Recent content by DRavisher

I don't know what you mean with a CAT5 repeater (wouldn't that be a network thing?), but the idea is for me to be able to use my currently laid cable with my new graphics card. If I have to go for a DVI repeater when I switch to nvidia the cost is just too high compared to what AMD has to offer.

At present I am using a Radeon HD 2900XT with a HP LP3065 display (30", 2560x1600) with a 10 m (32.8 feet) dual-link DVI-cable. I know that a lot of nivida cards struggled with DVI signal quality back in the FX days, but I haven't read any more about this since then. Since I am pushing the DVI...

I don't know if you've (xtknight) learned this already, but back in june 2007 I asked how LCDs updated themselves. That is, weather they buffered a whole frame and then updated all the pixles at once, which a lot of people think they do, or if they did it as the frame data came in, like a CRT...

Scaling works well for me, though it's worth pointing out that ATI does not currently support fixed aspect ratio scaling, so if you want a resolution scaled up to native without changing the aspect ratio the resoultion has to be 16:10. Quite frankly the scaling is really good if you enable AA...

I've seen it stated on this forum and elsewhere, that the power consumption of a CPU is proportional to the simple forumla f*V^2, with f the frequency and V the voltage. Is this formula actually accurate, or is it a very crude forula only valid for small changes in frequency or voltage? For...

I am unable to find any custom resolution feature in the CCC. There are plenty of resolutions available to choose from, and scaling works well with these, but if you need custom resolutions it's not looking good. I might have overlooked something though.

I would go for one 30". I feel this gives more flexibility than two 23-24" screens. With a 30" you could have one 1280x1600 area for the main application (in this case the code), and maybe two 1280x800 areas for docs. Or (the way I usually set it up) you could have one 1536x1600 and one...

According to the arstechnica articles that I've read, it will be a stand alone card, perhaps with separate models for gaming graphics and number crunching. But maybe they will use the same general design for integrated solutions too, just scaled down. It will certainly be interesting to hear...

The GPU's are designed by AMD/ATI, but they are prduced by a third party, probably TSMC. ATI didn't have any fabs of their own, and neither does nvidia.

HD 3850/70 has significantly lower power consumption in idle compared to GeForce 8800 GT (3870 is about 40 W lower than 8800 GT), which can be quite important in a HTPC. It certainly seems like the HD 38xx series is the definite choice for HTPC today.

From the few reviews I've seen of AMD Barcelona/Phenom, it seems that AMD's native quad core scales quite a bit better than Intel's in cinebench (I think I saw 3.5 versus 3.9 scaling for Intel and AMD respectively in one benchmark, sorry I don't have any link at hand). But I don't know if the...

The 30" needs one dual-link DVI port, so as long as he chooses a GFX-card with two DVI ports, and at least one of them is dual-link he will be fine.

Is the integrated scaler in this screen really that much better than letting the graphics card do the scaling? With my HP LP3065 and a HD 2900XT upscaled graphics look great, with AA enabled. Why should GFX-cards upscale so poorly?

The G9's wheel can be swithched between notched and free-spin (and IMO free-spin is much better for everything except for switching weapons in FPS games). It has plenty of buttons too. It's wheel does tilt, but the the tilting motion is very small, with no audible click or anything, so if you...

Nah he wrote 60 mhz, which is closer to 60 mHz (only one letter wrong, versus two for MHz). You're refreshing 1000 times as often! All joking aside, there is probably no LCD display on the market today that actually supports more than 60 Hz refresh rate (see article at behardware...