Recent content by Cataclysm_ZA

Gaming is the only growing segment of the PC market currently. Everything else is shrinking, but gaming continues to climb in revenues and profitability which is why more OEMs and ODMs are putting more stock in higher-priced products and RGB. 47% of NVIDIA's revenue comes from GeForce products...

I hope you've 2FA'd those accounts. There are people who target Origin accounts like yours and take over them to play new games for free and cheat with impunity.

The current thinking is that Intel will scale things back to a density increase of 2.4x over 14nm+++ instead of 2.7x as planned, which would mean that they could do something like call the new process "12nm", or similar. 7nm is still in the planning stages, and we'll have to see if they say...

Acer is splitting off their entire peripherals department along with IoT and other Smart Home products. This isn't just peripherals. They're doing this so that in the event of the business needing to sell off their stake in GT, they can do it cleanly without wasting too much time reorganising...

MXM Vega and Polaris GPUs do exist, but getting one is difficult, and just as expensive as buying the full discrete design normally.

Too late, it's already happened. Microsoft 365 It makes a lot of sense for businesses, not so much for consumers. If you're deep in the Windows ecosystem, this will soon become the superior option. Depends on when you started your rollout. You can't start new rollouts from scratch now...

Like that, but done by someone with a much broader range of games and testing scenarios, only focusing on Fermi, and without DirectX 9 games.

@W1zzard will you possibly run a retro roundup of GPUs from the Fermi architecture to see how they stack up to today's cards? Would be super fun to read.

I'm OK with this. It is what it is, and what it is, is more money for more hardware. So long as its set out clearly how scores are achieved, and it's obvious that it's an advertorial, I don't mind seeing more of these.

NVIDIA moved the telemetry to the driver and now it's on by default for everyone. There's an obscure menu option with a tickbox to opt out of the telemetry, but it's only a matter of time before it is forced and cannot be disabled. Even after clicking it, it's still harmless.

Aha, so it's for stability testing. Gotcha.

Hey @W1zzard, will the results output by this tool be any different from what you can get from Memtest86? Is it possible that Memtest86 will find errors that Memtest64 won't?

Thanks! I know it annoys the hell out of me when I have to rebench right after a new driver release.

Hey W1zzard, what was the reason for not using the latest Crimson ReLive driver version? Is there some bug or hiccup that it introduces into your testing?

Was someone at Biostar sleeping on the "Release this product!" button? Kabini is really old at this point.