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Forum: techPowerUp! Club Forum Jul 22, 2011, 02:37 PM
Replies: 1,547
Views: 65,934
Posted By DeerSteak
Well, yeah, I'm at work right now. 11 hours from...

Well, yeah, I'm at work right now. 11 hours from now is 8:30PM my time, which tends to be roughly when I'm online too. :)
Forum: techPowerUp! Club Forum Jul 22, 2011, 02:05 PM
Replies: 1,547
Views: 65,934
Posted By DeerSteak
Hay you guys! Anyone that wants to play, feel...

Hay you guys! Anyone that wants to play, feel free to hit me up. Neekappa - 661 - NA server. Gold-level Zerg, which means I'm not particularly good but I have fun with it. :D
Forum: Games Jul 22, 2011, 02:03 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 414
Posted By DeerSteak
sweet!

sweet!
Forum: Games Jul 22, 2011, 02:00 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 3,867
Posted By DeerSteak
Man. When I went into college, the N64 was just...

Man. When I went into college, the N64 was just being released. My roommate was lucky enough to get one along with 4 controllers, Mario 64, and GoldenEye. The next 3 years, 4 guys on a couch and a...
Forum: Games Jul 22, 2011, 01:54 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 414
Posted By DeerSteak
Any avid Starcraft II players?

I looked around and couldn't really find any threads about the game. It's about a year old now, but with healthy esports exposure, there seem to be LOTS of people still playing Starcraft II. I'm...
Forum: Reviews Jul 19, 2011, 02:36 PM
Replies: 105
Views: 337,098
Posted By DeerSteak
Is it all the same production process? I know...

Is it all the same production process? I know Redwood is 40nm, but I thought all of Llano was 32nm?
Forum: Reviews Jul 19, 2011, 02:13 PM
Replies: 105
Views: 337,098
Posted By DeerSteak
That's what Trinity is for, and it'll come...

That's what Trinity is for, and it'll come eventually, and hopefully it'll maintain socket backward compatibility.
Forum: Reviews Jul 18, 2011, 11:10 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 116,770
Posted By DeerSteak
Not the 690 II Advanced, for sure, as that's the...

Not the 690 II Advanced, for sure, as that's the case I own. The 3.5" drive bays are in one contiguous rack, and 2.5" drives are installed on plastic adapters into the 3.5" bays.

One thing I...
Forum: Reviews Jul 18, 2011, 11:07 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 51,838
Posted By DeerSteak
I wonder if it's the controller or the flash...

I wonder if it's the controller or the flash chips, though. If these are the same flash chips as what's in the iPad, those are certainly no speed demons.
Forum: News Jul 15, 2011, 08:35 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,944
Posted By DeerSteak
First post on this page seems to imply that you...

First post on this page seems to imply that you can secure erase to resurrect it.

http://communities.intel.com/thread/22227?start=60&tstart=0
Forum: News Jul 15, 2011, 07:44 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,944
Posted By DeerSteak
Same as everybody else. It's not specific to...

Same as everybody else. It's not specific to Intel.

And, more to the point, it's * precisely* why I refuse to buy OCZ drives. They denied Vertex 3/Agility 3 bugs after other companies were...
Forum: Reviews Jul 15, 2011, 07:37 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 240,427
Posted By DeerSteak
These are adorable but I can't help but wonder...

These are adorable but I can't help but wonder why there haven't been takers on the mini ITX Llano front yet? One of these with a 65W variant seems like the peanut butter and chocolate of a very...
Forum: News Jul 14, 2011, 01:43 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,335
Posted By DeerSteak
I wonder if it'll BSOD once it hits that maximum...

I wonder if it'll BSOD once it hits that maximum throughput, like the Vertex 3. ;)

OCZ is not a vendor I'd ever buy an SSD from (or anything else for that matter). Wish Corsair or Intel would...
Forum: News Jul 13, 2011, 08:32 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,318
Posted By DeerSteak
Well now since I posed the question, I started...

Well now since I posed the question, I started Googling. The first thing I found was the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asrock) about ASRock (which may or may not be up to date, and...
Forum: News Jul 13, 2011, 07:35 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,318
Posted By DeerSteak
Yowza. Isn't ASROCK owned by ASUS in some way...

Yowza. Isn't ASROCK owned by ASUS in some way (I've long thought that, even if it's not true, but their UEFI implementation is as awesome as ASUS's, which only serves to make me think it more)? ...
Forum: Overclocking & Cooling Jul 12, 2011, 06:07 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,116
Posted By DeerSteak
I believe you are correct.

I believe you are correct.
Forum: Overclocking & Cooling Jul 12, 2011, 05:53 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,116
Posted By DeerSteak
AM3 was for bringing DDR3 to CPUs with DDR3...

AM3 was for bringing DDR3 to CPUs with DDR3 memory controllers.
Forum: Games Jul 12, 2011, 03:03 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 545
Posted By DeerSteak
I think if both machines have the same IP, both...

I think if both machines have the same IP, both get knocked offline. You can try this with PCs and you should see the same result with the Xbox.

