CIPWTTKT&GC v0X12 (v18): Makol can't Computer Very Good - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=wingless;35245735]Linus has the best "spreadsheet" reviews. TTL Talks from the heart kinda thing while Linus gives you the best numbers. [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] I wondered the exact same thing...[/QUOTE] Anti amd fanboyism.

[QUOTE=Wooops: 404;35245819]Anti amd fanboyism.[/QUOTE] You saying I hate AMD because Bulldozer is bad?

No, I'm just saying that some people are idiots and would say "Intel is siding with nvidia blablabla ect. ect."

[QUOTE=Wooops: 404;35245884]No, I'm just saying that some people are idiots and would say "Intel is siding with nvidia blablabla ect. ect."[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's the case a lot of the time but Bulldozer is bad, you know you've fucked up when your last generation is outperforming your new generation. Intel owns this generation and there's no real point testing such high end cards with a joke of a CPU. [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV73shxh6_Q[/media]

Why can't 3DFX still be around, their Voodoo cards used to be the shit, then Nvidya gobbled them up :saddowns:

[QUOTE=inconspicious;35245954]Why can't 3DFX still be around, their Voodoo cards used to be the shit, then Nvidya gobbled them up :saddowns:[/QUOTE] I miss Voodoo's sometimes. I'm going to dig up some of my old cards tomorrow. [editline]23rd March 2012[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd2wbhuh8uE[/media]

[url]www.HEXUS.net/qabd6n[/url] Brt, your not aloud to enter. To everyone else, good luck, I never win anything :(

[QUOTE=Wooops: 404;35246132][url]www.HEXUS.net/qabd6n[/url] Brt, your not aloud to enter. To everyone else, good luck, I never win anything :([/QUOTE] Awesome.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLy2iIviek[/media] Dual GPU's with integrated SLI, I loved my 5500.

[QUOTE=inconspicious;35245954]Why can't 3DFX still be around, their Voodoo cards used to be the shit, then Nvidya gobbled them up :saddowns:[/QUOTE] There's a bunch of old graphics cards I'd like to see revived. The stuff you see while researching for Project Horizon... The mid-2000s S3 revival, the Chrome series, was interesting. Absolutely dirt-cheap cards (sub-$100) that could compete with ATI and nVidia's middle-end or last-gen stuff, and were also insanely cool and could SLI/CrossFire ("MultiChrome", to use their term) on any mobo, without any weird connectors. Think of seeing a 560-caliber card come out for $150, or a 540-caliber passively-cooled card for $100. And you can grab two of them and be competitive with the 660. I'd also like to see PowerVR on the desktop once more. Deferred rendering... mmm... very power-efficient, very bandwidth-efficient, and they scale pretty much perfectly (a quad-core PowerVR performs pretty much exactly four times as fast as a single-core, even in real-world apps). I'd also like to see Intel's massively-parallel stuff go back into graphics. Larrabee, Polaris, all those ideas. Those things could compete at the top end - it's possible they could do things AMD/nVidia cards simply *can't*, like AI offload. Or real-time ray-tracing. You'd need some insane power and loads of money to do it, but Intel could just slip Crytek a few mil to make Crysis 3 have crazy features only on Intel cards.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;35246311]There's a bunch of old graphics cards I'd like to see revived. The stuff you see while researching for Project Horizon... The mid-2000s S3 revival, the Chrome series, was interesting. Absolutely dirt-cheap cards (sub-$100) that could compete with ATI and nVidia's middle-end or last-gen stuff, and were also insanely cool and could SLI/CrossFire ("MultiChrome", to use their term) on any mobo, without any weird connectors. Think of seeing a 560-caliber card come out for $150, or a 540-caliber passively-cooled card for $100. And you can grab two of them and be competitive with the 660. [/QUOTE] Hah, my neighbours PC has an S3 savage IGP, I gave her my old Radeon 9800 as her S3 couldn't manager her new flat panel monitors native resolution. [QUOTE=gman003-main;35246311] I'd also like to see PowerVR on the desktop once more. Deferred rendering... mmm... very power-efficient, very bandwidth-efficient, and they scale pretty much perfectly (a quad-core PowerVR performs pretty much exactly four times as fast as a single-core, even in real-world apps). [/QUOTE] I just sold my powerVR co-processor card, I had a crappy Matrox Mystique running alongside it, it was truly awful. [editline]22nd March 2012[/editline] I have an irisitable urge to rebuild my childhood gaming PC. PII, 256Mb SD RAM, Voodoo 5500, 30Gb HDD, Windows 98se. Optional 56k modem.

