Recent content by General Lee

Fantastic performance, but the cooler and price tag really don't impress. I really hope we get 599$ custom AIB cards with the capability to keep those 2100 MHz Boost OC clocks Nvidia showcased. Which leads to the question, how did that Nvidia OC demo show such low temps if it was supposedly a...

The pic in the article is of a ref 380x clearly.

I wonder if AMD cards would behave differently? I was thinking of buying the next high end card from them for my pci-e 2.0 board and was just thinking about this a few days ago. If new games like Ryse and Wolfenstein start showing a difference it might be finally time to start planning for an...

Only if Windows could scale it properly for that size. :rolleyes:

IIRC it's about as high as a 22" 16:9 monitor. Would be nice to give it a try and see how it works out in games and on desktop, but I doubt I would keep it.

It's just PR. These are limited run cards that are <1000 units. It's surprising though how shoddy the quality seems to be. I was surprised to hear that many of the previous Asus Mars II cards also had major quality issues. You would think they would hand test these things since there's so few of...

Update BIOS, slap extra 50$ price and you're good to go. Not impressed unfortunately, only a crazy person would by this with the stock leafblower. Unless they go for aftermarket cooling.

All 13" ultrabooks have 17W CPUs. You'll need to check the N-series for standard voltage models. This looks to be my next laptop, if it's not priced horribly. I might also consider going standard voltage too, if I can find a suitable model <2 kg.

Let me guess, they didn't show any CPU comparisons because Trinity loses in x86 performance even against Llano? Dual Graphics is also just a gimmick as long as AMD won't support it properly and fix the stutter issues. It's only good for 3DMark for now. I'd only consider adding the discrete...

It's just a 60 Hz IPS with passive 3D support. The only hope for 120 Hz with good image quality is the presumed 120 Hz MVA panels AUO is supposed to manufacture, yet there's no evidence of any monitors coming with said panels.

Lightning GPUs don't seem to be binned, or if they are then it's for LN2 and not air. Sapphire seems to have the fastest 7970 so far, with Toxic. But it doesn't really matter since none of the AIBs bin the GPUs, so the only difference is cooling. Arguably Sapphire has that one covered too.

OCUK already revealed they're going to drop 7970 prices to 360£ and 7950 to 300£ in a few days, so about 50€ and 30€ price reduction at least for 7900 series. I doubt AMD needs to adjust 7800 prices, 7700 on the other hand could use a drop indeed.

Dual GPU has great theoretical performance, but in reality most of its potential is lost with poor engine support, weak driver support and issues with micro stutter. At the end of the day the only viable option for multi GPU is if you buy the cards with the fastest gpu, and even then the benefit...

Nice OC for this sample. They should add the ASIC quality value in the OC section. Also higher clocks isn't the biggest reason for higher power consumption, it's the higher stock voltage this card has. Some might say it's included but those are two different things. 7900 is simply inefficient...

Doesn't look like there's much OC overhead available. 10% maybe? 20% with voltage tweak?