This is why having Xbox Live Gold as a...
Forum: System Builder's Advice Jul 12, 2011, 02:56 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,424
Posted By DeerSteak
If you want to see the results of similar builds...

If you want to see the results of similar builds (as well as see some "recommended" builds from Hackintosh guys who really have a grasp on the situation) check out tonymacx86 forums.

One word of...
Forum: News Jul 12, 2011, 02:26 AM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
no, since I left work 5 and a half hours ago, you...

no, since I left work 5 and a half hours ago, you made a page and a half of...well, you're still saying 10-30% and avoiding other questions at all costs. You made a page and a half of "my head...
Forum: News Jul 12, 2011, 02:20 AM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
You guys are still going? I've gone home from...

You guys are still going? I've gone home from work, ate dinner, played with my daughter, put her to bed, done some reading with my wife, and played some Starcraft II. And you haven't made any...
Forum: Reviews Jul 11, 2011, 08:46 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 468,444
Posted By DeerSteak
With my M5A97 EVO, I'm finding there's so much in...

With my M5A97 EVO, I'm finding there's so much in the menu that can affect power consumption without ever touching base voltage values, and alot of it I don't even know what it does. I just know...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 08:36 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
yes! finally! someone's seeing the light. Of...

yes! finally! someone's seeing the light. Of course, this is your first post and it's reasonable to assume you understood before now, but still. Yes! finally!
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 08:31 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
The memory controller has always been...

The memory controller has always been traditionally part of the north bridge. It's moving a north bridge feature onto the same silicon. By your logic, Intel's Core 2 line "shared computing...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 08:23 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
devguy - this is the first time actual computing...

devguy - this is the first time actual computing resources are shared. Well, second. And Intel was smart - they called it "HyperThreading" and were up-front about what was going on.

Assimilator...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 08:21 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
Oooh, someone actually made one. That doesn't...

Oooh, someone actually made one. That doesn't mean much for, you know, actual sales.
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 08:10 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
Don't worry, seronx, one of your favorite tech...

Don't worry, seronx, one of your favorite tech sites has leaked Interlagos benchmarks too. ;)

And what I'm saying (because again, your reading comprehension deficiencies create an artificial...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 08:06 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
In HPC clusters it will be more common. ...

In HPC clusters it will be more common. Bulldozer is first and foremost a high-margin server part and an "enthusiast" part second. It's launching in the AM3+ world first because it's easier down...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 08:03 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
Come on, man, you're smarter than that. You know...

Come on, man, you're smarter than that. You know as well as I do that it's got nothing to do with the "bitness" of the application. It's the precision of the floating point calculations, and if one...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 07:59 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
...while the other core waits in starvation. ...

...while the other core waits in starvation. This is really bad news for highly-parallel apps.
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 07:54 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
...and a shared floating point unit. And what...

...and a shared floating point unit. And what appears to be shared L1 cache. So, two gimped cores. Not full hardware duplication. Just like it's always been. This is my fears validated.
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 07:07 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
Agreed. This is a matter of pinning the blame,...

Agreed. This is a matter of pinning the blame, so to speak, and we've just differed up until now on where to pin it.
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 07:05 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
That's another good point that I had not...

That's another good point that I had not considered. If the app is using some sort of SIMD acceleration not present on one CPU (AVX on Phenom II, or 3DNow! on an i7, though honestly who uses...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 06:58 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
No, what that shows is that the cores are getting...

No, what that shows is that the cores are getting enough - all they need - from the memory controller because performance scales near-linearly with more cores. For me to show this, i'll take you to...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 06:39 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
I just want to point out that i'm not saying that...

I just want to point out that i'm not saying that AMD isn't behind; they're definitely behind. They're just behind in MORE than memory performance. There are plenty of deficiencies to be found in...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 06:28 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
And that's still not causality with regard to F1...

And that's still not causality with regard to F1 2010. My point is, if the F1 2010 scores are really due to memory performance, both the Sandy Bridge system and the Phenom II system should see...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 06:24 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,701
Posted By DeerSteak
That means that you're talking less than $100 USD...

That means that you're talking less than $100 USD (yes I know that's more than $100 USD in straight currency exchange, but everyone in Europe already knows stuff is cheaper in the US). Pretty...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 06:19 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
You're not showing causality, cadaveca. You're...

You're not showing causality, cadaveca. You're showing coincidence. And you're not able to show causality until you can show that F1 2010 is truly memory-bottlenecked. It's your opinion, sure, and...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 06:05 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
Dent1, have you looked at my system specs? No...

Dent1, have you looked at my system specs? No pro-Intel bias in my wallet, that's for sure. I'm most interested in truth. Unsubstantiated claims to the contrary of actual benchmarks (and I'm still...
Forum: News Jul 11, 2011, 06:02 PM
Replies: 317
Views: 11,669
Posted By DeerSteak
Holy cats, you're right. AIDA is very clearly...

Holy cats, you're right. AIDA is very clearly 4200MHz. I didn't even notice that before.
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