Recent content by JDG1980

Maybe it's just me, but that "matte black" cooler shroud looks like it's made of plastic. If so, that would be a regression from not only the original Titan, but the GTX 980/970 as well. Hopefully it's just some sort of odd finish on the metal, or else this is a definite step down.

You're not crazy, you're just overlooking the fact that people sit a lot closer to monitors than they do to TVs. The closer you are, the higher DPI you need to not see the pixel edges. Besides, text at small point sizes is a lot more demanding than video images. Once you've used a...

While it's true that Apple does not manufacture their own panels, this doesn't mean that they are not a driving force for innovation. Apple was first to market with a high-DPI smartphone (the iPhone 4), first to market with a high-DPI tablet (the iPad 3), and first to market with a high-DPI...

It isn't all about gaming. Once you've worked with a high-DPI smartphone or tablet, the text reproduction on a standard PC monitor looks crude and blurry in comparison. And the only reason it even looks as good as it does is because of a lot of terrible hacks, like font hinting and sub-pixel AA...

This system isn't designed for AAA gaming. It's mostly aimed towards people who do a lot of photo and/or video editing (Macs are pretty popular with graphics design professionals). These people want a high-resolution, high-quality monitor with good color reproduction. The GPU in the Retina iMac...

I was curious if someone here had tested the GTX 980's power draw with a full GPGPU compute load (perhaps something like Scrypt). Tom's Hardware claims that the reference 980 draws 285 watts under this kind of load, but that can't be right, can it? Nvidia cards generally don't overshoot their...

Or, alternatively, they just re-used the GTX 770 board design as-is. It is a mistake to estimate TDP from the power connectors on a non-reference card; even the power-sipping GTX 750 Ti has some aftermarket boards with PCI-E plugs.

Is this a single-tile monitor? The existing 32" IPS 4K monitors all use DisplayPort MST, which is a bit wonky, but the newer 28" TN monitors have a single-tile layout. Personally, I'm still waiting to see a 39" or so VA 4K monitor. Basically like the Seiki TV, but with DP 1.2 support for a 60...

I can't imagine why you would want this "feature". All it can do is risk damaging hardware. Regulating voltage is the PSU's job, it shouldn't offload that to the user.

Dell has a 24" UHD monitor (UP2414Q) that's been on the market for a couple of months. It has an IPS display and supports 60 Hz via DisplayPort 1.2 (requires multi-stream, unfortunately).

I guess the upside is that we'll start seeing some Titan coolers show up on eBay so people can retrofit them to other compatible cards. The 760 and 770 should be able to use it.

Haswell Refresh is supposed to feature 'improved thermal interface material' according to the released Intel slides. It's not clear if this means bringing back solder or if they are just going to be more consistent about the lid spacing and dimensions so there isn't an air-gap, but it does seem...

Expect the two to be priced between $280 and $300. Yeah, right.

If you live in the US, expect to pay at least $50 over MSRP.

It'll compete because if it really does sell for $279 (it won't - more like $350+), miners will be lining up around the block to shove as many as they can in their shopping carts.