[QUOTE=inconspicious;35246355]I just sold my powerVR co-processor card, I had a crappy Matrox Mystique running alongside it, it was truly awful.[/QUOTE] Yeah, because it was like a million years old. AFAIK, they haven't made any desktop cards since 2001 or so. They've done exclusively desktop and embedded processors. And they do quite well - the last few iDevices have used them (in dual- or quad-core versions), and the Vita uses a quad-core PVR as well. Each core on a PowerVR Series 5 takes up about 2.6mm^2 at 65nm. That means you could fit a 96-core model on a 250mm^2 die, for a card comparable in price to a 550 or somewhere between a 7870 and 7950. Go up to a 350mm^2 die, and you could cram in 130+ cores. And don't forget, you can clock it faster than 200MHz, since we don't care *that* much about TDP. Considering the graphics the handhelds put out using just four cores, I think they could actually make it work. Only tricky thing is the drivers - tile-based deferred rendering doesn't work so well with the current shader paradigm.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;35246540]Yeah, because it was like a million years old. AFAIK, they haven't made any desktop cards since 2001 or so. They've done exclusively desktop and embedded processors. And they do quite well - the last few iDevices have used them (in dual- or quad-core versions), and the Vita uses a quad-core PVR as well. Each core on a PowerVR Series 5 takes up about 2.6mm^2 at 65nm. That means you could fit a 96-core model on a 250mm^2 die, for a card comparable in price to a 550 or somewhere between a 7870 and 7950. Go up to a 350mm^2 die, and you could cram in 130+ cores. And don't forget, you can clock it faster than 200MHz, since we don't care *that* much about TDP. Considering the graphics the handhelds put out using just four cores, I think they could actually make it work. Only tricky thing is the drivers - tile-based deferred rendering doesn't work so well with the current shader paradigm.[/QUOTE] I bet 90% of people didn't understand 90% of that.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;35246540]Yeah, because it was like a million years old. AFAIK, they haven't made any desktop cards since 2001 or so. They've done exclusively desktop and embedded processors. And they do quite well - the last few iDevices have used them (in dual- or quad-core versions), and the Vita uses a quad-core PVR as well. Each core on a PowerVR Series 5 takes up about 2.6mm^2 at 65nm. That means you could fit a 96-core model on a 250mm^2 die, for a card comparable in price to a 550 or somewhere between a 7870 and 7950. Go up to a 350mm^2 die, and you could cram in 130+ cores. And don't forget, you can clock it faster than 200MHz, since we don't care *that* much about TDP. Considering the graphics the handhelds put out using just four cores, I think they could actually make it work. Only tricky thing is the drivers - tile-based deferred rendering doesn't work so well with the current shader paradigm.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccoj5lhLmSQ[/media]

[QUOTE=Wooops: 404;35246132][url]www.HEXUS.net/qabd6n[/url] Brt, your not aloud to enter. To everyone else, good luck, I never win anything :([/QUOTE] Wow, this is like the first competition in the history of the universe that isn't US only.

Holy fuck. I just checked facebook. [img]http://puu.sh/lTld[/img] For those wondering, back in his time Albert was probably the best reviewer on youtube. For whatever reason he just kinda vanished from TigerDirect. Now he's back on the fucking scene. Yes! The first reviewer I really listened to and learned from.

