Recent content by air_ii

So, they basically screw things up with W8 by ditching start menu and making working with Modern UI apps a disaster and now they get things back to W7 usability levels and tell you it's the best windows ever (those were key focus points of the video, right?).

Crap, just bought their DS1511+ and they're releasing this and DS1512+. Good timing :banghead:

While BD may not be what everyone wanted it to be, maybe further iterations of the architecture will bring improvements. Maybe there is a potential in the architecture. Look what became of R600 -> RV770.

Yes, they need to be installed on the SSD. SSD does add much to system responsiveness though (I happen to own the Kingston), so it's not only system boot times. I would never go back to mechanical drives for anything else than storage.

Just a single Gigabit LAN? Really?

Yes, they do. You buy a product with performance provided by current drivers. No one is ever going to promise you that you'll see gains with future drivers, especially that GCN should not suffer from utilisation issues as VLIW 4/5 did. How long are you willing to wait for the driver you're...

Patience, less than 24 hours to go :)

It's not a fake. It's from AMD's review guide (as in the link below): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H86KSABC EDIT: And all slides as well. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=37TFTYDX Links originally supplied by -The_Mask- over at B3D forum.

Some more slides: http://www.expreview.com/17928.html

VLIW was good for pushing vectors and points around. But modern engines have evolved way beyond that. There's lots of other calculations (shading, occlusion, etc) that VLIW architectures are not best suited for. So yes, while I realise that VLIW is good for geometry processing, I still believe...

Assuming the same speed of the CUs, you should at least factor in the inefficiency (ie underutilisation) of the D5/D4 VLIW architecture, which should not be an issue with GCN. This time around OBR does seem to have access to slides, which look legit. Who knows, maybe he does have a source...

That's true (about BD), but if you constantly say something is going to be crap from a certain IHV, you're boud to be right sometimes ;). I'm not saying he's right or wrong, only that he's not a reliable source.

OBR has been known to spread fud for years...

How did you come up with an average of 50% based on that chart, if all results are above 50% ;)?

Razer's definition of a true gaming laptop: - Measures 0.88 inches thin (/thick), - Weighs 6.97 lbs. That surely justifies an extra $1,000...