per month total cost for the hardware + plan.
And for the past 3 years paying $46.36 per month, I have been able to have 3 new smartphones, always getting to have the latest hardware and a device with a new battery.
I can't think of a better deal. Dumbphones don't really cost all that much less from what I can tell. Maybe a free phone each year plus a $20-30 per month plan.
If you think thats what it costs, then you really don't know much about smartphones or how to get good plans.
I pay exactly $52 a month for my iPhone 4 and get unlimited data, unlimited text, 200 anytime minutes, unlimited nights/weekends and unlimited mobile-to-mobile within ATT.
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In Wisconsion at an AMC theater with a new IMAX dual 4K projector setup it's only $9.25 per ticker for the IMAX version and 3D doesn't cost any extra.
Yeah, there is a good summary here with some useful links:
http://www.1up.com/news/portal-2-released-early
Portal 2 will probably be released tomorrow actually.
I'm sure it's perfect for the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 as they are dual-core so there should be plenty of background CPU cycles to add in the head-tracking.
Yes, the demo kiosks. They are running a "beta" build so I call it a beta.
There are plenty of buyers of used video cards. The main places that people look to buy them are from the For sale sections of high-end hardware forums like EVGA forums or HardOCP forums. The highest-end cards do have the best re-sale values as well.
Guild Wars 2 does not have auto attack like Guild Wars 1. You have to attack each time you want to swing.
I've already played some of the beta and this is how it was, and it had an incredible feel.
I've played both GW1 and WoW and as far as my experience and fun went, GW was already a better game.
I'm still playing GW1 after more than 5 years. I stopped playing WoW long ago.
GW2 is not going to have a subscription fee. This has been officially said over a year ago by the developers countless times.
Chrome 11? Where have you been? Chrome 12 has been out for several days already!
Alright. Is this better?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/gatesivu.htm
Except he never actually even said that.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed
Yeah, its really meant for 3 monitors or an array of 3x2 for some types of games without a crosshair.
The drivers now even have bezel compensation that increases the resolution so it can render the scene where the monitor bezels are.
Of course the downside is it's more to render and also you can't see what is "behind" the bezel but in a game in motion and relatively small bezels, the missing pixels is minor.
The upside is that there is no distortion when graphics move across the bezels. For example, a diagonal line will seem to connect "behind" the bezel instead of "teleport" across the bezel onto the next screen.
For those who are asking who would need a card with such power.
Simply take a look at the benchmarks from various recent game titles.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4209/amds-radeon-hd-6990-the-new-single-card-king/7
If you run a 1920x1200 or higher monitor, especially 2560x1600 then much less than this card wont cut the 60fps that most gamers need to be able to compete well (thinking about multiplayer FPS games)
This card gets 64FPs average running a newer game like Metro 2033 at 1920x1200 with "very high settings". When you crank that up to 2560x1600, it only achieves 44.5FPS average and thats only a single 30" monitor.
I have more than one friend with triple 24" or 30" gaming monitor setups they would likely get 2 of these cards to drive new games at 5760x1200 or 7680x1600. Right now they use 3 GTX 580s which costs $1500. Even with 2 of these new cards, current games wont be able to run at high settings and achieve 60fps average.
Plus we haven't even thrown 3D monitors into the mix yet. Running in 3D mode takes about twice the power since it has to render the scene twice at different angles.
That audience is who these video cards are targeted at. People who have a hobby in computer gaming who want the greatest immersive experience possible and beyond outstanding graphics.
You have been living under a rug in terms of computer gaming I guess.
All games support these new multi-monitor setups because it's been built into the video card drives for about a year now. The drivers present the game software a single combined resolution which I've never seen any game not support. Yes even stuff like Quake 1 works across 3 monitors like this.
Also some people want to run 3D setups where it must render the game twice at different angles and it takes roughly double the GPU power.
http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/TECHNOLOGIES/AMD-EYEFINITY-TECHNOLOGY/Pages/eyefinity.aspx
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-surround-technology.html
Huh? Chrome runs 1000 fish at 60fps for me... Maybe you have GPU acceleration turned off?
about:flags to enable it.
Thats the max heatspreader temp.
The individual core temps for i7 CPUs are rated at Tjunc max of 100c or 212f before any thermal throttling takes effect.
212f sounds like a lot, but modern CPUs and GPUs can take the heat. GPUs often don't throttle until 115c (239f) or so. If it couldn't take that heat, they would set the Tjunc max lower. You can't kill a modern CPU with heat anymore. If it gets too hot, it throttles, if it gets a bit hotter, it shuts down completely. The only way you can kill a CPU these days is with too much voltage.
With more voltage, you are essentially moving the transistors faster and faster and eventually they just die.
