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Renesas Technology Corp was always a separate company but signed merger with NEC Electronics last December 2009. Officially merged last month (April 2010) and new company is called Renesas Electronics. http://www2.renesas.com/news/en/archive/0912/1501.html?src=rss_ir_en NEC is still NEC. NEC...

the old kaze-juni series still seems to have the better specs (more airflow with less noise) For example the 120mm SY1225SL12M 1200rpm 24.00dBA 68.54CFM 0.26A http://www.scythe.co.jp/cooler/kaze-juni.html

well it's april 2nd in Japan now, but I think it is still April 1st in Stuttgart. I guess I will see tomorrow morning. a little hope he will change his mind....

looking more and more real. signed petition just in case it helps change his mind.

If you ever wanted to get into bioinformatics and move to Japan, there is a fair amount of interest in GPU computing here. Still at the algorithm development stage, but that is probably the more interesting and challenging stage. Science is also one of these lower paid but doing it for the...

Did you cleaned the grill, um I mean heatsink, before you sent it back? We should be on the look out for some future forum post where someone complains that Nvidia sent them a used card because there was egg in the creases of the heatsink....:laugh:

I think one of the most interesting things about GTX470 GTX480 (Fermi) is 1) it does compete nicely with 5850 and 5870, but needs to "run hot" to do it. 2) but the architecture looks really clean and scalable into the future 3) the "problems" are heat and power (not architecture) and maybe...

I second this idea. If the extreme tessellation mode appears to only increase work load without improving image quality, then wouldn't that indicate that extreme tessellation will never end up in games? why do extra work if it gives no benefit. If we want to test pure number crunching power...

Well last week Charlie at semiaccurate reported that the GTX480 has a TDP of 275watts. http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/03/12/semiaccurate-wrong-about-nvidia-480gtx-power-use/ There are a huge amount of false leaks out there. We won't really know all the details until the official release...

you are right, but I was wishing. Most likely NV prices will be high, ATI will most likely not lower prices on the current 40nm 5xxx series at all since it costs so much to make the chips on TSMC's 40nm process. I am still hoping for a summer process shrink to GF 32nm for the evergreen family...

I know this is a major wish, but I really hope the 5850 drops to $200 and the 5870 to $300. That or ATI announces something interesting ... like say .... a process shrink to GlobalFoundaries 32nm SOI along with less heat, higher clocks and cheaper manufacturing costs. maybe....

I agree. I am happy with my Stax Lamdba/SR303/SRM1-mk2, AKG K1000, and Senheiser HD580. I am much more interested in picking up an AKG K702 or Audio Technica AD700.

audiophile headphones are a hobby for some just like high-end PCs are for most on this forum. There are some here with double or triple SLI GTX290 which costs more than these headphones. Someone just as easily say "damn $2000 for graphics cards, I am happy with my $100 4850 graphics card, that...

One more possibility for the "5xxx refresh" might be Evergreen on SOI 32nm from GlobalFoundaries. Ok hear me out.... The reason I say this is that the AMD Llano "Fusion" has taped out acording to BSN. This is a 32nm SOI "silicon on insulator" chip. What is REALLY interesting about this...

From the original image http://techreport.com/r.x/radeon-hd-4870/die-shot.jpg I have cut out one SIMD and resized to 300%. The unit between the Texture units (first two blocks on the left) and 4x4 SPs (on the right) has a different structure to the SPs. You labeled this as 2 extra SPs (9th...