I'm joking, of course it isn't. I'm just pretty tired of seeing competitions that I can't even enter. [editline]22nd March 2012[/editline] heartbreaker

[QUOTE=Warship;35246626]Wow, this is like the first competition in the history of the universe that isn't US only.[/QUOTE] OC3D system giveaway.

[QUOTE=inconspicious;35246617][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccoj5lhLmSQ[/media][/QUOTE] I miss Kenan and Kel.

I am well chuffed right now. I just fixed that bricked Seagate drive with an old Nokia CA-42 USB data lead. Terminal Session: [code] LED:000000CC FAddr:0024A051 LED:000000CC FAddr:0024A051 F3 T>/2 F3 2>Z Spin Down Complete Elapsed Time 0.139 msecs F3 2>U Spin Up Complete Elapsed Time 6.690 secs F3 2>/1 F3 1>N1 F3 1> F3 T>m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 Max Wr Retries = 00, Max Rd Retries = 00, Max ECC T-Level = 00, Max Certify Rewrite Retries = 0000 User Partition Format 5% complete, Zone 00, Pass 00, LBA 00008DED, ErrCode 00000080, Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs User Partition Format Successful - Elapsed Time 0 mins 05 secs F3 T> [/code] All files are available and not corrupt and I'm now backing it up to a few DVDs (the important stuff) and updating the firmware. The owner is going to be one very happy guy. Rest assured there shall be a lecture on keeping backups of ones important data.

[QUOTE=wingless;35246653]Holy fuck. I just checked facebook. [img]http://puu.sh/lTld[/img] For those wondering, back in his time Albert was probably the best reviewer on youtube. For whatever reason he just kinda vanished from TigerDirect. Now he's back on the fucking scene. Yes! The first reviewer I really listened to and learned from.[/QUOTE] [img]http://puu.sh/lTz3[/img] I come back 5 minutes later to this stupid crap...

[QUOTE=wingless;35246833][img]http://puu.sh/lTz3[/img] I come back 5 minutes later to this stupid crap...[/QUOTE] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Rage_face.png[/img] [img]http://puu.sh/lTCV[/img]

I like the nonfanboy cpu review guy. I bet he's hoping AMD wins.

[QUOTE=Wooops: 404;35246132][url]www.HEXUS.net/qabd6n[/url] Brt, your not aloud to enter. To everyone else, good luck, I never win anything :([/QUOTE] None of the 680 stuff is really making me regret getting my 7950, works fine and haven't had driver issues, I may regret it later on but for now I'm at peace. If I win the competition I'll see if my dad wants it, if not then sell it for cheap or give it away.

[QUOTE=reverno;35246996]None of the 680 stuff is really making me regret getting my 7950, works fine and haven't had driver issues, I may regret it later on but for now I'm at peace. If I win the competition I'll see if my dad wants it, if not then sell it for cheap or give it away.[/QUOTE] Dude, if you don't want it or need it, don't enter, some people need it ya know.

[QUOTE=Makol;35246917]I like the nonfanboy cpu review guy. I bet he's hoping AMD wins.[/QUOTE] AMD still does for price:performance. not necessarily gaming performance but for straight number crunching and general tasks AMD kills everything.

Youtube is down... :f5: [editline]22nd March 2012[/editline] Oh, it's back up lol [editline]22nd March 2012[/editline] Oh, still not quite working

[QUOTE=Warship;35247056]Youtube is down... :f5: [editline]22nd March 2012[/editline] Oh, it's back up lol [editline]22nd March 2012[/editline] Oh, still not quite working[/QUOTE] The Google trained monkeys are revolting!

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;35247052]AMD still does for price:performance. not necessarily gaming performance but for straight number crunching and general tasks AMD kills everything.[/QUOTE] Except the guy asked for gaming.

[QUOTE=wingless;35247093]Except the guy asked for gaming.[/QUOTE] I said not necessarily, it depends on the game. most games are total nescients when it comes to processor technologies, but the handful that aren't tend to favor Intel. I can't think of any new releases (2011-2012) that markedly favor Intel processors.