Your theater just rips you off. It's $6.75 for a matinee (yes even 3D too) where I go and I just bring in my own snacks or eat a meal before.
I've heard countless times in Software Engineering literature that for every bug you find, there is probably another still out there.
Finding lots of bugs so quickly isn't actually such a great thing.
No problem. It's a decent improvement over the old mobile quad core i7s.
The previous fastest was the Core i7-940XM at 2.13Ghz and it was $1096
The previous same-priced model was the Core i7-740QM at the same $378 and it was only 1.73Ghz. So this is about a half GHz increase and a new architecture that's somewhat faster clock-for-clock as well.
2.8Ghz quad core i7 in a Toshiba? Impossible...
The fastest sandy bridge quad core i7 is the Core i7-2920XM which is 2.5Ghz. It's MSRP alone is $1096 because is the top-end extreme edition so even if Toshiba used that, there is no way the laptop would be anywhere close to $1200 let alone even under $2000.
Apple is using the Core i7-2720QM 2.2Ghz which has an MSRP of $378 already.
There is one processor in between these and that's the Core i7-2820QM which is 2.3Ghz and runs $568.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors#.22Sandy_Bridge.22_.2832_nm.29_2
For bad sales.
For all we know, this leak was intentional so they have something to blame poor sales and a poor console port for PC on.
An alpha build of Half Life 2 was also leaked nearly a year before release and look how that impacted it... It delayed it somewhat, but didn't really end up hurting the game. Hell, the Half Life 2 leak was of the source code even. This Crysis 2 leak is only an earlier build with lots of problems.
I was just illustrating that there are situations where smartphones are still financially feasible for some people. There were many posts that made me think people were making them out to never be financially feasible.
Perhaps I should created a new parent thread instead of reply.
There are 5 people on the "family" plan. Me, my sister, my mom, and 2 close friends.
Just because it's called a "family" plan doesn't mean all the people need to be in a family :)
Or at least I don't think that was a requirement. When we went to add their lines all I had to do was be there as the account owner.
Also, it's not just as simple as dividing it up differently when you have less people because each additional line costs $10 to add to the plan, but it's close.
Essentially i'm paying $20 for voice and $30 for data. And there are some other little fees in there.
It's $60 for 700 minutes including the first line and $10 more per line.
So with 2 people, it's $70 / 2 + 30 each = ~65.
3 is 80 / 3 + 30 each = ~56.6
4 is 90 / 4 + 30 each = ~52.5
And finally like us, 5 is 100 / 5 + 30 = ~50
Granted each person gets less and less minutes the more we split it. We could move to the 1400 minute plan for $20 more total but we have over 4000 rollover minutes on this family plan that can be used as anytimes.
Also we could jump from the $30 unlimited data to $25 for 2GB or $15 for 250mb, but we like our unlimited.
For me, cost isn't the reason at all.
I started with an iPhone 3G which cost me $199 up front.
I'm on a family plan with my family and when you divide up the cost, I pay $52 a month for unlimited data, unlimited texting, 200 of my own anytime minutes (with rollover), unlimited nights/weekends and unlimited mobile-to-mobile.
This plan then cost me $624 for the year + 199 for the phone so 825 for the year.
After a year, ATT let me get a full discount for a new phone, the iPhone 3Gs which was $199 again. I sold my 1 year old iPhone 3G for $400 on craigslist and bought an new iPhone 3Gs.
That year was then again was $624 + $199 for the phone, but now minus the $400 I got for the iPhone 3G.
The total cost for 2 years is now $199 + $624 - $400 + 199 + 624 = 1246.
This is a total cost of $623 per year now.
Last summer ATT offered another incentive to upgrade at the full discount early if your plan expired any time in the same calendar year (which even if you got a new 3Gs you would be able to upgrade.)
I did the same thing again. Sold my iPhone 3Gs for $400 on craigslist and bought a new iPhone 4 for $199.
My total cost will now look like this by next July.
$199 + $624 - $400 + $199 + $624 - $400 + $199 + 624 = $1669 for 3 years so far, or $556.33 per year.
$556.33 per year breaks down to $46.36 per month total cost for the hardware + plan.
And for the past 3 years paying $46.36 per month, I have been able to have 3 new smartphones, always getting to have the latest hardware and a device with a new battery.
I can't think of a better deal. Dumbphones don't really cost all that much less from what I can tell.
Maybe a free phone each year plus a $20-30 per month plan.
If you think thats what it costs, then you really don't know much about smartphones or how to get good plans.
I pay exactly $52 a month for my iPhone 4 and get unlimited data, unlimited text, 200 anytime minutes, unlimited nights/weekends and unlimited mobile-to-mobile within ATT.
And yes, I live in the USA.